Community speed watch hypocrites are all around us.

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Just randomly reading some motoring pages on the interwebby this afternoon when I came across this article.

It just sounds so familiar to other articles from numerous different counties recently.
I have no issues with community speed watch, they do good work most of the time when the operatives use a degree of common sense and judgement, but it seems so many of them let the power of using a speed camera go to their heads.
This article just echoes that, and some of those village do-gooders are just a bunch of hypocrites anyway.
I know of two recent incidents where members of a so-called " community speed watch " team were prosecuted for, guess what, speeding in the very same village .
one was handed a fine for doing 39mph and the other took a speed awareness course even though she was clocked at 41mph in the 30mph zone .
both were members of the "team" and both residents in the village, talk about hypocrites or what.

Anyway, just a little bit from me.
best watch out for angry looking OAP's in mad hatter tall hats now.
 
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I sympathize with your point of view, and would agree that some of these "speed watch teams" are their own worst enemy.

I have no sympathy for Mr Dewhurst though who I think is an over sensitive snowflake type.

Personally, if I knew I was driving correctly I would have told the old biddy to go and do something more productive, and given a friendly two fingered wave.
 
I agree, he's a bit of a soft-c**k snowflake. I'd have ignored them as they have no legal powers whatsoever.
 
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Community speed watch...... they must be really really bored

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Putting aside the driver, it is the blatant hypocrisy of many speed cam operators and teams, they are supposedly looking to help reduce accident etc , which is always good but in the next breath they are some of the worse offenders of village speeding.
 
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