Thursday 11th October 2007
The Thin Blue (rinse) Line
OAP's are out to get you
Slow it down sonny
They could be the very Old Bill, because elderly volunteers have been brought in as part of a community team aimed at cracking down on drivers who flout the law for speeding.
The man behind the scheme is a long-time fan of speed cameras, the Chief Constable of North Wales Richard Brunstrom, nicknamed the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban.
The volunteers have been spotted pointing speed cameras at passing cars in Colwyn Bay. If a vehicle is found to be over the limit a note of the registration is taken and the details of the car are then passed to the police and an advisory letter is sent to the owner of the car. No fine or penalty points are issued.
The force said the letters have no legal standing.
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stedale
Original Poster
957 posts
134 months
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If it keeps 'em off the roads...
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Gruffy
4,530 posts
128 months
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This has become a new hobby in Dorking too. Couldn't believe it when I saw some locals playing with speed guns. Struggled even more to believe it when I got a letter in the post telling me I'd been yellow carded and if it happened again I'd be prosecuted. I'd like to see them try that one!
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Brother Mycroft
843 posts
68 months
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Fidgits
16,721 posts
98 months
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and these old ladies are fully trained and certified in the use of the LT20/20 then?
oh wait, hasnt Kent just accepted these are flawed and stopped using them? oh how inconvient!
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DaveR
997 posts
153 months
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At an age when the sharpest perspective on just how painfully short live is must exist, what a way to waste your retirement. 
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Laird
38,246 posts
153 months
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If it makes em feel they are doing something useful so what? It has no value other than that.....there's also the fact they will become pretty unpopular with their neighbours as these 'notices' start dropping through their letterboxes
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Fidgits
16,721 posts
98 months
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Laird said: If it makes em feel they are doing something useful so what? It has no value other than that.....there's also the fact they will become pretty unpopular with their neighbours as these 'notices' start dropping through their letterboxes yeah, because its not like they'll see 'Betty' from the old girls club doing 40 from the 60 zone through into the 30, but because its Betty she wouldnt be speeding... oh look, there comes that young 'un in his flashy car - he did 62 before slowing to 28 for the 30 - we better send him a letter saying he did 62 in the 30! that'll slow him down!
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Snake the Sniper
2,235 posts
70 months
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Yet another loads of absolute bo  ocks from the speeding Nazi's. I recently drove past a load of these good for nothing whining old w rs in Weedon and they didn't look like they had a clue what they were doing. So we have a bunch of old folks, who's eye sight and ability to judge speed will be less than that of other (younger) road users, running/wobbling about with their Zimmer frames telling us we're going too fast? Me thinks I may have to speed past them all now. Absolutely no legal standing at all, so even if they used people who could accurately guess you're speed, which they're supposed to do before reaching for the laser gun remember, it would mean bugger all. Yellow card my arse. Bring it on old people. Arrrrgggghhhhhh. Off for a calming beverage now me thinks.
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daveco
2,489 posts
76 months
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Ayone find the one on the left sexy? Just me then?
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10 Pence Short
27,622 posts
86 months
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I can see a lot of people with noisey cars getting letters.
When I had the crash in my Honda Integra, witnesses spoke of me flying past at one hell of a speed, engine screaming. That was because I was overtaking them in second gear at 6000rpm in a car with little sound proofing and a bloody big spoiler on the back! I was about 10mph under the speed limit, yet the car always looked and sounded like it was doing a lot more!
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Scrufter
331 posts
80 months
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How do you apply? Scenario :- Apply Get Speed gun Follow Brunstrom,around Clock him repeatably Repeat ad infinitum  
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Cookie172
648 posts
80 months
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[quote]The force said the letters have no legal standing. [/quote] Then whats the ing point?
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Marcellus
4,586 posts
88 months
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They're popping up all over the place!! The other day was going through a village (on the limit GPS reading not speedo) but making rather too much noise (turbo overrun can be such fun  ), got the haridryer pointed at me and then 2 old gits making notes so turned round to see what they recorded me at......31 was their answer...when asked why they've recorded my number....they advised me that even though it should 31mph they still thought I was speeding....what's that all about?? Whilst I do have some empathy with the issue of speeding cars through Villages (I live a village just 100m from the NSL and round a blind bend) and it is dangerous to cross the road at times surely there's got to be better ways of getting drivers to reduce their speed without the blue rinse brigade!!
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Gruffy
4,530 posts
128 months
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10 Pence Short said: I can see a lot of people with noisey cars getting letters. Mine does make a little bit of noise. I regularly get pulled by plod who were parked in side streets as I 'race' by. Very close gears, 123dB, stripes and low, stiff suspension make it appear I'm traveling at 3 times the actual pace. Once I was told I'd been doing 76 in a 40 by an hysterical officer. A surprisingly precise estimate given that she'd only seen/heard me drive past a side road. I was doing somewhere between 45-50 at the time.
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Timberwolf
4,684 posts
87 months
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The way I see it, the point is at least as much about keeping the perennial whingers busy as it is about dubious enforcement of speed limits by untrained personnel.
Plus, they might start realising that some of the worst offenders for speeding are the locals. The number of times you see a car go flying down a road, or tailgating and weaving behind you, only to pull into a driveway halfway down...
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10 Pence Short
27,622 posts
86 months
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We get it in our local paper every week- notes from the parish coucil meeting with Police demanding action over speeding motorists through their village. The same people are a tad peeved when they're clocked doing 43mph through their own village. 
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Marcellus
4,586 posts
88 months
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Timberwolf said: Plus, they might start realising that some of the worst offenders for speeding are the locals. The number of times you see a car go flying down a road, or tailgating and weaving behind you, only to pull into a driveway halfway down... That is well known and understood by anyone seriously involved with the issue . .. it's one of the reasons they use to justify the blue rinse brigade!
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Davey_Speedstar
8 posts
76 months
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daveco said: Ayone find the one on the left sexy? Just me then? Not sure about the one on the left, but the one in the middle looks a bit of a slut!!!
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sato
344 posts
80 months
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If they have so much free time why don't they do something genuinely useful like help charities or worthy causes.
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andy_s
8,467 posts
128 months
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daveco said: Ayone find the one on the left sexy? Just me then? No......no, not just you......
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