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Number plate speed camera blocker spray, is it a scam?

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  • 23-03-2007 12:16am
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    Bradidup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭


    I have seen these sprays at motor shows that you spray over your number plate, It coats the plate with a laquer that supposingly reflects speed camera flashes. Im curious to know are they legal and are they effective or are they just a scam?

    http://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/11563


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    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Maybe I'm talking out my ar$e, but is it possible that a speed camera can take a photo during daylight hours without the need for a flash - just like a regular camera?
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    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,586 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    they work on camera flashes, but the digital pic can easily be adjusted to see the number. and of course they do nothing to save you from the vans etc which don't use a flash.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    this has been covered previously here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055014610&referrerid=&highlight=photo+blocker+spray


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    overdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭overdriver


    They will probably prosecute you for using it, too. Saw on one of thsoe UK Tv shows a guy getting done because his number didn't show up on the video of the cop car, though it was ok to the naked eye. So the flash might not be an issue.


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    Bradidup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Bradidup


    colm_mcm wrote:
    this has been covered previously here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055014610&referrerid=&highlight=photo+blocker+spray

    Im only a newbie on this site, wasn,t aware it was mentioned last year,

    Ill leave it up to the mods if they want to leave it or lock it.


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    Ratchet
    Registered Users Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Ratchet


    spray is waste of money. put this money to buy better tyres.


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    every camera van would get you anyway


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    Seth Brundle
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    copacetic wrote:
    they work on camera flashes, but the digital pic can easily be adjusted to see the number. and of course they do nothing to save you from the vans etc which don't use a flash.
    I believe that they cannot 'adjust' the pics - technically then they are tampering with the evidence.


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    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,660 ✭✭✭maidhc


    kbannon wrote:
    I believe that they cannot 'adjust' the pics - technically then they are tampering with the evidence.

    I think it is only in CSI where they can make a low res grainy picture look sharp and detailed. The issue of "touching up" has never been litigated here as far as I know. It would be interesting if it was though.


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    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    copacetic wrote:
    they work on camera flashes, but the digital pic can easily be adjusted to see the number. and of course they do nothing to save you from the vans etc which don't use a flash.

    I thought that a digital photo has no legal standing in the Irish legal system and that the only photographic evidence accepted was film only. The idea being that digital photos are too easily manipulated to be considered good enough evidence.

    Plus weren't some of these speed cameras using film and the film would be used up in jig time leaving half of them out of action alot of the time. I heard before that clear womens nail varnish has the same affect as this spray? Also for anyone caught speeding if it was a private camera just don't pay it as they are illegal under the Irish Constitution. Having speed camera's on motorways and good roads is ridiculous anyway when the boy-racers (Modified Subaru-brigade) speedsters on the back roads should be nailed with an iron fist.


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