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Police in Israel pictured in 2014 Shutterstock/Elena Dijour

Israeli police caught tampering with speed cameras to cut their workload

In some cases drivers were able to do four times the speed limit without being caught.

ISRAELI POLICE INUNDATED with speeding tickets decided to limit their workload by tampering with the cameras that catch drivers in the act, a government report has said today.

Police changed settings on cameras to drastically increase speed limits, even quadrupling it in at least one case, according to the report by the state comptroller, cited by Israeli media.

On Jerusalem’s Hebron Road, a major thoroughfare, radars were changed to allow for speeds of 150 kilometres per hour instead of 80.

Along Tel Aviv’s Namir Boulevard, drivers were allowed in theory to floor it, with the limit raised to 250 kilometres per hour instead of 60.

Police tampered with the cameras because they were unable to cope with the influx of speeding tickets that resulted from a new network of cameras, said the report by the comptroller, which tracks the activities and spending of government departments.

The government decided in 2005 to install 300 radars at a cost of 100 million shekels (€23 million).

According to the report, police also regularly cancel speeding tickets for members of the force even when they receive them while off-duty.

Some 1,400 tickets were cancelled, amounting to more than half of those given to officers between 2012 and 2015, it said.

- © AFP, 2016

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    Mute Ally O'Rourke
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    Oct 27th 2015, 3:58 PM

    Dear sweet lord Jesus, who even has time to go arund looking for things to be pisssed off about? Would most normal people look twice at the gap in the babies nappy? What a totally stupid woman.

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    Mute Malcolm McCarthy
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:02 PM

    ally I have to share your sentiment

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    Mute stephen
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:17 PM

    New level of creepiness.

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    Mute Ronan Mac Gearailt
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    Oct 27th 2015, 6:43 PM

    A decisive response to the issue ” Does my bum look big in this?”

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    Mute Stephen
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:05 PM

    Why bother running an article about something that isn’t really news at all since the claims of the individual in question were refuted by the manufacturer and the “experts” over on reddit couldn’t come to a conclusion on it.

    I personally find it a bit more strange that a person would spend that much time looking for something to be offended by.

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:26 PM

    Did you know: 60,000 migrants entered Slovenia last week.

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    Mute Stephen
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:38 PM

    I did actually but I didn’t find out from any Irish media outlet.

    Strange how there seems to be no more coverage of the statistics of the migrant crisis or the important events happening around Europe as a result of the “migrants”.

    Its almost like the Irish media don’t want people to know what is happening.

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    Mute Scarr
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:40 PM

    There’s definitely a wall of silence in terms of reporting. If you were to go by the journal you’d swear the migrant crisis was all wrapped up.

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:44 PM
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    Mute Chris Maynard
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:10 PM

    omg you didn’t just post an article from breitbart! you do realise 99.9% of the tripe they claim is ultra conservative right-wing american propaganda, right? the guy who runs the thing is a tea-party nut job who’s been cited more than once for publicly using racist, homophobic, and islamophobic hate speech.

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    Mute Scarr
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:12 PM

    is the article incorrect in some way?

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    Mute Chris Maynard
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:21 PM

    i would never bother reading something from that website. that’s like asking someone to actually listen to an alex jones radio show with a straight face and an open mind, or telling me that i should take something fox news is reporting seriously. can’t be done when you know it’s a crock of shite from the word “go”.

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    Mute Chris Maynard
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:21 PM

    and maybe if you started googling refugee crisis instead of calling those poor people migrants, you’d have better luck getting around your “wall of silence”

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    Mute Scarr
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:30 PM

    If you’ve not read it you can’t comment on its veracity. Also, you seem to infer that a right wing news source is somehow less trustworthy than a left wing news source (hello, journal). Breitbart UK, has a number of writers, its not logical to assume that they 100% agree with everything their american owner believes. It does seem odd that there are multiple reports every day on the likes of Breitbart but nothing here, so yeah, wall of silence. I find that, breitbart , doesn’t blame migrants for coming, they do squarely blame Merkel though, however, they do strongly highlight the negative impacts of the migrant crisis. I’ll personally stick with migrant crisis as the majority are that, according to fullfact.org.

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    Mute Chris Maynard
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:36 PM

    clearly you’re not googling hard enough. here, let me do that for you http://bfy.tw/2Ukw

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    Mute Uncle Denise
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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:59 PM

    I do now, and I read it here on the journal. In an article about baby’s thighs. I wouldn’t have read that on reddit.

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    Mute Stephen
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    Oct 27th 2015, 6:14 PM

    Breitbart London is literally just the polar opposite of The Guardian. I would take both publications with a pinch of salt, however it is up to you ,the reader, to check the sources and statistics within those articles and verify their authenticity.

    Mindlessly crying “oh my Breitbart!! I would never read that because I don’t agree with the opinion pieces!” is a rather disingenuous position to take. The content of the articles still have to match up to scrutiny. I will say the UK version of it isn’t anywhere nearly as bad as the US one.

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    Mute Niall O' Sullivan
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:15 PM

    “A US BABYCARE company stands accused today of digitally manipulating a ‘thigh gap’ onto a toddler for an advertising campaign.”

    OH NOOOO!!!

    Fcuk of will ya.

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:36 PM

    Oh man I love the gap between those emaciated stumps that can barely hold her body weight up and the way those size zero knickers hang of her exposed pelvic bone- SAID NO MAN EVER

    Women set these standards and expectations themselves. It’s not feminist, sexist or oppressed by the standards of the opposite sex in the slightest.

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    Mute Carol C.
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    Oct 27th 2015, 11:18 PM

    You’re either a troll or you know absolutely nothing about this subject. You’d be best staying away from the keyboard. The funny thing is you, a man (or male at least), have just mocked thin women. Yet you blame women for setting those standards. The responsibility for encouraging healthy self esteem and body image falls on *people*, not on one particular gender. Think before you type, mate.

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:42 PM

    Did you know there was a coup in Portugal last week?. You would never know as nonsensical stories such as this one get covered instead.

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    Mute Scarr
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:46 PM

    why write much about that when there’s thigh gaps and the worlds longest baguette to dedicate time to?

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    Mute Mick Kenny
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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:09 PM

    not the first time a huggies campaign, a few years ago they insulted thousands of dads but portraying use as incompetent idiots. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/03/huggies-pulls-ads-after-dads-insulted/

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:36 PM

    Some people have thigh gaps, deal with it.

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:40 PM

    Thigh gaps, no gaps? Who the f@xk cares

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 27th 2015, 7:32 PM

    Plant a hedge then?

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:52 PM

    Mind the Gap

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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:00 PM

    I don’t understand why women are fascinated with thigh gaps and stuff, we men couldn’t care less.. Ain’t nothing wrong with thick thighs ;) lol

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Oct 27th 2015, 7:31 PM

    Unless the nappy was full like Stewie’s??? lol.

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    Oct 27th 2015, 5:01 PM

    So what…..

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:19 PM

    ..

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    Oct 27th 2015, 4:07 PM

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