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Scream if you want to go faster
Sometimes you feel the government just doesn’t want your money.
‘I was pleasantly surprised not to receive a Fixed Penalty Notice,’ begins Pete Smee, describing his return from holiday in North Wales, where he was snapped speeding by a roadside camera.
That was about as good as it got. He didn’t completely escape: he soon received the final ‘Seven Days To Respond’ notice instead. So Pete wrote the cheque, checked the form, and found no address to send it to. Luckily the North Wales Police Central Ticketing Office opens for four hours a day. So he rang up to ask for an address, and was told that thousands of original notices had been lost by the Royal Mail, so if he could ring again, they would reissue the notice.
Pete asked why he should ring again to allow the police to fine him, and was told the system was suffering from a ‘malicious virus’. ‘Could whoever wrote the virus delete the reminders as well next time?’ he asks.
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