Going on the offensive.

[deltaf]

In recent months there's more and more intense discussion regarding our old enemy the speed camera and its friend, the camera supporters club.
Its time we, as motorists, individuals, pistonheaders(Ted willing) and human beings took the fight right to these nasty little adolfs, and "got the goods" on em, before unceremoniously dropping them fairly and squarely in the proverbial.....

What i propose is this.
Locate prominent camera supporters.
Establish their movements.
Lay a Speed trap of our own using radar based speed equipment.
Document the "offences" using video/camera footage.
Present the evidence gained to the press/police and the offenders.
Expose them for what they are.

Direct action of a form, but a productive one, not destructive.
Like it? I love it.

[supraman2954]

The people that you would really have to target (bliar, brunstrom) are usually chauffeured around. The lawmakers are, as usual, untouchable. Targeting other individuals won’t give you anything except a summons for invasion of privacy or some other trumped up charge.

[Dibble]

I think one of the tabloids did this kind of thing with the daughter of a high ranking Police Officer.

My recall is a little hazy, but I think they captured her on a motorway over the speed limit. I can't remember what the actual outcome was.

[CraigAlsop]

Dibble said:

I think one of the tabloids did this kind of thing with the daughter of a high ranking Police Officer. My recall is a little hazy, but I think they captured her on a motorway over the speed limit. I can't remember what the actual outcome was.

It was Brunstrom's daughter - no action was taken....
Something to do with the fact that the Sun journo wasn't trained in operating it. I guess pointing at the number plate & pulling the trigger is easy to get wrong.

>> Edited by CraigAlsop on Friday 18th June 22:25

[Dibble]

CraigAlsop said:

It was Brunstrom's daughter - no action was taken....

Thanks for the reminder Craig - I thought it was that paper and that person, but didn't like to say as I wasn't 100% sure.

CraigAlsop said:

Something to do with the fact that the Sun journo wasn't trained in operating it. I guess pointing at the number plate & pulling the trigger is easy to get wrong.

I'm not suggesting she was in the right, but you can't have it both ways. If PHers expect to not get prosecuted due to procedural mistakes/omissions, then you can't have others getting prosecuted if the rules aren't followed.

I accept that people are, on occasion, wrongly convicted, but unfortunately, no justice system is ever 100% perfect.

[deltaf]

Dibble said:

I accept that people are, on occasion, wrongly convicted, but unfortunately, no justice system is ever 100% perfect.

What persentage would you put our cruddy system at then matey?

[Dibble]

Depends where you stand. If you're a victim of crime, then you'd probably say it wasn't too great.

If you were the accused...

[V8 Archie]

deltaf said:

What persentage sic would you put our cruddy system at then matey?

I'd say pretty much all of those are found guilty (or never get to court) of speeding offences are accurate. The speed limits are often too low and the charge is nothing to do with road-safety, but the law has been broken and a "crime" successfully detected and prosecuted. I'll guess 99% for this one.

I'd also suggest that the number of people committing this "crime" undetected is huge. Less than 1 in a million.

The system is full of crap, so who cares what numbers you get out of it?