New speed camera

[Bender]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13417952/next-generation-speed-cameras/

 

That's a scary bit of tech.

[Tiggie]

Yikes!! 

that is scary if it works as advertised

[S-Westerly]

Gloucestershire Police were trialling them last week in Stroud. Not only do they catch you speeding but also check if you are insured and taxed. Believe they nabbed about 10 people is a single afternoon.

[bonio]

Not sure it's as big a deal as the article says. The mobile speed cameras they currently use already have a one mile range (so at least as far as the new ones), and all that extra tech the article mentions is just about reducing the amount of admin for the copper should the case come to court. It probably means they can pare back the headcount in the traffic department even more. 

[Bender]

Scamera vans don't operate in the dark, this is just a point and shoot hand held that can be deployed any where at anytime.

You often see camera vans, sometimes it's too late, but an unmarked car parked up, no one is going to bat an eyelid.

[iangaryprice]

North Wales Police have a camera van that can operate in the dark.

They are also frequently using them in pairs, to catch motorists that speed up after passin gth eforst van because they think ther e won't ba nother oe near by.

[onesea]

Night cameras are also in the New Forest.

[Bender]

1 hour ago, onesea said:

Night cameras are also in the New Forest.

Well we had non up here till now, or non I was aware of  

 

[raesewell]

1 hour ago, Bender said:

Well we had non up here till now, or non I was aware of  

 

Where is "up here"?

[dynax]

Just now, raesewell said:

Where is "up here"?

Do you really need to ask

[raesewell]

1 minute ago, dynax said:

Do you really need to ask

Err yeah coz I don't know where he is and there is no location in the profile.

[husoi]

3 minutes ago, raesewell said:

Err yeah coz I don't know where he is and there is no location in the profile.

Maybe he's afraid that you start stalking him...

I'm ready to vote for Scotland's independence now. 

[raesewell]

Oh yeah sorry I am a fully paid up member of Stalkers Inc.

You might have thought that as a Moderator they would lead by example. 

[Six30]

58 minutes ago, raesewell said:

Oh yeah sorry I am a fully paid up member of Stalkers Inc.

You might have thought that as a Moderator they would lead by example. 

not the clowns we got as mods im afraid .

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, Six30 said:

not the clowns we got as mods im afraid .

What Six said!

And things could have been so different of course.......

[Bender]

1 hour ago, raesewell said:

Oh yeah sorry I am a fully paid up member of Stalkers Inc.

You might have thought that as a Moderator they would lead by example. 

You would think wouldn't you  

Folk put far too much information up on the Internet, I would have thought there was enough on this thread to point to up here was Northumberland.

 

 

[Tiggie]

From what I understand our jobs are to look out for spammers and keep @Six30 from only causing a minimum amount of flounces. Nothing about setting an example was mentioned 

[dynax]

1 minute ago, Tiggie said:

From what I understand our jobs are to look out for spammers and keep @Six30 from only causing a minimum amount of flounces. Nothing about setting an example was mentioned 

That's because it's in the super tiny teeny weeny microscopic terms of your contract, that cannot be seen under normal vision

[raesewell]

36 minutes ago, Bender said:

You would think wouldn't you  

Folk put far too much information up on the Internet, I would have thought there was enough on this thread to point to up here was Northumberland.

 

 

I don't think the county or town is too much information and would be fairly useless to crooks.

[Guest]

38 minutes ago, raesewell said:

I don't think the county or town is too much information and would be fairly useless to crooks.

And it's not as if they'd even be able to tell that he owned a bike would they @Six30? 

[Six30]

14 minutes ago, XTreme said:

And it's not as if they'd even be able to tell that he owned a bike would they @Six30? 

surely by all his ride reports ....... oh no sorry wrong person

[learningtofly]

12 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Gloucestershire Police were trialling them last week in Stroud. Not only do they catch you speeding but also check if you are insured and taxed. Believe they nabbed about 10 people is a single afternoon.

No bad thing IMO (the highlighted bit).

[S-Westerly]

Absolutely. I think people who drive uninsured should be punished more severely than is currently the case. So many horror stories about uninsured drivers killing innocents usually already under a driving ban etc.

[Guest Swagman]

What annoys me is they can spend £10,000 on each camera but still cut local police on the streets because they can’t afford them, it’s just easier to nick a motorist/motorcyclist than catch a thief and it also brings in more revenue.

[husoi]

13 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

Absolutely. I think people who drive uninsured should be punished more severely than is currently the case. So many horror stories about uninsured drivers killing innocents usually already under a driving ban etc.

Make them stand on the M25 and allow anyone stuck in traffic to slap them twice 

Aeroplane movie style