Scofflaw was just asking to get red-light citation -Driver: "testing legality of camera monitors"

Houston Chronicle ^ | ALEXIS GRANT

[Little Ray]

You have a chance to confront the accuser: "Is that your car, yes or no?"

My wife got a ticket from one of these machines. The answer was no; it didn't show her car or her license plate. She didn't pay. Case closed.

[Little Ray]

If ya slow down, rather than slamming on brakes, he has to slow down, too. He also gets a warning when sees the brake lights. If he still hits you after that, well, there ain't much you can do.

I had a problem like that once. I started slowing for a yellow light, the other guy started speedin' up. He managed to stop, but he was unhappy...

[coloradan]

A police officer was waiting and issued a criminal ticket, thwarting Kubosh's effort to get a civil citation he could challenge.

Nice! "To serve and protect (the revenue stream)..."

[mysterio]

Hope that he wins and wipes out that big brother madness. Put a human cop there if you want to rake in the cash.

[Capt. Tom]

Scofflaw is such a cool sounding word

Having lived in Quincy Mass. for many years I figured I might be one of the few Freepers who knew where "scofflaw" came from. - tom

1924 Boston Herald 16 Jan. 1/2 Delcevare King of Quincy last night announced that 'scofflaw' is the winning word in the contest for the $200 he offered for a word, to characterize the 'lawless drinker' of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor. 'Scofflaw' was chosen from more than 25,000 words, submitted from all the states and from several foreign countries. The word was sent by two contestants, so the prize will be equally divided between Henry Irving Dale..and Miss Kate L. Butler. 1936 MENCKEN Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) 174 The announcement that scofflaw..had won was made on Jan. 15, 1924. The word came into immediate currency, and survived until the collapse of Prohibition. 1956 N.Y. Times 17 Jan. 27/3 The maximum fine of $50 a ticket was imposed yesterday upon a woman scofflaw who had accumulated fifty-one parking tickets.

[middie]

You've got a point there - - - The response likely will be that the citation is an ''administrative'' matter and the constitutional privilege is a ''criminal'' standard. I don't know about other states but in Florida changing the syntax to make it sound like something else won't work for government. If there is a adverse effect you can call it a Mozart symphony but the reality controls. It's the old axiom about looking like a duck, walking like of duck while calling the little animal a chevrolet won't make it so.

Someone will make a constitutioonal challenge--and has an excellent chance of prevailing. On a more visceral level, I like the idea, but government just can't undertake a thing with good motives if it contravenes a constitutional provision......That's the whole thing about expressing dissent of government conduct by burning a flag; different event, same theory......

[Recon Dad]

I've heard this argument made and I believe it's working its way through the courts as we speak. I like to play jail house lawyer, my brother is the lawyer in the family. (every family seems to have one)

[Recon Dad]

I agree but with my luck the camera would take my picture shooting it.