Good info there Jamie.
Paul,
You have been sucker punched Im afraid mate. Classic pig bully boy tactics.
With relevance to the jammer thing, this is a double edged sword. If you were overtaking a lorry at the time then you are perfectly within the law to exceed the speed limit momentarily to ensure a safe manouver before slowing back down to the limit again, this doesnt mean blowing the doors off an old biddy at 120 in a 40zone, but upto 60mph in a 40would not make a copper blink if it was obvious what you are doing. I found this out having stopped to speak to a cop with a blowdryer having done exactly that and he said I was fine and it was standard procedure to let people overtake in safety.
Laser rifles dont take two readings to average out over a large distance exactly, they just take a quick double reading to work out the speed you are doing (distance over time equals speed obviously). What happens if you have a jammer is that the laser gives a false reading or error code which takes even a well trained plod a few seconds to respond to which gives you a chance to practice a nice safe emergency deceleration as your jammer will have gone off, but also then turned itself off so that it doesnt attract suspicion by jamming plod a second time once he has sorted himself out and has another go.
However, a side effect to this is that wiley plods are now using the laser guns in a new way. They effecticely use them as a sophisticated vascar system using the laser's range finding abilities. Anyone who has sold a house recently will have seen some spotty teenager in Next's finest measuring up their rooms with a laser tape measure. Well the rifles the police have are just as effective over greater distances, and they can be used in a setting that allows plod to squeeze the trigger once as you pass for example cats eye 1. A second squeeze of the trigger a few seconds later as you pass tyre mark on the road 2 gives said copper his distance, and time components and the rest is a simple calculation done by the laser gun which tells him the bacon sandwiches are on the sergent as he has just caught public enemy number one for the twentieth time that morning. !!
I wouldnt plan on selling the cars just yet Bas, I think as long as they havent got a nice glossy 10x8 of your ugly mug tooling along the superhighway at warp8 then you have a good fighting chance of getting away with it.
Dont forget that there are a hundred and one other things for them to get wrong as well. They could lose your paperwork, the calibration certificate from Gatso, miss a deadline, forget to write to you for a few mionths (scot free in six months if they get amnesia you know !!)etc etc.
Get the old solicitor on the case asking for every piece of information known to man, specs of signs, whether there is some other technicality we are all overlooking at the moment.
Best of luck, and if the worst comes to the worst dont plead hardship and suffering for yourself as a mitigating factor. This only encourages them further as they feel your penance will be better learnt. Explain how your kids wont get to school, and you do work for charity that means you are the only one who can drive the bus for the old folks, and you six staff will lose their livelihoods and become drug dealing hookers without your employing them, and your the local lifeboat skipper desperately needing your car to save the poor unfortunates at the weathers mercy, and there will be a great flood, and famine.......and locusts !!!
You get the idea !!! Hardship for you is just punishment, hardship for others is an anti tree hugging neo fascist heresy that cannot be accepted. !!!!!
Best of luck mate.
J.