refused speeding ticket after being pulled have i been silly
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fendertele said:
lol i know i wasnt sure how he was going about it... all he did was rev the engine and watch the rev counter go up and then said yeah nothing wrong with the speedo, if i had been quick on my feet i would have questioned his methods but it wasnt for a few moments after they left that i thought wtf kind of trickery was that !
And you know this how exactly?fendertele said:
got pulled over by a police car parked in a side street off the main road i was driving down, got taken into back of the car for the talk. once in there they showed me the calibration on top of the gun, i didnt read it properly so cant verify the date as was dark, and was shown 41mph on their speedometer, i was adamant i wasnt speeding to them and one of the officers then tested my speedometer on my car and said it was fine, i replied i knew it was okay and that i meant their gun must be off....
V8LM said:
Despite all the questions and chatter we were all on good terms, he asked me to accompany him to test the speedo.
He proably just went to see if your speedo is phyiscally operating rather than checking it is callibrated correctly (though im not sure how that could be done stationary either)
To be fair, if you were caught at 41mph on a 30mph limit road your speedo likely registered around 45mph so you were well over the limit, but you seem so sure that you were only at 30mph?
Sounds like a lot of effort will now be spent in contesting a £100 fine and 3 points (A what, £50 increase on insurance?) - They probably will have a callibrated gun, they probably will have operated it in a correct manner and from an accepable place and you probably did travel down the road at around 15mph faster than the speed limit according to your cars speedo.
OOoor, the police are wrong and you should stand up for yourself and what is right and you will win in court...maybe.
To be fair, if you were caught at 41mph on a 30mph limit road your speedo likely registered around 45mph so you were well over the limit, but you seem so sure that you were only at 30mph?
Sounds like a lot of effort will now be spent in contesting a £100 fine and 3 points (A what, £50 increase on insurance?) - They probably will have a callibrated gun, they probably will have operated it in a correct manner and from an accepable place and you probably did travel down the road at around 15mph faster than the speed limit according to your cars speedo.
OOoor, the police are wrong and you should stand up for yourself and what is right and you will win in court...maybe.
Years ago, I did once see proper entrapment on the road. Young lad was driving like a "bit" of a cock - not too bad, but just as young lads do. Unmarked car - doesn't just tail him, but specifically started tailgating him right up his arse, pulling alongside him at the lights, racing off, engine revving at the lights.....(not obviously an unmarked at this point).
Mile up the road on the A27 near chichester - blues on. It's the first and only time I've ever been tempted to stop and poke my nose in to stick up for the lad as a witness. Unfortunately I was towing an overweight unbraked trailer at the time so decided discretion was the better of valour. I hope they just told him to chill out a bit rather than book him, but even so, it was a bit s
tty.
Mile up the road on the A27 near chichester - blues on. It's the first and only time I've ever been tempted to stop and poke my nose in to stick up for the lad as a witness. Unfortunately I was towing an overweight unbraked trailer at the time so decided discretion was the better of valour. I hope they just told him to chill out a bit rather than book him, but even so, it was a bit s
tty.Pica-Pica said:
I think ‘entrapment’ is where someone (somehow) entices you to break the law or expose yourself as a law-breaker. As you could not (apparently) see them, but were speeding, how is it entrapment?
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