Man jailed for using speed camera jammer
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Doesn't a member on here have one of these but thinly disguised as a garage door opener?
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No but I don't recall who exactly it was, I remember a lot of
going on while he sniggered about his clever scheme. I bet he's not so smug now.
Yup there have been a few posts from owners of these here.
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It's far from the first time that someone has been jailed for this.
Company director jailed after fitting laser jammer to Range Rover and giving speed cameras the finge
Company director jailed after fitting laser jammer to Range Rover and giving speed cameras the finge
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It's one thing using a speed camera alert like a Tom Tom , but jamming a laser is just stupid and anyone doing it really should think twice.
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I think the only fool proof and legal way to avoid falling foul of speed cameras is to stick to the speed limit.
To be accurate, a TomTom isn't a detector ... it just tells you that you're approaching the position of a known camera site. Detectors pick up the RADAR/LASER emissions from a speed camera, so will warn of both fixed and mobile traps (but normally too late to avoid you being nicked
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To be accurate, a TomTom isn't a detector ... it just tells you that you're approaching the position of a known camera site. Detectors pick up the RADAR/LASER emissions from a speed camera, so will warn of both fixed and mobile traps (but normally too late to avoid you being nicked
You're correct. I've edited my post to make it clearer
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Back in the day, I was standing at the side of my work motorbike, pointing an LTI 20/20 at oncoming vehicles in a 30 limit. It was early, and a glorious day, hardly any traffic about. I saw a Porsche 996 (a lovely Targa!) approaching at a fair old lick. I pressed the trigger on the LTI, but it wouldn't return a reading. I tried again....and see 'JAM' on the readout. So, I step into the road and pull laddo over. I could see the little transmitter just to the side of the front plate, so without beating about the bush I told him that he was under arrest for perverting the course of justice. He blustered a bit, then, as expected, claimed it was a garage door opener, although he couldn't really explain why it was operating when he was so far from home. I then told him that, while we waited for transport to the nick (no pillion seat on my Pan Euro! ) my colleagues would shortly be en route to his place to check his garage doors to confirm that he did, in fact, have such a system installed. At that point, he crumbled. This was at a time when discretion was available to bobbies - I told him that if he removed the jammer there and then, I'd de-arrest him and send him on his way with a flea in his ear. He borrowed my Leatherman multitool, cut the wire to it, unscrewed it from the front of the car, and then stamped on it a few times, rendering it fubar! I did point out to him that, as he lived in my force area, the chances of him being checked out over the coming months to see if he'd bought and fitted another were quite high.
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) my colleagues would shortly be en route to his place to check his garage doors to confirm that he did, in fact, have such a system installed. At that point, he crumbled. This was at a time when discretion was available to bobbies - I told him that if he removed the jammer there and then, I'd de-arrest him and send him on his way with a flea in his ear. He borrowed my Leatherman multitool, cut the wire to it, unscrewed it from the front of the car, and then stamped on it a few times, rendering it fubar! I did point out to him that, as he lived in my force area, the chances of him being checked out over the coming months to see if he'd bought and fitted another were quite high. Pete
Interesting that this guy is in prison and drivers who are drunk or cause a accident by careless driving are not put in prison,it would confirm the thoughts that deprive the police/government of a fine and you are for the high jump.
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I'd agree with you, but perverting the course of justice is particularly frowned upon in court. Stopping the police from doing their job isn't recommended.
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It's more to do with the fact that the offence committed when 'jamming' is 'perverting the course of justice', which is deemed to be a very serious offence indeed - it carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment!
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RoadAngel...are they still about ? I have my old one laying about in my workshop somewhere.
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^ So have I.
I still got caught by a camera coming over the brow of a hill once and ditched it straight afterwards.
By the time Road Angel has detected the laser, the laser has detected your speed.
I still got caught by a camera coming over the brow of a hill once and ditched it straight afterwards.
By the time Road Angel has detected the laser, the laser has detected your speed.
Yup detectors made some sense with RADAR as there was more 'scatter', which you could pick up even if you weren't being targeted. But as you say, with LASER a detector simply tells you that you've been nicked
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Almost word for word what I was just about to post. Seems money's more important in the eyes of the authorities.
He was a bmw driver
