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Originally Posted by The Bear
........What the passenger did was very dangerous since the maneuvering that he must have gone through to drop his trousers and then position himself so that his backside was presented in a way that it was obvious from the windscreen must have resulted in the driver not being in full control of the vehicle.
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Nope! I'm not buying that at all. In fact, I'm going to say "ar5e!" Although I have never mooned a speed camera from the passenger seat of a car, (or anywhere else come to think of it) it is my assertion that it is perfectly safe to do so. Sure, the passenger would have to go through a few contortions to get into his mooning position, but he could have done that easily enough without interfering with the drivers ability to control the vehicle.
Years ago, at one particular location, I used to cross the road on my Triumph 900 and tear through a "safety"
camera at 100 MPH +. The camera would of course flash away furiously to itself, recording the image of the
front of a motorcycle with the rider's middle finger of his left hand raised in a 'salute' to the speed camera. Well, it kept me amused for a while, and I like to think it wound Gloucestershire Constabulary up for a bit; which is always a bit of a bonus.
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Apart from that, where’s the problem with safety cameras?
The purpose they serve is not simply to detect motorists who break any speed restrictions on the road on which they are placed,....
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The purpose they serve is to rip off the public. They do not replace proper policing of our roads. I can drive through a speed camera at twice the drink drive limit, toking on a big fat spliff whist snorting Bolivian marching powder off the dashboard of my car and the "safety"
camera aint gonna do sweet Fanny Adams about it. Were a real police officer to spot me behaving in such a way I suspect his suspicions would be raised and he may well feel compelled to investigate.
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In my opinion where we should be going is the introduction of tachographs in all road vehicles and limits placed on all drivers hours be they professional or Joe Public.
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Well your fascist fantasy will probably come true. There are plans afoot to fix satellite tracking devices to all vehicles for road pricing purposes. This is of course driven by your dear friends in Brussels who need some justification, no matter how flimsy, for their Gallileo GPS vanity project.