Great Britain: New super-cameras will mean no hiding place for drivers who smoke, eat or use a phone

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 28, 2007 | RAY MASSEY

[batco-barry]

“Perhaps geographicaclly, but certainly not the people. And the people are what make up the tenor of a country. Sadly, many Brits I run into are whiny and demanding, wanten their rights!”

And where do you ‘run into’ these Brits?
Sadly, many Brits I run into think exactly the same about Americans..........

[batco-barry]

“Actually, to be culturally correct, it’s the index finger and the middle finger extended, but with the hand in the reverse direction of the US traditional 60’s peace sign....:)”

Yep, the old ‘f**k you’ sign going back to the 1300s I think, its the sign the English archers would give the French before going in to battle against them!!!

[batco-barry]

Now being used to Brit cars and there layout, I spotted the ashtray straight away. Its to the left and just below the gear shift (in the picture).
My car has an ashtray (not that I use it), and it wasn’t listed in the accessories when I bought it...........

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

There's a UK web page that's dedicated to much of what you wrote:

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/index2.htm

Winnie Mandela would be proud of some of the tactics displayed on that web page!

I don't know why drivers over there don't use some electrician's tape and convert a single letter on their license plate to another letter. The letters are very 'rectilinear' so it's easy to convert "F"->"E", "P"->"R", "H"->"A", "T"->"I", "L"->"C", etc.

The odds of being stopped by a traffic cop in the UK are very, very low, so license plate doctoring is worth the risk when you consider that those damn speed cameras are everywhere. You can be tooling around in remotest parts of Scotland and still find the friggin things.

[batco-barry]

“..........Its to the left and just below the gear shift (in the picture).
My car has an ashtray (not that I use it), and it wasn’t listed in the accessories when I bought it...........”

Apologies, to the right, used to driving right hand drive!!!

[WoofDog123]

“Perhaps geographicaclly, but certainly not the people. And the people are what make up the tenor of a country. Sadly, many Brits I run into are whiny and demanding, wanten their rights!

Boring louts.”

My experiences in rural england and wales are fairly limited, but rural scotland has some very nice people. I found people in wales quite friendly (mainly ciao, cellan, etc that area) as well.

[rbosque]

Liberalism gone a muck.

[eXe]

haha so true.. we are sure loving it here :)

[SamAdams76]

I think everybody's seen those mobile speed radar signs like the one above. The cops tow them around to different places and they carry license plates on the back and now many of them are equipped with cameras that take pictures of the plates of speeding cars and send tickets in the mail.

Not too long ago, a couple of teenagers swiped the license place on one of those and proceeded to drive by it repeatedly at high rates of speed. The result was that police department received dozens of speeding tickets in the mail.

I thought that was hilarious.

[cgbg]

Both are driving from the passenger side on the wrong side of the road!

Wait a minute--you just gave me a great idea for getting more revenue from the suckers--er citizens.

Randomly change the legal side of the road once a week. Don't tell anyone which day it is. Then start issuing tickets!

:-)

[Sue Perkick]

Went back to look. You’re right.

[Old Professer]

Orwell must have been the first time-traveler; what he wrote as a caution these guys took as a blueprint.

[Old Professer]

We must be channeling old George; I posted before I read.

[Old Professer]

“What’s to prevent malicious license plate obscurations?”

Obsequious anal osculations...

[Old Professer]

Other “Freepers” don’t understand that most “Freepers” are sick and tired of having nibby noses stuck right in the middle of everything they’re doing, right, wrong or indifferent - we’re not machines.

This thread is about encroaching surveillance and increasing control which definitely treatens liberty.

You don’t fix mistakes by making it impossible to take actions.

[MinuteGal]

The imminent thing to ponder is life under Big Sister, namely Hillary Clinton.

Consider how life in these United States will be be if and when we're ruled by the triumverate of Hillary, Reid and Pelosi.

The Big Sister Eye will be watching us through a special television set within the friendly confines of our own homes.

Everyone will have an embedded chip in the forehead, even the family goldfish.

Leni

[Stoat]

You made me laugh so hard that I spit coffee all over my monitor.

((((snicker))))

Sorry about that   :-)

[Stoat]

Hi, Stoat- me, Miss Emily, and Cole, The World’s Best Dog© have been fine, and I hope you and yours are well, too.

Glad to hear it  :-)

Things here at the stoat cave aren't too bad I suppose....anyway I've found that, generally speaking, complaining about things accomplishes little except awarding the complainer with a reputation as a complainer  :-)

As long as I'm able to get through each day without sustaining serious injury and without being arrested, I suppose that it's been a good day   :-)

 

hehe!

[Stoat]

The imminent thing to ponder is life under Big Sister, namely Hillary Clinton.

Agreed.  At this point I still have trouble believing that a majority of the American people are stupid enough to put the Clintons back in the White House, but I remain gravely concerned about vote fraud.  One thing that the Clintons and their Socialist minions do extremely well is corruption on a grand scale, and things were far too close for comfort with the recent squeakers involving Kerry and Gore.  Leftist vote fraud made those races close, and with the Clintons on the ticket the Dem Fraud Machine will redouble it's efforts.  I hope that we are all strong, alert and tenacious enough to resist the forthcoming assault from within.

[Constitution Day]

We have always been at war with Eurasia.