Sneaky Coppers
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The dibble were out with there radar gun in Guildford again last night. I was travelling in the opposite direction to their trap and saw a policeman run across the road and duck behind a beacon on the central reservation while poking his gun out from around the side to catch people speeding. Useually they stand by the side of the road in clear view of oncoming traffic which seems reasonably fair, but the methods I saw last night (i.e. hiding behind things and sticking the gun around the side) were completely out of order. Are they allowed to do this?
Definitely not on, they could cause an accident if someone saw them and swerved/slammed on the brakes as an instinctive reaction. Maybe you should have stopped and asked him what the fcuk he thought he was doing?
Surrey Traffic Police seem to be a different breed to any others. I'm glad I live in a Thames Valley Police area.
Surrey Traffic Police seem to be a different breed to any others. I'm glad I live in a Thames Valley Police area.
quote:What does he think it is - bloody Starsky & Hutch???
saw a policeman run across the road and duck behind a beacon on the central reservation while poking his gun out from around the side to catch people speeding.
Obviously due for an ass-kicking by missing his end of month quota....
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quote:What does he think it is - bloody Starsky & Hutch???
saw a policeman run across the road and duck behind a beacon on the central reservation while poking his gun out from around the side to catch people speeding.
Obviously due for an ass-kicking by missing his end of month quota....
Pitty you weren't in a position to "leopard Crawl" up to where he was and obtain a little video of said "upstanding officer of the law" (or is that long arms of the law for short pockets of the public) to show the world how stealth tax should be gained! ... Hell bells, why bother with fkcing fixed Cams when we have resident Kid Cassidy
and Co at play! 
I Seem to remeber a story an old friend from uni told me once (now I just can't seem to remeber where he's working at the moment...it's right on the tip of my toungue...no it's gone, oh well).
His good ol' dad, we'll call him Geoff, was driving into a villiage off a fast A road at an undiclosed velocity, as you do. As he entered said village there was a kink in the road sporting a convienient hedge.
rolling up to the hedge, with out braking violently, so still carrying a resectable pace, the day-glo coated oinker jumped out hair dryer first, clocked his speed, and pulled him over.
Now Geoff is no push over, and faced with a pig who thought all his christmases had come at once, had to think on his feet.
Pig:"Good morning sir, do you know how fast you were traveling?"
Geoff:"Yes"
Pig:"Do you realise to travel at that speed is an offence, sir?. May take your name and address, please"
Geoff:"May I first take your collar number, did you know entrappment was an offence?"
Pig:"......."
Geoff:
not sure if it is in UK, anyone?
Bloody lucky it worked too as he already had 10pps
Mouse.
His good ol' dad, we'll call him Geoff, was driving into a villiage off a fast A road at an undiclosed velocity, as you do. As he entered said village there was a kink in the road sporting a convienient hedge.
rolling up to the hedge, with out braking violently, so still carrying a resectable pace, the day-glo coated oinker jumped out hair dryer first, clocked his speed, and pulled him over.
Now Geoff is no push over, and faced with a pig who thought all his christmases had come at once, had to think on his feet.
Pig:"Good morning sir, do you know how fast you were traveling?"
Geoff:"Yes"
Pig:"Do you realise to travel at that speed is an offence, sir?. May take your name and address, please"
Geoff:"May I first take your collar number, did you know entrappment was an offence?"
Pig:"......."
Geoff:
not sure if it is in UK, anyone?
Bloody lucky it worked too as he already had 10pps
Mouse.
Sure..
When I was out driving a few weeks ago in Basildon, I could not honestly believe what I saw..
There was a meat wagon parked up on the side of the road, and there were two cameras poking out of the 'windows' at the back of the van. It was like a James Bond trick.. Can anyone else confirm if they have ever seen such a thing, or was it a figment of my imagination.
When I was out driving a few weeks ago in Basildon, I could not honestly believe what I saw..
