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timwilky
13-02-07, 12:59 PM
Well it is here, banged to rights. 28 years of clean licence on its way out.
Bloody scamera vans. I know I was in the area they operate from and usually check/brake on that particular hill. But that one day. When ever I see them, I let all other motorists know of the hazard ahead. Why did nobody return me the favour that day.
sry to hear that, are you sure it was you being caught on camera?
in fact demand a photo to prove it was you. or it can be your half brother living in hongkong taking it out for a ride.
Alpinestarhero
13-02-07, 01:19 PM
Oh no..
Still, you havnt lost your lisence (have you?) so thats not so bad.
I thought I got caught a few weeks ago, but I was lucky; 33mph on a 40mph zone, but there where no signs so i thought it was a 30mph I got flashed in :? and I was worried for a few days until i went back and checked the speed limit because if i got 3 points on my lisence, im half way to loosing it (new riders act, 6points in 2 years you have to resit tet blah blah)
Maybe you can argue it, I dunno
Matt
fraser01
13-02-07, 01:54 PM
Sorry to hear mate, unfortunately its far too easy to get points these days. However did you know that letting other people of speed cameras and such like is more of a serious offence in its self and can have jail time attached to it... :shock:
Again sorry to hear
Fraser
Sorry to hear mate, unfortunately its far too easy to get points these days. However did you know that letting other people of speed cameras and such like is more of a serious offence in its self and can have jail time attached to it... :shock:
Something I've known for a while. I have always wondered how it would be taken if you were to ever say "What speed trap? I was just warning traffic coming the other way about drivers hitting their brakes hard!"
:oops: :-dd
Filipe M.
13-02-07, 02:13 PM
Sorry to hear mate, unfortunately its far too easy to get points these days. However did you know that letting other people of speed cameras and such like is more of a serious offence in its self and can have jail time attached to it... :shock:
Something I've known for a while. I have always wondered how it would be taken if you were to ever say "What speed trap? I was just warning traffic coming the other way about drivers hitting their brakes hard!"
:oops: :-dd
Why, isn't that why you warn the others in the first place? :shock: :-k
:-dd
Sorry to hear mate, unfortunately its far too easy to get points these days. However did you know that letting other people of speed cameras and such like is more of a serious offence in its self and can have jail time attached to it... :shock:
Again sorry to hear
Fraser
Ah, that must be why the police stopped using them mobile speed camera signs then. Don't want to give us any chance of avoiding points now :roll:
Dan
Fraser - Not aimed at you btw, just the ones in London parked sideways next to a petrol station on the pavement I take offense at.
the signs have to be displayed as it is a legal requirement
:laughat: :laughat:
the signs have to be displayed as it is a legal requirement
Not round here...they dont*
Dan
*Well, its probably a legal requirement, but they tend to forget.
andyaikido
13-02-07, 02:59 PM
Tim, definitely ask for the photo. If nothing else you'll end up with a souvenir for your 60 quid.
Not a fan of this automated justice directed at motorists. Can't we go back to getting a condescending chat from an actual police officer to go with the fine and points?
Biker Biggles
13-02-07, 03:27 PM
Bad news.I just hate this surveillance society we have become.
Ceri JC
13-02-07, 04:20 PM
Something I've known for a while. I have always wondered how it would be taken if you were to ever say "What speed trap? I was just warning traffic coming the other way about drivers hitting their brakes hard!"
:oops: :-dd
Whenever I flash my lights, all it means is I'm alerting people to my presence without using my horn, as per the highway code. :wink:
28 years? You should be ashamed of yourself Tim, I mean pootling about for twenty... eight... years... :lol: About time you gave it some welly — and now my son, you're a real man. :wink: .
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timwilky
13-02-07, 06:17 PM
28 years? You should be ashamed of yourself Tim, I mean pootling about for twenty... eight... years... :lol: About time you gave it some welly — and now my son, you're a real man. :wink: .
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Actually, I am very lucky to have got away with it for so long. A number of police officers have had a word with me. But these damm camera people have no discretion. The must delight in catching people and fining rather than educating people in the errors of their ways.
What annoys me about the spot where I was caught is a friends family was badly injured there because somebody saw a static camera, braked and lost control hitting them. I saw the camera van and did not think I was more than a couple of mph over the limit so did not bother to brake etc. To be honest I have been down that hill faster on a pushbike than I was actually traveling that day.
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