Speed and Red Light Camera Scam

[mongofire_99]

OK, thanks for the info on tool.

Now I wonder... I've been called a jerk, a$%hole, used car salesman, attorney, had my life threatened via email by a couple of boneheads that post here and the best he could come up with is tool?

He can't really be in the fire service, he'd have done a lot better. On the up side though, maybe when he gets into the fourth grade he'll learn some new words.

[BucksEng91]

[CFD14EMT]

Well, well, well, I take off on vacation and when I get back I find you got in some good socialist liberal bashing without me. I’m hurt. Can’t you feel my pain?
Mongo, Bucks, Capt. Gonzo and RJE, I have one word for you…
MEGADITTOS!!!!

Lest we forget this same all intrusive government guaranteed our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers that social security numbers issued so many years ago would never be used for identification purposes. The government for the people by the people would repeal income taxes when the war effort was over. I could spend hours digging up numerous other examples of big government. Look at the size of our government in 1776-7 and then look at it in 1976-7, then compare 1976 with 2001. Scary isn’t it.

Back to the question at hand, it does sound like a scam with not much intention of making intersections safer.

This was sort of brought up on the TV show “Tool Time”. Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor received a ticket in the mail along with a photo of him with his hand across the chest of a beautiful blonde when he failed to stop at a red light. Wasn’t that hard to explain to his wife. Food for thought.

[mojo43]

More fuel for the fire....here's an AP wire article:

"As use of red-light traffic cameras spreads across the country, so does opposition" http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010719_210.html