RE: Flaming Volvo Torches Speed Camera

RE: Flaming Volvo Torches Speed Camera

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paradad

31 posts

185 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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What a sad loss of a good car!! (camera? what camera?) I really wish that the whole country would drive under ALL the speed limits for a few weeks. Then it would be interesting to see where the Councils & Government got their extra cash from!

Covey

62 posts

181 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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i couldnt possibly comment on the fact the a tyre filled with fuel over the speed camara works well. only problem is that whilst this is happening what else could the fire crew be doing.

zebedee

4,589 posts

279 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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paradad said:
Then it would be interesting to see where the Councils & Government got their extra cash from!
Tax. And borrowing. Then more tax to pay for the borrowing. Haven't you worked this government out yet, they've been at it long enough...

threespires

4,297 posts

212 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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zebedee said:
paradad said:
Then it would be interesting to see where the Councils & Government got their extra cash from!
Tax. And borrowing. Then more tax to pay for the borrowing. Haven't you worked this government out yet, they've been at it long enough...
I've heard it called 'Tax and Squander'. The lunchtime News just said the cost of the running the Gov today is twice what it was 10 years ago.

Stirlings

317 posts

224 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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crugbun said:
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Don't you believe it. They love them in Plymouth, masses of them in town. I reckon it'll be taking our money again within a week.
A few years ago the chief ofpolice refused to have Gatso's in his juristiction he thinks they would upset the locals and have no effect,

The policeman in question posts here and drives a 911 GT3, a few more policeman like him and the roads would be a better place

istoo

2,365 posts

203 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Perhaps some new and welcomed Swedish auto-poltergeist kamikaze cult?

Actually more amazed the scamera stayed standing after being hit by a volvo.

Fox-

13,241 posts

247 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Excellent.

For those that don't know, Outland Road is, in places, a dual carriageway with a 30mph limit...

Droptheclutch

2,604 posts

226 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Tuf Tuf club, anyone?

LOL.

Dogwatch

6,232 posts

223 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Fox- said:
Excellent.

For those that don't know, Outland Road is, in places, a dual carriageway with a 30mph limit...
..so an obvious place to put a speed camera to catch dangerous drivers exceeding the (probably much reduced) limit.

Disclaimer - I have never been to Plymouthsmile

TVRWannabee

524 posts

248 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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CRAPLOGINNAME said:
"while the local fire brigade apparently had to use hydraulic cutting equipment to make sure the camera's innards weren't still smouldering once the Volvo had been extinguished"

My guess is that the fire brigade were only too happy to think of the slightest excuse to chop up a speed camera. "Can't be too careful after all, lets open it up and make sure it's out"
Maybe they just wanted to make it 'safe.'

Ah, I love the smell of irony now that autumn is here....laugh

jas16

378 posts

233 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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feel sorry for the Volvo, nice cars dont deserve and ending like this


qwick

530 posts

268 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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jas16 said:
feel sorry for the Volvo, nice cars dont deserve and ending like this
Better to die in the heat of battle than silently at the side of the road....

Or something like that...

Porscheman

231 posts

201 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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stifler said:
It's alot easier to knock them a bit with a tractor, making them send tickets to passing 747s.
Have you been hanging around Mere Brow? That's what keeps happening to the camera around here and I'm convinced it's someone with a tractor. The camera on the edge of the village has been "done" three times in recent months.

martinhayes17

164 posts

176 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Good on them, it's about time somebody stands up to the bds. I've just been on a speed awareness course and the cop actually admitted that they make them as difficult to see as possible.
If we place a flaming Volvo next to every camera then we will solve 2 of the main problems on the road:
You'll be able to put your foot down more because there won't be as many fking caravans being towed by Swedish lumps of st, and there won't be any cameras to catch you lol.

NiceCupOfTea

25,295 posts

252 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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martinhayes17 said:
Good on them, it's about time somebody stands up to the bds. I've just been on a speed awareness course and the cop actually admitted that they make them as difficult to see as possible.
If we place a flaming Volvo next to every camera then we will solve 2 of the main problems on the road:
You'll be able to put your foot down more because there won't be as many fking caravans being towed by Swedish lumps of st, and there won't be any cameras to catch you lol.
When did you last see a Volvo 740 on the road?

DaveMitsLancer

493 posts

220 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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stifler said:
It's alot easier to knock them a bit with a tractor, making them send tickets to passing 747s.
laugh

martinhayes17

164 posts

176 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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NiceCupOfTea said:
martinhayes17 said:
Good on them, it's about time somebody stands up to the bds. I've just been on a speed awareness course and the cop actually admitted that they make them as difficult to see as possible.
If we place a flaming Volvo next to every camera then we will solve 2 of the main problems on the road:
You'll be able to put your foot down more because there won't be as many fking caravans being towed by Swedish lumps of st, and there won't be any cameras to catch you lol.
When did you last see a Volvo 740 on the road?
Every day because theres one parked over the street, it doesn't move though because the owner is old and has gone wappy!!! An example of their typical owner tbh.
The reason you don't see them on the road is because they are the other side of the towmeslow deluxe.
Good on the lad who burnt the speed camera, i've heard that a tire sat on top filled with petrol works best tho.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

256 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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PH said:
We can't make up our minds whether the untimely demise of a 740 or the scamera itself is the most more, er..., heinous part of this crime
Edited for correctitude...

Johnpidge

588 posts

190 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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zebedee said:
paradad said:
Then it would be interesting to see where the Councils & Government got their extra cash from!
Tax. And borrowing. Then more tax to pay for the borrowing. Haven't you worked this government out yet, they've been at it long enough...
Spot on here!

And they've only just started with the specs cameras!

On the other hand how many old Volvo's are around and how many Scamera's??

dandarez

13,294 posts

284 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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bluetone said:
B Oeuf said:
bluetone said:
B Oeuf said:
And, as a bonus, the damn thing is unlikely to be replaced thanks to the end of hypothication
Eh?

Maybe I'm being dense but I have no idea what that means.
SCPs were allowed to keep the fines raked in by scameras so long as they painted them yellow, didn't matter that they were hidden by a sign or tree, this was called hypothication and it has since ended. Now the money goes straight into winkys pocket, therefor not financially beneficial to the partnership to replace a felled camera
Gotcha. AKA half the reason they stopped using them in the borough of Swinedon.
Lot of 'flu in Swinedon I hear.