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Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket

Posted by timothy on from the beating-the-abusive-revenuers dept.

Michael Nguyen writes "Edwin uses Google Maps to prove to the judge his traffic ticket was wrongly issued, saving himself some cash and points on his license. During his testimony, Edwin whips out a notebook, loads up Google Maps and upstages the offending officer with some quick Google Map searches." I wonder if anyone's gotten out of a ticket by showing how inaccurate most speed-check methods can be.

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  1. Re:dupe... by ginotech · · Score: 1, Redundant

    wow. WOW. It's not a dupe? I knew about it before it was on slashdot? dear god.

  2. ::cough::Boing Boing::cough:: by AaronBrethorst · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've been feeling a sense of deja vu every time I read Slashdot for the past few weeks. The problem is that one or two posts a day have been culled directly from Boing Boing, like this story which was posted there yesterday. I recognize that not everyone actually reads Boing Boing in addition to Slashdot, but it gets really old to keep seeing the same stories over and over and over again (and that doesn't even count the dupes ;-).

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