Posted on 03/26/2017 12:40:20 PM PDT by Trump20162020
NASHVILLE — State Rep. Andy Holt is urging Tennesseans to ignore traffic camera tickets and emphasizing his point by burning a citation in a video that apparently has received more than 325,000 Facebook views.
"What do you do if you get one? Throw it in the trash. Personally, I prefer to burn mine," says Holt, R-Dresden, in a lengthy news release issued in conjunction with posting the video on his Facebook page Wednesday, which shows him using a cigarette lighter to set the ticket aflame.
Holt, a longtime critic of traffic camera tickets who repeatedly has called for banning them outright in Tennessee, was joined by state Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, this year in sponsoring a bill, HB2510, that requires all citations resulting from a traffic camera video to include this notice:
"Nonpayment of this (citation) cannot adversely affect your credit score or report, driver's license, and/or automobile insurance rates."
The bill passed unanimously in the Senate and by a 92-2 vote in the House.
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You find me a traffic camera who can appear in court in the middle of a work day and maybe we can talk.
“You find me a traffic camera who can appear in court in the middle of a work day and maybe we can talk. “
This guy should go free?
The camera doesn't write the ticket. A police officer reviews footage that the camera company refers to him and he writes the ticket. He will also be the one testifying against you in court. And yes, they can make it stick.
The flaw is not in how the ticket is written but in who they send the ticket to. They are essentially ticketing the owner of a vehicle with out any proof he was driving it. Where they get you is when you show up in court and they can look at you and look at who is in the video.
Don’t use logic to argue against retarded arguments. Next thing you know, they will throw out video camera footage of robberies. “Cuz dem dang cyamrez aint gonna testifah”
Surveillance cameras owned and operated by a private business are a little different than traffic cameras designed for nothing more than to get the local government revenue.
I’ve heard of studies, in which intersections with red light cameras generate an increase in the number of rear end crashes. Reason being, people are afraid to drive normally through the yellow light for fear of getting a ticket. So, they slam on the brakes to avoid going through, because of fear of the camera, and get hit from behind.
WHOO HOO lovin it. Dude needs to be called up into the Trump administration. Don’t care what they put him in charge of. Right mindset. GOD love the Huntington Beach peaceful protesters that said hell NO. Beat the anti Trump masked anarchists with their flag poles once the anarchists attacked and pepper sprayed them. NO MORE!!! Go back to your moms damned basement, basement dwellers.
The lawmaker might want to watch how Sheldon fought his traffic ticket....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfxGR0K9jA
Only a moron would defend red light camera’s with your argument..
Just send them a photo of the money.
May I nominate him for SOTH?
It doesn’t get more retarded than comparing running a red light to murder.
It is against the law in the state of Tennessee for an out of state company to issue a traffic ticket. And try the collect money in the firm of a fine.
I don’t have any vehicles registered in my name. The ones I drive are in my company’s name. Numerous people drive them.
If I get a ticket in the mail from a camera it is not my job to figure out who was driving.
You cannot ticket a VEHICLE for a moving traffic violation.
Even here in liberal Minneapolis they were ruled unconstitutional.
Baltimore county MD had to pay back several hundred thousand dollars because the sworn officer who attested to the tickets personally had been dead for 6 months.
“Only a moron would defend red light camera’s with your argument..”
Not defending. Just pointing out the error in your post.
“You telling me that guy didn’t go through the court system? “
Nope.
Nope. The ticket comes from some company in Arizona.
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