Speed Defeats Belgian Photo Radar, Fire Defeats Cams In France, Germany

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Richard Diamond/Staff Reports - TheNewspaper.com


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Motorists in Belgium can escape speed cameras by driving over 300km/h (186 MPH). Local media reported the fact in connection with the owner of a car suspected of traveling 306km/h (190 MPH) past a speed camera on the E313 near Bitsingen on October 18, 2020. The driver will not be prosecuted because the Securoad NK7 radar unit only has legal approval for estimating speeds up to 186 MPH, and the device does not bother photographing vehicles exceeding that speed.

In Gluckstadt, Germany, on Friday an elderly motorist grabbed the mobile speed camera being used to issue automated tickets to passing motorists. He took the device apart and carried it home, but the man's own family later turned him in to police. In Ludwigsfelde, vigilantes disabled the speed camera on Potsdamer Strasse on November 1.

In Saint-Thibaud-de-Couz, France, destruction of the speed camera on the RD1006 has become a weekly occurrence. On Thursday, the device was torched for the third time in three weeks. In Crest, the pole-mounted "turret" speed camera on the RD538 was cut down and set on fire over a pile of wood. This is the fifth such attack on this automated ticketing machine since it was installed at the beginning of 2020.

[KevinD]

Good for them. Fuck automated radar.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:lol:

[Godfather]

Good for them. Fuck automated radar.

Agreed. They were banned for years here. A few decades back they installed them or hid them in parked vans, but they got thrown out because you need to be able to face your accuser. At the time, it wasn't even permissible for one cop to stand and radar you from an overpass while another further down the road pulled you over, had to be the same cop who ticketed you which hindered them a bit.

For some shitty reason the cops/government eventually won and now there are speed traps and red light cameras installed in dozens of intersections again. Sucks.

[lost in melb.]

You can't hold back a revenue raiser

[perrhaps]

You can't hold back a revenue raiser

Well, I could take you to a couple of places in Staten Island where you can buy a clear parrafin-based spray that will defeat the cameras on the Verazanno Bridge and the PA and NJ Turnpikes

[lost in melb.]

Well, I could take you to a couple of places in Staten Island where you can buy a clear parrafin-based spray that will defeat the cameras on the Verazanno Bridge and the PA and NJ Turnpikes

Lucky you. Ours are up high :meh:

[Pony]

Lucky you. Ours are up high :meh:

I assume the spray goes on your license plate, not the camera.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Well, I could take you to a couple of places in Staten Island where you can buy a clear parrafin-based spray that will defeat the cameras on the Verazanno Bridge and the PA and NJ Turnpikes


I assume the spray goes on your license plate, not the camera.

That's a HUGE fine here in Colorado if you're busted for trying to obscure your plate in any way.

[Godfather]

That's a HUGE fine here in Colorado if you're busted for trying to obscure your plate in any way.

Totally. I think it might actually be criminal here? I could be wrong.

[perrhaps]

That's a HUGE fine here in Colorado if you're busted for trying to obscure your plate in any way.

Lots of luck to them in trying to prove the car owner applied the spray. Keep your mouth shut, and you'll walk.

[lost in melb.]

Lots of luck to them in trying to prove the car owner applied the spray. Keep your mouth shut, and you'll walk.

You've been around for a while, haven't you?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Lots of luck to them in trying to prove the car owner applied the spray. Keep your mouth shut, and you'll walk.

What are you going to claim? That there are random acts of people spraying random license plates with a spray meant to obscure it from cameras?

[perrhaps]

What are you going to claim? That there are random acts of people spraying random license plates with a spray meant to obscure it from cameras?

Got somebody who didn't reciprocate your romantic gestures? Or a neighbor who plays his "Grease" soundtrack too loud 6 hours a day? Spray their plates and anonymously call the police.

Oh, and by the way, you don't have to claim anything with our Constitutional presumption of innocence; right to remain silent, and the prosecution's burden of proving you guilty.

[perrhaps]

You've been around for a while, haven't you?

Almost 69 years, with 37 of them representing criminal defendants.