As I have said before a qualified, insured, sober, careful driver driving a new, safe, taxed, well maintained car can get doing for doing 36 in a 30 when there are no other cars on the road and not a pedestrian in sight. However someone who has no licence, is uninsured, drunk, drugged up driving an untaxed, MOT failure with defective brakes, bald tyres and no seat belt can get away with doing 34 because he slowed slightly while making a phone call and eating a sandwich even though he was doing 110 in a 40 less than two mins before hand.
Speed cameras are 1/500 sec snapshots in time and are thus an extremely inefficient targetting of resources, inefficient in catching offenders that is, the are quite efficient at making money though that is another story.
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Yes, I agree but this camera had a copper attached to it.
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Yes, I agree but this camera had a copper attached to it.
So the copper either investigates untaxed vehicles, breathalises (spellin') outside pubs etc and costs the treasury a fortune or stands at the side of the road nicking the (virtually) innocent and makes a healthy profit.
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This particular "trap" had the officers on foot - their traffic car was parked in an adjacent street that didn't actually have any access to the main road. Copper is standing on the road side of a layby in his hi-vis pointing the gun. His partner is standing next to him. Traffic is all crawling towards him at 29mph. He could very easily have realised that no one is speeding and changed tact to see if any other laws were being broken.
With hindsight, I am now wondering if he was training his partner on the use of the gun, thats why he didn't take notice of all the other offences?
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Or the local vocal " Something wants doing about all those speeding cars" brigade where being appeased. Particularly Councillor xxxxxx who is well known for his constant barage of complaints from his local constituants.
"Well we attended on X,Y and Z dates at A,B,and C times and despite your protestations we actually caught err zero speeders. So really you havent got a problem. Now will you let us go and get on with some real Police work?"
Remember there are a number of people pulling the Police's strings.
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Howeversomeone who has no licence, is uninsured, drunk, drugged up driving an untaxed, MOT failure with defective brakes, bald tyres and no seat belt can get away with doing 34 because he slowed slightly while making a phone call and eating a sandwich even though he was doing 110 in a 40 less than two mins before hand.
Sounds like a fairly effective chavmobile I must say. Must have been really something when it was new.
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