Oxfordshire locals set to 'adopt' defunct speed camera

how do they know he is 35? you cant see his number plate so it could be anyone...

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 11:14

Probably cos the twat was bragging about it to someone.

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 11:25

Why dont they adopt and endangered animal for as little as £3 a month or 1666 animals with their £5000.

Just a thought

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 12:15

watch out for this one guys - if they're allowed to do it & collect fines we'll start to see a whole host of communities trying to raise funds in this way......

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 13:25

These people really need to get a life don't they....

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 13:42

Having lived in a village for a short while where people used to race through still at NSL ignoring the 30 limit, I've got some sympathy with them.  I think you can distinguish a token camera designed to make people entering your village drive at a more considerate speed and the lines of gatsos on some urban roads.

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 14:04

They need something to do with their time, antiques road show isn't on all day you know...

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 16:11

Perhaps if some of us didn't give them a reason (not only on bikes by the way) then perhaps they wouldn't need an excuse to keep it working.

More than the camera's, I hate speed bumps which are actually dangerous to us.  However, I hate even more than the speed bumps the inconsiderate idiots who give the authorities the excuse and the reason to put them there in the first place.

If you have no respect for any of the speed limits, particularly in 30's and 40's, then you only have yourselves to blame for the attitudes that some people hold towards bikers as a group.

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 16:26

i just think it would be an aboslute tragedy if something were to happen to that camera now .......

like a burning tyre!

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 20:44

Someone told me that if you saw through a car tyre or two, filled with diesel soaked rags, hooked onto a pole then lit, the burning is so confined there is no risk to adjacent property or anyone. Responsible tyre disposal is every citizens aim these days, thankfully. The steel remains can be usefully recycled too.

Posted: 29/07/2010 at 21:47

"Perhaps if some of us didn't give them a reason (not only on bikes by the way) then perhaps they wouldn't need an excuse to keep it working.

More than the camera's, I hate speed bumps which are actually dangerous to us.  However, I hate even more than the speed bumps the inconsiderate idiots who give the authorities the excuse and the reason to put them there in the first place.

If you have no respect for any of the speed limits, particularly in 30's and 40's, then you only have yourselves to blame for the attitudes that some people hold towards bikers as a group."

+1

Although around where I live the council seems to add speed bumps regardless of whether or not anyone could (let alone does) speed down there.

What I have more of an issue with are the average speed cameras that are appearing everywhere on our motorways at the slightest hint of roadworks (regardless of whether any carriageways or the hard shoulder are closed and regardless of whether anyone is actually working on there at the time) and those ridiculous average speed cameras policing the variable speed limits on the M42.  It's almost like a stealth 50mph motorway speed limit is being introduced behind the scenes. 

In comparison, an isolated Gatso is pretty easy to spot and of minimal inconvenience.

Posted: 30/07/2010 at 15:18

Well i can smell some tyres burning

Posted: 30/07/2010 at 17:08

Every village has its idiot and pulling that wheelie through the camera is probably dumb, but telling everyone it was you is even dumber.

Posted: 01/08/2010 at 07:13

Come on guys, the UK has enough roads outside of restricted 30's and 40's for us to have fun on, if we didn't dick around like this then there would not be any camera's, we (and other motorists) are the cause, respect the restricted zones and have fun elsewhere.

Posted: 03/08/2010 at 13:50

theyll be campaigning for their own little republic next......................

Posted: 03/08/2010 at 14:27

Fuck me if they actually successful I might invest in one myself!.imagine that,It will knock spots off those bank boys paying each other big bucks?

Posted: 03/08/2010 at 16:19

30's and 40's are there for a good reason - if you can't be arsed sticking to the speed limits where there is a chance you'll hit a kid, or a granny, or, even worse, a dog - then you deserve every fine & point you have on your license...

Posted: 03/08/2010 at 17:14

I have no objection to cameras in villages catching dumb squids and chav-scum driving and riding like pricks. I'd support one on my road (long thin densely packed urban 30mph road with a couple of schools on it) if it got the shitheads that go up and down it at 40, 50 and occasionally even 60 banned.

I'll have to go and find this village and have a look, it's probably not far from me, see what the road's actually like. Looks like a 30 limit is perfectly justifiable from the picture though.

I hope the residents are also going to be sticking to this limit, there's a village near me with an A-road through it which has been lowered from a 40 limit to a 30 at the request of the locals, but every single local car I see driving along it is doing 40! Can't have it both ways!

Posted: 03/08/2010 at 19:10

I for one would welcome a speed camera on the road where I live. Its pretty narrow to begin with and with cars parked both sides it's even narrower and to add to this there are side roads as well yet arseholes in cars and on bikes regularly belt up and down it at way over the 30 limit. One biker I see quite often who rides a gixer 1000 must hit 60-70 at times [I hear him change gear at least 3 times] if he don't hit something like a car pulling out of one of those side roads or worse, some kid or old lady I swear one of these days I'll wait for him one night as he comes home from work and drive my car out in front of him........... oops sorry 'mate'.......... didn't see you.

Posted: 04/08/2010 at 09:50