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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Jan 25, 2005

• #21

On or around Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:30:47 +0000 (UTC), "Bruce Tanner"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Not so, according to this:
>
>http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm
>


mind, the audio clip sure as hell sounds like master bates. but there y'go.
video clip wouldn;t work here, fecking real media. I refuse to download
their player, as it naffs up the settings for everything else on the
machine, and real alternative seems not to want to play video clips.

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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or
drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear the
flying chariot through the field of air.- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

 

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SimonJ

Guest

• Jan 25, 2005

• #22

> >> Wasn't Siemens Staines a character in Captain Pugwash?
> >>
> >> :-O
> >>
> > Together with his pals...
> >
> > Master Bates, & Roger the cabin boy!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Not so, according to this:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm
>
>
There's always someone has to spoil it isn't there!

 

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hugh

Guest

• Jan 26, 2005

• #23

In message <[email protected]>, Andy.Smalley
<[email protected]> writes
>"Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <[email protected]> wrote
>in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Kieran Turner wrote:
>>> I read some time ago (on the BBC news website, I think) that as of
>>> January last year these systems were also capable of looking up the
>>> Vehicle Inspectorate records and checking MoT status.
>>>
>>> I wonder how practical this is - does anybody know if garages are
>>> supposed to promptly send in details of MoT certs they have issued?
>>>
>>> K (fully MoT'd, not looking for a blag ;-)
>>
>> The MoT database isn't fully functioning yet, you can already renew
>>your tax over the Internet unless your
>> vehicle is over three years old in which case its down the PO as
>>usual. AIUI, there is no need for tetsing
>> stations to submit MoT certificates as they are recorded in
>>electronic form and automatically submitted.
>> --
>
>
>Test stations send in a register of all the certificates issued every month but
>AIUI this is just to check the issue of the certificate not whether the
>vehicles
>been mot'ed
>there is phoneline for checking the validity of certificates but I
>don't think it's
>good enough to be used by the police
>By the middle of this year* this will change as it's all going
>computerised and the
>certificate you get will be more of a receipt as the main information
>will then be
>stored on central computer
>
>* if siemens get their act together
Next year then, or the year after that, or the year after that.....
--
hugh
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Richard Brookman

Guest

• Feb 7, 2005

• #24

Seen today just outside a village on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, a small
grey van (Fiesta?) with a yellow-clad person leaning over into the back
seat. It was parked just outside the end of the village 30 limit, and as I
passed an array of about six yellow lights mounted inside the rear window
flashed at me for about 3 seconds. They were like strobe lights in the way
they flashed, not the ones that whiz round and round, and they seemed to
flash on as I approached and go off as I passed. Is this some new
speed/tax/chipfat detection device, or just a council vehicle with rather
high-tech warning lights? Ring a bell with anyone? Sorry, guys, but I'm
getting a bit paranoid about these things

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Rich

Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous
"Someone" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sounds like road tax nabbing to me!
>
> "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Yesterday whilst driving along the Chertsey Road (40mph) from Staines
> Bridge
>> I came across a white van parked on the pavement with some of those red
> and
>> white poles/boards around it. On closer inspection I could see two
>> cameras
>> on tripods inside the barriers at the back of the van. No sign of any
>> humans. A little further along the road by a parking area (Truss's
>> Island)
>> there was a crowd of ordinary looking chaps in unmarked yellow jackets
> with
>> one policeman also in his jacket. Presumably ready to pull people over.
>> What's that all about?
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Bob
>> In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London
>>
>>
>
>

 

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Mungo

Guest

• Feb 7, 2005

• #25

Richard Brookman wrote:
> Seen today just outside a village on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, a small
> grey van (Fiesta?) with a yellow-clad person leaning over into the back
> seat.

It can't be a speed camera van or ANPR - these have to be
liveried in some way, so as to make it obvious what they are.

If it was just a grey van it could have been DVLA, but then
there should have been a sign telling you as such on the
road side.

Coulod have been a traffic survey - phone the local plod or
council and ask.

> It was parked just outside the end of the village 30 limit, and as I
> passed an array of about six yellow lights mounted inside the rear window
> flashed at me for about 3 seconds.

So were you over or under the speed limit?

Mung.

 

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Hirsty's

Guest

• Feb 7, 2005

• #26

They were like strobe lights in the way
> they flashed, not the ones that whiz round and round, and they seemed to
> flash on as I approached and go off as I passed. Is this some new
> speed/tax/chipfat detection device, or just a council vehicle with rather
> high-tech warning lights? Ring a bell with anyone? Sorry, guys, but I'm
> getting a bit paranoid about these things
>
>


One of them new fangled Stargates ??? Keeps the lock ups empty; just go
to a parralell universe )

 

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Harpic

Guest

• Feb 7, 2005

• #27

Speed camera have to be liveried so it is obvious what they are?????

"South Yorkshire Safety Camera Partnership"

Doesn't read like Speed Camera to me




"Mungo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Richard Brookman wrote:
>> Seen today just outside a village on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, a small
>> grey van (Fiesta?) with a yellow-clad person leaning over into the back
>> seat.
>
> It can't be a speed camera van or ANPR - these have to be liveried in some
> way, so as to make it obvious what they are.
>
> If it was just a grey van it could have been DVLA, but then there should
> have been a sign telling you as such on the road side.
>
> Coulod have been a traffic survey - phone the local plod or council and
> ask.
>
>> It was parked just outside the end of the village 30 limit, and as I
>> passed an array of about six yellow lights mounted inside the rear window
>> flashed at me for about 3 seconds.
>
> So were you over or under the speed limit?
>
> Mung.

 

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Richard Brookman

Guest

• Feb 7, 2005

• #28

So Mungo was, like

>
> So were you over or under the speed limit?
>
> Mung.

Aha, that would be telling...

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Rich

Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous

 

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Richard Brookman

Guest

• Feb 7, 2005

• #29

So Harpic was, like

> Speed camera have to be liveried so it is obvious what they are?????
>
> "South Yorkshire Safety Camera Partnership"
>
> Doesn't read like Speed Camera to me
>

Thanks for the reassurance. I got clocked a couple of weeks ago (see
another thread) and having spent Saturday driving in the
Sheffield/Rotherham/Gainsborough area I am now utterly paranoid. Gatso,
Specs, flashing warnings, red routes, the lot. I was being incredibly
cautious and speed-conscious (understandably, I think), and I still found it
hard to know what the speed limit was at any one time. Since I last did
this route a couple of years ago, the limits seem to have multiplied - 30,
40, 20, 50, National Limit, 30 again, 40 for a yard or two, 30 again... Are
they making it deliberately difficult to comply with the law? Aaaaaaaargh.

--

Rich

Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous

 

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Phil Gardiner

Guest

• Feb 8, 2005

• #30

SteveG <"s.goodfellow"@blueyonder dot> wrote:
> The modern digital cameras in use can read practically anything and are
> almost never fooled by the so-called camera defeating backgrounds and
> coatings you can buy. Gatso is also able to read the older silver on
> black plates.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve G
>
>
>
> Richard Brookman wrote:
>
>> So SimonJ was, like
>>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> BTW, does anyone know if the APNR cameras (and speed cameras etc, see
>> other thread) can read the old black and silver plates?
>>
>>
Yes they definitely can do, in fact according to one traffic officer I
spoke to the black and silver plates are actually better for automatic
recognition. (He didn't have any experience on how they coped with the
white on black ones though)

Phil Gardiner