Scamera van payback
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rigga

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8,807 posts

232 months

Saturday 4th October 2014
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Not sure if true, repost or whatever, but found this funny if it did actually happen
Short story camera van went through its own speedtrap many times over
http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_article/a_911_2014...

ging84

9,548 posts

177 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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rigga said:
Not sure if true, repost or whatever, but found this funny if it did actually happen
Short story camera van went through its own speedtrap many times over
http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_article/a_911_2014...
Definitely a real story, i was there i saw it
well i didn't but i know someone who knows someone who says they did see it
although i don't think there were 4 of them, i think it was 3, and i don't think they were from london, i think it was liverpool, and i don't think it was 17 tickets i think it was just 12

paintman

7,860 posts

221 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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robinessex

12,040 posts

212 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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Just a fair story. But I wonder if anyone has actualy got revenge on a scamera van? I can think of numerous dasterly deeds that could be performed !!!!!

edgyedgy

486 posts

158 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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there is a yaris or aygo with a telescopic pole and camera on roof often parked on double yellows whilst giving out tickets for illegal right turns. I see it parked there quite a lot often with driver been asleep or playing with his phone. local paper did an article on it last week as someone finally realised that to give out tickets whilst parked on double yellows is a little rich.this is in hackney London.

the_lone_wolf

2,622 posts

217 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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Why would you go to the trouble of stealing number plates when you could just have some made up for a few quid off ebay or any number of show plate sites?...

MX51ROD

2,861 posts

178 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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roflrofl

mcflurry

9,191 posts

284 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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edgyedgy said:
there is a yaris or aygo with a telescopic pole and camera on roof often parked on double yellows whilst giving out tickets for illegal right turns. I see it parked there quite a lot often with driver been asleep or playing with his phone. local paper did an article on it last week as someone finally realised that to give out tickets whilst parked on double yellows is a little rich.this is in hackney London.
Our local ones were fans of that too..


Mk3Spitfire

2,921 posts

159 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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Except that's single yellow?

Who me ?

7,455 posts

243 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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Being a bit pedantic, I notice that to the front it's as said single yellow, whilst at the rear it's double yellow. No sign of the join ,or whether it complies with TSRGD, to make the yellows of any multiple legal and enforceable.

mrmr96

13,736 posts

235 months

Sunday 5th October 2014
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[quote=Who me ?]Being a bit pedantic, I notice that to the front it's as said single yellow, whilst at the rear it's double yellow. No sign of the join ,or whether it complies with TSRGD, to make the yellows of any multiple legal and enforceable.
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No sign of join? What, except the t bar two foot behind the yaris?

MX51ROD

2,861 posts

178 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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Ignore the yellows , what about the road work ? Signs opposite causing a narrowing of the road

rigga

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8,807 posts

232 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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the_lone_wolf said:
Why would you go to the trouble of stealing number plates when you could just have some made up for a few quid off ebay or any number of show plate sites?...
probably because the van that you are trying to screw by driving through its own speedtrap might well have moved by the time those plates became available ...

Devil2575

13,400 posts

219 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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ging84 said:
Definitely a real story, i was there i saw it
well i didn't but i know someone who knows someone who says they did see it
although i don't think there were 4 of them, i think it was 3, and i don't think they were from london, i think it was liverpool, and i don't think it was 17 tickets i think it was just 12
laugh

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

157 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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robinessex said:
Just a fair story. But I wonder if anyone has actualy got revenge on a scamera van? I can think of numerous dasterly deeds that could be performed !!!!!
Yep, I've got revenge on 'em. I've always seen 'em in enough time to not get nicked by 'em. That teaches the buggers a lesson!

sebhaque

6,535 posts

212 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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robinessex said:
Just a fair story. But I wonder if anyone has actualy got revenge on a scamera van? I can think of numerous dasterly deeds that could be performed !!!!!
I lived across the road from a scamera van hotspot for a few months. The guy across the street, whose house the van usually parked in front of, occasionally wheeled out his LDV box van and parked it directly in front of the speed camera. The scamera van would usually leave after a few minutes, upon which he'd either roll it back onto his driveway or park it where the camera van was parked. Only happened half a dozen times or so (assumedly because someone he knew was driving that way) but it made me chuckle whenever I heard that rattly old van fire up.

boristhebold

67 posts

217 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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sebhaque said:
I lived across the road from a scamera van hotspot for a few months. The guy across the street, whose house the van usually parked in front of, occasionally wheeled out his LDV box van and parked it directly in front of the speed camera. The scamera van would usually leave after a few minutes, upon which he'd either roll it back onto his driveway or park it where the camera van was parked. Only happened half a dozen times or so (assumedly because someone he knew was driving that way) but it made me chuckle whenever I heard that rattly old van fire up.
Weird, so do you and your neighbour want speeding motorists past his house then?

ymwoods

2,194 posts

208 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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boristhebold said:
Weird, so do you and your neighbour want speeding motorists past his house then?
I like the sound of the zorsts late at night!

sebhaque

6,535 posts

212 months

Monday 6th October 2014
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I see no reason to complain about drivers doing up to 60mph in a 40mph zone. It's two lanes in both directions, with very clear visibility. While I wouldn't want cars doing burnouts outside my house, what does it really matter if cars are doing a little over the speed limit on a road that has huge visibility and is safe to do probably double the speed limit on? Maybe you should register with the Guardian if you think that speed limits are the be all and end all. Funnily enough the little backroad that's half a mile from where I used to live is an NSL. Please go ahead and try to keep to 60mph for the duration of the road as it's the speed limit. Don't be afraid to think.

woody2846

1,369 posts

181 months

Tuesday 7th October 2014
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sebhaque said:
Please go ahead and try to keep to 60mph for the duration of the road as it's the speed limit. Don't be afraid to think.
Limit not target! You do not have to drive at the speed LIMIT you know.