Speed camera-mad Britain losing road deaths battle

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Speed camera-mad Britain losing road deaths battle

#1 Post by Gio » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:01 pm

Britain losing road deaths battle

Now why aren't I surprised :smt017

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#2 Post by janitor_1999 » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:50 pm

Not surprised either, but i'm sure someone from the camera safety partnerships and BRAKE will be along in a minute to tell us this is why we need more cameras and more should be hidden ones.

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#3 Post by fastasfcuk » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:31 pm

it's nothing what so ever to do with saving lives as we all know, it's a big earner that the goverment canot do with out now. :smt013

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#4 Post by HowardQ » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:48 pm

Even worse for the poor government now me and Gio have packed up smokin, they have to find somewhere else to get their money.

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#5 Post by Gio » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:07 am

HowardQ wrote:Even worse for the poor government now me and Gio have packed up smokin, they have to find somewhere else to get their money.
Well done :smt003 Its always good to here when we can withhold funds from the government :smt003

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#6 Post by moletrap » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:28 pm

The Government really doesn't earn too much from speeding fines, given their total budgets of many billions a year. Particularly so when you consider how popular they could make themselves if they got rid of them.

It's more relevant that they're a self-funding device for employing thousands of muppets who could never 'get a proper job'. Hearing some of these 'safety partnerships' spokesmen pontificate makes me realise it's creating jobs for the unemployable.

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#7 Post by bigun » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:49 pm

I have mates who work for Durham Constabulary and Northumbria Police. Durham is the only force in the country that has NO cameras, believing that education is the key and as such employ their traffic cops to talk to rather than book people (within reason). Funny that they now have to find over 100 voluntary redundancies as they have no money left this year yet Northumbria in the next force with speed cameras has just gone on a massive recruitment drive (one of whom may be my partner if she gets in!) and have bought a load of new Volvos etc.

Still, is fun to wind my mates up and ask them if they think they could catch me in their volvo's! :smt002
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