I'm afraid my mate generated another easy £60 for the cops and the insurance industry today when he had the misfortune to be zapped with the laser gun on the A65 between Kirkby Lonsdale and Skipton.
He was trying to catch me up as I had more confidence to whip past cars on the twisty bits, so when it opened up to a nice straight he took the opportunity to blast past an annoyingly wide camper-van. Unfortunately for him I'd slowed down as I knew the cops often parked up there and he got clocked doing 85 in a 60.
Cops had no sympathy that he was performing a safe overtake maneouvre...I feel a bit guilty now
For the record there was an un-marked gun-metal grey Golf GTI parked in the lay-by on the dual-carriageway bit...the copper stands hidden behind his car and then steps out to the edge of the road and takes a shot with his laser speed gun at whoever is unfortunate enough to be stuck behind a caravan or whatever and wants to take the chance to get past it on a nice bit of straight road.
Damn filth...