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Speeding fine?
05/07/2006 15:02 - (SA)
London - British motorist John Hopwood
concocted a novel scheme to avoid payment when he was given a
speeding fine - simply switch the road signs.
Hopwood, 44, had been snapped by a speed camera breaking the
50 km/h per hour limit.
So he went to a 65 km/h area, removed a red warning
sign, drove back to the 50 km/h area, attached it to a lamp post
and took a photo as "proof" that his offence of driving at 77 km/h had not been so bad.
However, suspicion soon arose when other drivers started querying the sign.
"This was a stupid act, bound to fail," Judge Anthony Ensor at Manchester Crown Court was quoted by media as telling
Hopwood, who admitted trying to pervert justice.
He was ordered to serve an intermittent custodial
sentence of 28 weeks which requires him to spend his weekends
behind bars and told to pay £2 763 in legal costs.
- Reuters
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