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I can't find any reference to this on the mobile web, but BBC Wales News have just carried an item about a pensioner in Cardiff who's bought a Peugeot Partner former police van off eBay for £1500, crudely put yellow/black sticky tape on it, and cut an aperture in the rear door to hide a false camera behind. He parks it on the road outside his house in order to fool motorists into thinking it's a plod scamera van and thus force them to slow down. Apparently all his neighbours are pleased with what he's done, and that it'll stay there for "as long as motorists keep putting their foot down" (announcer's script).

Good of the BBC to tell all the people who go down this road that the van is a fake.

Interestingly, I saw this story on the BBC website this morning but the links to it now give a "404 Page not found" error.

Perhaps they found that the van was not taxed or insured...

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Malcolm W.
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That's quite common for BBC Wales news articles on the site.

Here you go:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/multimedia ... -27512618/

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Malcolm W.
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It's also in the Daily Mail:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-132250 ... e-spy.html

Interesting to note that the online version hasn't blurred his number plate, but the paper version has.

As he has now been "outed", perhaps he should sell the van to the local Community SpeedWatch vigilantes. I dare say they could use it as they already think they are "enforcers".

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Malcolm W.
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I hope people all peep their horn in appreciation of his public-spiritedness as they drive past. I know I would!

Especially at 2am.

I wonder what the response would be if one of his neighbors further up the road erected a sign "Fake Camera Van Ahead". Perhaps they'd get a real one out there tout suite!

As for the 2am bit, can scam vans enforce after dark?

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Big thanks to you the-gog!

And thanks for an absolutely wicked series!!! (I recorded them on something called 'video' don't ya know.... )

I wish you would post more often

Cheers - from one gog to another &

Tone

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

TBH a very poor imititation of a scamera van, i would say a typical CSW lookalike, looking at the website it shows http://gosafe.org/en/cameras/Details.aspx?ID=1068&UAID=7&UA=Cardiff Landsdown road as a camera site

then reading this link they say there is not a speeding problem there http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/10/21/white-van-man-fools-drivers-into-slowing-down-91466-27515339/