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:Predictable.

[Achromatic1978]

If you never owned them, how was the car's registered owner/address that of your auction house?

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!"