British motorists have become a safety menace on France's roads, regularly flouting the speed limits after crossing the Channel, French police say. Hospitals in the north of France report a high number of British casualties as holidaymakers rush to catch ferries or the shuttle home. The problem is so serious that officers from England are being sent to patrol motorways near northern French ports in an attempt to convince Britons that they are not immune to a recent crackdown on speeding on French roads. In a four-hour period last weekend, on the A26 motorway near Saint-Omer, a Franco-British patrol stopped 30 cars for breaking the 130km/h (80mph) limit. All but two were from Britain. British drivers have committed half of the most serious speeding offences - over 125mph - in the region this year. "Often British drivers pretend they do not understand and they think that the French police have it in for them," Lieutenant Patrick Vanderstaerten, of the Pas-de-Calais police, said. "It's an old cliché from the old Anglo-French quarrel."
British motorists have become a safety menace on France's roads, regularly flouting the speed limits after crossing the Channel, French police say.
Hospitals in the north of France report a high number of British casualties as holidaymakers rush to catch ferries or the shuttle home.
The problem is so serious that officers from England are being sent to patrol motorways near northern French ports in an attempt to convince Britons that they are not immune to a recent crackdown on speeding on French roads.
In a four-hour period last weekend, on the A26 motorway near Saint-Omer, a Franco-British patrol stopped 30 cars for breaking the 130km/h (80mph) limit. All but two were from Britain. British drivers have committed half of the most serious speeding offences - over 125mph - in the region this year.
"Often British drivers pretend they do not understand and they think that the French police have it in for them," Lieutenant Patrick Vanderstaerten, of the Pas-de-Calais police, said. "It's an old cliché from the old Anglo-French quarrel."
British thugs are exporting the UK's knife epidemic to Spanish holiday resorts, police warned today. Yobs are smuggling deadly blades in their luggage or stocking up on weapons in local shops. Armed Spanish cops have begun random spot checks using metal detectors in the resort of Magaluf in Majorca.
Yobs are smuggling deadly blades in their luggage or stocking up on weapons in local shops.
Armed Spanish cops have begun random spot checks using metal detectors in the resort of Magaluf in Majorca.
I mean, jeez, the local police in some of these countries have reputations for random violence that the americans would be hard put to emulate. So let 'em loose and let thugs know that the gloves are off when they arrive. keep to the Fen Causeway
If there's an Anglo-Disease, it's not cause by an excess of seriousness, but by an excess of English-speaking knobbery which sometimes pretends to appear serious and respectable as it gets older.
Boris wasn't elected mayor because he's a nice person who's kind to kittens, but because he's a yob that other yobs can look up to.
Too true. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
