How miserable do you have to be?

[racefactory]

Fuck them. I've not been caught for a long time but I've had enough of these pussies hiding in tinted speed camera vans on steep down hills everywhere recently. They have the motors cooking all day with the air conditioning going for the slob in the back waiting to turn an innocent 57kph motorist incensed. They are going throughout the daytime even in the weekdays. They used to be easily spotted but now they are indistinguishable. These days I spend more time with eyes off the road scanning the sides for these abominable traps- with the places they put them in you really are no less likely to fall victim as an innocent motorist than a raving lunatic. It's an evil regressive tax system.

What I am wondering is how miserable a person do you have to be to sit there inside one of these things? I was pulling out of my house the other day and I noticed the fucker was parked right outside my property. I pulled the bike up beside it and peered in to get a glimpse of the goon inside, felt inclined to give them some lip. Fortunately I hesitated before doing so, could be a popo in there?

[awayatc]

messenger shooting.......

Hate the fuckers that insist we need them verywhere....

Beehive fumigating time?

[tigertim20]

I think the operators inside those vans are actually all operated by civillians. I also beleive they have no say in which people actually get sent a ticket. But to a point, I understand what youre saying though, That they are hiding, all concealed, makes you a little peeved that people are going to such an effort to ping the guy doing 56km/hr.

[racefactory]

I hope that's not true eh. That makes me sick the thought of a fellow compatriot cowardly conforming with spineless bureaucrats to take away from others. I will knock on the window and ask if they are enjoying themselves in there next time.

I know it's tough times and people will do anything for a buck but come on, that is morally wrong. Lol you can always sell your ass on the street and stop making other peoples lives a headache at least.

[Brian d marge]

well do something about it , dont just stand there

Stephen

[Urano]

one of the few civil thing we have in italy is the law that states that a police unit with a velox must be well visible, with an advice plate 400 mt before, and using only police marked cars.

then, because we are not a civil country, they always try to make what they want, and so you have to go and make an opposition on a court, demonstrating that they were breaking the law.

they count on the fact that on a hun people catch up, only 10 would make an opposition managing to demonstrate they were wrong, so they have good collection anyway.

last time i was catch on a country road with a 50 limit signal (you have to understand that here plates are quite random, so you have to travel trying to figure out what is best...) and i was at 70.
i looked in the mirror and saw a police car hidden, so i stopped, took some pics and then went to the court: won.
but it's a little mess...

[unstuck]

Or pay the fine,dont do the crime. If you want to break the law,then dont whine when you get caught.

[wysper]

that is morally wrong.

How is it morally wrong to enforce the law?
You may not like the law or the way it is enforced, but your only option is to try and change one or other or both of those.

Confronting the guy in the van, and I also believe they are civvys, won't achieve anything. I would do that to feed my family if I had to.

[oneofsix]

How is it morally wrong to enforce the law?
You may not like the law or the way it in enforced, but your only option is to try and change one or other of those.

Confronting the guy in the van, and I also believe they are civvys, won't achieve anything. I would do that to feed my family if I had to.

love these comments "How is it morally wrong to enforce the law?", why don't you ask the guys that just prosecuted the ex-Nazi guard, he was only enforcing the 'law' as it stood at the time. Your speedo is only accurate to within 10% if you are lucky and on new rubber. Add a down hill or any of numerous other conditions and it is easy to exceed a < 5% allowance yet still be operating in a safe manner. This makes it morally wrong IMHO and close to entrapment, the reports of popos tailgating is entrapment again IMHO

[BoristheBiter]

Fuck them. I've not been caught for a long time but I've had enough of these pussies hiding in tinted speed camera vans on steep down hills everywhere recently. They have the motors cooking all day with the air conditioning going for the slob in the back waiting to turn an innocent 57kph motorist incensed. They are going throughout the daytime even in the weekdays. They used to be easily spotted but now they are indistinguishable. These days I spend more time with eyes off the road scanning the sides for these abominable traps- with the places they put them in you really are no less likely to fall victim as an innocent motorist than a raving lunatic. It's an evil regressive tax system.

What I am wondering is how miserable a person do you have to be to sit there inside one of these things? I was pulling out of my house the other day and I noticed the fucker was parked right outside my property. I pulled the bike up beside it and peered in to get a glimpse of the goon inside, felt inclined to give them some lip. Fortunately I hesitated before doing so, could be a popo in there?

You could always slow down, pay more attention to your soundings, get a radar detector or all of the above.

Yes we have all got stupid tickets get over it and move on.

[BoristheBiter]

love these comments "How is it morally wrong to enforce the law?", why don't you ask the guys that just prosecuted the ex-Nazi guard, he was only enforcing the 'law' as it stood at the time. Your speedo is only accurate to within 10% if you are lucky and on new rubber. Add a down hill or any of numerous other conditions and it is easy to exceed a < 5% allowance yet still be operating in a safe manner. This makes it morally wrong IMHO and close to entrapment, the reports of popos tailgating is entrapment again IMHO

To be correct it was following an order from a superior officer not enforcing a law.

[oneofsix]

To be correct it was following an order from a superior officer not enforcing a law.

who was following orders that eventually came from what was the government of the time and the law of the day, as disgusting as it was.
Perhaps a reference to apartheid in Africa would have been better as an example of a morally wrong law.

[racefactory]

So are they actually civies cowardly hiding inside there? Makes my blood boil, that is not right.

[racefactory]

Or pay the fine,dont do the crime. If you want to break the law,then dont whine when you get caught.

How is it morally wrong to enforce the law?

Aw, what a lovely conformist you are. Gubbermint would be proud of you. Let me guess, won't touch your bike if the rego's a day out? Simple fact is it's nefarious regressive tax and we Kiwis far too often just take it up the bum hole.

[matdaymon]

If your on your bike on a downhill heading for a van how is that a problem? They have camera's at both ends of the things now to catch your plate once you've passed them now or something?