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Re: Blatant scope creep of speed cameras in the UK
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:11:12 -0700
________________________________________ From: Geoff Kuenning [geoff () cs hmc edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:07 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: Blatant scope creep of speed cameras in the UK
If it wasn't breaking the speed limit, what the world were they doing filming the car?
Well, it's possible that a car in another lane was speeding. However, since the BBC posted the picture on theiw Web site, the police claim that it is not only "disrespectful, but distasteful and offensive, particularly to children who may have been exposed to this nonsense" is clearly garbage. (Well, it _is_ disrespectful, but since when has it been a crime to be disrespectful to police excess?) The claim by "road safety campaigners" that the stunt is ""dangerous and offensive" is even more ridiculous. There is no more danger in that stunt than in opening a can of soda in the passenger seat. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff () cs hmc edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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