Posted on 07/31/2004 2:59:57 PM PDT by neverdem
If you inspected Will Foreman's SUV, you might notice how clean and shiny his Maryland license plates are. But you probably wouldn't detect the clear glossy coating the Howard County resident sprayed on them eight months ago to thwart traffic cameras from snapping readable photos of his tags.
"It must work," says Foreman. He has not received a traffic camera ticket since using a $29.99 spray called PhotoBlocker.
Foreman, owner of Eastover Auto Supply in Oxon Hill, also coated the plates of his eight delivery trucks. He says they previously drew $1,200 in photo-radar fines but none since the application. And he has had no complaints from customers who have bought about 700 cans of the spray at his shop. "If it didn't work, we would've heard about it," he says.
Furman Eldridge of Cheverly bought PhotoBlocker a year ago as "a defense mechanism." He has enough faith in it that he says he gave a can to his pastor.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Gerald Martineau -- The Washington Post
Auto store owner Will Foreman uses PhotoBlocker spray to reflect the flash of a photo-radar camera.
The story said that this method doesn't defeat digital cameras. If you don't want to register with WaPo try BugMeNot.com
Great tip. Thanks!
Some folks in NY know about red-light cameras. Let me know if you want on or off my NY ping list.
Of course, so not to end up on "World's Stupidest Felons", remember to don your Islamic Insurgent garb of the day...and COVER YOUR FACE! ;^)
*sigh* I had the same idea when photoradar first came out. I discussed it with my Dad who said it would be unethical to commercialize it.
Thanks Dad! I guess...
....as he runs red lights and places the lives of pedestrians and other motorists at risk.
From time to time, I’ll post or ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs, usually.
I've had these tickets mailed to me. I was in a bad accident a long time ago. I have always driven defensively since then.
This is a combined list. Let me know if you want off.
Dad? Is that you?
It *might* *just* work by saturating the camera, like shining a mirror reflection of the sun in someone's eyes. But if it works at all, I doubt it would work for eight monthes without re-application.
There a guy who got a pic of his car running a red light with a ticket. So he sent in a picture of 100 dollars vs a check to pay the ticket. The judge alledgedly sent back a picture of handcuffs...........:o)
A whole lot easier to just not break a traffic law IMO.......Stay safe !
Some digital cameras have a wider dynamic range than film, so they don't get saturated. Others spill over to pixels in the entire row or column. It would last as long as a coat of paint. Eight months? No problem!
Nah, you simply approach the camera from behind, and get your arm around, before spraying.
Ours are mounted high, with interlocking fields of view...
You'll be on the 6PM local news....creeping up on the camera with spray paint at the ready....and in handcuffs on the 11PM News.
Thus the Ninja outfit. ;^)
Then one has to attack from above, or from an out-of-focus field.
A $5 transparent plastic fresnel from eBay will block all of the cameras, digital and analog...doesn't need to be replaced every 8 months, either.Some drivers fire automatic flashes from their car back up at the traffic cameras. They're triggered by the flash of the traffic camera.
But do we really want *more* people pushing their luck through red lights?!
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That's why you need:
1) A fast pic-up truck
2) A 20 ft. aluminum extension ladder
3) A lineman's or carpenter's leather tool belt (to hold the paint cans.
4) An accomplice driving the truck
Remember to darken the windows with ILLEGAL TINT!
But cities have been know to reduce the yellow portion of the cycle to increase the number of 'criminals' running the photo-radar equipped signals. We don't want that either.
The problem is that the yellow lights are "gamed" to be faster than they should be. (they caught the DC cammeras doing that)
The other problem is that red light cameras cause more rear end accidents from people slamming on their brakes rather than safely going through a short yellow.
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