Fun with speed & red light cameras

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

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

Ooooo! I didn't see that one coming.

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...

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

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.

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...

That's brilliant, yet so simple

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

Who says todays youth aren't bright and inventive?

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.

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.

And it's only MONDAY!

Future GRM'ers!

This is brilliant. Good-bye speed cameras!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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