Article: Gareth Cliff arrested for speeding

Naks said:
Indeed! That's why when I took delivery of my Saab two weeks ago, the first thing I did before heading to CTN was to set a speed limit warning at 130kmh.
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So you are the dude traveling at 130km/h all around Gordonsbaai at night?!
 
Watched that coverage last night. Struck me as a bit contrived. Camera was there when he was cuffed. Maybe a new safety campaign!
 
akescpt said:
Watched that coverage last night. Struck me as a bit contrived. Camera was there when he was cuffed. Maybe a new safety campaign!
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Also thought that the cameras got there rather quickly.
Likely that the news crews have cops on the payroll for breaking stories...
 
akescpt said:
Watched that coverage last night. Struck me as a bit contrived. Camera was there when he was cuffed. Maybe a new safety campaign!
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Shake&Bake said:
Also thought that the cameras got there rather quickly.
Likely that the news crews have cops on the payroll for breaking stories...
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E-news was apparently covering a speed campaign story
 
Gareth Cliff's response

Blink 182
March 7, 2012
Filed under: Blog — gareth @ 4:34 pm

I did a stupid thing last night. I drove my car at 182 km/h on the way back from the airport and was pulled over by the cops and arrested. When you do stupid things, there are consequences. I have admitted my guilt, advanced no argument in mitigation, and made no excuses. Now we await the turning of the slow wheels of justice to determine the amount of a fine.

Now that I have said, plainly, what happened and how I feel about it, let’s look at a few other things that have happened around this incident, and which people seem curious about:

Firstly, it was doubly unfortunate for me that eTV’s intrepid news team were there, accompanying the Highway patrol cops and that they managed to nab someone of minor public interest. Great for their ratings no doubt, but an aggravating factor for me in that I’ve had to deal with calls all day and night from concerned family, friends and colleagues; subjected to repeat broadcast of that footage.

I am startled by the response of a small clutch of hysterical people – some who thought I should have been locked up, others who believed a fitting punishment for speeding is to be raped in jail and a few who said I drove too slowly and was a ***** to have stayed under 200km/h. I’m sure these people can be considered the lunatic fringe – but the sententious overtone is insufferable.

The news media also couldn’t get their story straight. Four newspapers came out with headlines about me sleeping in a jail cell last night. This was not true. All the newspapers managed to get the wrong court for my appearance this morning and none of them seemed to have known the procedures involved when someone is arrested even in the broadest sense.

The police were courteous, helpful and efficient. Not at any stage did I feel unsafe, intimidated or harassed. If the media could have constructed the story themselves I’d have been clapped in irons and locked away for years. This is not what happened, and it’s not how traffic offences work.

These are things even good citizens occasionally have to deal with. I have no prior convictions or arrests to my name. I don’t like to break the rules. Some people may have even thought me holier-than-thou before the arrest. I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be. I’m sure I’ll have to put up with excessive moralising, complaints about being a hypocrite and the slavering over the details.

If there is a lesson in any of this it must be that speeding isn’t only bad when it kills, it’s also just not worth it. Drive safely. I’ll catch you in the morning.

G

Source
 
I'm sure he got few more followers on twitter. This sounds like a publicity stunt (good or bad) to me.
 
Why do so many others spend nights in jail for traffic offences but he doesn't? Celebrity at play again.
 
Skywalker42 said:
Blink 182
March 7, 2012
Filed under: Blog — gareth @ 4:34 pm

I did a stupid thing last night. I drove my car at 182 km/h on the way back from the airport and was pulled over by the cops and arrested. When you do stupid things, there are consequences. I have admitted my guilt, advanced no argument in mitigation, and made no excuses. Now we await the turning of the slow wheels of justice to determine the amount of a fine.

Now that I have said, plainly, what happened and how I feel about it, let’s look at a few other things that have happened around this incident, and which people seem curious about:

Firstly, it was doubly unfortunate for me that eTV’s intrepid news team were there, accompanying the Highway patrol cops and that they managed to nab someone of minor public interest. Great for their ratings no doubt, but an aggravating factor for me in that I’ve had to deal with calls all day and night from concerned family, friends and colleagues; subjected to repeat broadcast of that footage.

I am startled by the response of a small clutch of hysterical people – some who thought I should have been locked up, others who believed a fitting punishment for speeding is to be raped in jail and a few who said I drove too slowly and was a ***** to have stayed under 200km/h. I’m sure these people can be considered the lunatic fringe – but the sententious overtone is insufferable.

The news media also couldn’t get their story straight. Four newspapers came out with headlines about me sleeping in a jail cell last night. This was not true. All the newspapers managed to get the wrong court for my appearance this morning and none of them seemed to have known the procedures involved when someone is arrested even in the broadest sense.

The police were courteous, helpful and efficient. Not at any stage did I feel unsafe, intimidated or harassed. If the media could have constructed the story themselves I’d have been clapped in irons and locked away for years. This is not what happened, and it’s not how traffic offences work.

These are things even good citizens occasionally have to deal with. I have no prior convictions or arrests to my name. I don’t like to break the rules. Some people may have even thought me holier-than-thou before the arrest. I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be. I’m sure I’ll have to put up with excessive moralising, complaints about being a hypocrite and the slavering over the details.

If there is a lesson in any of this it must be that speeding isn’t only bad when it kills, it’s also just not worth it. Drive safely. I’ll catch you in the morning.

G

Source
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Clearly he has not suffered due to loss of life because of road accidents. All my friends deaths are because of traffic accidents, not one of them had a death of natural causes and this stretches back to '98.
 
Fuma said:
I'm sure he got few more followers on twitter. This sounds like a publicity stunt (good or bad) to me.
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Definitely. He also gets to demonstrate remorse (?) in mitigation of sentence?
 
Pr⊕phet said:
Clearly he has not suffered due to loss of life because of road accidents. All my friends deaths are because of traffic accidents, not one of them had a death of natural causes and this stretches back to '98.
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Were all of them victims of somebody caught speeding?
 
Naks said:
statistically you must be an outlier...
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outlier?
Fudzy said:
Were all of them victims of somebody caught speeding?
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Yes all of them was victims of speedsters part 1. Myself almost died because of a T-Bone because some idiot jumped a red.... I'm bit confused as how "someone caught" is going to change those facts.

What are you really asking? Do you think it's all made up stories?
 
Pr⊕phet said:
outlier?

Yes all of them was victims of speedsters part 1. Myself almost died because of a T-Bone because some idiot jumped a red.... I'm bit confused as how "someone caught" is going to change those facts.

What are you really asking? Do you think it's all made up stories?
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Listen boet, I'm not trying to tie a knot in your balls here, but some idiot jumping a red <> speeding ... which is ,I think, the point Fudzy is trying to make
 
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