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.

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Re:without any humans ever having been involved

[dangitman]

Wouldn't that be a terrible thing, for our highways to be free from people who think they know how fast they can drive safely, irregardless of their training or experience.

I was with you, up to the point where you wrote "irregardless". Didn't your browser/spellchecker flag that one for you?