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Originally Posted by eb2monty

Not this again.

My theory for speed cameras: Don't speed and you have nothing to worry about.

I love this quote. It's usually quoted by people who don't see the bigger picture. So are you telling me that never once in your life been above the speed limit? Never? You have never looked down at your speedo & found yourself doing 90 in an 80 zone? 112 in a 100? Not once? I'm sorry but if you havent you must be a perfect driver. Possibly the only one, but I believe it's highly unlikely. I believe that everyone once in their years of driving has had a little surprise when they have looked down at the speedo and found they were above the limit. And if they say they haven't. They are lying.

The last time (& first time) I was snapped I didn't even know I was over till I saw this massive flash (it was about 7pm) followed by a loud "WTF?" looked down at my speedo to find myself doing 110 (fined for 111) in a 100km zone on the Warrego Hwy. Now before you say that it's obvious I wasn't payig attention to "driving" your wrong. I was rather focused on the three cars ahead of me that were vigorously playing a shell game of lane changing since blacksoil....

Originally Posted by eb2monty

What relevance does talking about low income families and volunteers have? I would have thought they can't afford to speed?

Now for this one. I'm not a low income earner, but I'm not middle class either. Long story short, I bought a property to make money on. & since then, my investment property has done nothing but drain me. So for the past few years I don't have alot of spare money. Barely $100 a month if I'm lucky. However, the aforementioned happy snap cost me $133 and one point. Now the one pint was ok, I had my full 12, but that 133 really hurt. So you say I can't afford to speed, your right. But look at the reason why I wasn't concertrating on the speedo...... Ain't exactly fair.....

We are bring forced to drive perfectly, When we are not perfect creatures....