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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.
Sorry, kid, your "lol" places you firmly in one of two categories:
1. 11-16 year old female
2. Too goddamned stupid to have ever pulled a prank like this.
Yeah .. it's a perversion to give people who are breaking the law speeding tickets. Terrible thing to gain revenue from people who are violating the law and causing accidents, traffic congestion and road rage. It's an awful thing that speed cameras are installed near entrance and exit ramps in an attempt to slow down traffic and reduce accident rates.
What should we think of a government that tries to find new ways to make our highways safe. It's much better to things the old way, just hire more police officers and put them to work. Who cares that a police car on the highway causes congestion, and slows traffic to it's knees when it pulls someone over. Or that a police officer might get struck by a passing car or shot by the person he pulls over. Or that a police car pulling out into high speed traffic from a standstill also increases traffic accident risks.
Better to just let people drive any speed they want whenever they want, cutting in and out of traffic without any concern for the disturbances they leave in their wake.
Funny thing, if most everyone would stop speeding, the revenue stream would dry up to the point the cameras become more expensive to operate than they are worth and they would just come down on their own. 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 rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
fuck you bro, he's totally right and you know it
Or if you mean that the tickets came from the employees of the auction house not giving a shit about what they did with the car between arrival and auction, remind me never to buy from there. "Here's your new car, with a surprise you'll get when you go to get new plates from the unpaid fines we racked up on the car. Maybe if you're lucky you'll live in a state like Oregon which will cancel your license if you haven't paid the fine within 6 months!"
I hate to break it to you ... but police get paid for writing tickets. And Ford sells police cars, so they are also getting paid for writing tickets. The better their cars so the cops can catch more criminals, the more they get paid.
.. my wife got a speeding ticket for going 11 over the speed limit. We paid the fine.
Find another excuse to justify breaking the law please. Speeding is speeding, people who were caught speeding and given tickets, whether a policeman has given it out or an automated camera, get no sympathy in my book. Stop being a cry baby, admit you were speeding, and pay the ticket like a responsible adult instead of a kid caught by his parents.
Oh
I too have almost been rear ended. Not at a camera intersection, but at a regular intersection because the guy behind me felt he could follow me through the intersection. Did I mention I was on a motorcycle also and he was driving a truck?? So it seems the risk of getting rear ended at a yellow light has always been there, so please provide a statistic that shows that risk has gotten significantly higher without a reduced number of serious injuries caused by people running red lights.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Yes here in michigan it's a freaking felony.
So...
step 1 - drivers license gone till 21.
step 2 - car is booted and impounded.
step 3 - 40-80 hours of community service
That is the LIGHTEST thing that should be done to these little turds. You little punks get away with too much, you need you asses paddled and a nice big smack in the face of reality.
The shitheads at the school peddling the pills need to be sent to ass raping prison.
Yes. a 16 year old selling kids pills and pot needs to be sodomized by big black convicts for about 2 years straight. and it needs to be public that this happens... Maybe then you shitheads will consider not doing something stupid.