Is 2 Years A Fair Jail Time For This Reckless Biker?
60 year-old biker Robert Hammond has been jailed for two years after helmet camera footage showed him speeding at 110mph in a 30mph zone and 153mph on a dual carriageway. He was clearly reckless, but is the punishment fair? Cast your vote!
Here is our original coverage of the story.
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The main factor here for me is: Going to jail is to get the people who are a danger to soceity away from soceity, that is why tax payers pay 30k per year to keep them locked up……This guy rode his motorcycle fast, the fact he has a bike of that quality means he is probably a functioning member of soceity…..so we are going to pay 60k to send someone to the naughty step for 2 years….its just a waste of life and time and money.
cancel his licence for 12 months and make him pay court fees. there is no need to punish him further. When the police can control gang violence, extremism, drunk drivers and rape/sexual abuse then….only then should they put so much effort into punishing people driving above the speed limit. get your priorities right.
Ho should just have his license revoked
His name is Hammond. Come on.
I won’t advocate this kind of speeding. However, it’s one thing to go 110mph in a 30mph zone and 153mph on a (dual carriageway?) but it’s another thing to be an idiot and post incriminating evidence online, essentially in the face of the authorities. Then they must do something.
This dingus probably also owns a selfie-stick.
He made some bad decisions but everyone speeds.
Apart from the outrageous stupidity ( though I can’t say I haven’t done stupid things on my 600F3) - the moral of the story is - you get pulled over, you brake your mem card in half instantly :))
So if you drink drive it’s a danger to the public yet all you get is a fine and a suspended license. Where as if you kill or hurt someone under the influence you got to jail and rightly so. Where this person was a danger to the public but did not kill or hurt anyone but still with a better act of judgment and quicker reactions yet gets treated worse then a drink driver. Great justice.
I wonder what his punishment would’ve been if he had claimed his speedo was broke and wasn’t going that fast.
The only person he would have killed was himself,besides it’s not that excessive
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