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Tim Watts[_3_]

On 26/12/14 14:33, wrote:
Going into the next village via dual carriageway recently I spotted a
camera van in the distance ahead and tootled past at a sedate thirty.
Returning home I passed in the opposite direction at thirty until I
saw the fifty limit start sign when I increased my speed gently.
Discovered the misbegotten wretch in the van was aiming at cars
leaving the thirty limit when I received an unwelcome letter. I asked
to see the photographic evidence and it's seriously annoying to have
a photo of the back of the car with the fifty limit sign in full view
and my speed shown as thirtyfive. I look forward to finding a camera
van on fire in one of the more robust neighbourhoods. For sure I
won't stop to help.

Whilst you might not get anywhere in a court with that, if that were me,
that photo would be on a blog, and tweeted, FB'd and emailed to a couple
of rags who like that sort of story (DM, Sun maybe).

Policing is still by consent and I would make damn sure they were so
ridiculed for that one episode they'd think twice about setting up a
camera in such a fashion again.