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35 mph: "Dangerous and idiotic" 742

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:52:47 +0100, James Grabowski

35 mph: "Dangerous and idiotic" 743
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Simon Dobson Some of those are sneaky but I notice the page has the following in a couple of places. "this camera has been removed because there is insufficient...

Well, I deleted the files because I got bored referring to them, but I used to have a collection of photos of speed cameras that I would defy anyone, including drivers of godlike talents such as yourself to see until it was too late. Not only that, but the majority had been set up in areas where either signing was less than clear or very shortly after a change in speed limit on a road that did not seem to warrant a change on safety grounds alone.

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My friend Cecil likes to have a bit of fun. He turns almost every negative experience into a positive one. Fortunately he has a few quid...

Many of these cameras were on the A41 from Bicester to Aylesbury and they included cameras hidden behind road signs and cameras hidden by the planting of trees or even in one case, the deliberate trimming of a hedge to allow the camera to have a clear view of the road while permitting the hedge to grow behind the camera to completely obscure it.

Presumably you're also one of those people who slams his brakes on every time he sees a white van on an overbridge? Or perhaps you can tell me exactly where on the M42 and M25 all the speed cameras are?

While you're at it, perhaps you could also tell me why a moment of inattention makes someone a bad driver or indeed how any of the drivers I've encountered who drive erratically, aggressively, dangerously but always within the speed limit will be caught by speed cameras?




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