Brilliant.
I thought that you could not register your vehicle with outstanding tickets. Or is that only for us poor, dumb legals??
I've always wondered how they could justify sending the ticket to the vehicle owner without verifying who the driver was.
Hmmmm... Florida is oft made fun of, but no red light cameras down here
Shooting for the suitable breathless hysteria to match the silly headline...
I'll run one if there's no other traffic around and I have good credit.
>>>>If you get a ticket in the mail indicating you have run a red light and demanding you pay the fine, 1200 WOAI news reported today there is very little enforcement mechanism available. Basically, if you don't want to pay the $148 dollar fine, for example, which will be imposed on red light runners in the suburb of Balcones Heights, you don't have to, and there's nothing officials can do about it.<<<
I would like to add a story for consideration. Every few years, my lovely state of NJ runs a 'fund raiser'.
At random, people will be mailed PHANTOM parking tickets. Many of these PHANTOM tickets will be dated years back and usually are from towns you never been to.
If you don't pay these tickets, your license gets suspended. The fees for reinstating your license is usually more than the parking ticket.
Keep that in mind when ignoring these camera tickets. There may be some in Texas taking notes from NJ.
From what I understand, the machines are history in Michigan or at least won't be part of our future.
That doesn't stop State Revenue agencies from filing tax liens against non-residents. I'm living proof.
What about tickets for running through those eztoll lanes without a valid electronic signaller on toll roads like the one in Houston?
Wow! Those cops can give you rickets? They must be using voodoo or something... I'll just stop for the red lights, thank you.
Following the advice in this article is probably a bad idea. Revenue generation is one of the few things at which government is very good. I am sure if there are any sort of legal loopholes to get out of paying these tickets, they will be closed in very short order.
I seem to recall a judge deciding that a municipality delegating ticket-writing authority to a third party had abdicated their right to enforce the ordinance.
I'd guess a bunch of them would be refused health insurance if Blue-Cross, etc. knew they were into running red lights.
Then, there are the auto insurance folks ~ they should certainly be notified what these guys are up to.
The municipalities could probably sell their information to insurors for more than they can obtain in fines.
"A lot of people, I think, who run red lights, are people who have bad credit anyway," he said.Uh... does he mean like maybe ... Black people or Mexicans???
(I see a meeting with Jesse Jackass in this guys future. Or he'll go into 'Rehab' /s)
I wonder if this applies in ALL states. Is there any state where this is as criminal as if a police officer wrote a ticket?
The way these cameras are set up, at least in the few municipalities that have them in my state, makes it clear that their sole purpose is revenue generation. Even if it were possible for a camera to somehow prevent running a red light, which of course it's not, the cameras don't even bother to differentiate between actually running a red light and causing a traffic hazard and "technical violations" that not only cannot be unsafe but wouldn't even be detectable by a human traffic enforcer.
I don't have the guts myself to vandalize the stupid things, but if I were on the jury at the trial of someone who did, I'd vote to acquit.