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[blackdog]

No more two photos. Justice served.

[drew]

Great work! I’d love to see these damn things banned. But the one thing that really got my attention is that a ticket costs 40 bucks? In LA they’re 400 to 500!

[Terabitten]

Interesting. The vehicle measurement would have to be very precise and would have to account for the changing aspect angle due to the short timeframe between photos.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Mr. Foreman said he is confident he has exposed systemic inaccuracies in the systems that generate millions of dollars a year for town, city and county governments.

Good for him but the state, including judges, will circle the wagons to protect these cash cows.

[Zeppo]

This just screams for a civil RICO case to be filed.

If you can’t shut down the faulty cameras or the predatory government agencies and apparatchiks that use them to print money by defrauding the public, try going directly to the source and putting the manufacturers out of business.

[KarlInOhio]

Mr. Foreman’s tickets were all issued in Forest Heights, a town of about 2,600 where officials expected $2.9 million in ticket revenue this fiscal year, about half the town’s $5.8 million budget.

A town which gets half of its revenue from traffic tickets is pretty much the definition of a speed trap.

[Robert357]

I like it.

Now, some attorney needs to file a RICO complaint against the speed camera vendor and the municipalities that use the system, along with a class action lawsuit seeking punitive damages. If the discovery phase there should be some interesting emails about what is happening along with revenue projections and promises to the cities.

I don't like redlight and speedtrap cameras, but if a community puts them in, they have (in my mind) an obligation to make sure that they are fair and not a kangaroo court revenue scheme. If they shorten the yellow light, or the speed is not properly calibrated, then what the city (with the help of the camera company) is doing is fraud and theft.

Companies and government organizations that practice fraud and theft should brought to their knees and destroyed by the courts.

[IYAS9YAS]

A co-worker of mine did this very thing. He measured the distance he traveled through the intersection, based on the vehicle position in the two photos, and showed how the photos showed his vehicle was not far enough through the intersection based on the timing of the photos and the speed cited.

Judge ignored all his evidence and ruled in favor of the revenue enhancement.

[IYAS9YAS]

Well, at 50 MPH, a vehicle is traveling at 264,000 Feet per hour. Which breaks down to 4,400 feet per minute, which then breaks to 73.33333 feet per second. So, multiply 73.33333 times 0.363, and you get 26.62 feet traveled in 0.363 seconds at 50 MPH.

I'm not certain if that truck is the vehicle in question, since the article mentions a Subaru. However, that vehicle looks like a full-sized Chevrolet pickup from the late 90s. Maybe later. It's a regular cab with what appears to be an 8-foot bed. This would have been just under 18 feet in length based on data from Edmunds.com.

Since there's no gap between the nose and tail of this 18 foot long truck, there is no way he's doing 50. At 35 MPH, distance traveled would be 18.634 feet in 0.363 seconds. That would be more reasonable based on the photo.

[familyop]

Speeding tickets cost much more than that in the West, from Colorado on.