ChrisB

Hey, I've just had an e-mail come through about how those blue cameras on poles are speed cameras and will go live soon.

Anyone want a copy?

ChrisB.

Octane Man

The blue cameras on Blue poles are not cameras...

They are traffice monitoring devices, how do you think the traffic master network get it's info ? Voila.

MartinM

ChrisB

At least you and me are on the same wavelength

How does the phone recognise the Gatso...well it's a very long and technically detailed story. Catch me in the pub after a few, and I'm sure I could make it up.

Over and out.

mutant_matt

Hey - did you know that if you get a fixed penalty and you send them a cheque for more than then amount requested they'll send you back a cheque for the difference - don't cash this cheque......

Matt

P.S. Just to prove it doesn't work - I tried it and it doesn't (what a shock!!! ).

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Peter Johnson

I heard last night that on our mobile phones of today we can enter a simple code into it and it becomes a speed camera detector??

I don't believe this for one minute, but has anyone else heard this??

mega_stream

I heard that aswell, but from one of these blokes thats so fulla sh*yte nobody ever listens to what he says..

chiark

Now, what do you think???

Use a bit of common sense and you'll get the answer.

fast bloke

It is a Nokia urban myth. You can set up a closed group on your phone to cut call costs etc. The rumuor talks you through setting up a closed group which displays 5's or 0's or whatever version you hear. Story goes that when the phone detects radar/laser etc the line of numbers will increase. Waffle

MartinM

Actually, this is entirey true....dial *#06# into your (any network) mobile and you will get a serial number. This is the serial number of the last Gatso that took your picture.

Take this number to the local cop shop and they will look it up on the National GATSO Database (FOC, remarkably) and they can tell you when and where it happened, whether there was film in the camera and the latest status of any pending action.

The only thing you need say to the desk officer is "I'd like an NGD check on a Gatso serial number please". You will be seen to straight away.....

Ian Cook

Heheheh, thats actually the serial number of your Nokia phone ! LOL

JoeyDeacon

Funny how these urban myths pop up every now and again!!

But then what a boring place the world would be without these gullible people

MartinM

Ian

...err, the urban myth is that its your serial number - it really is a GATSO serial number. Honest.

Stroudy

Below text taken from here:

Ian Cook

Martin then i must have been taken by a Gatso and never heard anything then ? cos i have a serial number in my phone, that matches the serial number on the box the phone came in surprisingly enough !!

Oh, type in the command, make a note of the number, then take the battery off of your Nokia phone and see that the number matches the serial number of your phone !!!

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JoeyDeacon

Ian is obviously correct!

So can you please explain to me how the Nokia phone detects the speed camera?? is it through the IR port?

Brendan Hughes

No, no, it's all true. A mate of mine has tried it, and he knows quite a bit about cars, coz he has a Caterham. Now there's a weird story, it got nicked, but about a week later it was back on the drive with the keys through the letterbox and a note saying "Just to show you we could!"

BJH

fast bloke

Well that is nothing. My mate a a Ferrari 553. Never heard of one of them eh? Well it was a mistake in the production line and they made it the wrong way round. Anyway he bought it when he sold one of the pound coins with the queen wearing a chain for eleventy squillion pounds. He was so paraniod about getting it stolen that he put it in has garage and got it welded too the floor and got the garage doors welded shut and put a big massive chain on it that he got from the dock that used to be used for tying up boats and he got home from work one day and someone had turned it round the other way with the same note 'because we could'

Must've been the same gang Brendan.

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

Well im only a telecomms engineer you know and this is a new one to me lol!
I think that someone is pulling your plonka, the only way that your ever going to detect a gatso with your phone is when you have one of those geo things, you plug that up and download the positions of new cameras, no mobile phone will do anything like detect cameras, its called different frequencies another urban myth bites the dust oh and the blue poles....
only the ones with the arms out over the carriage way and the 2 round objects with the square bit in the middle are cameras, these are specs cameras, the other type by the roadside are traffic master poles

Tony

JoeyDeacon

Well did you know that if you get drunk on Pernod and drink water the next morning you will get drunk again! Straight up a bloke down the pub told me!

And you know Bruce Lee, the Kung Fu fighting bloke?? Well I heard that he died because he took an aspirin. No work of a lie he died because his body was so pure he had a bad reaction to the aspirin.

And as for Marc Almond, he collapsed at a gig once and when they rushed him to hospital do you know what they found in his stomach??

Blowdog Incomming!


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Luke

A friend I know got his girlfriend pregnant by sticking his "Siemens" up her.
This is true.

Robertio

iTrader: (1)

It does work in reverse, if the mobile rings in the car it sets off the detector, so obviously they are monitoring our speed via our mobiles

DavidLewis

Robertio,

You are very close to the truth.

Our mobile phones are constantly 'hunting' for the best signal, most probably the nearest station. Using the triangulation method, the feds can pinpoint our position in the country by the signals we send/receive from/to the 'network' Then, factoring the elapsed times for these signals, they can constantly work out our speed in any one direction.

Straight up, honest to god truth, really....

Peter Johnson

GPS Systems do the above though, but mobiles, an they bollox

Brendan Hughes

fastbloke - that Ferrari 553, was that the one with the pink dampers? My mate's Caterham had pink dampers, it even outhandled a Cavalier with Koni suspension!

(Moray's a bit slow today...)

BJH

Andy Tang

iTrader: (3)

Would you believe it....

I bought a Valentine 1 Radar detector, and I can receive mobile phone calls... honest!!!

KF

Bonkers,
I was out testing this, and just as I was approaching the camera, I was overtaken by a Chervolet Impala with a jet strapped to the back. Must've been doing at least 500mph.
KF.