<insert sweary Nige words here>

How long does one have to wait for a NIP?

 

Needs to be posted within 14 days IIRC.

 

What happened ?

 

Single lane carriageway, overtook a line of trucks, scamera van in the
layby. Not sure which way they were checking, or do they check both ways?

 

Do you mean both ways as in directions? They only look out of the
back, unless you are in Essex where I have seen a stand alone gatso
type thing in front of the van. I thought they could aim the camera
any where, but it is on a mount thing so I guess they would set it up
pointing to a given spot and wait to see what came in range, I assume
you were overtaking at the time you passed it.

 

Orly? So they may not have got my number then? (I was on the bike)

I'd completed the overtake, and adjusted my speed accordingly before I
went past them.

 

You ride a bike & you didnt know they dont have a front numberplate?

Most folk loft it past em or flick a V, i dont, as i am already a
naughty enough boy with my S59 to contend with.

 

istr someone on here saying they had cameras looking both ways. I'll
find out soon enough I guess.

I don't really consider myself a particularly quick rider, but I
overtook plenty of bikes today (240 mile round trip). Quite a few just
sitting in traffic. Not one came past me.

 

I thought they were bringing in cameras in the front of those vans
specifically to catch those naughty bikers?

I remember overtaking a string of lorries in Norfolk once, using the
hatching/hashing? of a right turn to gain some extra space and then noticing
that there was a scammera in the layby (and I was in the cage). I presume I
wasn't going fast enough to trigger then camera, although what I did would
probably have attracted the attention of a plod in a patrol car, because I
heard nothing.

--
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

Me too, there's an obvious gatso near where I work, that points up an
incline, to catch drivers unaware of the effects of gravity.

I popped up there on the other side of the road the other day in the
car, and there was a camera van just over the brow of the rise

Paul.

 

I have an amazing attachment to the front of my car at the minute, it is
a nice black bin liner, covers a bit of the numberplate & the bumper &
it just wont come off....looks like it just blew there..

 

That depends

They have to post it with 14 days, I believe.

 

So it was on the other side of the road, eg on your right, pointing in
the same direction as you were travelling?
FWIWI recon you have nothing to worry about.
You will know in 14 days.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Kevin Stone

Ah, but the lynch mob was waiting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8697816.stm

 

I'd be a little careful nowadays as all the scamvans around this way now
have a camera bolted to the side that looks forward. I'm told, although it's
unverified, that if they get you speeding and can't read the lack of front
numberplate, this side/forward facing camera can overlay the image of
bike/vehicle passing as a continuous stream to the laser image.
How true this is I'm not sure, but a mate that got back from his "education"
session yesterday, after being nabbed in car and given the opportunity to
mind-wiped rather than the points, did confirm that this is now possible.

I really don't think the lack of front number plate is going to deter these
thieving bastards much longer. They _are_ without doubt going to try and
find a way around it. (IMHO only of course!)

 

There's always a miserable bastard out there that wants to spoil the party!

I hate grasses!

 

The rise of the Gestapo.

 

I wouldn't recommend that round here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7543420.stm

A speed camera van to target bikes (as discussed on here a while back).
Fit WPC though...

 

talking of swearing.

I had a mildly hilarious and unexpected ride[1] with a couple of rich
Nigerian gentleman this afternoon (Maxwell and Nixon, if you can
believe that) in their nice 10-reg tan-hide interiored Merc S320D[0] -
their swearing level was way way way above anything Nigel could aspire
too: at one point when I mentioned the whole 419 thing, I think - not
completely sure - but I think Maxwell called me something along the
lines of bloodclot-sucking/ cheese-eatin/
french-music-listening-to/ex-small-island-dewelling-part-nigger-girl-fuckerl/
(this last in my mentioned my ex had hailed sort of from Antigua)

I couldn't retort with anthing more cogent than "scamming cunts", but
it all ended in a laugh, back slapping and that stupid upside-down
handshake thing. Which they couldn't even get right. They had the
cheek to ask me "where you come from", and they seemed satisfied with
the answer "Belfast". I asked them back, where were they from, and
they responded "Nigerian Catford" which made me laugh like a drain.

Black people - doncha love them?

[0] it was full of pro-quality looking video gear (Sony, Panasonic,
Konig: you'd have to ask V.Dave), which went along with their cover
story {3} which of course might have been real that they were involved
with a video-production company.
[1] never met the twats before in my life, but they gave me a lift[2]
to Sainos in exchange for directions to, well, Sainos.
[2] A. said: what the **** where you doing getting into a car with 2
black men you didn't know? My answer: they offered me a lift - if you
can't trust an unknown Nigerian or two, who can you trust?[3]
[3] paging Champ: people are generally OK, right?