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Title: speed cameras
Post by: serek on 22 March 2009, 20:48:42
Im not sure if was before
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2c.htm
I live in nice area so all cameras  still in same place :D
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Andy B on 22 March 2009, 20:53:45
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Im not sure if was before
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2c.htm
I live in nice area so all cameras  still in same place :D


Oh dear!  ;)  ;)  ;)

WTF is DS2 post?
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: waspy on 22 March 2009, 20:54:52
Oh dear what a shame ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Moos3h on 22 March 2009, 20:55:22
Accidents will happen ;)
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Omega man 2 on 22 March 2009, 20:57:34
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Nfc9XTirY[/media]
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Omega man 2 on 22 March 2009, 21:00:43
Drove from Holyhead to Bristol last summer and couldn't believe the amount of speed cameras over there. I do a lot of driving and only know of three cameras in the country, none of which work ::) and one been on fire for a number of years.
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: waspy on 22 March 2009, 21:03:35
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Drove from Holyhead to Bristol last summer and couldn't believe the amount of speed cameras over there. I do a lot of driving and only know of three cameras in the country, none of which work ::) and one been on fire for a number of years.

That must be some fire :D Sorry :-[ ;D

Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 22 March 2009, 21:03:52
It is such a shame that some people feel the need to spray paint speed cameras.....................It would be much more responsible to either................ completely pull them out of the ground .................or better still ........use dynamite. :y :y :y :y
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: r1 on 22 March 2009, 21:15:28
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Im not sure if was before
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2c.htm
I live in nice area so all cameras  still in same place :D


Oh dear!  ;)  ;)  ;)

WTF is DS2 post?


this post is only used now and again they run a lead from this to a unmarked car.there are sensers in the road that go to the post that then sends a signal to the post then to the car that takes your reg number,the first you no is when you get the letter
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: mkaminski100 on 22 March 2009, 21:26:07
BTW- does anyone have a TomTom SpeedCameras POI?
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 22 March 2009, 21:49:58
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It is such a shame that some people feel the need to spray paint speed cameras.....................It would be much more responsible to either................ completely pull them out of the ground .................or better still ........use dynamite. :y :y :y :y


(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/skruntie/Penistone/DSCF1542.jpg)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/skruntie/Penistone/DSCF1544.jpg)

(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/skruntie/Penistone/DSCF1545.jpg)

This is one I saw in Pennistone about 3 years ago that some one tried to BBQ.
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Pete Elite on 22 March 2009, 22:31:38
It's the only type of mindless vandalism i wholeheartedly condone ;D. Keep up the good work:y.
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Welung666 on 23 March 2009, 06:04:24
I remember driving up the A44 from Oxford towards Worcestershire and sitting in very slow moving traffic, after 45 minutes or so discovered why the traffic was so bad. A guy in a JCB was stopping at every GATSO (and there are lots of them down there) smaking the side of every single one so they pointed away from the road. Needless to say there were lots of thumbs up's a horn toots. They stayed bent for a long time afterwards too ;D
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: tmx on 23 March 2009, 06:05:47
If your interested in dead speed camera's google TuffTuff Club theyre NL based but they go round blowing them up with all sorts of things
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: stuart30 on 23 March 2009, 07:24:47
But looking at it from the other side of things....who pays for these too be repaired or replaced,its the tax payer.

Think im right in saying if a camera doesnt snap enough people there covered or taken down (thats the case in my area) so wouldn't it be better just too deny them the revenue in the first place. :-?
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Big Bri on 23 March 2009, 10:21:01
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It's the only type of mindless vandalism i wholeheartedly condone ;D. Keep up the good work:y.

 :y ;D ;D
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Lazydocker on 23 March 2009, 10:30:52
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BTW- does anyone have a TomTom SpeedCameras POI?

Yep... Although a very old database now. It's very useful, as a warning, but not perfect!

TBH I rarely speed now, and never knowingly/intentionally in built up areas!

Much as I hate the camera I do think that the vandalism is just adding to our taxes >:( >:(
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Chris_H on 23 March 2009, 11:54:24
My view is that the wrong thing is being attacked.

If people vented their feelings to the rule-makers about ridiculous speed limits/road markings a lot of the problem would go away.

The number of local roads where I can no longer overtake on my bike (550BHP/Ton) due to double-white lines, is amazing.  Whole lengths of country lane where Mr Darby & Mrs Joan need to be told it's not safe to overtake in their back-firing Micra!

Sorry.  Was this a 'general rant' thread? :D
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: Welung666 on 23 March 2009, 12:17:48
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My view is that the wrong thing is being attacked.

If people vented their feelings to the rule-makers about ridiculous speed limits/road markings a lot of the problem would go away.

The number of local roads where I can no longer overtake on my bike (550BHP/Ton) due to double-white lines, is amazing.  Whole lengths of country lane where Mr Darby & Mrs Joan need to be told it's not safe to overtake in their back-firing Micra!

Sorry.  Was this a 'general rant' thread? :D

It is now  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: speed cameras
Post by: albitz on 23 March 2009, 12:46:31
A bloke was taken to court last week for speeding ,the hand held device had registered him at 173mph in his Lotus Elise in a 60 limit,he provided the court with evidence that it wasnt capable of anything remotely like that speed,but then admitted to doing something like 95mph,so they stung him pretty hard anyway.Although if he had been convicted of the original speed he was going inside.