Speed Camera Ambush

Heading out to Roma through Gatton.
Stretch of road drops from 100 to 80 on a downhill stretch.
20m after speed camera - goes back to 80.
Booked at 110 - $250 + 4 points - noone was hurt.

Q1. Is it fair game for the coppers to sit at the base of a 300m decline +
set up a speed trap.

I admit I was speeding.
I admit I was lucky to get away with a punishment as light as this and the
situation could have been worse.
I found the cops professional and very fair.


WTF are they doing laying ambushes ?
Isn't it revenue raising / lazy / questionable ?

If the Police are going to use these spots as collection points - why have
them ?

Is it simply a case of - "You fucked up - get over it "?


troy

 

You fucked up - get over it!
(Was this in Gatton or further west? Why didn't you go the bypass?)

 

*** 20m after speed camera - goes back to (100) - not 80.

From 100 to 80 - downhill stretch of 4 - 500m - back to 100.

Speed camera at 80.
Booked doing 110.

Considering nitrous system - any suggestions welcome.

- = [ troy ] = -
www.i-central.com.au

 

don't speed through there again?

Sounds dodgy, having never been there however you have to agree with me that
the white signs with the red circle do stand out. sadly the numbers enclosed
do not correlate to anything but a lowest common denominator (the aged that
no longer need to have their sight tested in QLD).

cop it sweet, make sure everyone knows it's a trap. flash headlights at will
next time you see one on the 'tuther side of the road. hope like hell
someone does the same for you.

CC

 

Next time don't stop.

 

If in NSW I was under the impression that there was an agreement for
them not to do speed traps at the bottom of a hill. Give NRMA a call -
see what they have to say!



Stan

 

yeah fair point,but, if 200 people a day **** up in the same manner on the
same section of road, who is saving who from what ????

mick chester

p.s. when was the last you saw a speed camera setup in a road work zone (
not that bullshit display thing they use on the hume , it just reads back
your speed no camera involved contrary to sign associated)

 

Q1. Is it fair game for the coppers to sit at the base of a 300m decline +

It's fair game to put one anywhere. I speed as much as the next guy, but if
I get caught, I cop it sweet. I know I was doing the wrong thing. You've got
brakes. If you're brakes had failed, you'd have a fair case, but then you
wouldn't have continued all the way home.

2 schools of thought.
1: Revenue
2: Speeding down a hill is dangerous. It takes longer to brake as you
are fighting gravity as well as your momentum.

Depends on the exact situation. I'm not a Queenslander, so I don't know
the road. Maybe, maybe not. Have there been many accidents around there
lately?

them ?
To act as collection points. Money has to come from somewhere.

Yep. That's about it.

 

Speed camera at 80.

So even if it was a 100 zone, you were 10 over the limit. May not have
been wheeled by the cops for only 100.

Don't know about Queensland, but they're illegal for road use in NSW.
(Like BIG TIME illegal.) You can have you bike rigged up for it, but you
can't actually have the bottle connected on the road. (Or something like
that. Someone more knowledgable on all the legal bits and pieces will
correct me and make me look like a goose I'm sure.)
Why do you want nitrous? What bike are you riding? How often do you take
it to the strip? What quater times are you running now?

Suggestion: If you want more power, buy a ZX12, or a Hirebus.
If you still want more power, have a FAT wallet.

 

I don't think that's right actually. I seem to remember my ex (a copper)
telling me something about them only being allowed to operate them in
'approved' spots.

MrBonk
www.mrbonk.com

 

The answer is yes the pigs ambushed you and its not fair. It IS all
about revenue, they dont really care about saving lives etc. they have
their quota's to meet.

The courts support them, the government gets your money to waste.

what can you do? not much it seems but youre not alone in believing
its a load of sh1t

 

And then we all stop speeding for a week and the Victorian gov. shits
themselves, going broke etc. etc.

QLD revenue from cameras and speeding tickets ALL go to the CTP insurers.
not a cent goes to the Government or coppers.

Sadly not the case in some of the other states.

CC

 

Yes do the same as this time, wait for the fine in the mail.

 

telling me something about them only being allowed to operate them in 'approved' spots.
Yes anywhere outside of the car.

 

Eh?!!?
I haven't heard this before. CTP is all privatised up here so I can't
imagine this working nor believe that the Govt would be so generous.....
Clem
(but I've been wrong on Usenet before)

 

No, I think you're wrong about that.


David

 

I don't think that's right actually. I seem to remember my ex (a copper)

i believe this to be the case...who 'approves' what is unknown
there were supposed to be guidelines negotiated by 'motoring
organisations' when the camera's were first introduced...who thinks they
are actually upheld?
we had one spot on a hill locally, with bushes to hide the sign in
too!!, every few weeks they'd park there...then i got the shits with it
and took photo's of the setup intending to find regs and complain if
there was a breach.
never got aroundtuit
havent seen it there for months now

 

Sounds like crap to me too.

Boxer

 

Knobdoodle said....

What a licence to print money, then, if speeding fine revenue goes
directly to private enterprise.

 

Does in Victoria I believe. Speeding cameras operated by private company
who get a cut from the fines. Wonder why the tolerances are so low in
Vic........

Stan