New Laws regarding lead acid batteries

[lurkalot]

I'm guessing this will effect the machinery dealers / parts suppliers out there, especially if they supply replacement batteries to their customers.

https://www.adventurebikerider.com/new-regulations-buying-motorcycle-batteries/

 

Thoughts?

[Gary Prentice]

Just marvellous, make life harder and more expensive fo the normal, law abiding, folk because of the minority.

 

A real novel approach to these acid attacks would be to catch the people involved, prosecute and make the penalty so harsh that it discourages others.

 

What's next? Because of the rise in scooter/moped crime, raise the CBT to £2000??

 

It boils my when the actions of a very small minority of the population forces changes that affect the majority. Is this really going to prevent these attacks?

 

 

[lurkalot]

3 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

A real novel approach to these acid attacks would be to catch the people involved, prosecute and make the penalty so harsh that it discourages others.

You mean actually do what they should be doing, rather than trying to find ways to make money?

[woody paul]

What the hell next.

If its in the battery its easy to get it out again if determined to use it for some thing else.

Most if not all battery sold over inter net are supplied dry and you have to fill them  or get someone to.

[Gary Prentice]

Well, that's a cynical point of view. 

 

It's sad when life in the UK is such, that solutions to problems seem so far out of the box, that the public just see it as a money-making issue.

 

When the gun-ownership legislation changed in response to a shooting spree, did it make it harder for those inclined to possess a gun for illegal purposes? Watching documentaries, it doesn't look like it.

 

I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that I could get a illegal hand-gun within a day or two, if I really wanted too, through people who know people. It doesn't work!

[Gary Prentice]

3 minutes ago, woody paul said:

What the hell next.

If its in the battery its easy to get it out again if determined to use it for some thing else.

Most if not all battery sold over inter net are supplied dry and you have to fill them  or get someone to.

Probably filling in a form when you need to hire a van to move furniture, promising that your usage excludes running crowds of people down!

[Lazurus]

Guess it will up the sales of gel batteries.......

[lurkalot]

12 minutes ago, Lazurus said:

Guess it will up the sales of gel batteries.......

Probably, but that's a shame as they're not as reliable as a wet cell lead acid.  They also need proper charging to have any sort of life expectancy. 

[Lazurus]

Just thinking that Joe Average is going to take the easy option, as will some suppliers. No doubt help the Chinese economy though!!

[difflock]

And the 97% acid drain cleaner bottles widely sold?

never mind the phosphoric? acid sold in 210 litre barrells to preserve silage, nasty stuff from 40 year old memory

Edited June 17, 2018 by difflock