Plastic Strip Shields License Plates From Traffic Cameras

WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) ^ | July 15, 2002 | Kamal Wallace, Staff Writer

[Constitution Day]

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.

[Constitution Day]

PING!

[isthisnickcool]

Capitalism.....

[KantianBurke]

Is this for real? I remeber a couple of threads which said that sort of thing was bogus.

[Constitution Day]

NC ping!
FRmail me if you want on or off this NC ping list.

[Constitution Day]

I don't really know for sure... sorry.

[RoughDobermann]

Click here

[Blood of Tyrants]

Hensley checked the law and said "The Eliminator" is not illegal in North Carolina.... yet!

I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republicans left me.

[goldstategop]

Where can I get one?

[Alberta's Child]

It's real, and it's actually pretty simple. It's made of a series of louvre-like plastic tabs that allow your license plate to be seen from directly behind the vehicle, but makes it impossible for the plate to be read from a point above the vehicle and off to one side (where red-light cameras are typically placed).

[Junior]

For every government action, there is an equal and opposite popular reaction.

[Darth Sidious]

Wonder if I should amend my "Big Brother" sign to include the Eliminator's web address? :-)

[Wolfie]

It'll be illegal soon. NC jumped all over "The Urinator", so "The Eliminator" is sure to follow.

[Constitution Day]

Over 65, 000 Eliminators sold worldwide since 1988.

[Blood of Tyrants]

From the website. Click on the link.

However, you would send a more powerful message if you bought a high powered air rifle and took out a few cameras.....

[Sir Gawain]

I also recall seeing tests that say it doesn't work. Not sure. I think they were saying the angle isn't enough because the cameras wait until the car is almost parallel with the lens.

[Gaston]

It is real but according to NC state law anything you do to obscure your plates even if it is from an angle is illegal.

[Constitution Day]

Heh heh.

You were really out front here in NC on this issue, Darth.
I don't make it a habit to run red lights, but I want one of these on general principles.

[End Times Sentinel]

"I tried to tell folks that this law was easily skirted and that it was only being used to raise money," Hensley said. "It's just a hidden tax on the populous [sic]. It doesn't have anything to do with safety although people think it does."

As a friend of someone who was speared at an intersection by someone trying to “stretch a light”, I would have to disagree with the honorable legislator. In an accident like this, the more injured victim is usually the person who’s light has just turned green and is pulling into an intersection and takes the full brunt of impact on the driver side door.

I’ve got another safer, cheaper alternative- How about not running red lights? As an added bonus you might be able to avoid the guilt of condemning an otherwise healthy person into a premature geriatric state…

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[PJeffQ]

Actually that was SC that jumped on the guy selling the urine kits...