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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 10:27 |
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KenRay
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I think the speed cameras were invented here in Arizona. They were put on most of the hiways and several cities have them installed. They have since been removed from all the State Hiways but most of the cities have them as great revenue producers. I know Tucson surely does. The most effective oposition they have here is the license plates are sprayed with a non-reflecting dull spray which they say works. They get your picture but not the plate number. I know I see an awful lot that have this spray on them. As far as insuarance goes,I dodged a Deer a couple of months ago and ran off on the berm, before I got back on the road I hit a single roadside marker (one of the slim ones like a steel fence post). It did $4900 damage to my 2006 Mustang. I'm glad I had the insuarance even though it is fairly costly and will probably go up now. It's still a bargain in my eyes and I will continue to have it in effect. I also have home insuarance and have NEVER (in over 50 years)had a claim against it. Would not be without it either. What I do NOT have is life insuarance. Only had it while I was employed and then only because it was always provided by the company I worked for.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 13:23 |
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steve of oxford
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jk wrote:Steve, I see you have a very interesting number plate on the MX5. Now now don't be silly Jonathan. It used to be V5 OLLY.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 13:38 |
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steve of oxford
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KenRay wrote:I think the speed cameras were invented here in Arizona. They were put on most of the hiways and several cities have them installed. They have since been removed from all the State Hiways but most of the cities have them as great revenue producers. I know Tucson surely does. The most effective oposition they have here is the license plates are sprayed with a non-reflecting dull spray which they say works. They get your picture but not the plate number. I know I see an awful lot that have this spray on them. As far as insuarance goes,I dodged a Deer a couple of months ago and ran off on the berm, before I got back on the road I hit a single roadside marker (one of the slim ones like a steel fence post). It did $4900 damage to my 2006 Mustang. I'm glad I had the insuarance even though it is fairly costly and will probably go up now. It's still a bargain in my eyes and I will continue to have it in effect. I also have home insuarance and have NEVER (in over 50 years)had a claim against it. Would not be without it either. What I do NOT have is life insuarance. Only had it while I was employed and then only because it was always provided by the company I worked for. That would be correct, speed cameras (like tasers and all the other illegal toys) were invented in America, imported to the UK by Blair. Oh what's that smell?....I know..it's the smell of big juicy back-handers. The difference is here in the UK we're too soft and stupid to stick together and sue the DVLA for breach of right to privacy, so we also have ANPR. I can see the day coming when eventually (God willing) motorists en-mass remove or obscure number plates. I've already done this several times in the last month along Reading Council's bus lanes....straight past the cameras. (Note to RBC snoops; it wasn't in the Mazda, try harder lol.) It's an interesting fact: a recent survey classified England as being the global leader in state cctv surveillance. Enough is enough, time these corporate bribed traitors masquerading as governments, and their town hall scum were taught the painful way how English freedom works.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 14:01 |
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steve of oxford
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Eric wrote:Some years ago there was a craze of mounting small flash slave units on the side of the number plates. They were supposed to trigger when a speed camera flashed you/them and obliterate the number plate with extreme over exposure. Yes they did work, however that was in the days of film cameras. Digital ones now take a number of fast frames, so unless you have an extremely fast strobe, almost 100% duty cycle, there will be a few frames that get you. The best way is to; 1) obscure or remove the number plate 2) set fire to the camera 3) set fire to the town hall official 4) smash the camera 5) smash the town hall official 6) follow the town hall official around continually photographing him, when he snaps...defend yourself extremely well and possibly forget when to stop doing so. 7) present an FOI demanding the name of the business who supplied the camera......accidentally bump into the owner of that business one dark night and explain how it works. You 'may' have just been to an indoor Golf Range and have a club with you, and by sheer coincidence your wife might have asked you to collect some black bin bags on your way home. You get the idea.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 14:44 |
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richw
