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New Speed Cameras that Look Like Garbage Bins

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According to @tafteesh_q8, a new speed camera was spotted in Ahmadi that looks like a garbage bin. If these start popping up everywhere then I might consider investing in a decent radar detector since I get way more speeding tickets then I should be anyway.

Thanks @Ahmad_Al_Awadhi

Update: Based on the comments it seems the photo above is not in Kuwait.

38 replies on “New Speed Cameras that Look Like Garbage Bins”

Why promote the use of a radar detector Mr ‘Mayor of Salmiya’? Drive like a civilised person at the speed limit, last thing Kuwait needs is more people dying on the roads.

This comment doesn’t justify breaking speed limits. For once accept that you are actually breaking a law when over speeding

That is the discussion. You’re indirectly promoting breaking the law and saying you do so as well.

Why can you never accept that you’re not always right?

Law is just a guide-line to keep everyone safe. What Mark actually means is that … Morons will be Morons in limit or out of it.

Rule 1: Get ahead of the vehicle in front of you and never stay behind anyone for long.

Explanation; Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot. Just blow his eardrums away with your horn, push your paddle hard and zoom ahead of him. Naturally, anyone driving faster than you is a maniac. So you need to race him and leave him behind just to show him how mad he is. Exception to the rule: You can continue to drive behind a car if a pair of beautiful eyes is looking at you through the rear view mirror.

Rule 2: Never stop for a smaller vehicle or a pedestrian (Might is right and so is waasta).

Corollary to the rule: Get away from the path of a bigger vehicle, push into a small one immediately if you see a bigger one in your way. Explanation: Pedestrians are pests, and they don’t have a right of way. Just shoo them off with your horn.

Rule 3: Take the shortest path to your destination. Just point your vehicle from Point A to point B and roll it in that direction via the shortest path. Don’t worry about the side of the road you are to drive on.

Explanation: If you have come from the Americas, drive on the right, if from the UK, drive on the left and from anywhere else you can just do whatever you want to do man. It can be left, right, centre, left of centre, right of centre. Once you get a hang of it and if you have got a good trainer, you will soon be able to manoeuvre from left to right in a jiffy, and vice versa of course. Note: You can also follow the side of the road that matches your political ideology.

Rule 4: Say no to lane driving. Lane driving is for morons – Ignore the white, yellow or blue lines on the road, and all other weird paintings thereof.

Explanation: Lanes are meant to slow you down and restrict your freedom. Just see which lane is moving faster than yours and just barge into that lane. Don’t worry, you can always come back to your lane if the other one slows down.

Rule 5: Approach main roads and highways at a high speed

Explanation: Before approaching a main road at a T-junction or at a square or a circle, just put your vehicle in high gear, pump up the jam, and zoom into it. Unnecessary stopping wastes fuel and harms the country’s economy. Exception to the Rule: In case the road ahead is too clogged with traffic, you can slowly sneak on to the wrong side of a main road and diagonally point your vehicle towards the other side.

Rule 6: Stop at a traffic light only when essential.

Beep! Beep! Cameras, but keep your engines gunning … no one dare be infront when light turns green.

Rule 5: Jumpstart from the stop line – If you have stopped at a red light, leave about 10 seconds before the light turns green.

Explanation: Starting from the stop-line is like being on the F1 Grid. The one who moves first has an advantage. So keep watching the lights at other cross-roads. As soon as the other turns orange, it is time for you to jumpstart the morons standing behind you and race ahead. Also, if some nincompoop is blocking your path just blow some sense into him with your horn till he moves.

Rule 6: Blow that horn – Blow the horn before, during and after overtaking a vehicle.

Explanation: You must be sure that no one is caught on the wrong foot with your nimble driving. Give them a prior warning before you surprise them with your moves so that they can’t blame you for any mishap that might happen. Note: Sound Pollution is not affecting Global warming.

Rule 7: Helmets and Safety Belts are banned

Helmets and Safety Belts exert undue stress on the driver and are hereby withdrawn with immediate effect due to considerations related to security. Helmets and Safety belts make it difficult for security agencies to identify terrorists and their ammunition belts. Further, helmets are an international conspiracy to discourage our traditional Guthras. Helmets are to be replaced by Turbans and Guthras with immediate effect.

You can give yourself as much excuses as you want but you can’t call yourself civilized while breaking the law. Period.

If you’re on the Gulf Road driving normally but you are driving 90km/h instead of 80 does that make you uncivilized? Because you’re technically breaking the law doing that.

If the signs say 80 then I drive 80. If the signs say 40 then I drive 40. Driving faster than the speed limit set by the state is breaking the law and a sign of disrespect to its rules, which is an uncivilised behaviour.

Sometimes people drift away or are not careful and drive faster than the speed limit. The speeding ticket is a reminder for them to be more alert and careful when driving next time.

But sometimes people want to break the law on purpose, for example, by investing in a radar detector. These people are the most uncivilised.

If MOI was so up tight about people speeding then they would change all the cameras to the actual pseed limit rather than anywhere from 10-20KMH over the limit. Probably only about 10% of the cameras are triggered by the posted speed limit and those are on the Gulf RD(25). Hell traffic cops on 30 and 40, South of Ring 6, let cars travel 140KMH and sometimes a little higher depending on how heavy the traffic is.

Radar detectors may prove to be a bigger problem if detected
There is equipments that can detect the presence of a detector!
So a detector detect what should detect a camera…what a cluster of f***

Other than how you’ll obtain it in the first place, you cannot use SHIP AND SHOP for that 😛

Sure another way to be detected, is being seen by a COP directly (sure while not moving)

I usually use common sense, if I know the road, I know where they “usually” put their gizmos
They will never ever put a camera unless there is a sign to remind you about road speed, so I slow down if I found a sign with low visibility to surroundings on new road for me

Every time I get a ticket I do a study to know how I took it to evade this problem later on
Do that work? I only got 4 speeding tickets in more than 6 years driving in Kuwait ( 2 20 KD and 2 50 KD)

Good luck with those, you’ll get a text with:
1- speed
2-time
3- location
Within 30 seconds of traffic infringement, mainly found in Saudi Arabia. They go by the name of saher.

Opps I bumped it now it’s monitoring the bush behind it.
If it is adbandoned can you put it in your truck and sell it at the friday market?

Oops I bumped it now it’s monitoring the bush behind it.
If it is abandoned can you put it in your truck and sell it at the Friday market?

Hilarious. Definitely not Kuwait. They don’t have enough trash cans to clean up right now why use just a scarce resource as cameras?

This is at Qatar Foundation, where several american universities have set up campuses. The speed limit on the road there is 40 and sometimes 30… I have driven past it many times and its only operational when manned.

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