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  • carguy123

    Dec. 21, 2008 3:07 p.m. carguy123 HalfDork

    Now if you just knew the tag numbers of the mayor and the police chief

    http://www.thesentinel.com/302730670790449.php

  • kabel

    Dec. 21, 2008 3:38 p.m. kabel Dork

    Ooooo! I didn't see that one coming.

  • Xceler8x

    Dec. 21, 2008 4:49 p.m. Xceler8x HalfDork

  • Twin_Cam

    Dec. 21, 2008 6:15 p.m. Twin_Cam Dork

    Anyone want to lend me a P71 so I can send every police officer in my town a speeding ticket?

    They're the ones that break the most traffic laws anyway...

  • Gimp

    Dec. 21, 2008 9:53 p.m. Gimp Dork

    I am so glad I don't teach in MD anymore... aka Why didn't I think of that.

  • pigeon

    Dec. 21, 2008 10:13 p.m. pigeon Reader

    That's freaking awesome! If someone repeatedly did that with the plates of every elected representative who voted for those privately administered tax machines where you're presumed guilty, perhaps they'd go away.

  • ReverendDexter

    Dec. 21, 2008 10:34 p.m. ReverendDexter Reader

    I'm not a hateful person, but I can't stress enough how much I hateHateHATE speed cameras! I hope that this does cause the total lack of faith in such a flawed system, and that these things are scrapped, and that the ground the were on is salted so that nothing will ever grow again!

    Errr... I guess I got carried away at the end there...

  • Luke

    Dec. 21, 2008 10:45 p.m. Luke Dork

    That's brilliant, yet so simple

  • MitchellC

    Dec. 21, 2008 10:56 p.m. MitchellC Reader

    Seriously. See, what would we do without the youth?

  • carguy123

    Dec. 21, 2008 11:10 p.m. carguy123 HalfDork

    Who says todays youth aren't bright and inventive?

  • Duke

    Dec. 22, 2008 6:02 a.m. Duke Dork

    Speed cameras and unmarked cars just confirm the idea that it's all about revenue, not safety.

    If it was about safety, the biggest, most garishly painted Interceptor parked as visibly as possible in the median gets everybody to slow down... not just the one speeder that gets popped. Or none of the speeders that get popped, in the case of a camera.

  • Xceler8x

    Dec. 22, 2008 8:11 a.m. Xceler8x HalfDork

    Duke wrote:

    Spped cameras and unmarked cars just confirm the idea that it's all about revenue, not safety.

    If it was about safety, the biggest, most garishly painted Interceptor parked as visibly as possible in the median gets everybody to slow down... not just the one speeder that gets popped. Or none of the speeders that get popped, in the case of a camera.

    I've agreed with you and Belthezzar twice in one week.

    I must need to up my dosage or something.

  • John Brown

    Dec. 22, 2008 8:22 a.m. John Brown UltimaDork

    And it's only MONDAY!

  • Woody

    Dec. 22, 2008 8:52 a.m. Woody Dork

    Future GRM'ers!

  • confuZion3

    Dec. 22, 2008 9:40 a.m. confuZion3 Dork

    This is brilliant. Good-bye speed cameras!

  • GameboyRMH

    Dec. 22, 2008 5:15 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    Nice indeed! This might eventually force them to have people check the photos, which would mean they'd either have to jack up the fines greatly to make it profitable again, or they'd have to do the common sense thing and get rid of the stupid cameras.

    So expect much higher speeding fines in the future.

  • curtis73

    Dec. 23, 2008 12:33 a.m. curtis73 Reader

    I think we need more stuff like this. Any time legislators make stupid laws that are so easily perverted, we have a responsibility to pervert them and make them go away. I have a car that has the gas filler behind the fold-down license plate. I often times just leave it folded down. I've been pulled over twice for it and just play stupid... "oops I must have forgotten to put it up at the gas station."

    I am reminded of the movie, "The Life of David Gale."

    Good stuff.

  • Wally

    Dec. 23, 2008 5:41 a.m. Wally UltraDork

    My favorite solution to red light cameras is in the Bronx. Many of them get spun on their pole so the snap a lovely picture of whatever building is on the corner. Others get a less inventive but still effective shot of spray paint in the eye.

  • fiat22turbo

    Dec. 23, 2008 8:44 a.m. fiat22turbo SuperDork

    Apparently Santa doesn't like the competition in the Naughty/Nice arena

    http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2008/12/renegade_santas_block_photo_en.php

  • Strizzo

    Dec. 23, 2008 10:02 a.m. Strizzo Dork

    Wally wrote:

    My favorite solution to red light cameras is in the Bronx. Many of them get spun on their pole so the snap a lovely picture of whatever building is on the corner. Others get a less inventive but still effective shot of spray paint in the eye.

    i saw one like that in atlanta a while back.

    i like the UK's solution to speed cameras:

    toss on an old tire, douse it in gasoline, and let'er burn.

  • Tim Baxter

    Dec. 23, 2008 10:11 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Ah, Tempe. I knew Arizona would come up in this thread.

    Paradise Valley (another Phoenix suburb) was one the first places in the country to get speed cameras, but at the time the city still had to show it was you driving the car. I, um, knew a guy who would wear a Nixon mask when he passed through there.

  • byron12

    Jan. 2, 2009 2:25 a.m. byron12 New Reader

    Damn I thought taming my plate off while giving the camera the bird was clever damn kids.

 

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