Posted on 09/07/2009 4:50:37 PM PDT by Ken H
I think the worst place to be busted for DUI is when you kill a family because you are too drunk to drive. But I guess that’s just me.
Phoenix and Scottsdale only? It should be the entire state of Arizona. Cameras are everywhere now!
The Nanny Staters will be sorely disappointed in their extorted ‘take’ this weekend. From what I’ve read elsewhere, only about 20% of the population is going anywhere at all this weekend. Most people are just staying home or staying within their own states visiting family.
We’re all broke. And getting broker!
Drink Responsibly* & Drive safe, America.
*Better yet, walk home or get a reliable ride.
I got a ticket in a small town in upstate NY, Galway. Left a village 35mph zone too early and Barney Fife got me at 51.
This is going to be expensive.
What ARE you on about? This is about speed traps.
Interesting that all this speed camera work implemented by liberal state and local governments has been outsourced to Australians. Nothing against Oz, but it smells funny to me. Are they laundering the money into campaign contributions.
I posted a thread on the Heath situation a few weeks ago. People are in an uproar, especially businesses.
I call it all - speed traps, radar, traffic light cameras - the modern highwayman.
It is not a metaphor.
>>I think the worst place to be busted for DUI is when you kill a family because you are too drunk to drive. But I guess that’s just me.<<
I would agree. That’s true with all this stuff.
Meanwhile, my wife got her only ticket in her life 30 years ago by a cop that got her for not coming “to a complete stop with rollback” at a stop sign. There is a need for traffic enforcement for obvious reasons. There is also a lot of it out there for the sole purpose of generating revenue.
I would say most of it, by far.
One of the women I work with is from Arizona. She very seriously sez she shot out several cameras with her pistol. At first I thought she was kidding. As I got to know her I now believe it is probably true.
I’m with you on that.
I’ve never understood why kids don’t pepper those cameras with paint guns.
Back in 2006 I was mentioning that as states and cities get desperate for money, expect them to come after you with traffic citations.
It’s in the bleedin’ headline.
Have a word with your reading tutor.
$75 dollars of that DC bundle was mine.
My GPS TomTom has all the red light an speed cameras in my area as points of interest POI’s.
Really ironic part is the same companies that make the cameras sells the data to garmin , tom tom etc......:o)
As a hypermiler I drive pretty slow for best MPG yet I like the technology that counters technology used to collect revenue for the state.
Hidden laser / radar detectors let’s me find all the traps on my local roads. .
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