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Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car
SternisheFan sends this story from the Baltimore Sun:
"The Baltimore City speed camera ticket alleged that the four-door Mazda wagon was going 38 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone — and that owner Daniel Doty owed $40 for the infraction. But the Mazda wasn't speeding. It wasn't even moving. The two photos printed on the citation as evidence of speeding show the car was idling at a red light with its brake lights illuminated. A three-second video clip also offered as evidence shows the car motionless, as traffic flows by on a cross street. Since the articles' publication, several lawmakers have called for changes to the state law that governs the way the city and other jurisdictions operate speed camera programs. Gov. Martin O'Malley said Tuesday that state law bars contractors from being paid based on the number of citations issued or paid —an approach used by Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and elsewhere. 'The law says you're not supposed to charge by volume. I don't think we should charge by volume,' O'Malley said. "If any county is, they need to change their program.'"
He is guilty. Clearly guilty of embarrassing some government officials with his so called 'evidence'. Lock him up.
You can't handle the truth.
Well within the manufacturers margin of error!
Thank God we live in a quiet little red-neck po-dunk white-trash mountain town!
From a point of view at the center of the solar system that car was moving at 30 km/s!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Lawyers. The judge outlawed lawyers.
Obviously the car looked fast.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
I'm no grammarian, but I'm pretty sure "they" is either Judges or Areas...
My father was a lawyer, we used to go on road trips to fight the speeding ticket we got on the last road trip.
My favourite defence was the calibration log. "Manual says it has to be calibrated at each shift, do you have records showing it was calibrated on the morning of _______? Nope? Thanks, have a nice day."
And then we'd sit in the back and watch every other defendant use the same questions and get let off :)
As a non-pedestrian
How do you get to/from your car? Teleport?
He doesn't. Was born in a trailer, will live in a car or a trailer, will die in a trailer.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
I wouldn't talk so much shit about cops that can work an 80 hour day...