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Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain
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."
He speeds.
Gets caught.
Complains.
Why is this even on Slashdot? So he pulled a prank on a police department, its not even an original one.
It doesn't mater "that everyone goes over the limit", it is law, don't like it work to change it. I don't like getting speeding tickets any more than the next person but when I see people going 40mph in a school zone or down a residential street with children around I would love to see some cameras in place. I have a friend who has lost members of his family to cars due to a casual disregard for the residential speed limit.
If you don't want to get a speeding ticket, don't speed. If you get caught, that is the breaks. You play, you pay.
I don't understand people that think speed limits are moral imperatives that fall on the same line as murder or arson. You people act like I just raped somebody if I want to go 55 in a 50 mile an hour zone.
They don't. That's why you get a $90 fine, not a prison sentence.
I don't understand people that think speed limits are moral imperatives that fall on the same line as murder or arson.
I don't think GP said anything similar to that statement
You people act like I just raped somebody if I want to go 55 in a 50 mile an hour zone.
Well, unless by driving recklessly you cause an accident and actually kill someone.
With some googling I found out that in the year 2000 15,517 people were murdered while 41,611 died in car accidents. That means that if we could prevent all car accidents the benefit in human lives would be almost three times greater.
You might only be driving 55 on a 50 mph zone, but a lot of people are driving much faster and statistics show it is fairly dangerous.
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Then they can hire another police officer. Traffic cameras are a slap in the face of freedom.
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If people wouldn't speed or run red lights, there wouldn't be any speed or red light cameras. I have no pity for those who get caught.
Wherever you go, there you are.
If you could stop being assholes for one minute as you are BOTH wrong.
You always drive at the speed of the prevailing traffic ... i.e. whatever speed everyone else is going is ALSO the speed YOU should be going.
Drive over prevailing, you tailgate people and cause slower drivers to panic.
Drive under prevailing, you end up getting tailgated, and cause faster traffic to swerve.
A lot could be learnt also about using the correct fucking lane ... which means if you want to drive slow, you're on the left (trucks, busses, Sunday drivers, old people etc), and if you want to drive fast, your in the middle (normal people in normal vehicles). The right lane is always for overtaking only then get the fuck back in the middle lane, the right lane is not your personal speedway.
(Disclaimer - If you're in UK, of course reverse the above to avoid mass confusion and panic).
Speeding is the one crime that continuously goes unpunished in this country, and it needs to be taken seriously. I support quadrupling fines for speeding, and also adding a minimum one-month license suspension for speeding offences. It's really ridiculous, people in this country seem to think it's not even a crime any more. I have had friends actually yell at me for driving the speed limit! It's absurd...