UK speed cameras adapt to overturned ticket.

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Brent P - 11 Dec 2006 06:55 GMT

Remember the article where someone used mile markers to calculate speed
and show they had not been speeding with the photos? Well no more...

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/14/1488.asp

"Motorcyclist Bryn Carlyon beat an inaccurate ticket by proving
mathematically that the distance he traveled in the pair of speed camera
photographs could only have been done at well under the speed limit. Now
Staffordshire is withholding the second photo and West Midlands is
cropping images to prevent the accused from using pavement markings to
perform speed calculations."

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It's about the revenue.

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Eeyore - 11 Dec 2006 07:01 GMT

> Remember the article where someone used mile markers to calculate speed
> and show they had not been speeding with the photos? Well no more...
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> cropping images to prevent the accused from using pavement markings to
> perform speed calculations."

That sounds illegal to me.

Graham

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Scott en Aztlán - 11 Dec 2006 16:08 GMT

tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in
rec.autos.driving:

>Remember the article where someone used mile markers to calculate speed
>and show they had not been speeding with the photos? Well no more...

After reading your first sentence, my first thought was that they sent
a crew of workers out to remove all the pavement markings. I see my
gut instinct was very nearly correct. :)

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necromancer - 11 Dec 2006 18:57 GMT

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Scott en Aztlán
said in rec.autos.driving:

> tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com (Brent P) said in
> rec.autos.driving:
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> a crew of workers out to remove all the pavement markings. I see my
> gut instinct was very nearly correct. :)

That will probablly be next, when - if I read graham correct - the
current scam is ruled illegal by a judge.

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