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    Swindon to shame speeders

    Motorists will be 'shamed' into slowing down by a new safety system which turns traffic lights red whenever a car breaks the limit - holding everyone else up.
    Speeding drivers to be shamed by system that turns traffic lights red if they go too fast... upsetting ALL motorists | Mail Online

    Unless a car or ambulance coming along the intersecting road is going faster.

    #2
    A few years ago, in a village just outside Doncaster, the police put up a sign saying "695 Speeding Motorists caught in the last twelve months". The locals put up their own sign just below it saying "Zero burglars caught in the last twelve months" and were made to take it down by the police.

    The moral of this kind of initiative is clear. Don't speed. Commit proper crimes to avoid detection.
    When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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      #3
      Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
      A few years ago, in a village just outside Doncaster, the police put up a sign saying "695 Speeding Motorists caught in the last twelve months". The locals put up their own sign just below it saying "Zero burglars caught in the last twelve months" and were made to take it down by the police.

      The moral of this kind of initiative is clear. Don't speed. Commit proper crimes to avoid detection.
      Another prank in the news today:

      Hundreds of motorists fined after pranksters put up 40mph sign in 30mph zone | Mail Online

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        #4
        Speeding kills it should be as socially unacceptable as drink diving.

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          #5
          Originally posted by russell View Post
          Speeding kills it should be as socially unacceptable as drink diving.
          Cars don't kill people rappers do
          Doing the needful since 1827

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            #6
            Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
            Maybe they're just try to get out of Swindon real quick.

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              #7
              Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
              The locals put up their own sign just below it saying "Zero burglars caught in the last twelve months" and were made to take it down by the police.
              On what legal grounds, perhaps that it wasn't true (ie some were caught)?

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                #8
                Originally posted by AtW View Post
                On what legal grounds, perhaps that it wasn't true (ie some were caught)?
                How the **** would I know ?

                It was in some Yorkshire paper when I was working there.

                Possibly some law connected to members of the public putting up their own road signs ?
                When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
                  How the **** would I know ?

                  It was in some Yorkshire paper when I was working there.

                  Possibly some law connected to members of the public putting up their own road signs ?
                  You've made that up to try and prove a point. Show us the article or apologise for attempting to mislead the good posters of General.
                  What happens in General, stays in General.
                  You know what they say about assumptions!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
                    A few years ago, in a village just outside Doncaster, the police put up a sign saying "695 Speeding Motorists caught in the last twelve months". The locals put up their own sign just below it saying "Zero burglars caught in the last twelve months" and were made to take it down by the police.

                    The moral of this kind of initiative is clear. Don't speed. Commit proper crimes to avoid detection.
                    That rings a bell. I remember that


                    villagers put up sign


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