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Re: Cambs Safety Camera Bloke on Radio this morning..

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From: Robert Campbell
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:55
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Colin Davidson wrote:

> <chris.shore@arm.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:4135C52F.A1019542@arm.nospam.com...
> > > No, but a camera is about the most stupid way of doing it.
> >
> > Seems like a perfectly reasonable way to go about it to me.
>
> Seconded. If the camera isn't so very good at catching people who are
> avoiding tax, insurance, registration and the like then I'd love to see them
> used to produce a database of such vehicles, which could then be used to
> track the movements of such law-breakers. What a great tool that would be
> for the police to catch them.
>
> I wonder why this hasn't been done...

Because there's more money in catching a licensed driver in a modern, insured,
MOT'd and taxed vehicle slightly exceeding the often unreasonable speed limit on
a safe road, maybe? Just a thought.
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From: Robert Campbell <robertdotcom@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: uk.rec.driving,cam.transport
Subject: Re: Cambs Safety Camera Bloke on Radio this morning..
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:55:35 +0100
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