I had a hilarious experience only a few days after I got my Clio. For those of you who don't live in Dorset, we have the Megatron of Gatsos's here they put them on traffic lights! So essentially, if your coming up to a light just as it's changing, you have to slap the brakes on, woe betide the man who accelerates to try and make it through before they go red.....
Read more about Dorset Police revenue generation tactics
HERE
(Also please note, these lights where this speed camera is, well it's a duel carriageway...with a 30 limit??!!!)
Be warned, we (The good people of Dorset) are the guinea pigs, I believe this is being rolled out nationwide, this single camera makes nearly 2 mil in revenue a year...yes...2 Mil for one camera.
Anyway I digress, although I needed to explain the placement of specific camera to give you the full picture of what happened.
I was being harassed, tailgated, weaving and all the tell tell signs that the person behind you is either drunk, struggling to stay awake or thinks they are Lewis Hamilton. This specific
enemy was a Mk4 Astra 1.6 with some Halfords alloys and a shopping list on the wings. This went on for maybe a couple of miles through the town centre until we reached the set of traffic lights BEFORE the evil ones........they were red, and said Astra and it's couple of pikey inhabitants pulled up next to me. The passenger smiled, then nodded and the driver revved his hair dryer...erm sorry engine. So...I revved mine with no intention of wasting any fuel to prove I had a faster car, I guess I just wanted to egg them on a bit. Lights changed and right on cue, off into the future went this Astra leaving behind it a cloud of blue smoke, the smell of slipping clutch, burberry aftershave and some kind of time warp only Professor Brian Cox could explain as this thing struggled to break the speed limit....... before the end of the universe.
I gently pulled away and.....watched as this pair of idiots finally managed to break 30 just as they flew through Megatron...there was no attempt to brake....just a double flash and the biggest LOL of my entire life. Seriously, I nearly had to pull over because I couldn't see for tears :rofl: