Follow-up - French speed traps

Ace wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:27:46 +0100, "Simon Brown"
wrote:


FWIW we have heavy snowfall here and due to an accident yesterday the main
snow clearing machine is out of action. I expect poor visibility but great
powder at the moment. Waded out through 30cms - 50 cms to get the post this
morning.

Lorra lorra snow.


Not surprised - we've even had snow settling round here in the last 24
hours, although the temperature's a bit high (+3 at 8 this morning)
for it to settle much on the roads.


We've had a lot as well in the Fribourg canton, ironic as it's the only
day I've had to use our 2WD since the 4WD is being serviced :-)

Ian

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:47:34 +0100, Ian Spare
wrote:

Ace wrote:

Not surprised - we've even had snow settling round here in the last 24
hours, although the temperature's a bit high (+3 at 8 this morning)
for it to settle much on the roads.


We've had a lot as well in the Fribourg canton, ironic as it's the only
day I've had to use our 2WD since the 4WD is being serviced :-)

Heh. We had a few days back in Novemeber, IIRC, where the 4wd and snow
tyres came in handy. The worst part for Jude's 206cc would be our own
drive...

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Ace wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:47:34 +0100, Ian Spare
wrote:


Ace wrote:


Not surprised - we've even had snow settling round here in the last 24
hours, although the temperature's a bit high (+3 at 8 this morning)
for it to settle much on the roads.


We've had a lot as well in the Fribourg canton, ironic as it's the only
day I've had to use our 2WD since the 4WD is being serviced :-)


Heh. We had a few days back in Novemeber, IIRC, where the 4wd and snow
tyres came in handy. The worst part for Jude's 206cc would be our own
drive...


Actually I wasn't too upset, it was an opportunity to see how the Seat
drove on snow with winter tires

Ian

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:06:34 +0100, Ace squeezed
out the following:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:47:34 +0100, Ian Spare
wrote:

Ace wrote:

Not surprised - we've even had snow settling round here in the last 24
hours, although the temperature's a bit high (+3 at 8 this morning)
for it to settle much on the roads.


We've had a lot as well in the Fribourg canton, ironic as it's the only
day I've had to use our 2WD since the 4WD is being serviced :-)

Heh. We had a few days back in Novemeber, IIRC, where the 4wd and snow
tyres came in handy. The worst part for Jude's 206cc would be our own
drive...

Just take a run at it. At least, that's what you said ...

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:45:35 +0000, Colin Irvine
wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:06:34 +0100, Ace squeezed
out the following:

Heh. We had a few days back in Novemeber, IIRC, where the 4wd and snow
tyres came in handy. The worst part for Jude's 206cc would be our own
drive...

Just take a run at it. At least, that's what you said ...

Well you made it up, didn't you? What gear were you stuck in again -
fourth, wasn't it?

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:25:11 +0100, Ace squeezed
out the following:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:45:35 +0000, Colin Irvine
wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:06:34 +0100, Ace squeezed
out the following:

Heh. We had a few days back in Novemeber, IIRC, where the 4wd and snow
tyres came in handy. The worst part for Jude's 206cc would be our own
drive...

Just take a run at it. At least, that's what you said ...

Well you made it up, didn't you? What gear were you stuck in again -
fourth, wasn't it?

Yep - good for around 165 mph!

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"PG" wrote:

[...]
and they've started to try to camouflage
the radar positions better


So how did you work this out ?


(reckon the flics must be on a percentage)...


They have been for about twenty years now. Receipts were abysmal
before this. It is the only way to get the flics out of the station.

"funkraum" wrote in message
...
| "PG" wrote:
|
| Yes a mobile trap, but believe me there's more and more of them with
the
| new 'zero tolerance' policy.... and they've started to try to
camouflage
| the radar positions better (reckon the flics must be on a
percentage)...
|
|
| 'mobile traps' 'more and more of them'
|
| Since there are not 'more and more' flics and they are just as lazy as
| they ever were, I imagine an increase in the manning of drafty and
| uncomfortable speed-traps is going to be, at most, a temporary
| affaire, even if they can be persuaded to abandon their sick-leave
| rotas and other such practises, which I doubt.
|

Live in France do you? Didn't think so.

Pete

"PG" wrote:

Yes a mobile trap, but believe me there's more and more of them with the
new 'zero tolerance' policy.... and they've started to try to camouflage
the radar positions better (reckon the flics must be on a percentage)...


'mobile traps' 'more and more of them'

Since there are not 'more and more' flics and they are just as lazy as
they ever were, I imagine an increase in the manning of drafty and
uncomfortable speed-traps is going to be, at most, a temporary
affaire, even if they can be persuaded to abandon their sick-leave
rotas and other such practises, which I doubt.

Ace wrote:
"Simon Brown" wrote:

There's a company here that collects on their behalf, they
add about CHF 200 to the fine for their efforts :-(

Just for parking fines, I think you'll find.

No, speeding as well. They handle UK speeding tickets etc., I've seen the
results of their handiwork although it was a workmate who received he
invoice, not me :-) Anyway you may be lucky.

There's a company here that collects on their behalf, they add about CHF 200
to the fine for their efforts :-(


Never had any problem with Swiss plates and vice-versa (Speed or
parking, although I am not too keen on naughty parking, believe it or
not).

However, this company does collect for (multi-national) hire-car
companies, which pursue with vigour. Hence the confusion.

It is only in the last few months the cross-EU enforceability of
judgements has come to the fore. Prior to that there was no way of
recovering judgements in a second country.

The text on the web-site of this company drivels on about collecting
judgements all over the place but since the cross-border developments
in the law are only months old they must have survived on car-hire
company business and bread-and-cheese prior to this.

Fortunately ...... there is still no way of collecting from non-EU
plates.