Fake speed camera, they claim it works

[adrianw]

Surely a much more cost effective method, cheaper for the enforcers and the motorist, possibly a genuine road safety contribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...-speeding-cars

[200mwaterresistant]

A farmer put one up 15 years ago near where I used to live. It worked really well for innocent traffic (chronic rule followers), but once the boy racers worked it out, including me at the time as I was a dangerous idiot (though there was much less traffic back then), we used to intentionally go as fast as possible past it.... So in reality it's ultimately counterproductive.

[Enoch]

There’s a little village on the A5 called Pentrefoelas, where there is often a mannequin dressed in hi vis placed on the pavement...
Whoever dressed it has gone to considerable effort to make it look like a copper with a radar gun....

On many occasions there is also a real copper with radar gun....😎

[Brian]

There’s a little village on the A5 called Pentrefoelas, where there is often a mannequin dressed in hi vis placed on the pavement...
Whoever dressed it has gone to considerable effort to make it look like a copper with a radar gun....

On many occasions there is also a real copper with radar gun....

Seen that one - it's quite good and I have to say that it is needed there - before the limits were introduced some years back the traffic used to reall belt it through.


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[blackal]

Boots Chemists used to (might still do) place a cardboard cutout of a smiling shop assistant (white pharmacist-type coat) at the ends of aisles - it cut down on shoplifting as people had the 'feeling' they were being watched.

[sish101]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/4394...vers-speeding/

[sish101]

Anyone old enough to remember Village of the Damned?

[catch21]

We have "Village of the Jammed" here in Dorset, Melbury Abbas on the high road to Shaftesbury (from Blandford) past Compton Abbas International Airport (Asil Nadir)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asil_Nadir

[David_D]

I read about a similar case a few years ago and the person concerned was told to take it down (on what authority, I'm not sure). I think it was thought it could be dangerous - which seems entirely counterintuitive given the stated purpose of real ones.

[jammie*dodger]

If it works then Fair play. I suspect like others have said it will only work for a short while if at all.

[sish101]

Wasn't there a woman who was using a hair dryer as a fake speed gun?

[adrianw]

If it works then Fair play. I suspect like others have said it will only work for a short while if at all.

Why a short while? Locals will always know where speed traps are

[Optimum]

Anyone remember the cardboard cut out police Range Rover they used to put at the side of the M6?

[jamesianbriggs]

Given that the real ones generate a load of cash, I’m not sure that ‘cheaper’ is a valid argument.


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[Redwolf]

Soon enough all the roads will have “timed” cameras I’m sure. No getting around them except driving like lemmings at the same pace.


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