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For Sale signs stopping drivers in their tracks... not to view hot properties but because they look just like speed cameras
By Daily Mail Reporter - Last updated at 10:04 AM on 26th May 2010

An estate agent who prides herself on 'having a wealth of experience and knowledge in marketing' has been getting her business noticed for all the wrong reasons.
Jennie Jones's distinctive black and yellow 'For Sale' signs have been fooling motorists into thinking they are speed cameras.
The signs, which have been erected outside properties in Suffolk by the local agent, have been prompting drivers to brake as they pass by.
From a distance, the signs bear a remarkable resemblance to the yellow boxes that contain speed cameras, and it seems their presence is having a dramatic effect on speeding.
As cars near the signs, drivers are applying their brakes in response to the unmissable canary yellow square.

In Leicestershire, a disgruntled resident has erected a fake speed camera made out of a cornflake box to force drivers to slow down.
The signs, which have been erected outside properties in Suffolk by the local agent, have been prompting drivers to brake as they pass by.
The dummy speed camera, which has been painted yellow and black, was fixed to a wooden telegraph pole over the weekend.
It is believed the resident who made it was fed up at drivers repeatedly ignoring the 30mph speed limit on Saxby Road, Melton Mowbray, Leics.
One driver said: 'I thought it was the real thing and anyone coming round the bend from the traffic lights with Norman Way will catch it out the corner of their eye.
From a distance, the signs bear a remarkable resemblance to the yellow boxes that contain speed cameras 'I think it would be a good thing if it helped to slow some people down.'

A Leicestershire County Council spokeswoman said: 'We expect motorists to drive at appropriate speeds and do appreciate residents' concerns but don't encourage people to take action by putting up their own speed camera.'

Have you not noticed yourself observing all manner of things that are yellowish as potential cameras ?

Why, because you're speeding at the time?

I've watched others drive past cameras (as a passenger), their checking the speedo 3-4 times on close approach is a regular occurrence - even though they were within the limit in the first place.

There's a camera on a 40mph road which I regularly use. Very often I see the car, or cars, in front of me doing around 30mph and they STILL brake when they reach the camera.

That'll be propaganda put out by anti-automated monitoring organisations like Safe Speed that cameras will do you even if you're not speeding.

No, that would be the ACTUAL experience of PEOPLE WHO I KNOW WELL.

That'll be propaganda put out by anti-automated monitoring organisations like Safe Speed that cameras will do you even if you're not speeding.

Hmm, I've driven through hundreds of speed traps hundreds of times at the limit and never got a ticket. Nor crashed off the road staring at my speedo.

Hmm, I've driven through hundreds of speed traps hundreds of times at the limit and never got a ticket. Nor crashed off the road staring at my speedo.

Perhaps not fixed cameras, but mobile cameras, definitely.
But just for the record, neither have I.

Also just for the record, I've been driving for the best part of 40 years, and I've NEVER hit a pedestrian - come to think of it, I don't know anyone who has.
By your reckoning, I should have killed a few hundred by now.

There's a camera on a 40mph road which I regularly use. Very often I see the car, or cars, in front of me doing around 30mph and they STILL brake when they reach the camera.

Why, because you're speeding at the time?

That'll be propaganda put out by anti-automated monitoring organisations like Safe Speed that cameras will do you even if you're not speeding.

Hmm, I've driven through hundreds of speed traps hundreds of times at the limit and never got a ticket. Nor crashed off the road staring at my speedo.

That'll be propaganda put out by anti-automated monitoring organisations like Safe Speed that cameras will do you even if you're not speeding.

As a quickie, if I may, sort of about signs and not worth a separate thread...

I don’t know if anyone else is getting this in your area but with England fever going crazy I have seen many of these damn flag things littering the road. They are meant to stick in the window somehow, but clearly they are not secure.
I don’t know how they got past legislation because I think they’re a hazard myself. Try going around a bend on your bike and running over one

That's my moan for today..

i got distracted by vote liberal placards put up at the edge of farmland, luckily i quickly realised that the placards where the wrong shade of yellow