Posted on 07/15/2002 11:23:54 AM PDT by Constitution Day
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:55:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Too many people in Fayetteville tried to race through intersections before the traffic light turned red, so the city installed cameras to nab red light runners. The traffic cameras are coming soon to Raleigh, Cary and Chapel Hill (also in Rocky Mount - CD). But, before some cameras are up, there is a way around them.
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However, you would send a more powerful message if you bought a high powered air rifle and took out a few cameras.....I would think a beefed up laser pointer would work "wonders" on these things.
-Eric
When I was in London last August, the "Real IRA" as they called themselves blew up a car bomb down the street from the bar we were at. When we got back to our hotel the news was running tape from the CC cameras of the explosion.
Is a 'society under surveillance' what we want?
That is what will follow the red light cameras and then the surveillance cameras on light poles will come shortly after.
Of course, if you want to argue about a "right to privacy", you can't find such a right in the Constitution, but you will find it mentioned and applied in Roe v. Wade.
And the big brother cameras are already in VA and trained on the beaches and surrounding areas, using face recognition software looking for 'the bad guys'.
Turning off the stop lights is kooky. If you disagree, you need to get your head examined. I would not be surprised if one day scientists find that libertarianism is a psychological disorder.
Horrors! That means you have to obey the speed limit! How dare the government try to enforce the law! That's not the purpose of government! Wait, no it is. Dooh!
Oh. Sorry. I meant to say, cut the power to the traffic light CAMERAS.
Your eyes darting from side to side holding the panorama of the crossing fixed, counting the seconds, just in case a masked, amber light/ red light runner, emboldened by your temerity tears into the intersection and suprise, suprise, you get rear ended three times.
I thought Homer Simpson was a cartoon character.
Ok, let's see what I said... That I have been rear ended three times while at stop lights in less than a year... First instance, I was stopped in a right turn lane, as cross traffic did not stop when the light turned red... A woman behind me was watching the light, not the car in front of her, and she hit me from behind, pushing me into the cross traffic, causing me to hit one of those "masked, amber light/red light runners on the passenger side...
Second instance, while I was stopped at a red light, a 17 year old girl slammed into me from behind. The light was still red... She didn't notice that I was stopped at a red light... Too busy talking on the telephone.
Third time, a delivery man didn't notice that the cars in front of him weren't moving, even though the light had turned green... 4 car chain reaction.
I've been driving for 26 years, and until this year, I've never been involved in an auto accident on the streets. I did some amature dirt track racing many years ago, and feel that I'm a pretty fair driver... I also used to have a WERA (motorcycle) road racing license, and I've NEVER been as nervous riding a bike as I am now! Not even the time I set the (unofficial) track record at Pocono International Raceway, by missing two shifts, and rather than riding through the road portion of the course, cutting straight through the infield, back out onto the tri-oval. I've fallen off a bike at over 100 mph, and been in a dirt tracker when it flipped three times, but driving on the streets today is far more dangerous, mostly because of people like you who don't seem to realize or care that they're dangerous to others!
Mark
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