Uncle C
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So people who stick to the law are "right boring old fcukers".
How would you describe people who break the law and kill and maim children?
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Speed camera van on seafront road at saltdean
- Thread starter DanielT
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So people who stick to the law are "right boring old fcukers".
How would you describe people who break the law and kill and maim children?
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Uncle C
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BHAFC_Pandapops
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- Feb 16, 2011
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come on, fella, I'm not going to go at 41 miles an hour in a 30 because some other nutter feels the need to try and force me to.
I'll only do 35. I'm not an overly cautious person, but I just don't understand why I get death eye from the same old school mum types who have to do 40, whether it's on a 70 road or a 20 road.
Weststander
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Before the 'chicanes' went in on Madeira Drive, the Police often had field days down there, especially trapping commuters speeding along west bound in the mornings (avoiding the Marine Parade/Rock Gardens lights).
On one such morning, builders it looked like, had set up and left a hastily chalked/painted big board at the top of Dukes Mound warning everyone of the Police speed trap.
Not seen anything like that before or since.
The Police themselves (and not the Partnership van) still do very well trapping east bound traffic speeding into the City at:
- The old covent/nursing school, on Kingsway, Hove ... just west of the King Alfred lights. Is that an accident blackspot?
- And Old Shoreham Road, hiding just inside Cranmer Avenue.
On one such morning, builders it looked like, had set up and left a hastily chalked/painted big board at the top of Dukes Mound warning everyone of the Police speed trap.
Not seen anything like that before or since.
The Police themselves (and not the Partnership van) still do very well trapping east bound traffic speeding into the City at:
- The old covent/nursing school, on Kingsway, Hove ... just west of the King Alfred lights. Is that an accident blackspot?
- And Old Shoreham Road, hiding just inside Cranmer Avenue.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Only it's not, is it? You should be able to judge what speed you are doing, and if you're in any doubt, then stick to a speed below the speed limit. It's a LIMIT, not a TARGET.
Without stating the obvious, speed cameras are only money-making because people are breaking the speed limit. That is their choice, and if people are really that unhappy about those naughty, sneaky police, and the nasty cameras, then maybe they should make sure they don't get caught by, say, not going above the speed limit?
There is only one person to blame when you get caught speeding, and it isn't the guy holding the camera/gun, or the person that put film in the speed camera...
Icy Gull
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But is anyone on this thread actually complaining or trying to shift blame? It's blindingly obvious that it's your fault if you get a speeding fine. I just think a few question the placement of the cameras and just how much it has to do with raising safety awareness rather than raising money.
To be honest, it can be annoying/intimidating having someone stuck right up your exhaust pipe, so now I just tell myself they could be law, and happily go along just under the limit. One ticket in over thirty years of driving ain't bad I reckon 
vegster
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- May 5, 2008
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I wish they would set up a camera along the A27 just East of Lancing Leisure centre, its a 40mph stretch of road yet almost everyone floors it and treats it like a 60 mph with impunity.Many times in my rear view mirror I have seen a snarling 4x4 or BMW driver roaring up behind little old me doing 42 mph and then pulling out insanely into the " fast lane" ..... bust em all I say.
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ATFC Seagull
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As much as I don't want to get caught, they need to phase out these standing cameras and replace them with average speed ones (not everywhere, just in the same mould). The amount of times you see people spot the camera/van, and then slam on the brakes without even checking what is around them is huge. We've all been there - it's kinda a reflex reaction to drop your speed 10mph even if you were below the limit already.
How on Earth is that sneaky?
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Busiest days on the roads by far around here, they are just maximising their profits nothing to do with safety, they tend to talk a lot of bolloxs.
Never ever seen the trap on the same day two days on the trot before, so the are SNEAKY alright.
TheJasperCo
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I remember watching an eye-opening episode of Top Gear, with the Transport Minister as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. He was saying how Simon Cowell pays more in income tax p.a. than the overall revenue generated by speed cameras. A few years ago, they only made about £17 million. Makes you think, it really does. Hardly money-spinning if the finances of this country are measured in the BILLIONS.
Just why is that piece of tarmac a 40 limit? The times I get held up by silly old suffers blindly adhering to the law, unable to think for themselves!
Do you apply the same logic when you feel 'like murdering' someone
When I feel like murdering someone I will let you know.......
drop dead fred
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I wouldn't mind 17m in my back pocket for a couple of polaroids snaps.
vegster
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And?
houses, leisure centre, houses on the south side, pedestrian crossing... mind you at the speed you go its probably all a blur