BBC News - Speed Cam Bomber Reward
BBC News - Speed Cam Bomber Reward
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soulpatch

Original Poster:

4,693 posts

278 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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Now they are offering a £2000 reward to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of the guy who blew up the camera on the A605.

It was stated that "The A605 camera was immediately replaced to ensure safety on this road."

Does this mean that they are admitting that BEFORE this camera was installed, their road was inherintly unsafe? So this would be bad road design then. That road was around years before a police cashpoint was monitoring it!!!

It should have been "The A605 camera was immediately replaced to continued cashflow from this road."





deltaf

1,384 posts

277 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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Predictable ploy from the cops.
However, i fear their "master plan" will be in vain.
If the gatso bomber has done it right, no one else will know about his actions.
Too bad cops, like a house with no lavatory, youll have nothing to go on.
So typical of them that they think they can "buy" information, when in actual fact, if they were even slightly fairer, theyd get it for free.
Good luck gatso bomber, youve done this country a great service.

mel

10,168 posts

295 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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I wonder if the 2 grand is what they class as "using the cash generated for improvements to the transport infastructure" ???

Agent006

12,058 posts

284 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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So the bobmer could shop himself, get the money, give it right back to the Chief Constable, and get off scot free. Genius.

robp

5,803 posts

284 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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Does anyone know the location of this scamera?
i.e is it behind a sign, outside a school, on an empty road etc etc...?

CraigAlsop

1,991 posts

288 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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Maybe we can have a whip-round for the "bomber's fund"

TSS

1,136 posts

288 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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robp said: Does anyone know the location of this scamera?
i.e is it behind a sign, outside a school, on an empty road etc etc...?


It's on a nice piece of NSL A-road out in the sticks as can be seen from the photo here: www.northantsnew.co.uk/ref/news_chron.asp?ID=16497

A pure revenue raiser - nowhere near a built up area.

deltaf

1,384 posts

277 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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Gatso bombers favourite song? BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! by the Vengaboys...
Or .."i dont want to set the world ,on fire"....



>> Edited by deltaf on Tuesday 11th February 11:32

robp

5,803 posts

284 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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TSS said:

robp said: Does anyone know the location of this scamera?
i.e is it behind a sign, outside a school, on an empty road etc etc...?


It's on a nice piece of NSL A-road out in the sticks as can be seen from the photo here: www.northantsnew.co.uk/ref/news_chron.asp?ID=16497

A pure revenue raiser - nowhere near a built up area.




I can see why it was bombed now! And they wonder why us motorists are getting so pi#!ed off....

swilly

9,699 posts

294 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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From the heading of this thread, I thought they were giving a reward to the bomber!

What a larf eh.

aww999

2,078 posts

281 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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I think the message here is, if you're planning to carry out *certain deeds* don't succumb to the temptation to impress everyone with your derring do. If the only person in a position to inform on you is . . . you . . . then you ought to be OK!

apache

39,731 posts

304 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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this is fcuking crazy! do they offer a reward if your house gets burgled, you get mugged or your car gets nicked, it's all out of proportion with real issues

robp

5,803 posts

284 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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aww999 said: I think the message here is, if you're planning to carry out *certain deeds* don't succumb to the temptation to impress everyone with your derring do. If the only person in a position to inform on you is . . . you . . . then you ought to be OK!


Do we have a guilty concience here??!!!!

s2ooz

3,005 posts

304 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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to put a different light on it; Im not to happy with someone bieng in possession of explosives, deciding what he thinks is a good target or not??

destroy the cameras, but dont go wondering around with dynamite....

granville

18,764 posts

281 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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apache said: This is fcuking crazy! Do they offer a reward if your house gets burgled, you get mugged or your car gets nicked? It's all out of proportion with real issues.


Quite so.

Still, at least Bliar's going down the tubes at the mo, hopefully on a terminal basis; a poll referred to by the GBC, earlier today, apparently showing Labour only a point ahead of Foo Chow Mein's mee-too Tory boys.

Not the best news in the world for errant speedsters countrywide, admittedly but at least this was the party that allowed Alan Clark a taste of power within living memory - so there is a smidgen of hope...

Frankly, abolition of speed detection in all but blatantly urban areas would be a sure fire vote winner; just need someone with the cahoonies to stick two digits up at the Islingtonites in the media.

chimburt

751 posts

279 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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" The A605 is considered among the most dangerous road in the county, with 20 people killed or seriously injured in just less than three years from January 1999.
The introduction of cameras in Northamptonshire has prompted concern among many motorists. "

just less than three years? so that would be latest figures available to date then? what about the figures before and after installation?

i just have to wander how many of those were involved in shunts at the site of the camera.

not wishing to make light of this, but ask the relatives of those 20 if the camera has made a difference.

HarryW

15,753 posts

289 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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Didn't post in the original thread but are we sure that it was 'explosives' that did this , an explosive mixture of petrol vapour/air maybe .
Is this not just another case of labour spin trying to sensationalise this incident, ergo all people that tamper with Gatso's are now demonised as terrorists , whatdaya think peeps

Harry

IMHO obviously

chimburt

751 posts

279 months

Tuesday 11th February 2003
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altogether now:

" TONY, BEHIND YOU "
" what? "
" TERRORISTS! "
"god, really?, they're everywhere, aren't they?"

oooooooh yes, and to blame for everything that's wrong in the world.

outlaw

1,893 posts

286 months

Wednesday 12th February 2003
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s2ooz said: to put a different light on it; Im not to happy with someone bieng in possession of explosives, deciding what he thinks is a good target or not??

destroy the cameras, but dont go wondering around with dynamite....



your in prosetion of explosives and so are most peep they just dont know how to put togeather what they got down the shead.