There was a meat wagon parked up on the side of the road, and there were two cameras poking out of the 'windows' at the back of the van. It was like a James Bond trick.. Can anyone else confirm if they have ever seen such a thing, or was it a figment of my imagination.
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Sure..
When I was out driving a few weeks ago in Basildon, I could not honestly believe what I saw..
There was a meat wagon parked up on the side of the road, and there were two cameras poking out of the 'windows' at the back of the van. It was like a James Bond trick.. Can anyone else confirm if they have ever seen such a thing, or was it a figment of my imagination.
Sussex police have got one similar - (stripped of all signwriting/stripes etc) its got blacked out windoows (top section of windows folds down to give the cameras a clear view)
They also use a white vauxhall combo van 2/3rds of the back window are mirror tinted with the cameras above the tint (they have got a orange workman's light on the roof and a roof rack) looks just like a builders van - Seen it on the Brighton/Lewes Bypass a couple of times
Nope - it does exist. They were using it on the road from the Lotus Factory to the A11 on Saturday for the Lotus open day - can't think *why* they would have thought that 500 or so Lotus cars would be speeding.......
Big white van with the radar sticking out of a flap on the top right. They then had a policeman about 200 yards down the road with a walky talkie ready to do the "pull".
J
Big white van with the radar sticking out of a flap on the top right. They then had a policeman about 200 yards down the road with a walky talkie ready to do the "pull".
J
I got my 3 points a couple of years ago in a village near me where the limit had recently gone down from 40 to 30 (in a hire car, didn't realise, etc etc), and got done for 41. I saw the camera car a while later, and it was some old vauxhall estate IIRC, sitting on the verge with blacked out windows, and three wires coming out of the passenger window and across the road. Someone has told me since then they are a set distance apart, so they start timing on the first wire, stop on the second, and take the photo on the third. Later that month, a sign went up to say they had 369 speeders that day at that point.
Incidentaly, does anyone know if the 10% + 2mph rule still applies for speed. An ex Special I know told me once that there is a tolerance for speeding, so 30 was really 35, then 46, 57, 68 and 79. This is all to allow for inaccuracies in Speedo's, apparently. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
Cheers,
Tony
www.tvr-3000m.co.uk
Incidentaly, does anyone know if the 10% + 2mph rule still applies for speed. An ex Special I know told me once that there is a tolerance for speeding, so 30 was really 35, then 46, 57, 68 and 79. This is all to allow for inaccuracies in Speedo's, apparently. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
Cheers,
Tony
www.tvr-3000m.co.uk
Yes Joust, I saw that one too.
The polite-men who brought it to the meet were having a word in the "shell-like" of a couple on a Ducatti 900 monstoro (I think, not very god at bikes).
I've heard that they can put speed cameras anywhere and anyhow they like as long as there's a speed camera sign on that given stretch of road. This is why there are alot of roads in Cambridge which have speed camera signs but no fixed cameras. Just means that you have to watch out for dodgeyly parked builder's vans with backed out windows, because the copper CAN say you had due warning...
mouse.
p.s. Was the black Noble M10 I saw on the A11 between Thetford and Brandon, with an Elise (didn't catch the colour)in tow, you? Very nice either way, first one I've seen in the flesh, looks Elise's beefy big bro'.
The polite-men who brought it to the meet were having a word in the "shell-like" of a couple on a Ducatti 900 monstoro (I think, not very god at bikes).
I've heard that they can put speed cameras anywhere and anyhow they like as long as there's a speed camera sign on that given stretch of road. This is why there are alot of roads in Cambridge which have speed camera signs but no fixed cameras. Just means that you have to watch out for dodgeyly parked builder's vans with backed out windows, because the copper CAN say you had due warning...
mouse.
p.s. Was the black Noble M10 I saw on the A11 between Thetford and Brandon, with an Elise (didn't catch the colour)in tow, you? Very nice either way, first one I've seen in the flesh, looks Elise's beefy big bro'.
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