Could you do it?

[twostroketit]

There is very often on this forum people asking for advice after getting ticketed for speeding.
The latest one being not very far over the limit at a very quiet time of day.
So the question is...Could you be a camera van operator or a plod dishing out speeding tickets,knowing that this will not do anything to help road safety?
Could you be the person that issues a ticket that will lose somebody's licence or freedom?
Would you conscience or ego allow you to do this?
Personally even if these people were paid £200 grand a year i wouldn't and couldn't do it.
Anybody else?
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[Biker101]

Yes i could, its a job, if i dont do it someone else will.

Plus they pay isn't that bad for sitting on yer arse all day.

I think, any one of us, if made redundant tomorrow would take a job like this straight away.
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[wizzzard]

Nope definitely couldn't do that because I wouldn't be able to live with my own hypocrisy.
Earlier this year when there was a very good chance of loosing my job completely I was put onto a traffic wardens job and knowing most of the people who worked there it would have been a shoe in for me getting the position. After considering it I decided that I just couldn't live with the thought of bringing so much misery to people on a daily basis.
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[yen_powell]

200 hundred grand a year, are you kidding, give me the laser gun now, fuckin speeding bastards!!!!!!!
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[bEN_]

Yes i could, but i'd pick my targets wiseley ( ie. a mobile halfords )
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[Villers]

We all know the risks of speeding, getting caught isnt nice but at the end of the day we make our own choices. If it was a choice between my family going hungry and catching speeders then I'd happily operate the van. Im not sure I could operate it sneakily, hiding in bushes etc. though. I wouldnt actively seek out such employment however. If the pay was 200k a year I would happily do it, I would even crush the bike for them!

The same applies to the policing of any 'acceptable' crime. WOuld you be the one who prosecutes people for copying DVS, or downloading movies etc?

None of us are forced to speed, I choose to and will take the punishment when it comes because unfortunately thats just 'the way'. I'll be gutted and pissed off but what can you do?
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[Jayy]

I wouldn't think twice about dishing the tickets out if they were justified. I wouldn't be a jobsworth though and stick to the book exactly. I would make fair judgements and let people off accordingly.

I said to my mate, who was applying for the coppers at the time, would you give me a ticket if you caught me doing 40 in a 30 zone and he said no.

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[yuri2085]

I used to think a lot of the jobsworth actually beleived the bullshit about how speeding kills kittens, but reading some responses here it turns out even you bikers would be a dirty jobsworth causing people to suffer for the money (although only a small minority...but one would hope that minority would be zero)

[Knacker]

Fuck yea I'd do it in a heartbeat just wouldn't laser bikes, apart from harleys,goldwings and mopeds!
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[tutton]

those saying i wouldnt do the slightly over ones if your a camera operator and laser a car i thought it was all digital and too late then the pictures been saved into the camera hd, unless you want to go through hundreds to find it.. if you even could i suppose?
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[st3v3]

If the rules aren't broken there's no need to be sanctioned for it.

If you aren't caught breaking the rules there's no reason to be crying over it.

So on that basis; the tool's that choose to break the law and get caught somewhat deserve a sanction. I couldn't do it or I'd be purposely terrible at it and get demoted or something but I have always wanted to ride/drive around on blue's and two's.

[blutonium92]

200K a year! i defiantly would.
Though if i saw any bikes i would "sneeze" or look the other way at a nice cloud and accidentally miss them
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[That_Hornet]

I probally could for 200k p/year, would be a bit of a step down from what im on now tho...

I could ride on the plods Busa

But i would think i would be some what lenient towards bikes.

But i would like to catch REAL criminals.

[Wilson123]

I'd do this and sell my arse for 200k/yr. I'd murder a tribe of africans weekly for £200k/yr. I wouldn't like it, I'd also be very lenient with it too.
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[calyx]

If the job is on auction; my bid is "£60.000"
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[Mord]

It's a job.. nothing personal.

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[Kickstart]

Hi

Personally no I couldn't do the job. Couldn't take being such a total hypocrit (same applies to being a copper and enforcing various other laws).

To me not doing something purely because it is against the law is the weakest justification possible. The law is there as a code around a framework of reasonable behavior. If the behavior is reasonable but against the law then that law is wrong.

As to pay, suspect that they are probably on under £20k (ie, about the same as the motorway wombles and PCSOs).

All the best

Keith
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Doubt you would get any choice in who you targetted.

All the best

Keth
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