Another speeding fine
10-May-2008
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Ok, so in July I get caught speeding by a Gatso camera heading towards Wales 7.45pm Road clear, I’m doing 36 in a 30mph zone.  With 18 years of endorsement free driving and no accidents and two weeks later I’m hit with a £60 speeding fine and 3 penalty points.  Ten quid for every 1 mph I was over the speed limit on a road where there was not anybody.

Police speeding trap

So today, I’m on my way to do an honest days work, I head into a village, no children at school as summer holidays, there are two blokes in suits standing next to a phone box and the next thing I know out comes Mr Policeman from behind the Phone Box wearing a florescent green jacket putting his hand in the air for me to stop and proceeds to charge me another £60 for doing 38 in the village.  I found myself apologising at first, but then I started thinking whilst he was writing my ticket.  I reminded him that he is supposed to be on view. His reply was “I’m wearing this bright coat”.  I couldn’t believe my ears and I came back with “And I’m supposed to see through Aluminium phone boxes, am I?”

He then said to me “We have had people in the village complaining about speeding drivers”.  Well that was about enough… I glared at him and said “We have had people in Bicester complaining about their cars and bikes being stolen, it’s a shame you don’t put so much effort into catching them!”

So there we have it, I pay my road Tax for both my vehicles and Pay my Council Tax which funds the Police and now they are robbing me on the way to work where funny enough I pay Income Tax for their salaries too.  Yet there is Mr Joy Rider lying in his sack after another night racing another persons pride and joy and then torching it, not even worried about the licence he hasn’t got, living on his dole money with the housing benefit looking after his roof.

Ok, I appreciate I’m in the wrong for breaking the speed limit but what’s gone wrong? Police gone soft, can’t catch anybody if they are a car thief or a house burglar.  Shame these days anything gets stolen from your property they’ll give you an incident number and the thieving mongrel gets away again.  Yet, being a law abiding citizen you get robbed £60 just for going slightly over the speed limit.

TOO LAZY TO CATCH THE REAL CROOKS!

I think the Police in this country ought to be brought to justice as to why Police Officers time is wasted hanging around a speed camera, when in truth they reckon they have not got the man power to catch the thieves (apparently there were 5 police officers at the same camera not long after I was pulled over). Any private business would call that bad resource management, personally I think it is lets pick on the EASY TARGETS because WE ARE TO LAZY TO CATCH THE REAL CROOKS.

GATSO speed camera

Question: Who are the real thieves, personally I think Thames Valley Police and probably all the other thieving Highway Police patrols/cameras up and down this country, money from taxes and speeding fines yet very little results when catching real crooks, we dare not mention their salaries too...


Other sites that may be of interest

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It's what it says on the tin!  I'm not sure about how accurate a lot of this is but there is some interesting information on how to get out of that speeding fine.

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People who spend all there time whinging about speed cameras have not attended the scene of serious injury of fatal accidents. The simple fact is of those people who are seriously injured or killed on the roads in the UK each year 60% are within built up areas where the predominant speed limit is 30mph.
*Tony L  29-Apr-2008 09:04

 
I agree there nobby! Obviously the greater the speed the greater the impact. Its simple maths, and common sense......
*Digsy  23-Apr-2008 17:53

 
Child hit by a car doing 36 in a 30mph zone, how is this fair Dave ?????
*Nobby  23-Apr-2008 16:53

 
Done for doing 36mph in a 30 zone, How is this fair?????
*Dave.  23-Apr-2008 11:30

 
Come on Nick, stop winding people up. They dont need you to make them look dumb with their arrogant self centred attitudes. We've seen the type on the road in their big cars with number plates with the special spacing that is meant to read like their names when really it says B16 KN013. Like you said let them carry on paying their fines until they're banned.
*Lou  31-Mar-2008 12:05

 
Its fine so long as the only people the idiot speeders kill is themself! Some people really need to pull their heads outta their rectums.
*Digsy  30-Mar-2008 22:14

 
At least we agree on one thing Digsy. The 20 year old bit was a wind up. It's just that some people think you must be a geriatric if you think the police are within their rights to nick you for speeding. I'll end it there because no matter how many think speeding is dangerous/wrong/illegal there are obviously some who don't as long as it's only slightly speeding and you're not a Chav from the local council estate and you won't change their mind until they kill someone or lose their licence, preferably the latter.
*Nick  30-Mar-2008 19:54

 
You don't reel em in, just make yaself look prat like.... Speedings dim, anywhere and everywhere thats all im gonna type on the subject.....and whats all this about a 20yr old?
*Digsy  29-Mar-2008 23:51

 
At last, someone who can see sense. I only wind up the stupid ones as it makes them dig a deeper hole.
*Nick  29-Mar-2008 14:09

 
I was referring to your goading actually.....no long words included......obviously speeding is wrong, accidents can happen anywhere, a death on a quiet road is just as tragic a death in a residential area. If people want to 'beat the speed trap system' then they should stick to a reasonable speed.....obviously. Simple solution.
*Digsy  29-Mar-2008 13:32

 
Ooh get you, I think we can all see the idiots on here trying to look good using big words and ignoring the facts that speeding is not clever regardless of it being intentional or not, and the law is the law whether you drive a souped up Astra and live in a council house or a BMW and live in a mansion. I suppose you'll all be saying next that it's O.K to dink and drive as long as you're posh and only drink spirits or wine and didn't think you'd be over the limit and why dont the police go and catch the real criminals etc.....
Have a nice day
*Nick  29-Mar-2008 13:24

 
Stop being an idiot please Nick. It got boring a long time ago.
*Digsy  29-Mar-2008 12:41


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