Photo radar ticket sent to the wrong car owner

Boulder Camera ^ | 3 Dec 01 | Peter Sandberg

[Doctor Stochastic]

A car was speeding.
A car was ticketed.
Point made.

-Strelnikoff

[nicollo]

And due process was...

?

[lowbridge]

bump

[lowbridge]

bump

[real saxophonist]

That's right, he FReeped one of these things, didn't he.

[lowbridge]

AFTER ACTION REPORT: Greensboro NC/FReep (red-light camera causes 3 near accidents, cops love us!)

[OWK]

Paintball guns are a relaxing recreational pass-time.

[Redbob]

I've got a question regarding photo radar: Isn't it dependent on your having a front plate?
Moral: Remove front license plate before driving through Boulder!

[OWK]

The ones in Maryland work on the rear plate only.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So...with a speeder camera, you gotta prove yourself innocent ?

Takes me back to the days when a group of lads on my street invested in a noisey 125 CC dirt bike, which they ran for hours on end up and down my formerly quiet street.
One nice morning, after a month of this, the lads rolled the dirt bike out for a kick start, only to find it vandalized--every cable had been neatly clipped with side cutters and removed--the MASKED AVENGER had struck !

We never knew who the masked man was. But we were glad he stepped forward and put a stop to such arrogance, once and or all. With a little luck, maybe he'll make an appearance in Boulder.

[Looking4Truth]

"We compare the photo on the driver's license with the close-up photo-radar picture," said Jill Spencer, a legal assistant in the city attorney's office. If the two photos do not match, the ticket is dismissed, she said.

OK........I guess I'm OK since my hair was long and I had a goatee when my license pic was taken, now I'm clean-shaven with short hair. Ha!

The attorney's office does not keep statistics on complaints, but only a handful of them, like Philbrick's, involve a ticket sent to the wrong car owner, she said.

Don't keep statistics? Wouldn't want anyone to really know how bad you piss people off, now would you? Might lose that cushy government job.

If that is the case then exactly how do you know that 'only a handful' of tickets involve this type of complaint. Don't you just love liberal (il)logic?

[Looking4Truth]

We never knew who the masked man was. But we were glad he stepped forward and put a stop to such arrogance, once and or all. With a little luck, maybe he'll make an appearance in Boulder.

What's the matter were you all too chickensh*t to approach the young 'lads'? Cut a cable on my bike and see what happens!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That's why the MASKED AVENGER wore a mask. He didn't bother my bike, I guess, because my bike didn't harm others.
My point was, there are scofflaws--bullies, really (like the Boulder authorities and the lads with the mufflerless dirt bike)everywhere. They get away with harming others when nobody does anything about it.

[Random Access]

The attorney's office does not keep statistics on complaints

This would be an excellent chance to track the race of the offenders. The camera does not carry any racial bias and it would be informative to track this data. Then compare it to the racial stats the police keep and see if there is "racial profiling".

[Doctor Stochastic]

Due Process? Are we not Post Patriot? We're at War. It's for the Children. Driving is a Privilege. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. Where there's smoke there's fire. The county can use the money.

[Question_Assumptions]

When the were talking about photo radar in New Jersey, Jim Gearhart of NJ101.5 suggested the Groucho Marx glasses with the attached nose and mustache.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That exactly what the MASKED AVENGER wore to bring law and order to a small town's quiet street.

[homeschool mama]

LOL!

[lelio]

The tickets are a huge money making industry for Lockheed Martin. Check out this story from San Diego where a judge through out 290 tickets. Lockheed gets $70 of the $270 ticket.