chunk Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I`ve got a squeeky clean license and have done so for 20 odd years. I have been a naughty boy though. I ride a motorcycle and have done 120, 130 on the way to Brands Hatch, Donington etc. Its just a case of switching on and slowing for bridges and slip roads where they park up on the blind side. Also where its on sunday mornings theres not much traffic about so police cars marked or otherwise stand out. At other times dont be the fastest vehicle out there and use lane discipline. Let the ***** in their Porche Boxsters and big beemers get noticed. My old chap always used to lecture me and my brother about tearing about on our bikes but funnily enough it was him in his old van that got caught Returning to the question; fixed penalty. Minimal effort on their part. Money in the bank, move onto the next. Taxation at its simplest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 You wouldn't have been done if you were driving a Defender Mung LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 You wouldn't have been done if you were driving a Defender Mung LB and he wouldnt have reached the M4 either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Especially not if LB was driving TIN HAT ON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted June 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 And voila The laser got me from .5 Km away. Not even a sporting chance. Note the good visibility, open road and dry weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 The sneaky ******** Mind you, that looks suspiciously like a black a4 hurtelling along beside you, was this on the way back from the Essex masters or something? Should I be expecting an envelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Looks like a Mondeo to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I got one doing 92 on the a13, the laser detector was going mental but they got me!!! for 92 i got 4 points and a £150 fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 You wouldn't have been done if you were driving a Defender Mung LB and he wouldnt have reached the M4 either You can bloody walk next time and I will get there a day quicker without your 'help' in directions LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Especially not if LB was driving TIN HAT ON At least I know how to check the coolant level, not that it loses any I have a good mind to post your e-mails on here Mr Pin LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Is that you in the X5 mung? I would have kept schtum if I was you............gaylord LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimate hunter Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 heres an idea, tell them you arnt sure who was driving the vehicle at tha time and ask for photographic evidence. they either wont have any or it will be hard to make out. then they wont be able to do anything to anyone. in theory. i know people who have done this before and it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gully Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Wait till the 28 days is almost up, send a PACE witness statement and wait. Best case you get off, worst you get the same penalty + £35 costs. Which force? M4 - Thames Valley or Wiltshire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 ask for photographic evidence. What like the photo he posted of it happening, just one page ago?? Keep up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 1. It's the missus' car - well there are some very high curbs to bump up at the local school 2. The photos are excellent - there are a set of 5 and that is the 1st one, the other 4 are very clear - I should have waived 3. I think it's Wiltshire Constab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 They still hang people for that in Wiltshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Thought they still put them in the stock's for that down there.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 The worst thing is when they insist you go to court, it has to be in the area where you were done. I got cuaght for 102 on the M54, and it was about a month before I planned to leave the country for a couple of years. The kept writing to me asking me to attend court and kept on replying to them telling them to just deal with it in my absence. They couldn't seem to accept the fact I didn't want to drive 400 mile round trip for my ten minutes in court (and then be driven home by someone else) This dragged on for months and months, eventually they gave in, and dealt with my case in my absence - they wrote to me to inform me I got a 14 day ban - big wows. I was abroad by then and using an international driving licence anyway so it had no affect on me whatsoever. Apart from fact it would be painfull to speed in my current car, I only ever do about 80 on motorways these days, it takes the stress out of looking out for camera's and unmarked cars etc, which can be a bit wearing on 450 mile trips... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Note the good visibility, open road and dry weather. Thats an open road , looks like rush hour here !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 If you'd been doing that in a Robin Reliant or Citreon 2CV, they would have let you off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conygree Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Surpried it wasn't the M42 - one section has cameras every 100m. mostly expect traps on M & T roads. I have thought this one out and all I can come up with is drive like a robot, with wife & son looking for cameras on M roads. Most seem to try their speed on windy B-roads - road safety. I have sweated a few times but lucky to date. One chap got nicked and got his revenge as he drives a truck with a HIAB arm, he drives alongside & uses the grab to extract the camera puts it on his truck, and takes it back to his yard where next door is a scrap yard - he swings the cameras( yep he has extracted loads of them) over the fence and into a car crusher & drops an old car on top so they don't notice - its a mystery where they all go!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 they have recently changed the law regarding the placement of mobile traps i believe and they are now employing a technique that im yet to see, of putting mobile traps after fixed camera's to catch those people who speed up straight after the fixed camera (we are all guilty of this on our daily commutes) but even worse than this ive heard that they then put another mobile trap to catch the people who speed up after the mobile trap after the fixed trap they really arnt a nice bunch, thankfully ive only got a unwritten warning so far and tbh i got off very lightly with that, speeding isnt worth it these days, unfortunatly its difficult not to when every piece of traffic is going 75-80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Nick's spot on there, I was on the A1 Barnet by pass at Borehamwood recently when I noticed one in a lay-by directly opposite a fixed Gatso in the central reservation that had been turned around to cover those on the opposite carriageway. Moral of the story, keep a careful eye open for white vans in lay-bys, on verges or overbridges, if you're on the ball you should be able to spot them before they can gun you. And Mungler, if you're going down to Southdown on Sunday, watch out on the A24, they're pretty hot there, I'm told they even use helicopters to catch people between fixed Truvelo points, (those odd little white squares you see painted on the road in pairs). Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 I think the moral of the story is not to speed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 I'm told they even use helicopters to catch people between fixed Truvelo points, (those odd little white squares you see painted on the road in pairs). Those are fixed distance spots for use with VASCAR, nothing to do with truvelo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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