New Zealand Police..

[photomike666]

Then there was the one were a couple of guys to the lic plates off of a police parked at the side of the road, put them on their car and did repeated passes in front of the speed camera.
Again don't know how true it is.

I thought that was in Canberra...

Chinese whispers....

what actually happened down here a few years ago was this.

Radar vans are deployed around the city in specific locations for the *first* time in Canberra's history....

They are easily visible because they are big white Mercedes ? vans with heavily tinted windows....

A car-load of young hoons pulls up next to the van, to speak to the operator about the new radar equipment.....and while the radar operator has his attention diverted, one of the boys sneaks up to the front of the van, and steals the front number plate.....

They then drive away with the sign, di a U-turn up the road, drive back down the expressway and stop - and remove their front plate, and replace it with the plate off the van.....

They then proceed to drive up and back, about 17 ? times, speeding past the van....

Which of course takes 17 photos of a car with a number plate that belongs to the radar operator......and the system mails 17 speeding notices to the radar operator van ...

*That* is basically what happened down here a few years ago.

Anmd where exactly were you when all this took place Dave?

[corvus2606]

A few years ago was mid 2004,
one of my school mates knew the radar operator...

he ended up in a lot of trouble