Talivan Quiz
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One of those is round the corner from my flat! The one with signs to Banbury, Gatehouse Industry etc., it's there pretty regularly, very sneaky.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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Surely that's entrapment? You cannot see the cameras in most situations, whilst driving it'd be near impossible. :mad:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Despite what you see in American films, entrapment is allowed in the UK (e.g. to catch shopkeepers selling fireworks to minors). As long as the officer doesn't actually encourage the offence, it is not deemed to be entrapment.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Surely that's entrapment? You cannot see the cameras in most situations, whilst driving it'd be near impossible. :mad:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Surely that's entrapment?
:confused: It's hardly like the Police are encouraging you to break the speed limit. There's only one person in charge of the speed of your car.
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This will make you feel better http://www.speedcam.co.uk/news.htm[^]
Two heads are better than one.
modified on Thursday, July 8, 2010 7:36 AM
That still links to the game.
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It's things like this that just infuriate me. Why aren't they out catching the twat in a van and the twat in a Polo I saw on my way home last night? They were having some sort of argument - god only knows what about. The van driver overtook the Polo and immediately slammed on the anchors to 25mph - from 40mph. When the Polo tried to overtake, the van driver started weaving all over the road to prevent the guy from getting past. That's the way it stayed for about a mile. Where were the Police - ohh yeah, that's right: sitting on their arses waiting for a load of cameras to catch people so that they can fine them for going about their normal days driving sensibly and safely. :mad:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Surely that's entrapment?
:confused: It's hardly like the Police are encouraging you to break the speed limit. There's only one person in charge of the speed of your car.
Fair enough, maybe 'entrapment' isn't the correct word. But take normal speed cameras for example. They have to be yellow, there has to be signs etc. But with these new cameras, they just seem to set up a camera that doesn't stand out, situate it away from the van down the road and all is hunky dory.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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That still links to the game.
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Despite what you see in American films, entrapment is allowed in the UK (e.g. to catch shopkeepers selling fireworks to minors). As long as the officer doesn't actually encourage the offence, it is not deemed to be entrapment.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Yeah, I think I've used the wrong word to describe what I'm thinking in me noggin. The cogs are a little rusty ATM.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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That still links to the game.
Not for me it didn't. Several minutes before your post. So unless it takes you forever to type 6 words, you are confusing two similar pictures.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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Fair enough, maybe 'entrapment' isn't the correct word. But take normal speed cameras for example. They have to be yellow, there has to be signs etc. But with these new cameras, they just seem to set up a camera that doesn't stand out, situate it away from the van down the road and all is hunky dory.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Not for me it didn't. Several minutes before your post. So unless it takes you forever to type 6 words, you are confusing two similar pictures.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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Henry, fixed it 1 the direct link was wrong the new page link was correct.
Two heads are better than one.
I must have caught it just after your update.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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Fair enough, maybe 'entrapment' isn't the correct word. But take normal speed cameras for example. They have to be yellow, there has to be signs etc. But with these new cameras, they just seem to set up a camera that doesn't stand out, situate it away from the van down the road and all is hunky dory.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
So? Just don't break the speed limit! This is total hearsay and could be utterly wrong, but I heard that in New Zealand speed cameras are hidden as a matter of course, and it's done a lot to bring down traffic speed.
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So? Just don't break the speed limit! This is total hearsay and could be utterly wrong, but I heard that in New Zealand speed cameras are hidden as a matter of course, and it's done a lot to bring down traffic speed.
So you've never ever gone over the speed limit? I'm not saying that I blat everywhere at 100mph - far from it. I never go above 80mph, and most of the time I stick to 70-75mph. But, sometimes you need to go faster than the limit. Sometimes you need to overtake someone to get out the way of a lorry - or get away from the blind spot. Sometimes you need to make way so that the people coming on to the motorway can get on. And its at those times that you can get caught by these cameras.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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Lets see how good you are a spotting the Talivan (Mobile Speed Cameras) http://www.speedcam.co.uk/game.htm[^]
Two heads are better than one.
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So you've never ever gone over the speed limit? I'm not saying that I blat everywhere at 100mph - far from it. I never go above 80mph, and most of the time I stick to 70-75mph. But, sometimes you need to go faster than the limit. Sometimes you need to overtake someone to get out the way of a lorry - or get away from the blind spot. Sometimes you need to make way so that the people coming on to the motorway can get on. And its at those times that you can get caught by these cameras.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
I never go above 80mph, and most of the time I stick to 70-75mph.
Yeah but in a 30 zone it is a little excessive ;P
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Despite what you see in American films, entrapment is allowed in the UK (e.g. to catch shopkeepers selling fireworks to minors). As long as the officer doesn't actually encourage the offence, it is not deemed to be entrapment.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Well, not sure what we (in the US) call entrapment, but I commute 75 miles, one way, to work through some very well known "speed traps". Now, some of the cop cars are plainly marked, though most of the time "hidden" from view until it's to late. But, there are several "plain, unmarked" cars and SUV's that routinely sit in hiding. I actually was sitting next to one at a red light, I glanced over at it, but it was so well hidden, as far as markings go, I had no clue. So, how do I know it was police? Easy. The cross traffic light turned yellow then red, but 1 poor gent decided to run it, and rearended the lady who was stopped. As soon as it happened, that car next to me lit up like a red and blue christmas tree...and so did the same type car that was behind him. Two toally unmarked police cars, who had a front row seat for that accident. Thankfully, I carry a radar detector in my vehicle at all times, and it has saved me numerous times.
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So you've never ever gone over the speed limit? I'm not saying that I blat everywhere at 100mph - far from it. I never go above 80mph, and most of the time I stick to 70-75mph. But, sometimes you need to go faster than the limit. Sometimes you need to overtake someone to get out the way of a lorry - or get away from the blind spot. Sometimes you need to make way so that the people coming on to the motorway can get on. And its at those times that you can get caught by these cameras.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Sometimes you need to overtake someone to get out the way of a lorry
What? As a rule of thumb it's better to avoid getting into trouble in the first place than having to accelerate excessively to get out of it.
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
Sometimes you need to overtake someone to get out the way of a lorry
What? As a rule of thumb it's better to avoid getting into trouble in the first place than having to accelerate excessively to get out of it.
viaducting wrote:
As a rule of thumb it's better to avoid getting into trouble in the first place than having to accelerate excessively to get out of it.
No shit - but sometimes you don't get yourself into dangerous situations, others put you in dangerous situations; their are dicks on the road too, sometimes using speed can help you. I'll give you a classic example, and this actually happened I'm not making this up. My fiancées mother was driving home, she approached a quiet crossroads with a set of traffic lights - doing the speed limit. A lorry came steaming up behind her flashing his lights furiously, she had to speed up to get through the lights as the lorry couldn't stop in time. If she had stayed where she was it could have been game over. It wasn't her fault, she hadn't put herself in any undue danger, yes the lorry driver was a dick, but that doesn't change the fact that if she hadn't have sped then it would have been a big accident. If you feel safe that you will NEVER need to use speed to get out of any situation, then go ahead and get a speed limiter fitted. (Ohh, and BTW, I have never had an accident, never caused an accident and never been caught speeding - before you think that maybe I'm some sort of mad driving nut bag who doesn't care for anyone's safety. I drive nearly 200 miles every day to and from work and see these sorts of things all the time on motorways).
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" ~ Albert Einstein "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair