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Crotchrocket vs. dumptruck (note helmet still embedded in truck grille)
Posted on 06/29/2004 10:39:27 AM PDT by Willie Green
A friend of mine is an editor for a rather crazed British motorcycle magazine. A common feature story in Kenny Pryde's Superbike magazine involves chronicling the curviest, most deserted backroads in all the United Kingdom for his magazine's adrenaline-addicted readers.
The magazine earns a beloved place in the hearts of Britain's two-wheeled speed freaks by alerting them to places where they can potentially ride their high-performance motorcycles at velocities that would smoke a space shuttle on re-entry.
Unfortunately for Kenny's readers, Great Britain has become overrun in recent years by a safety culture unlike anything we Americans could conjure up in our worst paranoid delusions. Thousands of remote cameras -- known unlovingly as "gatsos" -- are posted along roadsides in the U.K., capable of snapping digital photos of speeding vehicles. The pictures and a traffic citation are delivered to motorists via Royal Mail a few days later.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
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"Thousands of remote cameras -- known unlovingly as "gatsos" -- are posted along roadsides in the U.K."
If they posted those remote cameras around here on the sides of those roads which are good for speeding on motorcycles, they'd get just as shot up as the street signs.
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Crotchrocket vs. dumptruck (note helmet still embedded in truck grille)
Trust me, the other photos from that accident are pretty wooly.
The fixed that in Great Britain by confiscating the guns first.
I imagine. I was just wondering if that was a Photoshop job... guess not.
Budget deficits here have helped this biker, but not in the way this story relates.
When I bought my home in 1999, I was intentionally not informed of the counties plan to take 4 acres in a plan to replace an aging one lane bridge.
Since we began running deficits, the "plan" keeps getting pushed back each year. Right now its "planned" for 2006...and counting.
That's for sure - a quick View Image, followed by changing the image numbers, pulls up two more pics with, ahem, a LOT more detail.
Looks like there were originally two people on the bike, or is there another disintegrated bike in there somewhere?
Physics wins again.
Interesting the article doesn't mention police paying for themselves through issuing speeding tickets. Sounds like you could have some really wealthy police departments in that area.
...didn't change?
Drug use...
...didn't skyrocket?
Terrorists, seeing the lack of well-funded and equipped "first repsonders" with army surplus APCs and SWAT teams...
...didn't overrun the area?
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