Speeding fine? Just switch the road sign

[Mule]

LONDON (Reuters) - Motorist John Hopwood concocted a novel scheme to avoid payment when he was given a speeding fine -- simply switch the road signs.

Hopwood, 44, had been snapped by a speed camera breaking the 30 miles per hour limit.

So he went to a 40 mph area, removed a red "40" warning sign, drove back to the 30 mph area, attached it to a lamp post and took a photo as "proof" that his offence of driving at 48 mph had not been so bad.

However, suspicion soon arose when other drivers started querying the sign.


"This was a stupid act, bound to fail," Judge Anthony Ensor at Manchester Crown Court was quoted by media as telling Hopwood, who admitted trying to pervert justice.

He was ordered on Tuesday to serve an intermittent custodial sentence of 28 weeks which requires him to spend his weekends behind bars and told to pay 2,763 pounds in legal costs.

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OK, which one of you was it?

[Over Carl]

He should've nicked a national speed limit sign and claimed he was under the speed limit if he really had any brains.

Reminds me of a pissed up plan of burning a gatso so the film would be burnt, woke up next day sober and didn't think carrying out the plan would be quite so clever as I did the night before, so it never happened.

[Possy_99]

if he was in a 30mph zone, doesn't that mean it was a residential area..? serves him right.


..film in a gatso? aren't they digital?

[Over Carl]

Older ones had film, hence most flashes in london went unprosecuted.

A sober mind as well as the fact new ones are digital made me think burning the thing wasn't a good idea as it is a new camera, but nothing came back on it, so much for digital cameras.

PS It was a mate driving my car at the time, me I have brains and slow down when I see white stripes / yellow boxes.