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[Spen]

It's GOT to be a wind up...........



In Britain, making a defiant gesture toward an inanimate object is now a crime: Annoyed by defiant gesture, speed camera issues ticket to non-speeding driver.
A UK court this week severely penalized a motorist for the crime of showing disrespect to a mobile speed camera van. The device had photographed Sean Toehill, 21, driving 22 MPH in a 40 MPH zone but police became enraged when they noticed he had given the camera a "V-sign." Officers were dispatched to his home two days later to present charges which the Cupar Sheriff Court in Fife, Scotland upheld on Monday. The court suspended Toehill's right to drive for a year and imposed a £90 fine.

[Ains.]

It was in the Daily Telegraph last Nov', and they did him for taking both hands of the steering wheel of his silver VW Polo; dangerous driving.

Ains.

[Spen]

So there was more to it than the initial story suggests??

Still seems a bit harsh...........

[rcgbob44]

So sad that this country has stooped to such pathetic levels of revenge.

Still its another way to screw road users to get more money !

:mad

Just don`t get me started on rapists & kidy fidlers!

[Ains.]

Sorry 11th Jan this year. Too much Yank dates out here.
See link below:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...11/ixhome.html

Ains.

[guest1]

Originally posted by Ains.
Sorry 11th Jan this year. Too much Yank dates out here.
See link below:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...11/ixhome.html

Ains.

I've got a smiley spider if that'll cheer you up.
Or is it just that my smiley's showing a few spiders legs?
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[MJS]

Nothing to stop someone in the passenger seat giving them the gesture then??

[guest1]

Strangely, in the case of the convicted motorist - no one seems to have picked up on the fact that he had his picture taken even though he wasn't speeding.
Are all cameras like that - i.e. every time I pass a camera I have my picture taken irrespective of my speed?

Ooohh-errrr, big brothers in town

[dave996]

It said it was a camera van, I guess they record everything anyway

[Spen]

Originally posted by guest1
Strangely, in the case of the convicted motorist - no one seems to have picked up on the fact that he had his picture taken even though he wasn't speeding.
Are all cameras like that - i.e. every time I pass a camera I have my picture taken irrespective of my speed?

Ooohh-errrr, big brothers in town

VERY interesting point.........