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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.
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.
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.
sounds like a dare
Imagine if you weren't allowed to use roads because a bus company complained about your driving 3 times. --skunkpussy
Obama will replace him in a few weeks.