[Baltimore] issued speed camera ticket to motionless car

Baltimore Sun ^ | 12/12/12 | Scott Calvert,

[Slings and Arrows]

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.

[Slings and Arrows]

Remember folks, speed cameras are about safety, not revenue! /sarc

[Paladin2]

A Mazda?

Zoom ZOOM!

[johnd201]

Living outside of Baltimore, this is not a surprise. The real surprise is that the Sunpapers reported a story against any operation of the city government. Actually one local TV station reported that this was the third such incident this year. Stay tuned.... (or not) I bet this story gets buried and you will not hear anything about it again... ever.

[Gene Eric]

I can see the standoff now...

“Go ahead, car. Make my day...”

“FU, pole. I ain’t movin’!”

[quantim]

Darned.

This would be so much more fun if it were a Chevy Dolt that died from a dead battery in the middle of an intersection.

Well, it will happen sooner or later.

Electric cars for dummies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK1LVtbmTI

[ThunderSleeps]

Any bets on the radar gun having picked up something else? Say maybe a harmonic off a spoked aluminum or steel wheel of some cross traffic? If it satisfies the Doppler gate in the radar...

[Slings and Arrows]

The city doesn’t care as long as someone cuts them a check.

[Robert357]

I fell that the national company that works with most red light and speed camera traps should be prosecuted under RICO laws as organized extortion criminal activity.

[Slings and Arrows]

Works for me.

[Average Al]

"I fell that the national company that works with most red light and speed camera traps should be prosecuted under RICO laws as organized extortion criminal activity."

It is the city workers that are shortening up the yellow lights to increase the traffic tickets. Sue the city......

[freedomfiter2]

So, it would seem that the ticket is mail fraud. Someone should be doing time.

[Paladin2]

"the national company that works with most red light and speed camera traps should be prosecuted under RICO laws as organized extortion criminal activity. "

If you include both the elected officials and the bureaucrats, I'm all for it.

[BobL]

I guess the only reaction left for the red-light camera nannies that say (in their nasal voice): “If you don’t want a red-light ticket, then don’t break the law.” - all they can say here (in their nasal voice): “If you don’t want a speeding ticket, then don’t drive on public roads.”