Russell
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| posted on 13/1/11 at 06:48 PM |
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Hidden speed cameras!
Hidden speed cameras linky
Be careful if you see a f'kin big piece of cheese by the side of the road.
I'm a bilingual illiterate. I can't read in two languages.
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PSpirine
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| posted on 13/1/11 at 06:52 PM |
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I'd love to pull up to one of the garbage ones, open a giant bin bag and just tip it all into it, then deposit at the nearest tip!
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T66
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| posted on 13/1/11 at 07:42 PM |
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The days of the wankers using their own cars , and the camera on a tripod are long gone....
Marked vehicles and signs are the base line, they are prone to using small signs, but there by the grace of God you go.
Never made any difference to road safety in any county in the UK - Period !
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 13/1/11 at 08:11 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by T66
The days of the wankers using their own cars , and the camera on a tripod are long gone....
Marked vehicles and signs are the base line, they are prone to using small signs, but there by the grace of God you go.
Never made any difference to road safety in any county in the UK - Period !
I got done by something like the first one way back when, and it really was their own car - a bloody plain VW Polo parked fully on the verge hiding
the radar detector on a tripod in front on it. Stealth taxes have been around since at least the '80's!!
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stevegough
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| posted on 13/1/11 at 08:33 PM |
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My first was in 1977. It was one of those long black boxes sat on the rear parcel shelf of an unmarked Vauxhall Viva HB parked fully on the pavement
in Preston centre. The cop car was 100 yds up the road behind a hedge. The copper jumped out in front of me in my first car (Ford Anglia). I nearly
ran the silly plod down. Those speed detectors had been in use (to my knowledge) for at least 5/6 years before that!
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/1/11 at 09:58 PM |
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I was under the impression (from their own website) that speed cameras are not to be hidden. Also the locations of these cameras have to be published
(again from and on their own website)
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/1/11 at 09:07 AM |
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I like the French approach to speed cameras - first you see a ginormous warning sign (2 x 3 metres in some places), then road markings and, in one
place, even rumble strips. After that, in the next kilometre or so, there will be a little grey camera box hidden somewhere.
Basically, if you're dumb enough to exceed the speed limit for the next few minutes after the sign then you deserve a ticket!
Mind you - their mobile speed traps are not so friendly - they have to put up a sign before the camera/laser/whatever, but it isn't very big and
easily missed.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/1/11 at 03:55 PM |
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Found a picture of the French speed camera warning sign...
 
French speed camera
They really are that big!
[Edited on 15/1/11 by David Jenkins]
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stevegough
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| posted on 14/1/11 at 08:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Found a picture of the French speed camera warning sign...
They really are that big!
er.... where?
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jacko
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| posted on 14/1/11 at 08:33 PM |
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The way fuel prices are going no one will be on the roads 
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 14/1/11 at 08:52 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko
The way fuel prices are going no one will be on the roads
True, I'm seriously in the mindset now that this country is partaking in an experiment to see how much a government can take the p**s before we
as one person snap and set fire to the place.
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Peteff
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| posted on 14/1/11 at 10:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Found a picture of the French speed camera warning sign...
They really are that big!
Invisible then?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/1/11 at 08:53 AM |
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My picture's vanished! 
Stand by...
...OK - mended.
[Edited on 15/1/11 by David Jenkins]
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 15/1/11 at 11:59 AM |
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We had a regular camera van just down the bottom of our road in a place where you could not justify any speeding, they have just moved the 40mph signs
500mtrs further down onto a dual carriageway (3/4 mile from original site into open country) and moved the camera van to suit, its now there every day
raking it in.
Pete will be familiar with where I mean, there is absolutely no doubt it as been done to generate cash not safety at all, its now positioned in an
area where even the most speed aware drivers would be taking there foot off the gas and coasting towards the end of the duel carriageway (uphill)
reducing speed ready to enter a built up area. To cap it all they have also removed all the painted warnings from the road surface that you are
entering a 40mph zone ?
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