bod wrote:

Years ago the police said that they would take drastic action on the roads.
This being to teach us all a lesson in being more careful.

Kev? Any comment on Mr Pounder's statement above?

The statement that I recall was only made by one Chief Constable in some
god-forsaken Northern ********[1]. They implemented the policy for a few
years, which included prosecuting for as little as 1mph over the speed
limit. I was told that the local response was what might be expected
with speed camera operators find that gangs of yooves turned their vans
onto their side and nicked their cameras, which were usually positioned
on a small black tripod by the side of the road with a wire running to a
van around the corner or parked up on the wide grass verges.

It got so bad that plod would only run out the camera vans to the "posh"
areas where the footballers live.

Oddly enough the next northern ******** [2] had a more enlightened
policy on aggravating the motorist and actually had a better road safety
record.


IIRC Pounder lives in a northern cesspit so that could be the reason
that he's heard of it and few other people have.


[1] Cleveland which actually incorporates some of the ****tiest of the
********s[3].
[2] Durham
[3] I mentioned before that someone I knew was done for 31mph in
Cleveland, I can recall the angry yells here that it couldn't possibly
be true.