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999 Cop gave traffic camera thumbs up (twice)
"A policeman has been banned from driving after a speed camera twice caught him posing with his thumbs up as he raced to emergency 999 calls.
David Mayes, 34, was first captured making the gesture with both hands off the wheel at 4.53am as a female colleague sat beside him in the patrol car.
Then, just 75 minutes later, the PC gesticulated again at the same camera in the same marked car on his way to catch a suspected thief.
The images were taken on a 40 mph road in Sheffield on July 26 2007, and show PC Mayes hurtling past the camera at 68mph and 73mph, legitimate speeds for answering a 999 call."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jse ssionid=JT04SYADZOHWTQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/ news/2008/02/01/nspeed101.xml
Dangerous idiots or just a bit of fun? - You decide.
David Mayes, 34, was first captured making the gesture with both hands off the wheel at 4.53am as a female colleague sat beside him in the patrol car.
Then, just 75 minutes later, the PC gesticulated again at the same camera in the same marked car on his way to catch a suspected thief.
The images were taken on a 40 mph road in Sheffield on July 26 2007, and show PC Mayes hurtling past the camera at 68mph and 73mph, legitimate speeds for answering a 999 call."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jse ssionid=JT04SYADZOHWTQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/ news/2008/02/01/nspeed101.xml
Dangerous idiots or just a bit of fun? - You decide.
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bad drivers always feel they are in control of their vehicles, squarebear, unless they actually crash. It's perfectly in order for a court to decide that anyone who was posing for cameras, and with both hands off the wheel, was not paying sufficient attention to the road ahead. 73mph and no hands??? Please don't let him be driving on my street, 999 or not.
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