TERROR TO ROAD HOGS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 10 August 1920, Page 5

TERROR TO ROAD HOGS.

A new method of enforcing the speed limit for motor carsl is being tried in Greece (says Reuter’s Athen’s correspondent). Policemen are posted along the main roads armed with long planks studded with long. sharp nails. When a car Which is exceeding the speed limit is seen approaching they drop the plank in front of it. If the car runs over the plank the tyres are inevitably punctured, am? if is! ‘br~ou;,rht up short, wh_cxl the police serve their summons, and the owner of the car not only has to pay for the rePair Of his t‘Yi‘es ,but is'also liable to a: fine. It is argued that a car '§oing at the legal speetl would be able to Pllll up before reaching the plank. The chief of- police finds that -t.hi_«3 method ofmenforciing the speed IHn_lt is a much cheaper one" than the ,mamte‘nance of a 4 ot<7r cyéle squad,§ and it has the &£ili'ona,] advantage; 2: P“°‘7}ng the crime and capturing a;m:i::l::q‘l9'nt'; Saomething may be curacy himth 9 Domt of new -of ac- . _ : _ 9T9 can be no doubt as *0 its .eflectiveness.