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You've slowed down to 30 as you go through the speed camera on the way to work and some tw@ on a scooter comes by at 45 mph and sets it off!
You're nicked mate! Fine for scooter rider - £60 Me laughing my head off at 31 mph - PRICELESS (imagine how suprised the 'processor' of that photo is going to be when he sees the 150 mph Triumph doing 30 and some twerp on a 60 mph scooter doing 40-odd) |
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Assuming that there was film in the camera, of course. In case anyone was wondering, this is why they have those white markings on the road. The marks are at a fixed distance apart (like a giant ruler). This means that they can manually calculate your speed from the two photos. It's very useful in case the camera is faulty and goes off when it shouldn't - like the one on the North Circular, just north of Chiswick Roundabout.
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You sure you were doing 30
![]() I believe Rictus has a speeding ticket issued under similar circumstances, for doing 33 mph past one of these cameras when someone else set it off ![]() |
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Did he have a UK plate ?? In my experience the ****s that go through them like that usually have European plates and are untraceable in the UK.
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Yes I was doing 30 and, yes it was a UK plate - I've never seen a scooter slow down so quickly.
They never seem to slow down for cars, pedestrians, buses etc. I was beginning to wonder if they had any brakes at all! I'm pretty sure that I'm OK - I was virtually halfway through the markings on the road when I noticed him zoom up the outside lane and then the flashes went off. I know the camera well so I had slowed right down - these damn digital speedos do take their time giving you the true speed though. |
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when a guy on a Kawasaki coming in the OPPOSITE direction set off the camera by doing a wheelie. Don't think he was in any danger of being caught. |
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I suspect we were doing 32mph.
I seem to be pretty lucky with cameras, I've had them flash twice as I go past 10mph over and no ticket turned up. |
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i hope it wasn't me
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