I seem to remember something similar in the UK where the rider deliberately gave a middle finger while setting off forward facing cameras.

With England being such a law abiding nation, no-one ever commits any crime here and therefore the police have no other worthwhile work to do, they tracked the rider down by identifying him by the combination of bike, leathers and helmet, just to make an example of him.

Good to see the German police having some common sense and not wasting taxpayers money.

well... OK... if you are tempted to try to get a middle finger flash on purposes for a extended times just for the fun of it while in Berlin... now the local police may get the order to look out for you.... if they manage to get your registration no. they may even try to set up a "warrant of apprehension" at the border's... (but you know there are no borders any more)...
"I don't want to support you doing anything stupid right"
I know about a case where a Swiss guy done exact that, erecting his middle finger at any given traffic light a few years ago in a car.... well he got fined at the border and banned for live entering German territory... (bad luck.. he was driving i his car with a registration no. on the front)

now just to clarify the situation about the cops.
the police is mainly targeting criminal action in any kind as we all know...

but the local offences like traffic lights and rude parking lays in the hand of the local community warrants and office, managed by the council, means the office for safety, descend behaver and health.... the police only get called in for help as a enforced power if needed.
any way the individual police squaddy will take action if they notice wrong behaver of a civilian anywhere noticed, like hiding in the bushes behind a traffic light and waiting spider like for victims....

anyway have fun... hope you are a good one hand rider....
spooky

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The trouble is that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.

I rode a bike for two years while stationed in Germany. Prior to the bike arriving from the States I drove a rental car and got nailed by one of the speeding cameras. I went to pay the fine after receiving a notice in the mail. The technician at the police office was very pleased to have me in her office and pulled up my citation photos on her computer. There was my license plate, my yawning mug, and a readout of my speed. An airtight case. While paying my fine, I asked what they do about identifying motorcycles with no front plate. She started to say something along the lines of "There's nothing we can do" until she glanced down at my motorcycle boots and quickly started blabbering about helmet color and facial features. Obvious bullstuff to cover over the gaping hole in their system.

In the following two years, I commuted every weekend from Ramstein to Geneva and identified several locations with speed cameras which constantly flashed me as I sped by at "slighty" illegal speeds. Not a single ticket ever showed up. I did get one from the Swiss for zooming through a tunnel at 2x the posted limit. Evidently they use cameras that get you back and front. The French, on the times I took back roads across their lovely country, were more effective. One concealed car was measuring speeds and a group of four or five officers a few clicks down the road were flagging cars down into a layby to write a ticket which required immediate payment. They were even nice enough to drive me to a local ATM to get more cash to pay the fine!

You've got the like the German police, second in friendliness of service only to the Irish Garda and Moroccan Gendarmerie IMHO. The fines used to be quite reasonable, but I hear they are a bit steep now.

If you want a useless bunch of armed tax collectors, try Spain.

Andy

There is a famous series of fixed speed traps at the "Elzer Berg" section of the A3 Autobahn in Hesse, Central Germany, where speed is limited to 100 km/h.

This is a 6 lane straight descent that really invites to push the accelerator.

Rumour has it that above 200 km/h the cameras were only shooting empty fotos, so the technology had to be raised to capture shots up to 300 km/h.

Well, 300 km/h is not such an unusual speed on a German Autobahn... For that, I love the country!