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Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-bought-the-law dept.

Brian McCrary just bought a website to complain about a $90 speeding ticket he received from the Bluff City PD — the Bluff City Police Department site. The department let its domain expire and McCrary was quick to pick it up. From the article: "Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department's website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city's nose. Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, bluffcitypd.com, the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras — like the one on US Highway 11E that caught him — and how people don't like them."

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  1. Re:Can't... by bjourne · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What an utterly idiotic argument. So if enough people are "murdering" in a neighbourhood, then the laws should be changed to make murdering legal?

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  2. Re:How come... by IndustrialComplex · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My grandmother was nearly killed by a driver going 70 in a 55 zone. Sure "everyone" drives that fast on that mountain highway, but that means that "everyone" is also running the very real risk of running in to someone turning left in an area with rather limited visibility.

    I was nearly killed when the combination of letters you just typed nearly caused my monitor to explode. In fact, the excess current that my monitor had to draw to render the black from the extra quotes you put there nearly caused the local power generator to overload and cut off power to a hospital.

    How could you be so inconsiderate?

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