3 posts tagged “traffic”

This has been, apparently, doing the rounds for a while, but I have missed it. It finally came on PDF today from a colleague. Normally I don’t have a lot of sympathy for law-breakers, but this gets extra marks for imagination.
   A Mr Justin Lee was booked for speeding, doing 116 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. This was issued by a police officer:

   Mr Lee wrote a letter, concerned about the above: Very clever—and cheeky. I should note that American English is not normal here, but Mr Lee probably had the wrong language installed on his computer; plus ‘grand theft auto’ is not used as a colloquial term, unless one is referring to a computer game.
   The police responded, unhumorously:

Auckland, as seen through the Mini Cooper Clubman’s door mirror.
   This isn’t even rush hour—and a good example of why I don’t think I could live there.

Damn, why weren’t the Bikini Bandits in force when I was last in København? I even was there on graduation day and for midsummer, with drunk students all over town.
   I wondered if this was real. As my friend Ian points out, the name of the traffic cop is too fabulous to have been made up. But the reality is that it is part of a governmental campaign to get people obeying the 50 km/h speed limit. Sorry! Scandi is not as liberal as people think!

(Des membres du groupe Pub!: je suis désolé que cet article est en anglais, mais je voudrais le partager.)