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Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies
High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim's license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past a newly installed speed camera. The victim gets a $40 ticket in the mail days later, without any humans ever having been involved in the ticketing process. A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
Duplicate plates? When I was in school, we used to actually swap the plates themselves lol.
Kids and technology these days.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
The Monty Python folks referred to this as, "the other, other operation."
Profit?
Driving and politics . . . sounds like a deadly mix to me.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Well, yes... But to be fair, nobody wants to look like Jeremy Clarkson, not even Jeremy Clarkson.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
"I've often thought if I got one of these tickets I would take it to court and ask for the right to see my accuser."
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I found out about it when my co-workers pranked me by placing a "MAN SEX" fake over the plate on my tow truck...
Funny thing is that I towed several cars that weekend right past police without knowing about the plate (which is near my lightbar so I don't look at it).
Enjoy:
http://license.plates.txt2pic.com/
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So, I have to wonder: how many times a week do you have to hit one of these things with a paintball before they're not cost-effective to maintain?
One way to put a stop to any for-profit effort is to make it unprofitable.
Karl Marx, is that you ?
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
sounds like a dare
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use roads because a bus company complained about your driving 3 times. --skunkpussy
...when they usually pay through the nose or get jailtime for counterfeiting an official document (which a license plate is).
I was thinking the same thing. I'm not a fan of universal ID's and the like, but I am a fan of really strong penalties for impersonating some one else. It seems like that would apply to a lot of things: Voter fraud, credit theft, privacy violations. Maybe this is already the case and it just isn't a deterrent.
BTW - I think you meant ^H (BS), not ^M (CR).
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
You don't? You really don't think anyone is that stupid? You sure have a lot higher opinion of people than I do.
You just gotta have a huge set of grapefruits.
Or some very unique bumper stickers.
"You see a Republicans for Voldemort bumper sticker on that car? Do you?! Move along, thanks."
I prefer:
unirregardlesslyament
(throwing in the French adverbial ending for added pizzaz.)
Citation Please
Look, I know you're trying to act all cool with your tech shit but Ctrl-M? LOL
Shut your mouth, real geeks are talking.
Pizzaz aren't French, they're Italian.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
German police seek speeding British Muppet
>as compared to your mention of kph, which has a standard conversion for anyone who might be interested)
:o)
I'm curious as to what your target audience was for that point
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Because they should be exempt from the law as well? :) I don't see how that will help.
.there is enough of everything for everyone.
So that's Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo, Zeppo and Karl?
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Unless the car in front is moving backwards :).
So ...
Are you twins?
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Obama will replace him in a few weeks.
The technology is already there, it's just waiting for someone to abuse it.
Using video tracking, from a legal standpoint, someone can argue that these kids are impersonating a license plate--i.e. stoeln license plates and that's a real offense and the video will just do some data mining on the cars in question to find out make, model and eventually who did it. It's bound to happen and these kids, while being smart are just going to spoil it for then rest of us.
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Sure, the red light cameras are useless and may cause more harm, but disrespect for these stupid laws by being unlawful just gives more incentives to the gov't wonks to make stupider laws.
Karl Marx actually proposed a way improved form of democracy where the workers united in neighborhood committees will decide their own neighborhood policies, their city, their state, their country and the world's policies, all through direct debate and vote, with EVERYBODY being part of the decision and policy elaboration process.
Shhhh!!! We're supposed to be deathly afraid of socialism!
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