I hope it’s true!

Four youths from Canberra, Australia, pulled off a trick of breathtaking bravado in order to gain revenge on a mobile speed camera van operating in the area. Three of the group approached the van and distracted the operator’s attention by asking a series of questions about how the equipment worked and how many cars the operator could catch in a day. Meanwhile, the fourth musketeer sneaked to the front of the van and unscrewed its numberplate. After bidding the van operator good-bye, the friends returned home, fixed the number plate to their car and drove through the camera’s radar at high speed – 17 times. As a result, the automated billing system issued 17 speeding tickets to itself. Go Aussies!! Now that’s a ‘feel good’ story courtesy of a SASR forum.

4 comments

  • I am sure they will see the joke when they view a friend or loved one in a mortuary or find themselves crippled or brain damaged for life, but then they are already partially brain dead.
    Speed kills and I too often have had to comfort parents in the middle of the life for the loss of such imbeciles or some innocent under the wheels of such jokers.
    Wake up boys, the police need support they and the Ambos have a tough enough and stressful enough job job already.
    Rose

  • Tristan Phillips

    Roaemary:

    If you think that these speed cameras have anything about slowing down traffic I have a very rude surprise for you: making money is the #1 goal of the cameras. Speed enforcement is one of the last things on the list.

    Like red light cameras, where they REDUCE the time of the yellow light to make more violations, these cameras are put where the speed limit is the most out of whack with the driving public. Go and get the numbers on how much revenue the cameras make. And then see how much the private sub-contractor gets for running the cameras (A %age of the fine revenue). It’s sickening what the cameras are being used for and the priorities our law enforcement personnel and politicians have.

    Time to wake up Roaemary. There are better ways to get people to slow down if you’d just read the reports made by your own government (Google is your friend). Cameras are not one of them.

  • Hate to put a bug int your bonnet Rose, but speed is actually a vital factor in remaining alive for at least one class of motorist. Namely my group: the motorcyclist. I literally cannot count the number of times a quick twist of my right hand got me out of a jam. Whether it’s a truck blindly shifting lanes, or a car not seeing me at night and almost plowing me from behind.
    Like everything too much speed can become a bad thing very quickly (pun kind of intended). But in the instance of speed limits, and in this occasion, I applaud these kids. Good for them

    Tristan, you forgot another reason for speed limits, and the reason they’ve been so low here in the US. Fuel. Lower speed burns less gas. The speed limit was dropped by like 15 miles here during the gas shortage. States just realized they could also make money off of the lowered speeds.

  • Speed has never killed anything or anybody, but the rapid stop certainly will. Speed cameras and the like are as previously said are for one purpose only and that is to generate revenue for a government, just like the older radar traps involving a real live cop.

    When learning drivers are only told that speed kills and given the usual lame brained driver’s training most seem to have received they never learn that sometimes speeding up is the thing to do, not slowing down.

    As the man said, “When in doubt gassit!”