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Ian Pearson - 30/12/06 at 09:30 PM

Any of you any knowledge of this product and it's legality?

Safe Plate

macnab - 30/12/06 at 09:40 PM

Not legal, none are even if the ever worked.

Loads of these miracle products on the go and all are complete rubbish.

Besides the cameras look straight up the road. The cars off to one side so the flash reflection isn't actually back at the camera but up the road. For the reflection to affect the exposure the car would have to be directly in front of the camera (i.e. on the grass, just like how the car is in their pictures) thats how they get round the reflective plate problem on a standard car.

Off course they don’t mention that on the site, expensive water in a bottle. I like the statement that you can’t replicate it with your own camera, why on earth not?!? All they have done is deliberately over exposed the pictures themselves…


[Edited on 30/12/06 by macnab]

donut - 30/12/06 at 10:59 PM

£25 a tin and it probably doesn't work anyway

Jon Ison - 30/12/06 at 11:30 PM

As most of us know where the fixed sites are and if your running snooper or the likes you do for sure its the vans that are the main threat, these don't flash.

I wouldn't be too sure it works either, like the stuff you see on a lot of plates that looks like a dark/dirty mark, that don't work either.

MikeRJ - 31/12/06 at 12:08 AM

Illegal, you'd be up on a "perverting course of justice" charge if caught, and if it really did work you'd almost certainly be caught as it'd be very obvious when a copper passes your car and the number plate goes blank.

zetec7 - 31/12/06 at 12:29 AM

As a retired copper, who spent several years running various forms of photoradar and red light cameras (Gatso, amoung others), I can tell you that the stuff doesn't work at all. Actually, we found that the plate shows up better with the spray than without it - under atmospheric conditions that normally makes plates hard to read, the spray makes the plate nice and clear on the photo

macnab - 31/12/06 at 01:01 AM

‘under atmospheric conditions that normally makes plates hard to read’

Ahha!

there you go, fit a fog machine!!

a huge one at the front, drive in a cloud.

zetec7 - 31/12/06 at 03:03 AM

well...uhhh...that would work...you might be inclined to use a radar unit to tell where you're going....

Ferg - 31/12/06 at 10:36 AM

I believe this stuff works though.

SeaBass - 31/12/06 at 12:07 PM

I'm told this also works...

Ian Pearson - 1/1/07 at 07:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ferg
I believe this stuff works though.



JoelP - 1/1/07 at 09:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by SeaBass
I'm told this also works...



two good reasons why not to do that! One its arson, possibly reckless arson in a public place (or whatever the actualy offence is worded as), plus two the film is fire proof nowadays, i cant actually remember if its in a fire proof box or if the images are transmitted digitally to a secure location, but i read somewhere that destroying the camera is no longer a solution.

To be honest though, if you dont see a fluorescent speed camera as you approach then you probably arent paying enough attention anyway!

macnab - 1/1/07 at 10:13 PM

you wouldn't be a copper would you??

actually torching them works just fine, if you do it before hand.