Posted on 04/14/2008 4:09:35 PM PDT by Disambiguator
Thieving #$@^%&*()@! (Fill in the blank, it will only be half as good as they deserve)!
The people who do this stuff should be prosocuted and jailed. This is just as much theft as someone who robbs a 7/11. Local government can be just as corrupt and tyrannical as the federal government, but they don’t always have the legislative restraints. Put them away as the despicable criminals they are.
Before it's too late...
‘’......short-timing their own yellow lights below legal levels..”
I wonder how many traffic collisions/injuries/deaths this may have caused.
I’m thinking an initiative petition to make that kind of monkeying a felony and not covered by sovereign immunity protection. As much as I don’t like how Florida’s i-p process ends up directly in the Constitution, this is a time that I could support such a measure.
I’m shocked.
Here is a British site, showing that when people have finally had enough of this nonsense, what they can do about it:
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
Note: there are so many pictures, they have subdivided it into four pages. While somewhat repetitive, it is an enjoyable site.
Before it's too late...
Now the wall streeters wanna be tycoons will be after you. After all business can do no wrong.
It can if it has the partnership of a helpful government pointing a gun at your head to guarantee your "business"...
I whole heartedly support vandalism of red light cameras.
I’m a law and order guy, but government will push as far as it can and sooner or later it goes too far.
Funny. I don't hate them at all. You see I never enter an intersection when the light is red (except for very polite - never make the other guy even have to think about stepping on his brakes - right turns on red). So as long as the picture shows the red light and indicates how long the since the light went red I have no problem with cameras intended to catch idiots.
ML/NJ
Maybe there is hope for our British cousins, after all.
The main issue isn’t the cameras per se, but the shortening of the yellows to generate more revenue without enhancing safety at all, and in fact, creating a more hazardous situation. Safety is allegedly why the cameras are put up in the first place. Governments wouldn’t lie about these things, would they?
I can enter an intersection on a green light, have it turn yellow and red before I get to the other side. I can’t just dash through across culverts and around corners in a motorhome.
There is a reason they call them “land yachts”.
:^)
I remember reading about a city pulling the light cameras out because they were TOO honest. Cops gave out more tickets.
Lights here that I have driven by for almost ten years have been re-timed to change at random rather than with the pressure switched. Thereby making motorists use MORE gas, increasing tax revenue.
I’ve got to learn how to make an EMP gun for the vehicle.
Governments can and will. but that doesn't make red-light-cameras an inherently bad idea. Such logic would make everything any government does a bad idea. (Hmmmm?)
ML/NJ
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