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Dear All, 232,709 Motorists have been reported to the “police” since 2022 by fellow drivers, who submitted dashcam footage through a government scheme designed to have us all spy on each other — called “Operation SNAP”… The scheme has essentially outsourced enforcement to the public, turning ordinary road users into an army of unpaid informants. …
Dear All, Unsuspecting Motorists have been issued with speeding tickets on a rural country road after not realising it has a new 30mph speed limit. A beautiful section of flowing country road in East Cleveland, Yorkshire, has recently beenruined by the presence of mobile road pirates, a.k.a. “the police”… Councillor Steve Kay has spoken out …
Dear All, I saw a – what should be – shocking video yesterday morning by the youtube channel Crimebodge. It showed how an innocent Motorist was physically punched and kicked by an off-duty “policeman”, because he had the audacity to signal his disapproval that the “police”man was driving aggressively, and using his mobile phone while …
A new piece of “road safety” technology has now become unavoidable for Motorists who want to buy a new car in the UK. Since the start of this year, every new car sold is now fitted with a mandatory speed limiter, which is “compulsory” according to the EU, despite that fact that the UK supposedly left the …
There’s been a very interesting admission quietly made by the “police” in recent days… Thousands of drivers have been issued speeding tickets …even though they weren’t exceeding the speed limit. According to National Highways, a “technical fault” meant that some variable speed cameras continued enforcing a lower speed limit from a previous section of road …
Shocking data for a speed camera where the council have reduced the speed limit from 40mph to 30mph has just been released… The camera in question is on Ringwood Road in Bournemouth. Here are the raw stats: – In 2020 it “caught”: 39 Motorists;– In 2021 it was 55;– In 2022 it was 32. However, as soon as …
Dear All, A BTST Member, Dave, recently fell victim to possibly the World’s laziest “police” scammer… This pillar of the community decided to simply wander out of Police HQ in Liverpool and proceed to pick off Motorists like fish in a barrel right outside, from the pavement. In Dave’s own words: “You can see from …
A freedom of information request has revealed that on a single road in London last year, 1,580 Motorists were fined in a single day. Their crime? Driving down the road. Hammersmith and Fulham council took it upon themselves to decide they wanted this particular area to be an “LTN”, which means — and I had …