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Old Dec 5, 2007 | 07:27 PM
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Unhappy P1 on the m40 hard shoulder

I was coming down the M40 a couple of hours ago and I saw a P1 broken down on the hard shoulder at junction 5 northbound It had an AA van with it and the bonnet open

Hope it was nothing serious.
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Old Dec 5, 2007 | 08:00 PM
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I was going to post this, spotted @ about 5pm
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Old Dec 5, 2007 | 08:42 PM
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You must have been just in front of me, I passed it at about 5 or 10 past I guess.
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Old Dec 5, 2007 | 11:56 PM
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did you see all the police on the bridge at the top of the M40 hill this morning?
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Old Dec 6, 2007 | 01:13 AM
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Originally Posted by gazza-uk
did you see all the police on the bridge at the top of the M40 hill this morning?
Didn't I! They had the marked cars at junction 6 waiting to pull [road wars]offenders[/roadwars] off at junction 7 I headed north at around 2 and they were there then.
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Old Dec 6, 2007 | 08:20 PM
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I passed about 12

I saw the van on the bridge and I was doing 90, bollox, anyway I continued and some more feds on the next brige, I did a quick left onto the slip and sped away.

hope it was not the scammers

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Old Dec 7, 2007 | 08:59 AM
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It's ok, the cameras were ANPR ones They were stopping people with no tax, insurance etc.
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Old Dec 7, 2007 | 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by paulpalmer
It's ok, the cameras were ANPR ones They were stopping people with no tax, insurance etc.
PHEW!
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Old Dec 7, 2007 | 09:29 PM
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If only they put as many resources into catching burglars, rapists and murderers etc. But tax dodgers, good heavens, quick we better call the army in too just incase the police f*ck up and someone with a week out of date tax disk might get away god forbid.
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Old Dec 7, 2007 | 10:58 PM
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If only they put as many resources into catching burglars, rapists and murderers etc. But tax dodgers, good heavens, quick we better call the army in too just incase the police f*ck up and someone with a week out of date tax disk might get away god forbid.
I think you will find that's exactly what the ANPR cars do. At least they do in Essex.

Scroll down to 5.0 Notable recent successes

http://www.essex.police.uk/cms/globa...ngs/171_06.pdf

From April 2006 - March 2007 they recovered 63 stolen vehicles worth over £250K by using ANPR & made 255 arrests.

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Old Dec 7, 2007 | 11:08 PM
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A bonus side effect to catching the tax dodgers the technology was designed for, Call me sceptical lol.

My sister got burgled and her husband got a kick in when he discovered them. It took the police three days to come round. I flagged an officer off because he cut me up and they were knocking on my door about an hour and a half later!!

But hey if they are catching tax doders and easy prey it makes the crime figures look good i suppose.
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