The two-day blitz also yielded some

bizarre results, including a man who used a disabled permit and a prosthetic limb to plea for leniency from a camera operator after being detected speeding on Brunswick Road, Brunswick.

Police said the driver approached the operator, carrying a disabled permit in his left hand and an apparent prosthetic limb on his right-hand side.

But later, the man dropped his disabled permit and then his prosthetic limb.

The camera operator watched as the man said "bugger it", and pushed his fully working right arm through the sleeve of his jumper, picked up the limb and the permit and walked off.

Five speed cameras were used during the crackdown in the Moreland area between 11pm and 7am on January 22 and 23.

From the huge haul of speedsters, 34 were detected doing 25kmh or more over the speed limit.

During the operation:

■A 20-year-old from Broadmeadows was caught failing to indicate as he cut in front of an unmarked police vehicle travelling through roadworks. A breath test returned a reading of more that 0.08 and he did not have his P-plates displayed. He lost his licence for six months and was fined $584.

■A P-plater detected travelling at 121kmh in a 60kmh zone.

■A holder of an international licence, a 44-year-old man with a Delahey address, blew 0.159. He will be summonsed to court.

Senior Constable James Bowen said

the results showed that some drivers thought that police worked only during the day and it was a free road under the cloak of darkness.