Car used as weapon.

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way and yet she is still allowed on our
roads, along with many as dangerous as her?

"A woman has been given a 12-month suspended sentence after she threw
a man from her car bonnet into the road after a row over a painting.

Mandy McGuigan, of Tennyson Road, Colne, drove away from Heathcote
Antiques in Cross Hills last year after owner Simon Webster refused to
buy it.

She was also fined £750 and given 300 hours of community service at
Bradford Crown Court.

Mr Webster said he was in a "bit of a mess" after the "terrifying
incident".

Mr Webster was left hanging onto the front of the car as it sped off
into heavy traffic.

"'Drove as speed'

North Yorkshire Police traffic sergeant Peter Stringer previously said
it was "sheer luck" Mr Webster was not killed..."

"...He said he suffered a broken shoulder, lacerations to the head and
a knee injury in the incident..."

More with vid:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18555073

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A driving licence is sometimes a licence to kill.

On 24/06/2012 07:22, Doug wrote:
Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way and yet she is still allowed on our
roads, along with many as dangerous as her?

"A woman has been given a 12-month suspended sentence after she threw
a man from her car bonnet into the road after a row over a painting.

Mandy McGuigan, of Tennyson Road, Colne, drove away from Heathcote
Antiques in Cross Hills last year after owner Simon Webster refused to
buy it.

She was also fined £750 and given 300 hours of community service at
Bradford Crown Court.

Mr Webster said he was in a "bit of a mess" after the "terrifying
incident".

Mr Webster was left hanging onto the front of the car as it sped off
into heavy traffic.

"'Drove as speed'

North Yorkshire Police traffic sergeant Peter Stringer previously said
it was "sheer luck" Mr Webster was not killed..."

"...He said he suffered a broken shoulder, lacerations to the head and
a knee injury in the incident..."

More with vid:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18555073

-- .
A driving licence is sometimes a licence to kill.

I agree, but it is a lesson for people not to stand in front of a car
when the driver is mad at you.

j

Doug wrote:

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apes-jail.html

Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?

On Sunday, June 24, 2012 9:17:58 AM UTC+1, Norman Wells wrote:
Doug wrote:

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apes-jail.html

Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?

After seeing the videos (3 cameras!), the nonsense is that she is ever likely to be allowed to drive again. She got off lightly.

On 24/06/2012 09:17, Norman Wells wrote:
Doug wrote:

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apes-jail.html


Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?

"Judge Jonathan Durham-Hall QC said it was with ‘obvious reluctance’
that he handed out a suspended sentence but a psychiatric report stated
that McGuigan would relapse into substance abuse if she was jailed.


The court heard that McGuigan, from Colne, Lancshire, has now turned her
back on seven years of drink and amphetamine abuse.

She was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for two years
after she pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and dangerous driving
on 22 June, last year. "


Apparently, the GBH charge was dropped.

On 24/06/2012 09:17, Norman Wells wrote:
Doug wrote:

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apes-jail.html


Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?


But she is still allowed on the roads, just not in a car. :-)

Colin Bignell

On Sunday, June 24, 2012 11:02:52 AM UTC+1, GB wrote:
On 24/06/2012 09:17, Norman Wells wrote:
Doug wrote:

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apes-jail.html


Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?

"Judge Jonathan Durham-Hall QC said it was with ‘obvious reluctance’
that he handed out a suspended sentence but a psychiatric report stated
that McGuigan would relapse into substance abuse if she was jailed.


The court heard that McGuigan, from Colne, Lancshire, has now turned her
back on seven years of drink and amphetamine abuse.

So Speed not only doesn't kill, it actually makes your sentence lighter.

On Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:22:10 AM UTC+1, Doug wrote:
Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way and yet she is still allowed on our
roads, along with many as dangerous as her?

"A woman has been given a 12-month suspended sentence after she threw
a man from her car bonnet into the road after a row over a painting.

Mandy McGuigan, of Tennyson Road, Colne, drove away from Heathcote
Antiques in Cross Hills last year after owner Simon Webster refused to
buy it.

She was also fined £750 and given 300 hours of community service at
Bradford Crown Court.

Mr Webster said he was in a "bit of a mess" after the "terrifying
incident".

Mr Webster was left hanging onto the front of the car as it sped off
into heavy traffic.

"'Drove as speed'

North Yorkshire Police traffic sergeant Peter Stringer previously said
it was "sheer luck" Mr Webster was not killed..."

"...He said he suffered a broken shoulder, lacerations to the head and
a knee injury in the incident..."

More with vid:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18555073

-- .
A driving licence is sometimes a licence to kill.

Meanwhile, in another part of the unreal world:-

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9774...ok_riots_post/

3 years.

"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 24/06/2012 09:17, Norman Wells wrote:
Doug wrote:

Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apes-jail.html


Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?


But she is still allowed on the roads, just not in a car. :-)

Colin Bignell

So she will now be able to use her bicycle-weapon.

On Jun 24, 9:17*am, "Norman Wells" wrote:
Doug wrote:
Usual slap on the wrist for the driver. Would such a driver bother
about a cyclist getting in her way

Only if he refused to buy her paintings I suspect.

and yet she is still allowed on our roads,

Yet another error, Doug.

"She has also been banned from driving for two years and must retake a
driving test before she is allowed back on the road."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cGuigan-drove-...

Why don't you ever check your facts before you write your nonsense?

She looks familiar, very like some total nutcase I met a few years
back. It was an unsettling encounterfor me, she had a very strange,
exagerated persona. She appeared that she was having the time of her
life, animated like a marionette show, and was difficult to engage on
anything but a superficial level. I initially thought she was just
another luvvie and went along with the show for a bit. I quickly grew
tired of her and bid my goodbye. Believing she could maintain a
relationship is the same as believing the far side of the moon is
brie. Her life is an act.

As I said, looks familiar, it could be someone entirely different.
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