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Title: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: dTEA on 23 August 2011, 22:16
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2011/August/aug2211-bird-box-disguised-as-speed-camera/_/R-EPI-132327 (http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2011/August/aug2211-bird-box-disguised-as-speed-camera/_/R-EPI-132327)

Good on the guy for controlling weekend warriors :cool:

Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Toby on 23 August 2011, 22:19
thats good!  :cool:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Jay on 23 August 2011, 22:22
 :grin:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Gavv8 on 23 August 2011, 22:22
I drive past this about 3 times a week and it looks very convincing, the problem is that it's not much of a hot spot for speeding and you have to slow down anyway due to the parking at the bottom of the hill, and it's Williton not Willerton sorry to nitpick.
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: RTechUK on 23 August 2011, 22:31
Watch the birdie!!!
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Golf_GT_TDI on 23 August 2011, 22:40
Haha nice one, it looks a spot on replica
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Fabla on 23 August 2011, 22:45
So the bird s h I t over the road would represent the white road markings.   :cool:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: dTEA on 23 August 2011, 22:49
 :huh:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Mitching on 23 August 2011, 23:52
Bloody planning permission  :rolleyes:
Fair play to the fella!
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Mew on 24 August 2011, 00:08
This one almost fooled me the first time I drove past:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=heyford&hl=en&ll=51.918137,-1.293431&spn=0.000943,0.001725&sll=51.918036,-1.293876&sspn=0.000943,0.001725&vpsrc=6&t=h&radius=0.04&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.918136,-1.293586&panoid=ezY6U2W9b-9YR-JKJpmWyA&cbp=12,163.44,,0,16.47
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: 1stevester1 on 24 August 2011, 00:19
Quote from: Mew on 24 August 2011, 00:08
This one almost fooled me the first time I drove past:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=heyford&hl=en&ll=51.918137,-1.293431&spn=0.000943,0.001725&sll=51.918036,-1.293876&sspn=0.000943,0.001725&vpsrc=6&t=h&radius=0.04&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.918136,-1.293586&panoid=ezY6U2W9b-9YR-JKJpmWyA&cbp=12,163.44,,0,16.47

i used drive past the camera most days and was so convinced it was real even though the old man told me it was fake i wasnt till i stopped and got out i saw pretty good tbf
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: JDM82 on 24 August 2011, 09:58
Not a speed camera but still a fake.......

Me and my mates when we were younger "found" a bus shelter that the council had took down and was laid waiting to be collect. Six of us carried it home and "put it up" outside my mates house. Then we proceeded to watch people stand and wait for a bus. The buses wouldn't pull over and people were kicking off  :grin:

We must have sat there for hours laughing at our great acheivement til a council van pulled up and removed our shelter.....

The best thing was, 4 people were at the shelter at the time waiting for a bus  :grin:  :grin:  :grin:  :grin:  :grin:  :grin:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: JulesS3 on 24 August 2011, 10:35
Ties in nicely

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8719263/Speed-cameras-fail-to-cut-accidents.html
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: scarr89 on 24 August 2011, 10:52
I think that is fair play...let em do it. Surely they are helping out the Gvt and local services in possibly reducing accidents...
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: JulesS3 on 24 August 2011, 11:06
Quote from: scarr89 on 24 August 2011, 10:52
I think that is fair play...let em do it. Surely they are helping out the Gvt and local services in possibly reducing accidents...
See my post above  :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Golf_GT_TDI on 24 August 2011, 14:23
(http://d2ql42y3jnc6yy.cloudfront.net/storage/2009/08/greed-cameras.jpg)
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: scarr89 on 24 August 2011, 14:57
Quote from: JulesS3 on 24 August 2011, 11:06
Quote from: scarr89 on 24 August 2011, 10:52
I think that is fair play...let em do it. Surely they are helping out the Gvt and local services in possibly reducing accidents...
See my post above  :lipsrsealed:

I said Possibly...I imagine they do help, even if it is a real tiny bit. The cons seem to out weigh the pros in that article.
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Gavv8 on 24 August 2011, 18:08
The ironic thing is that Avon and Somerset safety camera partnership has been disbanded so in theory none of the camera's should be working.
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: bobotheclown on 24 August 2011, 19:58
I think that awesome. Why would a bird box need planning permission?
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Tazzy on 24 August 2011, 21:20
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Avon and Somerset police spokesman told the Daily Mail: “We have checked it out however it is on private land and as far as we are concerned it is not breaking any rules.”

ye funny that considering A&S police hate all motorists anyway, and their eyes, all motorists are criminals  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: Gavv8 on 24 August 2011, 21:51
Quote from: Tazzy on 24 August 2011, 21:20
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Avon and Somerset police spokesman told the Daily Mail: “We have checked it out however it is on private land and as far as we are concerned it is not breaking any rules.”

ye funny that considering A&S police hate all motorists anyway, and their eyes, all motorists are criminals  :rolleyes:
In my experience Devon&cornwall are worse and Wiltshire are pure evil.
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: dTEA on 24 August 2011, 23:05
nah everyone knows the midlands police are the most evil...and so bloody many of them as well! :grin:
Title: Re: Speed cameras and Birds
Post by: mwep201081 on 25 August 2011, 00:16
hehehe  bird box.......