Hoist By His Own Petard

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http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5455JK20090506?sp=true

Speed camera boss banned for, er, speeding

Wed May 6, 2009 1:22pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A senior executive at a speed camera firm was banned from driving for six months Wednesday after admitting speeding at more than 100 mph on a 70 mph limit dual carriageway.

Tom Riall, a divisional chief executive at Serco, was recorded driving at 103 mph in his blue Volvo on the A14 in Newmarket, Suffolk, just before 1 p.m. on January 4.

Riall was sentenced at a hearing at Sudbury Magistrates' Court, the Press Association reported.

Riall is head of Serco's Home Affairs division, which has installed Gatso speed cameras at around 4,500 sites around Britain since 1992.​

 

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I love it. And in a Volvo too!

 

[RedTomato]

Nice clip

My dad did 130mph in his Volvo on the London-Dover road at about 3am - and got overtaken by a cop in an even bigger Volvo...

 

[iJohnHenry]

I heard about this. Instead of schadenfreude, I enjoy the fact that it actually works as intended.

Wish we had them here, but there is insufficient political spinal material to allow it to happen.

 

[arkitect]

I heard about this. Instead of schadenfreude, I enjoy the fact that it actually works as intended.

Wish we had them here, but there is insufficient political spinal material to allow it to happen.

Although he was not actually caught by a camera…

Riall, from Ufton Nervet, near Reading, was caught speeding in his blue Volvo by a police patrol car on the eastbound dual carriageway just before 1300 BST, the court heard.

Link

 

[iJohnHenry]

Thanks.

"Recorded", with no further explanation, steered me in the direction intended by the posted article.

 

[mkrishnan]

I love it. And in a Volvo too!

Maybe he thinks he's Edward Cullen?

He'd better be a good sport about it, in any event.

 

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