Thread: Speeding fine

Here in the States we call it revenue.

Originally Posted by rrich

Here in the States we call it revenue.

How many died in the US last year? 20000?

Most of you have prob seen it before.

http://www.roadsense.com.au/



HJ0 Cheers

What’s really annoying about some of the more red necky responses from people in this thread is that, not only have you climbed too quickly to peer down from the lofty heights of high moral horses, you have completely misread what I’m saying. It’s not about ME getting fined. If you read more carefully you’ll see that my hand is firmly up, that I’ve accepted the fine, I’ve paid it, I was polite, and I know that every day I gamble with the law, and this time I lost. If you READ my previous posts in this thread you’ll discover this to be the case.

Moreover, I am not anti police. My step son is a police officer. I have a friend who is a police officer. I was appalled when an officer was recently attacked on the Gold Coast while performing his duty.

My point is: sometimes the police set a trap that is unfair. These traps are easy to identify because there is usually a line of criminal car drivers waiting to be processed. Sometimes the officers find such a good fishing spot that they can pull cars in as fast as they can re-bait. It is fishing spots such as these that give the police a bad name, and attract the “revenue collecting” tag. If this doesn’t happen in VIC, good, but it happens here. You can pull out the technical manual on me, and you’ll be right, but so boring.

Originally Posted by HJ0

Most of you have prob seen it before.

http://www.roadsense.com.au/



HJ0 Cheers

Better get that over to Monash University quick smart....problems solved

Police don't operate speed cameras in Victoria.

What sort of income does a speed camera operator get Iain?

Originally Posted by Iain

Police don't operate speed cameras in Victoria.

They must have gotten lazy, since I was last in vic.

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

What if the radar chap was a child on a tricycle?

Funny bugger, kids dont ride bikes anymore thats why the kids are all so freakin BIG.

Al

Big Kids Do.:eek:




HJ0 Cheers

When speed cameras were first introduced, a motorcycle magazine published the photo from one. It showed one of their road testers exceeding the speed limit. The funny thing was, he was on his back sliding along next to the bike :eek:

The story was, he saw the camera, grabbed the brakes, locked it up and dropped the test bike. Of course, the editor then chose to ask why he was speeding, why he was so clumsy with the brakes as to lock everything up, and why couldn't he have done it on his own bike instead of a test machine. No answers were offered

Richard

"Speed Camera Policy and Operations Manual"


"CAMERAS are not to be set up on bends.
OPERATORS must not camouflage or disguise the cameras in a way that could lead to a public perception of "sly operations".
CAMERAS can be used on a downhill road only if the road has a significant history of speed-related accidents.
TOLERANCE levels, where motorists can travel over the speed limit without being fined, are flexible.
POLICE book so many people to reinforce the message that it is not worth the risk to speed.
THE locations of fixed speed cameras are chosen to maximise the number of people who can be caught speeding.
CAMERAS must not be set up within 200m of a change to the speed zone.
CAMERAS can be used within 200m of a change to the zone in a children's crossing area or a school zone with prior approval of senior police."


If you are bored, read more

How is it a speed trap?
:confused:

You were speeding.
You broke the law.
If you dont speed you dont care where they hide the cameras
Speeding is dangerous to other road users and to pedestrians.
PAY THE FINE.

Macca