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Re: Where there's muck, there's pigs? Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:12:30 +0000 (UTC)

Guy King's best pigeon dodged hawks and farmers' guns to bring me the
following:
>The message
>from David Reid contains these words:
>
>> >The most effective way to slow drivers down is a sign that flashes the
>> >speed limit at you as you approach. Some of them also flash up "Slow
>> >down" or "Thank you", depending. No income, though, so councils don't
>> >like them.
>> >
>> Do those things really work? There are several near me and it doesn't
>> *seem* like the average motorist drives any more carefully in their
>> presence than they would otherwise. I'm also fairly sure they react to
>> cars speeding in the other direction too which seems a bit pointless.
>
>I know several young blades who've been known to compete to see who can
>get it show register the highest speed.
>
Maybe we're talking about different things then, round here there are
signs that flash up the limit if you approach them at more than the
limit.

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David Reid David@disarray.org.uk http://www.disarray.org.uk

Real men don't need to read instructions.
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