Aug 03
A photo ticket machine goes berserk and hands out 10,000 tickets in 4 weeks in the small town of Heath, OH. But it wasn’t about the money:
Waugh said that would cut the city’s take, but the cameras were never about money. He said no specific purpose has been identified for the fines, which will go into the city’s roughly $7 million general fund.
How about proving that… by waiving the fines?
I let my colleague drive my car on a recent trip to Phoenix. He has a lead foot – am I to pay for his ticket when one of Arizona’s photo enforcement systems catches him with my license plate?
The systems are ridiculous, as is the basic assumption of guilt. When they give tickets to speeding cops, maybe I’ll go along with it.
H/T: Drudge
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
They do give tickets to cops. Montclair has photo red lights, and if they go through one they have to show they were enroute to an emergency call.If not, they get the ticket.
I don’t like these contraptions. I know people who dont have plates on their cars, just the paper dealer plates. That’s a fix-it ticket, at about $10. Put your plates on, pay the ten bucks, get the ticket signed off at your local P.D., then as soon as you get home put the paper plates back on. With red light tickets at $400, plus points on your license, you can get about 40 or so license plate tickets before they equal one red light ticket.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I don’t like them period. Just another tax.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Well, I just gave you the solution. Unless you want to run around in a clown suit putting paper bags over them.