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The Mouse · Forum Ferry Spotter Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 4904

There has been alot of 'bitching' and little comments on here recently about coppers standing in bushes with speed guns.

Has someone been done recently? Have I missed something.

It would be interesting to see who has been stopped and given a ticket for speeding in this way or whether it is just people jumping on a media led bandwagon for no reason!!!!!

I am talking about BEING STOPPED BY A COPPER WITH A SPEED GUN. Not a fixed council Gatso camera or a mobile camera van.

If you have, when was it and where?

Athos · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

sorry!!thought you were gonna talk about matts new bike Very Happy

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redrat · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

is that the one he tested on throttle position 'c' Wink

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Matty · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject:

Nope not me Very Happy

GT · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject:

I ticked yes but as i didn't get a ticket its a no, but it was in 1986 and i got a warning!
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Tango · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject:

Possibly never saw the swine that just got me ..... Rolling Eyes

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was about 3 years ago at 3 in the morning coming over the flyover at the bricklayers arms old kent road in a van .......he literally jumps out from between parked cars to flag me down not only did i nearly run the twat over but the silly b'stard put the hairdryer down behind me then asked me to reverse back..........thought cos i was very honest and reminded him of where he had left his fuckin toy he woulda let me off...........did he fuck he claims i set the scamera on the other side of the road off which strengthened his hairdryers point (couldnt have been a car going the other way of course) (i still dont believe you guys have instant access to the pics taken by the piggy bank poles) 3 points and a fixed penalty 40 in a 30 Rolling Eyes

wildman · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

Yes, but it was a very long time ago.
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lost again · Dancing tree frog! Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 2861

voted no but seen 2 at cowfold on a regular basis firle straight 2 coppers 1 hair dryer 1 on a40 saturday and 1 just of m4 saturday but id seen them 1st

JimBo · Pedantic Cnut Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 5394

No I haven't, but if I had I would have deserved it!
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Flintstone · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject:

28th September 1983, 8.30am on the B2110 Hartfield (outside Old Crown Farm), heading towards Forest Row. I was doing 43mph in a 30mph. Can't remember what the fine was, but received 3 points. Nice policeman was crouching beside a hedge, then jumped out on me !
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Tinks · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject:

Yep about 5 years ago, on the seafront at Hove.
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Athos · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

GSEX-SLAPPY · Guest

i have to be honest when i first saw the thread title i thought to meself ...silly bugger wants to put that for sale in the classifieds but im sure he stil has just enough hair to get some more use out of it Laughing

V · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject:

Back in 1999 old

, dreadful day! Was on my way to collect wedding dress

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southernspeed · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:35 am Post subject:

No but I have seen a lot of roadside checks lately. Having said that, I think a lot of people get the ANPRS cameras confused with Speed check vans.
Busiest police I've seen lately has been the 2 in an unmarked blue (5series??) on the A3 driving up and down (so it seems ) from Tolworth to the M25.
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wivvy's dad · Cabbage club member #3 Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 14655

Yes, but a few years ago.

It was a Sunday afternoon on a deserted A24 Capel bypass.

biggus · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

Yep... April 11th 2005 In Hove (Actually) Razz

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Windy · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

Isle of Mull, August 2002. I was caught doing a catastrophic 39mph in a 30mph zone. Strathclyde plod gave me 3 points and a £60 fine.
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biggus · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

I was talking to the local Box Hill bobby the other week who on occasions monitors speed & nicks people with the aid of a hairdrier; generally they pull a lot more cars than bikes, although they did Radar a bike doing 103mph through the 40limit on the A29 in Ockley, when I asked if they got his plate the answer was "no they were going too damn fast..." "hmmm 103 you say Jimmy Hill

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southernspeed · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject:

Suzibabe · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject:

I clicked no, because I've never met a copper with a hairdryer. Laughing

I've had 4 speeding fines though all since I got my Scooby and never on the bike, although I do the same speeds. 2 by mobile vans, 1 a fixed gatso (rear) and 1 fixed forward.

I deserved all 4:

2001 - 38 in a 30 back roads of Wokingham (fixed gatso - thought the limit was 40 because of where it was, £30 fine, 3 points)
2003 - 109 on the A11 dual-carriageway (camera van on a bridge, £450 fine, 2 week ban, no points)
2004 - 86 in a 70 on the A322 dual-carriageway (camera van parked in the wood, £60 fine, 3 points) (like Miss V was going to collect my wedding dress and my daughter had made me late)
2006 - 58 in a 50 on a dual-carriageway up near Silverstone, forward facing camers (£60 fine, 3 points)
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southernspeed · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject:

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Flipper · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

September 1999 on the A23 between Merstham villiage and Redhill. 46 in a 30 Embarrassed

. 3 points . My only problem with this is that it was a national speed limit area until about 2 years before, living locally I know that it is not in anyway an accident blackspot just a revenue gathering exercise.

I don't have a problem with the idea of reducing speed, what i can't accept is the idea of catching out motorists to raise revenue. I think that's the problem Matt.