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Wednesday, 12 May 2004
Help !! ... I'm Being Triangulated (link)

On the way home form work on Monday night I took my usual route home which involves a nice wide 80km/h straight where one can safely give the throttle a bit of a twist before approaching the lights and usual traffic queue. It was quite dark as I blasted along the road, all of a sudden during an overtaking manouvere....

B O O O F F F F  f  f  f  f ....

A bright light bursts out of the back of a non-descript van parked on the side of the road ... stuns me temporarily ... I begin to panic about the prospect of a speed-camera fine, then relax as I remember that I'm on a vehicle that is not required to have a front-mounted license plate ... HEHEhehe... Brilliant !!!

Then onto last night. This time I'm taking the alternate route home and on a section of 60km/h dual-carriageway with little or no traffic in the way I open up the throttle a little, safely pass a car and ...

B O O O F F F F  f  f  f  f ....

Would you believe it, the same friggin van, parked on the same side of the road (fortunately) another fine avoided. Now its Kawasaki 2 - Speed Camera zero !!!  But then I start to think, jeeze, bit of a coincidence that the same van picks me up in different parts of town, and the second time a bit closer to home.

So now I'm thinkin that the sneaky camera operator is using some fancy triangulation technique to narrow down my final destination.

I'm not paranoid am I????  AM I ????    :-)


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Todays Reading...
o Steam motorcycle
o UFO Area: Our Special Reports
o SOA Facts
o xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
o Helen Clarks marijuana speech 1994 Waikato University


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