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The ball-aching call of waxwork Leslie Crowther didn't do it for me in my televisual prime, whereas "So lets take a look at what you would have won" mostly certainly did. These were the immortal words of bi-focular Lancastrian radio presenter and one-time revered host of ITV Darts 'n' anal questions sitcom 'Bull's-eye' - Jim Bowen. A pre-cursor as ever to showing grubby, shell-suited northerners a luxury motor home, crap east-European car, or the perversely in-practical 80foot powerboat that a subtitled Rochdale bloke usually came within a whisker on the hair of his wife's chiny chin chin of going home with on a Sunday teatime. If they had chucked a few arrows in the general direction of a hideously oversized darts board even bog-eyed Bowen could have hit.
Today, light entertainment cum quiz shows comes in the form of the cockney armpit hair that goes by the name of Tarrant, and his pension vehicle 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' which eventually leads me to the subject of today's rant.
And the frankly unbelievable news that a greying, gangly and deeply unpopular government employee from Ferrybridge, near Pontefract, near Leeds has become just that. A millionaire. But not in the conventional way the rest of us can only dream of. I refer to the country's first millionaire speed camera. Oh yes.
A cash-happy Gatso, clearly having an identity crisis in believing its Wayne Rooney's fruit machine, has raked in nigh-on £1,088,000 in 18 months. Reports of him blowing all his ill-gotten gains cavorting with red lights are somewhat exaggerated, but his one friend who's set to benefit from this windfall, a Mr. Anthony Blair is said to be ecstatic. The temporary camera is located, for those wishing to smash his smug face in, at temporary roadworks on the M62 near Leeds . You see instead of just earning its keep protecting road working crew, as was its job definition; it's been moonlighting snapping unsuspecting motorists. 18,000 of them it seems, given its responsible for some 50,000 points on drivers licences.
This has caused uproar in motoring group circles, and routinely condemned as dangerous, and cynical. And other words with the same meaning. Friend of Insureyourmotor.co.uk, founder of Lobby group Safe Speed and general rent-a-gob Paul Smith says; "Speed cameras increase danger because of the way they alter driver behaviour. They cause traffic to bunch and some drivers to panic brake".
He goes on to question; "Its odd that these cameras operate 24hours a day, but the road workers, who they're supposed to protect, are only on site during the day".
Hhmmm.. curiouser and curiouser said Alice Someoneorother.
And so says Captain Gatso. You may recall the caped motoring crusader and mouthpiece of Motorists Against Detection from previous articles on this channel. Then again, with your attention spans - you may not. He's positively livid about the whole damn thing when he barks; "I don't have a problem with cameras near schools; but for a temporary camera at roadwork's to take this sort of money is out of order. (Bit like a certain Man Utd Striker's one-armed bandit) The money would be better spent on old fashioned traffic policing".
Here here add Insureyourmotor.co.uk. The voice of reason.
Insureyourmotor.co.uk don't steal this amount of money off drivers. Instead, through their very cheap motor insurance policies, they relieve motorists of very small sums of wonga. The sort rubbish quiz call phone-in shows on satellite TV channels give out. Insureyourmotor.co.uk. Where the price is always right!
Date - 21/09/2006
