Done my good deed for the day!
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Travelling down the M40 today, there was a scamra van on a bridge perfectly positioned along a nice wide open stretch of clear motorway.... Luckily I spotted it early & wasn't speeding anyway, but on the return journey I thought I would help a few people out..
Approaching the bridge, I sat in the outside lane doing 70mph, and sure enough I had a queue of traffic behind me, with a guy in a golf flashing me to move over. As we got closer, he spotted the van & slowed down, and gave me the thumbs up once we were clear & back up to normal speeds for the M40
Hopefully saved a few drivers from being robbed of £60 & 3 bonus points
. Utter w
kers, no reason for a scamera van there apart from revenue collection.
Flame suit on, off you go holier than thou crowd
Approaching the bridge, I sat in the outside lane doing 70mph, and sure enough I had a queue of traffic behind me, with a guy in a golf flashing me to move over. As we got closer, he spotted the van & slowed down, and gave me the thumbs up once we were clear & back up to normal speeds for the M40
Hopefully saved a few drivers from being robbed of £60 & 3 bonus points
. Utter wkers, no reason for a scamera van there apart from revenue collection.Flame suit on, off you go holier than thou crowd
astirling said:
RWD cossie wil said:
once we were clear & back up to normal speeds for the M40
RWD cossie wil said:
Utter wkers, no reason for a scanners van there
Have you not just explained exactly why they feel the need for a camera van there?kers, no reason for a scanners van there (edited to sort my formatting)
The M40 is perfectly safe at it's self policing average of about 90 (backed up by the distinct lack of accident stats)
the 70 mph limit doesn't reflect the abilities of modern cars and is utterly arbitrary
Greg_D said:
that's some mighty fine editing there, he said no need apart from revenue collection
The M40 is perfectly safe at it's self policing average of about 90 (backed up by the distinct lack of accident stats)
the 70 mph limit doesn't reflect the abilities of modern cars and is utterly arbitrary
The revenue collection comment was irrelevant to my point.The M40 is perfectly safe at it's self policing average of about 90 (backed up by the distinct lack of accident stats)
the 70 mph limit doesn't reflect the abilities of modern cars and is utterly arbitrary
I agree that the 70mph limit is arbitrary, but I don't see how you can call the camera van folk 'utter w
kers' in these circumstances. Their purpose is to enforce the speed limit. You and the OP openly accept that the speed limit is routinely broken on this stretch of the M40. It make sense, therefore, that the camera van is situated there. It does not make them 'utter wkers'. The issue is the speed limit being arguably out of date, not the camera van doing its job.Greg_D said:
astirling said:
RWD cossie wil said:
once we were clear & back up to normal speeds for the M40
RWD cossie wil said:
Utter wkers, no reason for a scanners van there
Have you not just explained exactly why they feel the need for a camera van there?kers, no reason for a scanners van there (edited to sort my formatting)
The M40 is perfectly safe at it's self policing average of about 90 (backed up by the distinct lack of accident stats)
the 70 mph limit doesn't reflect the abilities of modern cars and is utterly arbitrary
kayzee said:
It's not really holding people up when that's the speed limit anyway though is it... regardless, I would have rather been held up than have points on my license for going 78mph!
This. I travel the length of the M40 quite often, there is an unofficial limit of 90 mph in place most of the time. A scammera van is there for the purpose of catching all the normal people who are there doing the same thing they do EVERY day, WITHOUT causing massive accidents. astirling said:
The revenue collection comment was irrelevant to my point.
I agree that the 70mph limit is arbitrary, but I don't see how you can call the camera van folk 'utter wkers' in these circumstances. Their purpose is to enforce the speed limit. You and the OP openly accept that the speed limit is routinely broken on this stretch of the M40. It make sense, therefore, that the camera van is situated there. It does not make them 'utter wkers'. The issue is the speed limit being arguably out of date, not the camera van doing its job.
I'd rather they enforced the limit somewhere where it actually matters rather than punishing people for 78mph. Revenue collection at its most obvious imo.I agree that the 70mph limit is arbitrary, but I don't see how you can call the camera van folk 'utter w
kers' in these circumstances. Their purpose is to enforce the speed limit. You and the OP openly accept that the speed limit is routinely broken on this stretch of the M40. It make sense, therefore, that the camera van is situated there. It does not make them 'utter wkers'. The issue is the speed limit being arguably out of date, not the camera van doing its job.astirling said:
Greg_D said:
that's some mighty fine editing there, he said no need apart from revenue collection
The M40 is perfectly safe at it's self policing average of about 90 (backed up by the distinct lack of accident stats)
the 70 mph limit doesn't reflect the abilities of modern cars and is utterly arbitrary
The revenue collection comment was irrelevant to my point.The M40 is perfectly safe at it's self policing average of about 90 (backed up by the distinct lack of accident stats)
the 70 mph limit doesn't reflect the abilities of modern cars and is utterly arbitrary
I agree that the 70mph limit is arbitrary, but I don't see how you can call the camera van folk 'utter w
kers' in these circumstances. Their purpose is to enforce the speed limit. You and the OP openly accept that the speed limit is routinely broken on this stretch the M40. It make sense, therefore, that the camera van is situated there. It does not make them 'utter wkers'. The issue is the speed limit being arguably out of date, not the camera van doing its job.you'd have to have a pretty skewed moral compass to be comfortable pulling the trigger on a load of cars doing 83 down the m40, knowing that you were personally inflicting a small amount of pain on each of those people. you aren't saving lives, you are being a dick.....
ArsE92 said:
It's not up to other drivers to dictate the speed that traffic flows at.
So you'd rather get 3 points and a fine (not to mention a rise in insurance costs) so you could go 15mph quicker for a few hundred metres, than get held up by someone for a minute or so in this case?Makes sense.
eltax91 said:
kayzee said:
It's not really holding people up when that's the speed limit anyway though is it... regardless, I would have rather been held up than have points on my license for going 78mph!
This. I travel the length of the M40 quite often, there is an unofficial limit of 90 mph in place most of the time. A scammera van is there for the purpose of catching all the normal people who are there doing the same thing they do EVERY day, WITHOUT causing massive accidents. He continued past, we continued at 85. No emergency braking, no piss taking with regards to the speed, decent lane discipline. Life continued as normal and we all got to where we needed to go without killing any bunnies whatsoever.
Greg_D said:
i didn't call them any names, but come on, would you honestly like to have a pint with a camera van operator??? can you just imagine what they are like, pfff
you'd have to have a pretty skewed moral compass to be comfortable pulling the trigger on a load of cars doing 83 down the m40, knowing that you were personally inflicting a small amount of pain on each of those people. you aren't saving lives, you are being a dick.....
Lol you'd have to have a pretty skewed moral compass to be comfortable pulling the trigger on a load of cars doing 83 down the m40, knowing that you were personally inflicting a small amount of pain on each of those people. you aren't saving lives, you are being a dick.....
Last year on new years day, during the crazy, go and see everyone in different towns malarky, that I go through every new years/Xmas. Me n the Mrs stopped for fuel between two visits, there was an elderly couple with a flat tyre. They had all the stuff out the boot and the spare and jack out, but were stood talking looking at a phone. I approached and asked if I could help. They were about to phone the AA. I chuckled, and said I could have them on their way in 10 minutes. They accepted and I proceeded to whip off the flat and had the spare on and everything in the boot before he got back with a bottle of coke and a twix to say thankyou.
Made me feel quite warm inside.
Made me feel quite warm inside.
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