"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
10/09/2013 at 16:37 • Filed to: None
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"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
10/09/2013 at 16:37 • Filed to: None | 1
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Should anyone of you be travelling in or through Germany tomorrow, you'd better take it slow. German police has announced that starting 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, and going on for a full 24 hours, they will set up around 8500 speed traps all over the country. 15o00 police officers plus civilians from local authorities will be taking part in this. They try to be pretty open about it, saying that it's all about safety. I somehow still suspect that most of them will be on straight roads through uninhabited areas, and not in front of schools or kindergartens.
We'll see what's what tomorrow.
hollanddjw 1
> Klaus Schmoll
10/09/2013 at 16:43 |
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I heard about this earlier today. Good to get verification that it's true.
dieselwagon
> Klaus Schmoll
10/09/2013 at 16:44 |
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The heads up is nice at least, not buried in some press release on an obscure government sub-department website.
I don't mind speed limits, or even speed cameras. If the speed limit is logical for the road and cameras are sited obviously and near areas where an accident is likely. Otherwise it has nothing to do with safety. Cameras everywhere has really ruined driving for me, driving across London I have to anticipate cameras everywhere and i'm more often looking for cameras and triple checking speed limits, or obstructing traffic just in case a wheel drifts into a bus lane when trying to get by someone turning. Even holding traffic up when there's a green light, but there's yellow boxes in the junction and i might end up with a wheel still in it if i attempt to move in this cycle of the lights. Gah, stressing just thinking about it.
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Klaus Schmoll
> dieselwagon
10/09/2013 at 16:49 |
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Yeah, but speed cameras in the UK with their eye-cancer yellow are quite obvious. And when doing mobile speed checks they wear hi-vis jackets. In Germany, they put speed cameras in hatchbacks with little cutouts in the rear window tint that are parked on the side of the road.
MonkeePuzzle
> Klaus Schmoll
10/09/2013 at 16:56 |
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ugh, some of your post was in German, had to freakin' translate it!
for anyone else wondering, "kindergarten" is a "child garden"
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dieselwagon
> Klaus Schmoll
10/09/2013 at 17:01 |
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Oh I know it could be a lot worse. Problem with the speed traps is, usually by the time you can see those hi-vis jackets, it's too late. They often do it so they are in a 40 zone, with the trap actually targeted a hundred yards within the 30 zone before it.
Australia is worse, similar to the German speed trap it seems. In Victoria they have cameras on the front of regular cars that are parked at the roadside. Until you've passed it and seen the camera gear on the front, it looks the same as every other parked car. Their static speed cameras are also hidden, you might be able to tell by a very discreet line in the road, but the cameras themselves are usually hidden under bridges and on the ceiling of tunnels. I didn't speed at all in Australia, knowingly at least. They have some odd road laws over there.
Crocket Bernet
> MonkeePuzzle
10/09/2013 at 17:12 |
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I laughed very hard when I read this. And now my boss is eyeing me. Time to get off oppo
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> MonkeePuzzle
10/09/2013 at 18:59 |
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is that like a beer garden? Germans eat children?
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MonkeePuzzle
> beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
10/09/2013 at 19:03 |
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when I was in Germany as a youngen (8-ish) I recall beer gardens had a plethora of kinder, some even consuming bier, perhaps beer garden and child garden are in fact the same place
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beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> MonkeePuzzle
10/09/2013 at 19:17 |
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sounds like Narnia, or Hogwarts if it was awesome.