"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 21:49:51
on Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Portsmouth Rider
remarked:

It says "Do Not" rather than "Must Not", because it's a statement
about
driving behaviour and not the law.

Some driving behaviour is so bad that it's also against the law, much
of what the Highway Code recommends needs to take the local
circumstances into account and is therefore not subject to a blanket
legal prohibition.

So, for example, it's not that bad to block a bus stop to drop someone
off, if there's only one bus an hour, and the last one that day ran
several hours previously.

Ah, we see.

Nothing to do with "what's actually acceptable behaviour" and "what
not", then.

If it's not acceptable behaviour then there will be a "Must Not",

Wrong.

Wrong interpretation.

There are loads of things which are unacceptable behaviour, which are
not necessarily illegal.

Agreed, I specifically mentioned that there are "Do Not's" which are also
unacceptable behaviour, according to the circumstances (like dropping off
children at the school gate, even in the absence of Zigzags).

The difference with "Must not's" is they are *always* unacceptable.

because there's a vast array of laws about unacceptable behaviour.

For the behaviour marked as "Do Not", then it will sometimes be
acceptable
and sometimes not, depending on the circumstances.

"Do Not" means, ummm, "Don't"

In the Highway Code, it's ummm, Code for "Don't do it when it's
unacceptable". If it was "Don't do it ever", then society would have made
it illegal (and hence bumped it into a "Must Not").

So, to sum up, you obey the HC only so far as it suits you?

Maybe you also look for interpretations to suit you.... How about HC6
"Pedestrians MUST NOT walk on a motorway except in an emergency"..... I
suppose you would define wanting a pee as an emergengy, so would stop your
car, walk a few yards along and nip over the barrier and behind a hedge?


With a bit of luck, one day when you are deciding that a particular part
of
the HC does not apply to you, you will have a major crunch. The very fact
that you were disregarding the HC will count heavily against you in any
legal proceedings, and also as far as your insurance company is concerned.

ALL road users should try and obey the HC ALL the time. Not just when it
suits them.

I agree, but not all of the HC rules have to be blindly obeyed regardless
of the circumstances. Dropping someone off at a bus stop late in the
evening isn't a crime, not is it even inconsiderate (to other road users).




So now we have TWO examples of your being an arrogant selfish twit.

With a bit of luck, one day you'll learn how to have a debate about
issues, rather than an insult competition.
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Not an insult competition. Merely counting up the number of times you are
demonstrating phuckwittedness.

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PR