How not to drive past speed cameras!

[Nexus9]

Funny one here folks,

I have a habit of driving past manned speed cameras with my middle finger extended ( childish I know, but hey that's me)

Two days ago I received a call from the local constabulary saying that a Traffic Officer manning a camera has made a complaint about me and that he wants me to be charged with "Giving an Obscene Gesture to a Police Officer"

After I got up off the floor from laughing, the officer said she was serious and they had a photo of me doing the finger to the speed camera, the cop was nice and she was laughing herself, she basically said that the whole thing is a waste of her time and resources, but because it was an official compaint she has to act on it.

I guess I will have to wait until I see the photo, before I say I am guilty or not.

(oh and I was not speeding, so don't know why they would have a photo in the first place)

I just find the whole thing quite amusing!

[locutus_of_bris]

I'm thinking a moon is out of the question then?

[dan_the_man]

Nice one

[Guest RedLineGTR]

u better post up the photo when u get it...hope it all works out well...say the gesture was to another motorist or something

[AutoTrust]

Gotta see this photo man, just say you were trying to wave and jour hand got confused! I love your work nexus9

[Madtrang]

Just say u were on the way to picking your nose. :bahaha:

[japtaxi]

Originally posted by locutus_of_bris

I'm thinking a moon is out of the question then?

Something like this? :shake:

:bahaha:

[Guest RedLineGTR]

asahahaha nice

[Guest 570CK]

haha nice pic Japtaxi

[Nexus9]

Yeah I am dying to see the photo too.

Definitely will post it here once I receive it

I am just gunna say that I was scraping a bug off the window with my middle finger :bahaha:

[Squizz]

Originally posted by Nexus9

Yeah I am dying to see the photo too.

Definitely will post it here once I receive it  

I am just gunna say that I was scraping a bug off the window with my middle finger :bahaha:

That would work if you weren't making a pig nose with your other hand and poking tongues...

[funkymonkey]

jus say you were testing the direction of the wind with your middle finger... sumfin you do all the time where you come from... if they question you further, start pullin out the racial discrimination and police brutality to minorities line...

[BelGarion]

nice work chris

:bahaha:

[strutto]

Hahahaha! I do that too! Guess I'm gunna have to stop now...

Seriously though, I would question their authority to photograph you with a speed camera when you weren't speeding... I doubt the photo could be used against you if it was obtained illegally...

Also, aren't speed cameras manned by rent-a-cops? Or is that only in southern states?

If they are going to charge you with "Giving an Obscene Gesture to a Police Officer", then it would have to be a police officer you gestured to...

Just my thoughts... I aint a lawyer though...

Show me the pic!

[hungry6]

LOL. Welldone, atleast u got his attention. Nothing will happen as the officer involved, would have to file a formal charge which i can't see how he could as under what interpretation would he do it under and a magistrate would kick it out of court faster than the can say his name, and the possibilities of defending it is endless as u could have truely given the finger at that point but was it at the camera or the bicycle rider on the otherside of the camera, which is out of view.

[EnricoPalazzo]

Nexus9: did it happen while u wer drivin the canyonero HEHE

[Nexus9]

Thanks for the support guys, I am not too worried about it.

I reckon it is just one of those cop things, where they try to trick you in to admitting that you did it, then bammo, fine imposed.

Chick cop on the phone said it is just a misdemeanour and not a criminal charge only about a $40.00 fine or so.

But even so, I am not going to say anything till I see the photo.

I reckon as long as I am not looking directly at the camera they can't prove that it was directed at them.

Oh and Enrico it was in the "line"

[Squizz]

OOOOOK I had to find out what the hell a Canyonero was, and by crikey there's two minutes of my life I'm never getting back...

http://hangingon.org/canyonero.mp3

[PTR33]

Damn, I do that all the time too. (flip speed cameras the bird). I guess I had better stop it.... NAH FUGUM!!

Nice work Nexus9, and they will NEVER be able to prove it. There are so many things that you could have been doing and it just "looked" like that at the instant the photo was taken.

But as you say, hopefully you wern't looking directly into the camera and smiling at the time.

If they try to push it I would send the photo in to Rove Live as a "What The?" Stir up some shit.

Reminds me...

On the way to work the other morning I saw a speed camera on the other side of the road and was doing my civic duty flashing the poor schmucks coming the other way when I noticed that in the middle of one group was a bike cop... D'oh.

He just shook his finger at me as he went past, I swear I could see him smiling inside his helmet.

[hungry6]

I flash oncoming traffic before they reach speed camera all the times , sometimes with police looking at me from the otherside.

I loath them. if u get ping on th way to work it means u have to work half of the week without getting paid, and it's worst if u got kids, so i'm doing my bit to help the general public.