That is definately one I would not accept. He has 2 witnesses that can back up that he had been stopping and cleaning his windscreen regularly. Whilst he was in a queue of traffic he could not safely get out and clean it and was looking for somewhere to pull in and do just that when Robocop and his twin showed up.
I know it's a PITA to argue the case but if we all just lie down to these it'll just give them more firewood for the fire.
My scooshers do not work under -3, I carry a bottle of water so I can squirt the screen when stationary however if it get below -8 or thereabouts its a gamble as it can just instatnly freeze on the screen making it worse. Or the water is frozen inside the car and can't be used.
I also agree with Shug in that a reasoned debate should not then mean you get booked for having a differing opinion.
I get the feeling more and more these days that the Police (traffic officers) are out to get easy tickets and not there to educate the bad drivers. Someone makes a mistake and causes a pile up, ah that's ok, but if you are not interfering with traffic at all but speeding you get done. Doesn't make sense to me...........
I recently asked a Traffic Cop the question (whilst sitting in the back of their 5 series

) "What do you do about all these drivers constantly hogging the outside lane?"
Response: "Well if we pulled all of those in we wouldn't get any work done............."
So in other words they are out to book people and not educate bad drivers of which there are clearly many.
