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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:03 pm    Post subject: Banned For Shaving Whilst Driving Reply with quote

A health and safety expert has been banned from driving after he was caught shaving as he overtook a line of rush hour traffic at 70mph.

Edward Hutcheson, 39, was seen leaning forward to look in his rear view mirror as he used an electric shaver.

He was banned for six months and fined £300 after being found guilty of careless driving on the A9 near Auchterarder, Perthshire, last March.

He told police he was late for a first aid course, Perth Sheriff Court heard.

Hutcheson, who had previously worked on accident investigations with the police, also claimed he had been leaning across the car at an awkward angle so he could see past a dozen mannequins he had stored in the back of his car.

The court heard how police officers saw him drive past their patrol vehicle as he used an electric shaver on his face and crane his head to look in the rear view mirror.

They turned round and chased Hutcheson from the entrance to Upper Cairnie Farm, near Auchterarder, before catching up with him a mile further on.

He had one hand on the wheel and police said he appeared to be checking if he was "getting a good shave".

Hutcheson, from Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, said he was a health and safety inspector and was running late to deliver a first aid training course in Dundee.

Sheriff Michael Fletcher heard that Hutcheson stood to lose his job without a licence.

The sheriff found him guilty of careless driving.

"It is near the top end of careless driving, considering the conditions you were driving in and what was going on," the sheriff said.

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No close shave for him then..
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"It is near the top end of careless driving, considering the conditions you were driving in and what was going on," the sheriff said -

driving off brushing his teeth...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark,

Wet shave or dry shave? Your article doesnt make this clear.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd have thought the term "Electric Shaver" may have given you a clue Ernie
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
I'd have thought the term "Electric Shaver" may have given you a clue Ernie


Well I'm still trying to understand how he got 12 manequins into the back seat.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe they were Gnome sized manequins? after all, he was a Elf & Safety Officer......
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Maybe they were Gnome sized manequins? after all, he was a Elf & Safety Officer......
Oh dear.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Maybe they were Gnome sized manequins? after all, he was a Elf & Safety Officer......


You should have an honorary naughty step named after you for that one, Santa....
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the fact that it happened to a Health and Safety Officer.

Don't do as I do, do as I say.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iwarburton wrote:
I love the fact that it happened to a Health and Safety Officer.

Don't do as I do, do as I say.

Ian.


It's a bit like the Police telling you speed kills and then seeing them on TV chasing cars around towns at 70mph and overtaking you at more than the speed limit when they are obviously not on an emergency Confused
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

or using one hand to steer around corners
or parking on zig zags to get their KFC for tea
or not indicating as we have to




or sitting in the cop shop when the thieves are roaming the streets.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

or calling low lifes and scumbags "mate"......
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

or posting letters explaining why they arrested a Muslim suspected of a crime...

I got a stopped for a 'spot check'.....still waiting for the press conference.
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