Speed Cameras

hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha Ive just received one. your right its not funny. Ive heard you have to tell your insurer and the 3 points you get makes your motor insurance more epxensive

yep... but something that IS funny, is that if you send a cheque off, you get a receipt back by return.. then when your cheque bounces, they cant do a thing about it... hahahaha

But how do you get the three points to bounce?

It's pretty hard to get a cheque to bounce these days. I have found, banks prefer to honour it, and twat you with an "administration" charge for going over one's limit unauthorised. Some insurance companies aren't bumping up your premium for fixed less-than-thirty-over speeding offences now - mine didn't, though I think it helped I'd been with them for a while. They did hit me a couple of years ago; though that was for a different offence, running a red light. You always have to tell them though. How can you sleep at night if you don't?

I sleep fine... by night, by day, behind the wheel.... Though apparently not at 3am strangely.

Of course they have nothing to do with accidents. I thought the goverment had directed that they were only to be sited at accident black spots.

Currently, more than 80% of them are situated away from blackspots. So says Top Gear posh bloke Quentin Wilson. There is no truth in the rumour, though, that productivity hours are being lost as so many women - noting the sheer volume of cameras on the roads - are spending more time in the morning doing their hair. This is the point really: it's not just speed that causes accidents. Bad driving does to. Get a camera that shows some dizzy cow doing 25 in the fast lane putting her lippy on in the rear-view mirror, and you'll get my backing.

I've always been against most efforts at traffic policing. In America for example, traffic cops have quotas for giving tickets. Since their performance and pay is affected, they always meet their quota, regardless of whether they actually catch someone speeding. Towards the end of the month, they just start pulling people over and handing out tickets. Meter maids and parking cops are more or less similarly useless. It is merely an effort to con the public into thinking the traffic police are doing something useful when what they're really doing is sleeping behind the donut shop most of the week and handing out phoney tickets the rest of it. This camera business is the same thing just with more technology. Of course they don't put cameras where they are needed. That would make life safer. They don't want that because it would put them out of a job. They want life to be less safe and to generate more revenue for them. *national cynics week was brought to you this year by the people who make Ipanea toothpaste. brusha-brusha*

there was a representative from an underground group that sabotage speed cameras on radio 2 recently. He was actually full of stats and decent points as mentioned above but they got some stupid 'Lady Something' on to argue and she just called him an idiot and talked all over him. She was obnoxious and blinkered and completely irritating. So far they've sabotaged 700 cameras in areas where they are nowhere near accident blackspots or even where pedestrians can get to. right on brothers!!! (and sisters) ..and sisters. Why are you always going on about women stan?

They've been renamed Safety Camera's There was once the rumour that traffic cops played snooker and you were more likely to be pulled over in a white or red car.

Hopefully the people smashing up speed cameras will get wiped out by motorists speeding. I can think of more productive uses of their energy. [%sig%]

They're kind of funny, though. If you get one, and the camera catches your car at just the right angle, you get a great photo of yourself -- along with the ticket -- that's suitable for framing.

ooooh look, stereotypical insults about women drivers from buddha... can i join in? Id like the cameras to stay if they detect big mouth ego tripping men who cant stand to see a woman in a high powered car overtake them, and so burst bloodvessels and gaskets at a rate of knots trying to get their ford fiesta/astra/white van to overtake them and so feel smug in their supposed superior manly stance as true "kings of the road" doesnt work really does it? There are bad and good drivers in both sexes.

As the recipient of several over the years, jab, I can tell you there is absolutely nothing remotely funny about them.