Everyone on this forum is going to blow hot air about these things, but no one is going to do anything.
This is not just about cameras. This is about Houston city government that spends more energy and finance on doing whatever the hell they WANT to do rather than what the voters demand they do or prohibit them from doing.
Just get 250 yds away and put a .233 through the box.
>>Everyone on this forum is going to blow hot air about these things, but no one is going to do anything.<<
Actually, over 400 a year are torched in the UK. In the US, most of them can be crimped at the bottom with a good impact with a maul and then pulled down with a rope. I noticed that they are on hollow aluminum posts in every city I’ve been in.
Not that I’m advocating doing it, nor have I ever done it, but it could be done, if people are in need of a good local tea party.
Also, I noticed this in the article: “On November 2, voters adopted an amendment to the city charter making photo tickets unenforceable...”
And this legal excuse for keeping them in force: “Both the US Constitution and the Texas Constitution prohibit legislation impairing the obligation of contracts,” Taylor wrote. “The purported charter amendment cannot validly be upheld if doing so would in any way impair the city’s ability to fulfill its pre-existing contractual obligations to ATS.”
If I understand this correctly, it means that the will of the people can stand, but the city is now gonna have to honor its contract without funds from tickets, which are no longer enforceable.
It’s like signing a contract to hire a company to supply toll booth operators for three years on a bridge, assuming it will be paid for via tolls charged for using the bridge, and then the people pass a law prohibiting the collection of the toll. The contract will be honored and the toll booths and workers will remain until the end of the contract, but the toll booth workers will be useless and another means of financing the monthly contract payments will be necessary.
At least, that is the way I interpret it.
Wanna bet Ed Rendell’s number one fan??? hehehe
See, we actually do things a little better down here in Texas, and with a little more pinache’, than whatever it is that is done in Pennsylvania...
I guess you guys didn’t blow any hot air towards your state legislature to take care of that veto Ed hung on ya for veto-ing that Pennsylvania “Castle Doctrine” bill that was voted on and passed...
See you in the funny papers...