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[Jay w]

yes it was a head on one.....

but it was mounted on the right handside of the road, not in the central reservation

[Markjay]

yes it was a head on one.....


but it was mounted on the right handside of the road, not in the central reservation

Not familiar with this type of gatso then, but I would think it is b****y unsafe to flash drivers in the eye...

[Jay w]

yes it was a head on one.....


but it was mounted on the right handside of the road, not in the central reservation

Not familiar with this type of gatso then, but I would think it is b****y unsafe to flash drivers in the eye...

Especially when you are going at 80+mph

scared the hell out of me

[Danny]

going that fast, and a camera in front flashing at you suggests to me it might not have been a speed camera, could have just been some complete idiot leaving a camera on a tripod taking photos of cars... via remote?

[hotel21]

No such luck.  Its a French speed camera.......


Not quite as sneaky as some of the Swiss ones though......



 

[Varche]

 Spain used to be relatively free of fixed speed cameras but I understand now has about 100 with a half of those in Andalucia. They are listed on a website. Locations are all where there are often terrible fatalities.

Worth bearing in mind if you come here on holiday and have a hire car.

olive

[Crazydad]

The Europeans tend to generally flash you from the front,

Now down to the License the eu law has not come into power as of yet so the only thing the french can do is to :
first of all get your personal info from dvlc  

then send you the fine to your home adress  

then wait to see if you are silly enough to pay  

the bad news is if they ever catch you in france then they will (believe me ) make you pay dearly  

but only Euros, they have no other power than to take your money  

they also put you on the so called black list for the next 5 years, so be carefull if you ever go through

 the country again  

This has happened to me a while back, i thought break you not paying that after i got caught on the Paris ring

2 years later the checked me at the border and voialla Please come with us Monsieur and give us your money

all in all with admonition payed about 185 smackeroonies  

my own fault for forgetting

[Baron Von Spongebob]

The Europeans tend to generally flash you from the front,

Now down to the License the eu law has not come into power as of yet so the only thing the french can do is to :
first of all get your personal info from dvlc  

then send you the fine to your home adress  

then wait to see if you are silly enough to pay  

the bad news is if they ever catch you in france then they will (believe me ) make you pay dearly  

but only Euros, they have no other power than to take your money  

they also put you on the so called black list for the next 5 years, so be carefull if you ever go through

 the country again  

This has happened to me a while back, i thought break you not paying that after i got caught on the Paris ring

2 years later the checked me at the border and voialla Please come with us Monsieur and give us your money

all in all with admonition payed about 185 smackeroonies  

my own fault for forgetting

Are they as bad in Germany crazydad ?

A few years ago i had just delivered in Kassel and was ambling along sort of down so country lanes when this German police office jumped out and flagged me to stop..Oh dear i thought hiding my currency down my socks the notes that is,,I had just passed some speed thing that looked more like a 3 legged bollard.. :-/ They were very polite as i have allways found them to be but they wanted money.. :-/

This was before Euro"s so when they said £30 equivelent i showed them what i had..Francs, Gilders etc which came to approx £7.. They radioed back to whoever and accepted, smilling all the time.. I had the cheek to ask them for a Franc back for a coffee as i had a long journey, guess what they give it mo ticked me off and off i went..Glad to get back on the Autobahn out of the way..

[Crazydad]

The Europeans tend to generally flash you from the front,

Now down to the License the eu law has not come into power as of yet so the only thing the french can do is to :
first of all get your personal info from dvlc  

then send you the fine to your home adress  

then wait to see if you are silly enough to pay  

the bad news is if they ever catch you in france then they will (believe me ) make you pay dearly  

but only Euros, they have no other power than to take your money  

they also put you on the so called black list for the next 5 years, so be carefull if you ever go through

 the country again  

This has happened to me a while back, i thought break you not paying that after i got caught on the Paris ring

2 years later the checked me at the border and voialla Please come with us Monsieur and give us your money

all in all with admonition payed about 185 smackeroonies  

my own fault for forgetting

Are they as bad in Germany crazydad ?

A few years ago i had just delivered in Kassel and was ambling along sort of down so country lanes when this German police office jumped out and flagged me to stop..Oh dear i thought hiding my currency down my socks the notes that is,,I had just passed some speed thing that looked more like a 3 legged bollard.. :-/ They were very polite as i have allways found them to be but they wanted money.. :-/

This was before Euro"s so when they said £30 equivelent i showed them what i had..Francs, Gilders etc which came to approx £7.. They radioed back to whoever and accepted, smilling all the time.. I had the cheek to ask them for a Franc back for a coffee as i had a long journey, guess what they give it mo ticked me off and off i went..Glad to get back on the Autobahn out of the way..

The Germans are absolutely MONEY MAD

 they hide behind glass containers, in the woods at the sides of roads, behind cars all over the place so

that they can grab your hard earned Money off of you

they have also now started using road side bollards as in sweden, and then, not in areas where

speeding is dangerous, [size=16]NO!!!  [/size]               on wide open roads where

 nothing can happen to you.

Sometimes i thing that the roads are porpously made so wide and so straight as to make it easier for

 the Adolphs German police to catch you speeding makes me sick

[Baron Von Spongebob]

I take it you enjoy driving in Germany the crazydad..

[Crazydad]

I take it you enjoy driving in Germany the crazydad..

I love it

  

[Baron Von Spongebob]