Driving Standards

[ewt]

Got this by e-mail:

Hi Everyone

I have just received this important announcement from a close friend who
works in public sector transport and who feels this news should be passed
onto all as high priority - apparently it only applies in England as for
instance Scotland have their own Parliament and pass their own legislation
regarding transport safety

The information passed to me reads

Important Information Release from the Department of transport.

There is concern over the current driving standards in England, so the
Department of Transport have devised a scheme to identify poor and dangerous
drivers. This system will allow all road users to recognise the potentially
hazardous and dangerous ones, or those with limited driving skills.

From the middle of May 2006 all those drivers who are found to be a
potential hazard to all other road users will be issued with a white flag,
bearing a red cross. This flag clearly indicates their inability to drive
properly. These flags must be clipped to a door of the car and be visible to
all other drivers and pedestrians. Those drivers who have shown particularly
poor driving skills will have to display two flags, one on each side of the
car to indicate an even greater lack of skill and limited driving
intelligence.

Please circulate this to as many other motorists as you can, in order that
drivers and pedestrians will be aware of the meaning of these flags. Thank
you for your co-operation.

Department of Transport

Comments

[alchmst.livejournal.com]

This can't be real? Can it?


Here in Florida we need more than white and red crosses, we need the Jolly Roger (4) one for each side of the vehicle.

Ummm hrmmm since I crashed just a couple of days ago, maybe I would fly one, but only one and only for a year. The rest of the Shrivs would have to have four sides stenciled with "WATCH OUT FOR ME OR DIE!"

Please tell me this email was a hoax.

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I could see it being totally counter-productive, but don't I just wish :D

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Nono, it's real, come to England, there are *loads* of them driving around at the moment, you'll see.

[taimatsu]

Such flags can be seen all over England at the moment. They are publicised widely by tabloid newspapers. Drivers seem to take an inexplicable pride in displaying them.

(They're England flags for the World Cup, irretrievably tacky.)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It's a very English joke.

It's World cup time again, which means all the morons have started sporting St.George's Cross flags - i.e. white with a red cross.

[vampwillow]

I am sorely tempted to fake some DoT headed paper and put that text on it and affix it to the noticeboard near the entrance to my building ...

but I shouldn't really .. should I.

??

[nyecamden.livejournal.com]

This email (or something very similar) was read out on PM on radio four yesterday. Funny.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I like them. Sorry. Not that that makes it less funny.

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

... petrol stations will make a fortune during this season - these things really affect the aerodynamic-ness of your car!

[caradea.livejournal.com]

I'm scared of the ones that drive around with 4 flags!