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| 1632.1 | | JGODCL::SHERLOCK | The Yorkshire Republican | Wed Dec 18 1991 10:49 | 12 |
| They had a similar experiment over here in Holland not so long back
where they parked a police car at the side of the road, in it they
placed two tailors' dummies, usually one "male" and one "female"
dressed in police uniform.
Someone (a passer-by) thought he/or she'd have a laugh and broke
into the police car, took out the two dummies and place them in
a "compromising position" on the bonnet !! much to the hilarity
of the passers-by.
That really did slow the traffic down ! :-)
Tim
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| 1632.2 | Watch out, there's a cut-out about! | KERNEL::LOAT | Bored...bored........BORED!!!! | Thu Dec 19 1991 15:54 | 11 |
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Saw news of this on the TV.
One other thing they'll do is put policeman behind the fake cars with
detectors, so even though people may get to know where the fake cars
are, they'll never be able to be sure that there won't be a policeman
hiding behind it, waiting to report them to a policecar lurking
somewhere!
Steve.
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| 1632.3 | | PLAYER::BROWNL | Wot's a rathole? | Thu Dec 19 1991 16:19 | 10 |
| Makes you wonder what it's all coming to really. I mean, only this week
they announced a huge rise in reported crime, a massive increase in car
thefts, all sorts of expensive "cures" for joy-riding, and then this
shit to catch speeding motorists.
Britain is getting more of a bloody Police state by the day, as I
cannot fail to notice when I go back there. God help you all, it's
getting out of hand.
Laurie
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| 1632.4 | | NEWOA::ALFORD_J | The intermission fish... | Thu Dec 19 1991 18:17 | 17 |
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> Makes you wonder what it's all coming to really. I mean, only this week
> they announced a huge rise in reported crime, a massive increase in car
> thefts, all sorts of expensive "cures" for joy-riding, and then this
> shit to catch speeding motorists.
Ah, but you see with all other types of crime, the police have to go out and
catch the offender, and then prove that the one they have caught actually
committed the crime, *lots* of hard work !
With a speeding motorist the police just have to sit there and wait, the
"criminals" come to them, the police don't have to do much to get a
conviction!
Keeps their conviction rates up without too much effort required on their part.
:-)
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| 1632.5 | | MARVIN::RUSLING | Hastings Upper Layers Project Leader | Fri Dec 20 1991 13:26 | 10 |
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Dangerous driving, which often involves speeding, kills and maims more
people than muggers or house burglers do. Do we object to the police
catching speeders because we think that that might be us? If we are
doing criminal things, then we deserve the police's attention.
The police booking speeding motorists, particularly in built up areas;
and booking drunk drivers is fine by me.
Dave
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| 1632.6 | | PLAYER::BROWNL | Wot's a rathole? | Fri Dec 20 1991 14:35 | 15 |
| 1632.7 | | CURRNT::PACE::RUTTER | Rut The Nut | Fri Dec 20 1991 15:15 | 5 |
| >> <<< Note 1632.6 by PLAYER::BROWNL "Wot's a rathole?" >>>
Ask a randy rat !
J.R.
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| 1632.8 | A warning, not a trap | SUBURB::LAINSBURYA | I couldn't believe it ! | Fri Dec 20 1991 15:24 | 8 |
| The use of a cardboard is not there specifically to help catch and prosecute
any budding Nigel Mansell's or Terry Fenwick's , but primarily just to
slow traffic down.
No figures to back this up, but I expect a great majority of motorway
accidents are caused by excessive speeds. The cut-out is just to make
motorists take their foot off and hopefully reduce the number of speed
related accidents. IMO of course.
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| 1632.9 | | SBPEXE::PREECE | Just gimme the VAX, ma'am... | Fri Dec 20 1991 17:45 | 20 |
| >>> Britain is getting more of a bloody Police state by the day, as I
>>> cannot fail to notice when I go back there. God help you all, it's
>>> getting out of hand.
Surrendered your passport, then have you Laurie?
The idea of the imtiation cars is not new, they've been doing it in the
US and even some of the more enlightened European countries for years.
They used to use cardboard cut-out coppers stood at road junctions, to deter
people from jumping the lights.....and it *worked*.
Anything that worries the nutters into slowing down and being a little
teeny bit careful, even for a mile or so, is fine by me. Especially if it
frees up the real coppers to do something a little more constructive.
Ian
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| 1632.10 | | NEWOA::ALFORD_J | The intermission fish... | Fri Dec 20 1991 17:56 | 11 |
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> No figures to back this up, but I expect a great majority of motorway
> accidents are caused by excessive speeds.
This I doubt. The great majority (IMO) are caused by stupidity,
thoughtlessness and impatience.
The cause of accidents on motorways is very rarely to do with just the speed,
it may be a contributory factor in the severity of the end result, but not
the cause.
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| 1632.11 | | PLAYER::BROWNL | Wot's a rathole? | Fri Dec 20 1991 18:09 | 18 |
| 1632.12 | There are no accidents, only mistakes! | DOOZER::JENKINS | You want 'ken cabbage | Fri Dec 20 1991 20:26 | 6 |
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Re .3
Agreed.
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| 1632.14 | So far I've written off 12 cars but none was a GTI ;[) | UFHIS::GVIPOND | | Tue Jan 07 1992 12:19 | 11 |
| 1632.15 | Not all bad... | SHAWB1::WHITTLEI | | Tue Jan 07 1992 15:06 | 9 |
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They're not all bad these motorway police, the other day I was flagged
down by a cardboard policeman in a cardboard patrol car. He asked me
what speed I thought I had been doing & then let me off. He claimed he
didn't really think he was *cut out* for the job!!!
(Sorry, couldn't help it, the note seemed to need a bit of humour.)
Ian...
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| 1632.16 | From the west Atlantic... | WMOIS::BOUDREAU_C | | Fri Apr 17 1992 06:47 | 10 |
| In the US we call them donut munchers. I think if they tried the
cardboard thing over here, It wouldn't last very long. They would be
gone in less than 30 min.
In the PRM (people's republic of Massachusetts), the donut munchers
are here strictly for revenue enhancement. They don't want to slow
traffic down, they want to profit from the speed. You've got to watch
those end of the month quotas :*)
Cary
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