Caught by a Hairdryer

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Gaffer

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7,156 posts

292 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4201394.stm

Surely they can be done for impersonating (badly) a police officer...?


Claire

anonymous-user

69 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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quite frankly, they could be arrested for being morons with far too much time on their hands.

mechsympathy

55,701 posts

270 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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The one on the right should be done for stealing the hair dryer,he certainly doesn't own it himself. What a bunch of muppets

zoe22

856 posts

258 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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An idea told by Dave Spikey on his tour about 3 years ago...

deckster

9,631 posts

270 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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County Council said:

it has proved difficult to determine a solution that meets the villagers' expectations


So in other words they're a bunch of arsey locals who are completely closed to rational ideas.

parrot of doom

23,075 posts

249 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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They're doing it through a narrow village, and not from a bridge over a dual carriageway.

I'm tempted to say 'good luck to them' tbh.

speedychrissie

2,994 posts

254 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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does anyone know which village it is and if they are still doing it? because i have got very little to do at the moment and would be quite up for a road trip for a bit of a laugh!

chris

Gaffer

Original Poster:

7,156 posts

292 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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Villagers are pretending the dryers are speed cameras as they stand on roadsides in Milborne St Andrew


Claire

speedychrissie

2,994 posts

254 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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Gaffer said:
Villagers are pretending the dryers are speed cameras as they stand on roadsides in Milborne St Andrew


Claire


thank you.
i guess it probably would help to actually read hte article wouldnt it
but i get lazy when i have been drinking.

chris

Lois

14,706 posts

267 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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On a country lane near me there's a weird thing going on in some of the villages where they're all made little scarecrow things, like old couples sitting on the bench.
One of them is positioned perfectly on a corner with a speed gun! "Amusing" when you know it's there but not if you just turn the corner and see it!

gh0st

4,693 posts

273 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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Why dont a load of people go down there and drive drunk, like total idiots, endangering life - but at 29MPH.

They would be totally safe Its a good compramise - cts get to be cts while killing people and moving them down and the locals can safely retire in the knowledge that the speed limit is being obayd..

mutt k

3,962 posts

253 months

Wednesday 31st August 2005
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Dorset. Say no more

jasandjules

71,020 posts

244 months

Thursday 1st September 2005
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Strange that Police aren't interested in arresting them for impersonating a police officer isn't it.

Yet that chap who put up signs in his garden whenever mobile traps were about to warn drivers was threatened with prosecution...

cptsideways

13,724 posts

267 months

Thursday 1st September 2005
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Well if you must move into pretty Dorset villages and pay over the top but ignore the fact its got the A30 going through it, what do you expect, hah ha ha ha.

Perhaps if they had'nt closed all the other post offices then you would'nt have to cross the road so often.

I think I'll pop down down there for some test runs in the car tonight, must sort out all that backfiring & flamage I'm getting.

Don

28,378 posts

299 months

Thursday 1st September 2005
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What makes me laugh is that the villagers aren't really upset at the cars for "speeding". They're upset at the cars.

They'd really rather the cars didn't come through the village at all.

Fair enough. Campaign for a by-pass I say. Better for (almost) everyone.

This lot are the kind that go red in the face when I drive through the village at 25mph. It really isn't about the speed.

rich 36

13,739 posts

281 months

Thursday 1st September 2005
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What prats,
I loathe people who do this sort of thing.

to me its right up there, with driving about, with a hi-viz garment folded up on the parcel shelf,
(pre-'Baby on board' days)


which was somehow meant to denote social conscience, if not actually full 'plod-ship' in a;
'do'nt dare overtake me, or you'll get a raffle ticket"


Sonny!!!

paulhol

482 posts

256 months

Saturday 31st December 2005
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They did something similar in a village down the road from me a few years ago, Whitmore, locals built mock speed cameras, fully painted up etc. and placed them at each end of the village. The village is little more than a poorly sighted crossroads and a busy A-road and it does really need a real camera (one of the few places i would support it), however it didnt take the loal kids long to rip them down and deposit them at their school leaver's day.