Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies

Slashdot ^ | 12/21/8 | kdawson

[rocksblues]

Ah! The enhancements that technology can add to our lives!

[tired1]

Great idea, overload the system with crap. Keep it coming.

[trumandogz]

That is really funny.

And shows that our high school kids can out smart our legislators and cops.

[RushingWater]

Why am I for the “bad” guys here??

[backhoe]

God help me- I told my wife about this, and she got that diabolical look in her eye...

[Impy]

Ban speed cameras!!

[Albion Wilde]

I got no tickets in 30 years. Since the advent of the cameras, I've gotten 2 in one year, both the result of judgment calls on wet pavement at a yellow light. I'm pissed.

One of my friends in North Carolina said they tried the cameras down there but lawsuits about consumers' rights succeeded in having them taken down. Since DC is full of lawyers, let's hope it's only a matter of time here.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Big Brother doesn’t care. As long as the fine is paid. It’s about revenue, not safety.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

This is the first good reason I’ve heard for getting rid of the speed cameras. Since there is no way to know that the car or the driver were the ones photographed, this falls under “reasonable doubt”.

[Spktyr]

This isn’t exactly new. It’s been used against the people who wanted redlight cameras of the revenue generating type installed.

Best thing to do is find a car identical to the elected official’s, put the fake plate on it, and then run all the red lights with cameras in town at about 3-4am. Repeat at random intervals.

[Sherman Logan]

How about duplicating the traffic court judge’s plate and seeing to it that he gets multiple tickets?

Cops, meter maids, highway patrolmen...

Target rich environment.

[kms61]

I doubt it matters much to the legislators and cops. They just want the revenue stream. Whether the person who gets the bill was actually speeding, or indeed was even there, is irrelevant.

[TNLawyer]

“Ban speed cameras!!”

I agree. If you want to charge someone with a crime, you should charge them in person.

Not all lawyers are bad (look at my username).

I’m sick of the police state... but even more sick of “big brother”.

[usmcobra]

What’s Obama’s tag number by the way?

[Emmett McCarthy]

I can think of a few judges here in Nashville this would be good for. And more fun than a barrel of motions, uh, monkeys.

[Spktyr]

Speed cameras *are* banned in the state of Texas.

[kdot]

O wont release that information! And if you continue to ask, you’ll be attacked as a racist. (I’m just kidding!)

[South40]

What’s Obama’s tag number by the way?

It a vanity plate that reads, "Ima Phraud".

[ElkGroveDan]

Find the license plate of the legislator who originally introduced the traffic camera law in your state and use that.