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For those of you thinking the image may not have been flipped, google earth has the answer!
Photo looks like it was a handheld shot given position.
If it was flipped this means the driver took it w with camera in hand. How do we know the vehicle was stationary when photo was taken? The fact it was flipped suggests they are covering this up.
And many twitters mentioned that 1) the image was flipped, making it highly likely that 2) the driver took the picture, making it highly likely that 3) they are a sanctimonious, law-breaking arse of low intelligence.
The vigil and ghost bike installation in memory of Harry Sievey is on Monday night at 6pm at Withington Library.
Longsight police also flipped the photo - the bike's derailleur as illustrated above is clearly on the wrong side - which suggests that the vehicle driver was also using a phone camera, and someone local later tweeted a photo of the same street as it really looks.
I can see that the photo is flipped but I'm not certain that this indicates that the photo was taken by the driver. To me it looks like the camera is too close to the kerb to be on the driver side. Maybe it was taken by a passenger or maybe it was a fixed camera on the vehicle.
Could be... But why flip it?
The photo is taken across the centre of the vehicle's dash - the centre vent is clearly visible.
Once the photo is flipped back the correct way it is obvious it was taken from the right front seat - in a typical UK RHD vehicle, that's the driver.
also no proof the car was moving at the time.
However, why the need to flip the image?
What does that mean? If you are driving that car you shouldn't be on your phone, full stop!
is he driving or is he parked with the engine off? are must he get out of the car to take a picture even with the engine off?
Parking on double yellow lines? Surely not. Everyone knows that only taxi drivers are allowed to do that!
This is just another ignorant tosspot in a uniform, who probably shares a brain cell with these thickos in Hampshire.
I doubt it was flipped deliberately. If it was taken in selfie mode the picture is automatically reversed (try it and see, take a picture with some writing or something in it then look at the image).
Could easily have been taken by someone in the car leaning over or using the camera the wrong way round.
Either way it's a fairly petty thing to pull him over and "strongly advise" him for, not like he's hooning it down a street full of shoppers or schoolkids. Longsight is a dreadful place to ride, the roads are like a bombsite in places. Not so much potholes as small craters.
GMP Longsight got enough sarcasm on Twitter for them to hopefully realise their errors. A day later they posted a picture of a car embedded in a brick wall and got a string of responses all about if the driver was "strongly advised" and why wasn't the wall wearing hi-viz and stuff. Most amusing.