Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That might work ... but I have to drive a stretch of around 100km along such roads. I have a rule of thumb: Speed limit + VAT. (VAT = sales tax) VAT is 25 and you don't lose your license until 30 kph over the limit. But on that road, the 100km, I don't have a choice. There's always someone driving slow and there's no possibility to pass. I make up for it on the Swedish side of the border. And ... we all know where they are. Fast, slow, fast, slow, fast, slow ... Daniel On 9/21/05, Rick Dykstra <rdcb37@dodo.com.au> wrote: > Here's an easier approach. Find the licence plate of the Minister > for Police's. Print off a copy using adhesive paper. Stick it on > your car. Go looking for speed cameras. That's Monday. For > Tuesday, the Chief Magistrate. Wednesday, the Sergeant at the > Traffic Camera Office. Friday, the guy in the International Space > Station. Thursday, Marlon Brando. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. > > :-D > > Rick. > > > > On 21/09/2005, at 5:28 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote: > > > It works the other way around too. > > > > In Sweden you can buy a clear, but reflective, paint to cover you > > license plates with. That way, when the iron-police (cameras on poles) > > snap a shot at you, the flash blanks out your license plates and the > > police don't know who you are. > > > > I don't know ... it might be of the same quality as the > > see-through-clothes-glasses you could buy from the inside cover of > > comic books back in the sixties. But it apparently really works. > > > > Daniel > > > > > > On 9/21/05, Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> wrote: > > > >> I am sure we will see filters that will see devices to foil this > >> device; > >> also, I am looking forward to snapping shots of amorous couples with > >> small projectors on their heads--using my film camera, of course ;-) > >> > >> Nathan > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >