How to Use Speed Cameras to Bury Your Enemies in Speeding Tickets

[CalvinHobbes]

http://gizmodo.com/5115518/how...es-in-speeding-tickets

Basically, students from Richard Montgomery High School are copying the license plate numbers of their "enemies" ('cause high schoolers lead such vicious, angsty lives) on glossy photo paper in a font that looks just like the one Maryland uses for its license plates. They tape the crappy fake license over their own, and intentionally zip past a stupid speedtrap camera, and a couple days later, their victim receives a ticket in the mail. The really clever little bastards are borrowing cars that are the same model as the one their victim owns.

 

[theflyingpig]

This is brilliant.

 

[theflyingpig]

And, I'm going to use it as a defense to every speeding ticket I get. Because I have a lot of enemies.

 

[evident]

wow, this is an awesome idea

 

[waggy]

and yet another reason cameras should be used to give people tickets.

wonder how the person who gets the ticket can fight it? unless they happen to have proof they werent driving its going to be hard.

 

[Jeeebus]

sounds like a fairly fanciful tale for getting out of a speeding ticket.

It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man [who was driving the same model/make/year color car as me with a glossy print out of my license plate over his]!!!!!

 

[BlackTigers]

That is brilliant.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

further reason why law enforcement should be done by humans and not machines

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: waggy
and yet another reason cameras should be used to give people tickets.

wonder how the person who gets the ticket can fight it? unless they happen to have proof they werent driving its going to be hard.

In Europe, most of the cameras take a picture of the plate and the driver. I'm not sure why they don't do that here...

 

[HardcoreRobot]

further reason why law enforcement should be done by humans and not machines

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Similar to the method we used to fake our drivers licenses to prove we were of legal drinking age when I was in high school.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
And, I'm going to use it as a defense to every speeding ticket I get. Because I have a lot of enemies.

Yup. Behavior like that has the potential to having the entire redlight camera system shut down....not that that's a bad thing.

There used to be redlight cameras a few blocks from my old apartment....also a few blocks from a highschool. One day I noticed the cameras were no longer there. I wouldn't be surprised the behavior mentioned in the article was a part of the reason.

 

[Braznor]

What a brilliant story. Too bad, it ain't gonna fly shit!

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: waggy
and yet another reason cameras should be used to give people tickets.

wonder how the person who gets the ticket can fight it? unless they happen to have proof they werent driving its going to be hard.

In Europe, most of the cameras take a picture of the plate and the driver. I'm not sure why they don't do that here...

I think Red light camera's in california do take a picture of the driver.

My boss ran a red right and he knew it and dropped a massive F-Bomb. Which the camera captured so his thing had a picture of his front (and rear?) license plate and him dropping the f-bomb. He went around showing that to everyone to everyone's laughter. I think he got a free night of drinks and food at a local bar so it helped ease the pain of the ticket.


I'm not sure what happens if it's not you/you say that is not you in the picture and you try to fight it though.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
And, I'm going to use it as a defense to every speeding ticket I get. Because I have a lot of enemies.

Yup. Behavior like that has the potential to having the entire redlight camera system shut down....not that that's a bad thing.

Sadly, probably not. If lawmakers cared about the right people getting tickets they would not have resorted to cameras in the first place. The cameras are a quick and easy revenue stream, nothing more. A few people getting hosed will be written off as an aberration and the "somebody is impersonating my car" defense will be discredited.

 

[Insomniator]

Good, fuck those cameras. No idea how they got passed as legal to use. Does the public get any vote for anything these days or do our overlords completely dominate us now?

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: oogabooga

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: waggy
and yet another reason cameras should be used to give people tickets.

wonder how the person who gets the ticket can fight it? unless they happen to have proof they werent driving its going to be hard.

In Europe, most of the cameras take a picture of the plate and the driver. I'm not sure why they don't do that here...

I think Red light camera's in california do take a picture of the driver.

My boss ran a red right and he knew it and dropped a massive F-Bomb. Which the camera captured so his thing had a picture of his front (and rear?) license plate and him dropping the f-bomb. He went around showing that to everyone to everyone's laughter. I think he got a free night of drinks and food at a local bar so it helped ease the pain of the ticket.


I'm not sure what happens if it's not you/you say that is not you in the picture and you try to fight it though.

The red light cams do get a picture of the driver.

I've seen one of the citations. The driver in the one I saw had his arm up on the door and was resting his head on his hand as he blazed through the red light. I was even able to log into the webiste of the camera company and watch the video of him running the light. It was crazy.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
And, I'm going to use it as a defense to every speeding ticket I get. Because I have a lot of enemies.

Yup. Behavior like that has the potential to having the entire redlight camera system shut down....not that that's a bad thing.

There used to be redlight cameras a few blocks from my old apartment....also a few blocks from a highschool. One day I noticed the cameras were no longer there. I wouldn't be surprised the behavior mentioned in the article was a part of the reason.

there was a news story last year about how many cities were shutting down red light cameras because they were not profitable. in the end its not about safety its about revenue

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Insomniator
Does the public get any vote for anything these days

You're kidding, right?:laugh: