Speed ticket at Mach 3 in Brussels
Silly Mountain Walks
11-04-2004, 03:59
Quote:
A Belgium motorist was left stunned after authorities sent him a speeding ticket for travelling in his Mini at three times the speed of sound.
The ticket claimed the man had been caught driving at 3380 kph (2,100 mph) - or Mach 3 speed - in a Brussels suburb, a Belgian newspaper reported.
However, police later admitted that a faulty radar had been responsible for the Mini's incredible feat.
The police have since apologised to the man and promised to fix the radar.
The incident took place in December, but only came to light when Belgian prosecutors were asked to follow up the unpaid fine.
"We called the local police to find out what height the plane caught speeding along the Boulevard Lambermont was flying at," a member of the Brussels public prosecutor's office joked to Belgium's La Derniere Heure newspaper.
Police also said they had made a mistake in still sending out the ticket, given that it was impossible - even for a doughty little Mini - for a car to have travelled so fast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3613715.stm
What would the fine be for that speed?
Mentholyptus
11-04-2004, 04:06
:roll: only in Germany...
Zeppistan
11-04-2004, 04:08
Brussels moved?
Did anyone tell Dr. Evil?
:lol:
Tumaniaa
11-04-2004, 04:10
:roll: only in Germany...
No you idiot! Brussels is the capital of Norway!!!
Mentholyptus
11-04-2004, 04:15
wow, I am obviously geographically retarded...and I have a globe right here, which makes things just sad.
wow, I am obviously geographically retarded...and I have a globe right here, which makes things just sad.
What's really sad is the fact that the article says.. Belgian and Belgium. :)
Daistallia 2104
11-04-2004, 04:34
This reminds me of this story:
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/default.asp?target=funny_flight_stories.htm
Funny Flight Stories
In his book, Sled Driver, SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul writes: "I'll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (my backseater) and I were screaming across Southern California, 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace. Though they didn't really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope. I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its groundspeed."
"90 knots" Center replied.
"Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same."
"120 knots," Center answered.
"We weren't the only ones proud of our groundspeed that day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, 'Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests groundspeed readout.'
"There was a slight pause, then the response, 525 knots on the ground, Dusty".
"Another silent pause. As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my backseater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison." "Center, Aspen 20, you got a groundspeed readout for us?"
There was a longer than normal pause.... "Aspen, I show 1,742 knots"
"No further inquiries were heard on that frequency"
(1742 knot = 2.6 mach = 3,226.184 kilometer/hour)
Tumaniaa
11-04-2004, 05:24
wow, I am obviously geographically retarded...and I have a globe right here, which makes things just sad.
What's really sad is the fact that the article says.. Belgian and Belgium. :)
He may have been thrown off by the fact that Belgium is a province of Budapest
Mentholyptus
11-04-2004, 05:28
I know, I kinda skimmed the article... :oops: :oops:
If I sacrifice a n00b, will you all forgive me?
*sacrifices one anyways*
Bodies Without Organs
11-04-2004, 05:35
Not quite as much of a mistake as the one that lead one of the US TV stations to report that the space shuttle Columbia was travelling at three times the speed of light when it broke up.
It is time to design a mini that actually can drive at Mach 3, so any speeding tickets look equally unrealistic. Yes.
Mentholyptus
11-04-2004, 05:46
Not quite as much of a mistake as the one that lead one of the US TV stations to report that the space shuttle Columbia was travelling at three times the speed of light when it broke up.
Proving, once and for all, that the American public knows absolutely nothing about science. At all. And I'm not just senselessly America-bashing...I live here, unfortunately.
Daistallia 2104
11-04-2004, 06:18
Not quite as much of a mistake as the one that lead one of the US TV stations to report that the space shuttle Columbia was travelling at three times the speed of light when it broke up.
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Not quite as much of a mistake as the one that lead one of the US TV stations to report that the space shuttle Columbia was travelling at three times the speed of light when it broke up.
Wow! and I thought warp speed was only on TV.
:lol:
Spookistan and Jakalah
11-04-2004, 06:42
Not quite as much of a mistake as the one that lead one of the US TV stations to report that the space shuttle Columbia was travelling at three times the speed of light when it broke up.
Proving, once and for all, that the American public knows absolutely nothing about science. At all. And I'm not just senselessly America-bashing...I live here, unfortunately.
Maybe they were flying through some midair physics lab, and got to three times the local speed of light (which can go down to almost zero depending on where you are).