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Speeding cameras here in Victoria are an absolute menace. In NSW they are obvious and labelled and you can normally see why they are situated where they are. In Victoria it's pure revenue raising. They are very well hidden and they have a fleet of unmarked cars with cameras positioned on the front like spot lights. I just got done for travelling at 64 Km/hr in a 60Km/ hr zone. $176 fine and one demerit point. The road was a wide sweeping curve with good visibility, very little traffic and wide grass verges either side in a purely industrial area. The police camera car was the only car parked at the side of the road. I saw the cameras on the way back and knew it had probably got me in the opposite direction. I don't feel I was driving in a way that put anybody at any risk.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 15:31 |
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steve of oxford
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richw wrote:Speeding cameras here in Victoria are an absolute menace. In NSW they are obvious and labelled and you can normally see why they are situated where they are. UK ones are also situated to make money and nothing else. Over here we don't object to them being located near a School or Hospital which is fair enough, but that's actually quite rare. It's all about social control sleep walking the country into something very nasty, and of course...making a lot of money for the usual corrupt governments and town hall fat cats. Anyone who still thinks surveillance technology is there to protect them is a naive idiot.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16th, 2012 03:22 |
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steve of oxford
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Get this ! Another bus lane PCN, this time for being in a bus lane in which drivers have no choice but to cross the lane to get to local shops.....so is it a bus only lane or not? To make matters worse, I paid the £30 on line, but on checking my bank statement discovered READING BOROUGH COUNCIL had made a second debit from my account, thus unauthorised access to my account and THEFT of money. Think it ends there? think again.....READING BOROUGH COUNCIL were terminated from using the DVLA database. So the question arises, where are these subhumans getting people's registration details from? If the police are doing it for them it's very serious, since bus lane and parking are civil matters. The police have no authority to provide registration details to anyone other than the CPS & courts. However, not for me to say we have a bent copper at Reading nick. Currently I have an FOI for Reading town hall thieves to disclose where they got my registration details from...what's the betting they decline to answer under section 14 cop-out clause. Thieving subhuman scum....no wonder these scum are too scared to meet in person with their PCN victims, they'd be put in hospital with head injuries.....and it would be justified, why should they be treated differently to any other thief. Now it seems READING BOROUGH COUNCIL are allowed dispensation to commit cyber-crime. It's disgusting, and I have complained of being camera stalked by the head of Bus Lane Enforcement, and demanded that she should be sacked, if not I will exercise my right to stalk her back.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16th, 2012 03:49 |
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blackfox
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glad i moved out of reading 27 years ago reading this .horrible heartless town then seems worse now .long live free wales 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16th, 2012 06:28 |
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steve of oxford
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blackfox wrote:glad i moved out of reading 27 years ago reading this .horrible heartless town then seems worse now .long live free wales Oh it's a corporate money grabbing shthole, we moved out of Reading about 25 years ago. We used to live by the University. The problem with Reading is the fact that it's a medieval town obviously not designed for cars, and you also have a golden circle of councillors doing what the hell they like with the roads to get as much CCTV in as possible, to grab as much money as possible. As for the bus lanes, it's all bllox I'd like to know what prick it was who ever had the self appointed authority to decide a bus had more rights on the road than any other vehicle. I now know where the head of RBC bus lane enforcement lives, which is fair enough.....if they know where I live I have a right to know where they live...they incessantly photograph me without my consent, I'll do likewise to them. Basically, anything they do to me I'll do back since these are civil matters. These town hall scum cowards need a reeducation on how it works, the traditional English way.....by dark night & fist if necessary.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16th, 2012 06:33 |
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steve of oxford
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Robert; "Now it's a fools errand, the roadside cameras can clock your number and check instantly .........illegally of course, if the local authority was suspended or terminated from the DVLA database as is the case with Reading. I'm waiting to find out where RBC is getting registration details from, that is going to prove very interesting. Or very embarrassing for the police or Motor Insurance Database.
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