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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 8:36:50 GMT 1
From November when driving through France you will need to add a breathalizer to your hi-vizz breakdown kit. Anyone who doesn't will be fined. Don't worry - you can buy one at all boarder crossings and ports of entry. It gets worse for residents like Johnoaks and Ronturner as they will have to buy two. That way they will always be within the law should one have to be used. Obviously, the country can nolonger afford to equip it's police force with them. Still, I suppose someone has to pay for their generosity toward the Euro bailout fund.
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Post by Vasidae on Feb 24, 2012 9:27:17 GMT 1
Apparently the fine for not having a breathalyser in your vehicle is to be around 11 euros or £9.35.
And its planned to have breath kits on sale at the ferry and tunnel terminals for 1/2 euros - around £1.20
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Post by johnoakes on Feb 24, 2012 16:36:14 GMT 1
What a con.I don't have one nor does anyone else I know. Spare bulbs ,High viz vest logical and yes but this is just a joke. If Ron has one I will be surprised.  |
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Post by ronturner on Feb 24, 2012 17:14:16 GMT 1
I don't have a breathalyser kit in my car yet, as they not generally on sale. They will appear in the supermarkets soon and I am told they will be for sale initially at €1.50 each.
My understanding is that the implementation date is March 1st.
This is supposed to be a road safety initiative but it is probably just another way of raising revenue in fines (ergo... read taxes.)
I do have the spare bulbs, the hi viz jacket and the breakdown triangle.
By the way for Brits coming to France the Hi viz jacket must be in the passenger compartment of the car, so you can put it on before getting out of your car if you have to stop on a busy highway. Simply having it in the boot under a pile of luggage is not sufficient.
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Post by ronturner on Feb 24, 2012 17:18:44 GMT 1
Found something on a French motoring web site and translated it as follows:-
According to a government spokesman the implementation date was originally set for the 1st of April, but it has now been pushed back to the 1st of July – a time when France’s roads are teeming with tourists, both local and foreign.
There is likely to be a grace period for a few months, whereby you will not be locked up in the Bastille if you do not comply with the rules: you will probably get away with just a warning. From November, however, police will start issuing a fine of 11 Euros for non-compliance.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2012 17:29:51 GMT 1
the implementation date was originally set for the 1st of April Quite apt  GC |
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Post by liverpoolman1 on Feb 25, 2012 11:06:31 GMT 1
........... and we think we live in a Nanny state! I'm staying home for one.
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Post by davel on Feb 25, 2012 12:15:02 GMT 1
At least the've not brought back the yellow headlights!
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Post by Biggles on Feb 25, 2012 17:11:31 GMT 1
What happens if your T - Total and do not drink ? having the kit in your car assumes presumably you drink alcohol, that assumption is an infringement of my Human Rights and has made me really really afraid of driving in France and prevented my freedom of travel now. How much is that worth ?  |
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Post by maverick on Feb 26, 2012 11:39:06 GMT 1
What next? DNA kits incase you murder someone  |
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Post by jetjockey on Feb 26, 2012 21:54:40 GMT 1
Pity they didn't have this in force when the Germans invaded in 1940 they would have made some money,
JJ
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Post by thetexpat on Feb 27, 2012 4:02:11 GMT 1
Gentlemen,"Les Grenouilles" have always been 'hard-up (except for their wine & cuisine of course  '! Many moons ago, while working for a "current 'chapter 11' airline", I was called to travel to LBG (Le Bourget as it was then!) for a few hours to assist the local staff with a 'major' technical problem (long story; more later if required)! Cut a long story short, I was there for 4-5days and did my best to communicate with les grenouilles in their native tongue! Sad to say, I was told that I was 'upsetting the locals' as I was speaking to them in " upper-class" French! Having been taught French(!?) many years ago @ the 'Inny', nothing could have been more, dare I say, amusing ;D?! A return to 'Scouse' was promptly implemented! And in answer to the question, YES!
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Post by johnoakes on Feb 27, 2012 10:31:03 GMT 1
I thought that the yellow bulbs were a D day thing.ie yellow bulbs on cars=Franch do not strafe.White bulbs german =blast them to b####ry.LOL
Perhaps its just apocriphal.
Must buy a breathalizer kit it seems.
But do I need one for the tractor too.LOL
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Post by liverpoolman1 on Feb 27, 2012 20:13:55 GMT 1
I assume that, although this may be law in France, the French themselves will ignore it as they do with everything else. They make the rules but French not included.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 20:59:32 GMT 1
Must buy a breathalizer kit it seems. But do I need one for the tractor too.LOL Come on John......... your living in France. That would be taking things a little too far. Now, if you were back home in good old Blighty you probably would. Not only that you'd have to ware a crash helmet, fit it with a roll cage, head, side, tail and reverse lights, together a reverse horn, forward horn and indicators. And woe beside you if you leave it on the lawn unattended without hazard warning lights. Most important of all - have you been trained to use it and have the documents at hand to prove that. ;D |
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