DfT ANNOUNCES PUBLIC DRIVING STANDARDS RECOGNITION SCHEME
Due to the decreasing quality of driving in England the Department for Transport has devised a scheme to identify poor drivers whilst giving good drivers the opportunity to recognise them whilst on the highway.

Thus from the middle of May 2006 those drivers who are found to be driving badly which includes:
· overtaking in dangerous places
· tailgating
· braking sharply
· speeding in residential areas
· failing to indicate at junctions
· parking on footpaths
· performing U turns inappropriately in busy high streets
· taking up more than one lane on multi-lane highways
· anything of a furry nature hanging from a rear-view mirror
· lowered suspension on family sized car
· driving with a stereo system on maximum volume with windows wound down

will be issued with flags coloured white and bearing a red cross, signifying their inability to drive correctly.

These flags must be clipped to a door of the car and be visible to all other drivers and pedestrians.

IMPORTANT: Those drivers who have shown particularly poor driving skills will have to display two flags, one on each side of their vehicle, to indicate their greater lack of skill and general lower intelligence to the general public.

Oh thank-you SB! I saw something like this last year and have been unable to find it since.

Brilliant, isn't it.

I got it in a text last year but now this one is doing the rounds. :good:

Oh LOL.
That should earn me a few drinks over the weekend....

heehee.

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Thank you - I like that one!

Tee hee, that's funny, i must try and tell that one seriously to the other drivers at work :)

I heard on the radio that some scientist chaps had worked out that cars that have these flags need one pound worth more of fuel for every hour of driving because of drag:nerd:

You made me laugh today SB thinking of this.
Visiting my local Morrisons I came across a car with the obligatory two flags on the windows, but also they had another flag on their aerial.
They must be cr*p at driving!:w00t:

Okay...maybe I wont buy a flag for my car then...:blush:

(Can I still keep my big flag flapping in the front window?)