Originally Posted by confus-ed
But of course :thumbs: .. everyone is allowed to be at least a little confus-ed some of the time ! :)
The brief gist is that over here the poor old motorist gets used as a source of taxation for any driving faults they might have/make as its very easy to extract cash from someone who's basically legal but might occasionally speed or perhaps ill -advisedly drive home having had three pints instead of the none/one/two (if you are physically big enough) pints of beer that are permitted here before you'd get what I think you call 'drunk in charge' ? (or similar anyway ;)) - while if you steal a car, run around in it all day with 20 police officers & a helicopter after you & kill someone or just wreak havoc, you are off to some holiday camp or get a slap on the wrists, or get the the driving license you never had in the first place taken off you !
So the summary is that folks who are generally mostly legal but perhaps 'erred' get hit far harder than those who never gave a monkeys & were way outside the law - NOT FAIR for a two word summary (but I thought that might leave you even more confus-ed than you originally were :thumbs: )