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This is a game I like to play at camera sites.

My favorite venues for this game are 40mph dc's.

Here's what to do:

Drive at EXACTLY 40mph in your chosen lane as you approach the camera. You'll need a bit of space in front of you.

Cars around you will start to catch up/ tail gate blar, blar

When you get to the lines on the road, they all back off and brake

Now once your on the horizontal lines FLOOR IT! well you can in my car, in third and not set the camera off. But it looks like you're going much faster, 'coz they're braking and you accelerating. Well it amuses me anyway....

i like it best when i park up around 300m after a fixed camera, they all slow down for the lines then floor it as soon as they are clear then argue they did not know the limit

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You have thus proved the ineffectiveness of fixed cameras by your actions as described.

By the way, just when do they argue as all that happens is a bit of paper arrives later in the post?

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Malcolm W.
The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not represent the views of Safespeed.

I like it best when a motorcycle approaches you with the gate slammed all the way to 18lb and you don't have a front numberplate to photograph.

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What makes you think I'm drunk officer, have I got a fat bird with me?

i was amused by the top gear challenge where they broke down and passed the time posing in front of a camera waving waiting for someone to speed past....

can just imagine getting the photo in the post with clarkson & hammond grinning at you.

I have always had a childish urge to climb a step ladder in front of a static camera and drop my trousers whilst a mate drives past too quickly! I have never done this, I hasten to add, but it would just be a good way of telling the authorities what I think of their attempts at improving road safety!

Dont know if it works, but apparently some of the scally kids where I used to live had taken to tying a heavy object such as a half brick onto the end of some rope and swinging it around at speed, then setting the camera off with it.

Presumably if you kept that up, you could get through the entire roll of film quite quickly.


As for my own fun and games, the closest I have is being a pedantic sod with a GPS and thus the camera will relive me of a tailgater for a short while.

There was the cycle club who used it as a sort of sprint on thier training sessions. They then received a sey of photos with thier club jerseys from the scp

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

yeh.. and the offence is?
oh there isnt one.

I reckon a lot of the time they probably don't!

There's a 50mph limit on the A3 in SW London, and it's quite shocking how many people slow down to 40 - or sometimes even less! - as they approach it. In an ideal world, it shouldn't be necessary to treat a speed camera as a hazard, but I'd say that it's almost inevitable that my smooth progress down that road at 50-odd will be interrupted by having to slow down to accommodate all the people who brake sharply, regardless of their speed, as they pass the camera.

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I like it best when I see these Gatsos burnt out

CamOp - do you position yourself deliberately just to catch people or where there is a real safety reason?

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About 10 miles from here, our intrepid local scamerati have installed a fixed camera on a 60mph stretch of road, just after it reduces from dual carriageway. I guess Steve and his merry men must have a macabre sense of humour, as we now have the frequent spectacle of traffic slowing from 80 to 30 as they approach the camera, accompanied by much un-necessary locking up of wheels and related loss of control etc etc.

It can surely only be a matter of time before the damned thing causes a major accident. Like you I treat it as an exceptional hazard that I have to plan for.

I suppose the crux of the problem is that people just don't trust the authorities not to be up to some sneaky money-making scam (I wonder why). They are probably fully aware that the posted limit is actually 60, but think something along the lines of "Well they wouldn't put a camera on a safe wide bit of road like this for no reason - bet there's a temporary 30 sign that I've missed / has blown down etc".

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Ticketo ergo sum : I scam therefore I am!

Speaking as someone who was, until quite recently, looking down the barrel of a nine point gun, that's exactly how I tend to react whenever I spot a talivan (less so with fixed cameras) - did I miss a sign, am I inadvertently speeding? I tend not to go for hitting the brakes, but the temptation is there. And, more worryingly, the temptation to constantly prioritise speed checking above all else is always there, too...

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driving back from Heathrow last monday I experienced similar problems on the a4. No traffic as it was bank hoiliday so I had the cruise control set to 50 (or whatever the limit was). I lost count of the number of people who'd come belting past me, pull into L1 then slam their brakes on forcing me to either do same or pull into L2 to go past them. Why they couldn't do this in L2 is anyone's guess (given the lack of traffic).

i dont think i have ever said i am a fan of fixed cameras,



there are ways and means

take a look at the DFT safety camera site definitions 3.2.1.d

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Unless said motorcyclist doesn't have a rear numberplate on either, naughty

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I have to say that there is no fun at camera sites without a combustable material- but I wouldn't do that. I get my fun watching the clowns trying to prosicute people and lying thier socks off trying to do it. I like the deadly silences that happen when the penny drops that they have been found out.

I find camera sites an invasion of my community just like transits and caravans parked all over our sports field.

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

Or unless the plate is so small it can't be read

Unless the law has changed (can't be bothered to look it up, but I'm sure someone else will), then the penalty for either no plate or an illegal sized plate is only £30.....that sure beats £60 + 3 points for speeding any day of the week.

Couple that with the fact that plod has all but been replaced by the camera, and you are laughing.

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What makes you think I'm drunk officer, have I got a fat bird with me?

camera operator, you have also shown the ineffectiveness of mobile cameras at slowing people down. They slow down for the fixed camera and then speed up at which point you record them speeding and they get a NIP two weeks later.