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BBC drama on suicide partly blamed on PCN debts, Article in Guardian
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post Sat, 26 May 2018 - 13:58
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It is believable that something like this could push someone over the edge but it cannot be taken in isolation.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/...e-jerome-rogers

Courier Jerome Rogers killed himself after his bike was seized. A BBC drama tells his story and examines wider issues about debt

It started with two £65 traffic fines, one for being in a bus lane a few minutes before the restrictions ended, the other for making a prohibited right turn. Within a matter of months, those two penalties had spiralled into a debt of more than £1,000 – and then the bailiffs swooped, clamping the motorbike that was essential to Jerome Rogers’ work as a courier delivering blood and other medical items to hospitals.

It ended with the 20-year-old taking his own life.

The case prompted calls for tougher regulation of the debt-collection industry, and is now the basis of a one-hour factual drama for BBC Three available from Tuesday (29 May) on BBC iPlayer.
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post Tue, 12 Jun 2018 - 12:25
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QUOTE (cp8759 @ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 - 11:39) *
QUOTE (whjohnson @ Sat, 9 Jun 2018 - 20:15) *
Trivia like bus lanes, no waiting etc. If these laws truly worked in the deterrent sense, then no one would break them, thus no revenue from the esuing fines would be forthcoming, which begs the question why they were enacted in the 1st place.
Some cynic may well be led to belive that these instruments were enacted to solely to raise revenue..............?

Without enforcement everybody would drive in the bus lanes, park wherever they wanted etc...
Interesting question and it's largely down to individual's risk/reward ratio and levels. Many exceed a speed limit where they don't think they'll get caught but would never jump a red light. Somewhere like London you'd be daft to chance yellow lines but other places they do it with impunity as they know there's never any enforcement.
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post Tue, 12 Jun 2018 - 13:41
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QUOTE (jdh @ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 - 13:25) *
QUOTE (cp8759 @ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 - 11:39) *
QUOTE (whjohnson @ Sat, 9 Jun 2018 - 20:15) *
Trivia like bus lanes, no waiting etc. If these laws truly worked in the deterrent sense, then no one would break them, thus no revenue from the esuing fines would be forthcoming, which begs the question why they were enacted in the 1st place.
Some cynic may well be led to belive that these instruments were enacted to solely to raise revenue..............?

Without enforcement everybody would drive in the bus lanes, park wherever they wanted etc...
Interesting question and it's largely down to individual's risk/reward ratio and levels. Many exceed a speed limit where they don't think they'll get caught but would never jump a red light. Somewhere like London you'd be daft to chance yellow lines but other places they do it with impunity as they know there's never any enforcement.



Aberystwyth is a good example of what will happen.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/roa...ic-wardens.html
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