Beat the trap!

[Observer]

New advice on technical ploy to defeat speeeding ticket notices at
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.safespeed.org.uk/unsigned.html>http://www.safespeed.org.uk/unsigned.html</A>

Any readers hereabouts have direct experience?

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[tcm]

Tons of experience amongst posters, I believe. But better than some non-signing rubbish with legal costs is to play a straight bat and identify the driver immediately. Round our way, the driver was almost invariably the au pair, whose name is often something like Marie-Therese Puteaux , 125 les Andelys, 20 Rue Marechal Foch, Aix-en-Provence, CEDEX 63200, FRANCE.

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[claymore]

Drive within the limits?

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Claymore
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[arran]

Wouldn't the car be stationary if the Au Pair was sitting next to you??

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[tcm]

Hah! Your new-found sermonising confidence indicates that the flashing light from some months ago has NOT resulted in an invitation from the local magistrates. Or, of course, that you have learned your lesson - cept that would have provoked righteous sqauwking. So, I presume the former explanation is correct?

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[jimi]

Neighbour of mine is a fast jet pilot with the RAF. Apparently one of their little games is to find an isolated speed camera and go past it low enough (and presumably fast enough/forums/images/icons/smile.gif ) to set it off!

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[claymore]

I write this to you £60 the poorer. Humbled by my experience I offered the advice as true testament to my self-pity sorrow, grief and woe. I am reformed - - not a day goes by I don't think of the wasted £60. Like Morgan Freeman in the Shawshank Redemption, I am truly repentant.

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[claymore]

If I gave you the coordinates and sent another fiver to the lifeboat - any chance your pal could use a bit of target practice before he nips off to Iraq?

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[NigeCh]

Better advice

It's all my fault that the above post was made .... and getting 11 tickets on the same piece of road over a few days incensed me.

I'm looking for an inventor with electonic and LCD skills.

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[Observer]

Re: Better advice

>>11 tickets on the same piece of road over a few days>>

If "one is a misfortune" and "two looks like carelessness" (apologies to Oscar Wilde) can you elaborate on how you managed to collect eleven? And what did you do about them?

Must have bankrupted you and immobilised you - no wonder you were incensed!



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[jimi]

Re: Better advice

I'd have thought you'd be better looking for a chauffeur ..

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[nicho]

Re: Better advice

I have heard there is a special number plate on the "black" market, that will display a false number at the flick of a switch!. It is evidently non traceable being completely false.

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[bedouin]

Re: Better advice

I saw one of those in a James Bond film once

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[claymore]

Goldfinger nm

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[nicho]

Back in the days when the very first radar speed traps were introduced, I happened to be rallying with a well known Finnish driver. He claimed a friend of his in Helsinki (not Gatsonides) had invented an electronic box of tricks to be fitted behind the grille of any car. It had two switchable positions:

Pos'n 1 - the radar beam would be accepted by the box, slowed down internally and beamed back at exactly the speed desired, regardless of the velocity of the vehicle concerned, causing much consternation amongst the Finnish traffic cops who could not understand what was happening as the car sped by at 60 in a 30!.

Pos'n 2 - the box would accept the beam, multiple the signal by something like 10,000 and send it back, instantly causing destruction of the radar set!!

Folklore? Maybe, but what a great idea!!

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[tcm]

yer cannae beat the laws of physics

Hum, i am afraid that the finnish chap is making it all up. But agreed it is a very nice idea.

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[claymore]

Oi!

You've probably just rubbished the theory of a national hero. It could have been Mikkola or Carlsson - what's that going to do for Anglo - Finnish relations?
You'll get well and truly trolled if you don't apologise.

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[dougiemcg]

Don't think the idea of an RAF fast jet going "fast enough to set off a speed trap"
would be a problem. I think the problem would be going slow enough. Not sure
but does the camera not compare the position of the vehicle at two different positions to work out the speed. By the time the camera was activated the jet
would be half way to Baghdad. I believe it is possible to fool a camera if you drive
fast enough but requires travelling at over 180mph in a 30 limit.
Only my perception of how these things work so would like to know facts.

Dougie.

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[hlb]

Re: yer cannae beat the laws of physics

I thing we have the best camera defence system. The kids chuck tyres over them. Then set them on fire. Works everytime.

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[rhinorhino]

Re: yer cannae beat the laws of physics

Such a device does exist although it takes a ECM aircraft to carry it around.

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