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[mrgrimsby]

Lets face it folks I aint ever going to get free subscription living on the Isle of wight am I?...
Its 15 miles wide and 24 miles long and already has 12 cameras so there isn't room for anymore!
Can't we have a ploughing competition or a carrot crunching race or even a sh**p sha**ing competition so I have a chance of availing this free subscription?
I know its not that important to have a speed camara database on a small Island but I do visit England every couple of years (once I have saved up the ferry fare).
Please consider my request administrators, thank you.

[DennisN]

You can have a competition for guessing what my signature is

You should get up a petition throughout the island to get special, hugely reduced ferry fares for IoW registered residents - that fare is daylight robbery.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[GPS_fan]

The problem for the PGPSW team is that it's a snowball effect.

It could be argued that so many other people travel along the same roads (motorways) as me and so I'm not likely to be the first to report a new camera.

If you look at it objectively, you do travel outside the Isle of Wight and it is, therefore, possible for you to come across a new camera whilst you're travelling.

With the sheer number of people looking out for and reporting new cameras and/or amendments, it could be said that you're only likely to be the first to report a new camera if it's right outside your house.

The chances of winning the jackpot in the National Lottery (Lotto or whatever you choose to call it) are extremely remore, but this doesn't entitle you to a lifetime of free tickets.

PGPSW have to draw the line somewhere and if they say you get free membership then where do they draw the line.

"No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper." Murhphy's Law

In the grand scheme of things, £2/month = 50p/week = 7p/day or £19/year = 5p/day - in that same time, how much do you spend on buying coffees, electricity to run your computer or subscribing to countless TV channels, many of which you rarely or never watch.
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[DennisN]

mrgrimsby don't believe a word from GPS_fan. Even when you have saved up to go "abroad", if you do get to be the first to see a new camera, it'll take you so long to catch the ferry back home to your computer that by the time you've reported it, pgpsw will be fed up with all the submissions that beat you to it.

So buy an annual subscription and save the 2p a day towards a lottery ticket, or to buy what I bought, only cheaper.

Remember it was my suggestion first about free ferry for residents, then you can send me your pass to borrow next time I'm that way.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[GPS_fan]

Believe whatever you want, but if you're saving 2p/day towards a lottery ticket, you're not guaranteed to end up with anything...

....but £2/month gives you all the benefits revolving around this web site


'If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.'
or
'A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.'
both quotes from Winston Churchill
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[DennisN]

Save 2p a day and send it to me - think of me as a poor deserving pensioner.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Border_Collie]

I would imagine the percentage of people on the I.O.W who have sat navs would be fairly small, therefore you have a greater chance of being the first to report a new camera there. Mind you, it could take years to verify. :P
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And NO that's NOT me in the Avatar.

[GPS_fan]

I suppose you could persuade the powers that be on the IOW to install a stack of new cameras just outside the ferry terminal to catch us 'foreigners' and then you could be the first to report each one and gain several free memberships, whilst trapping tourists in the process

You're not as isolated on the IOW as you would be if you were the proud owner of St Helens fort in the Solent - no need for speed cameras there, but it still falls within the jurisdiction of the IOW Council - although you'd have the benefit of Basement Gun Deck, Observation/Upper Gun Deck and a new access ladder incorporating anti-intruder device. Alternatively, you could try No Mans Land Fort which has the benefit of two helipads.
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[mrgrimsby]

Thank you for your frank and entertaining answers, Not many admin involved but why would they?
There is a petition to get ferry fares cut and to stop the big two (red funnel and wightlink) cartelling the whole affair .
I am one of the fixed link brigade and hope there will be a bridge/tunnel in the near future.....(no chance)
as for the cameras to catch the English as they disembark the ferries don't worry they are there (mobile) . I was caught three years ago ..they hide in the bushes so you never know where they are,,before anyone says they dont because they can't I am telling you they do because they can .

[GPS_fan]

Is it worth building a fixed link??

At the rate that Blackgang Chime etc are disappearing into the sea, Ryde Pier will be all that's left of the IOW by the time the beaurocrats do anything.
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[mrgrimsby]

Did you know you can fit everyone on the planet on the IOW ? It will be a few years until the IOW is gone...London will go underwater way before the Island erodes away. By the way I think £2 a month is a bargain too but if I can get owt for nowt I will.

[GPS_fan]

Definitely a Yorkshireman (or Scot)

There's nowt so queer as folk

[MaFt]

[mrgrimsby]

my name is mrgrimsby which is obviously not my real name and gps-fan supposes I may be scotts or yorkshire????
Please someone put him right!!!! Yorkshire,,,me!!!!!
I will pay for my subscription ...here endeth my blagg :P

[GPS_fan]

I know that Grimsby is in Lincolnshire, which isn't Yorkshire or Scotland - but when you said:

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