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Judge orders Ohio village to pay back $3 million to lead-footed drivers
Fox News.com ^ | February 13, 2017 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 02/13/2017 7:05:22 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Trump20162020

“Where are the hero vigilantes who’ll tear these cameras down in the dead of night when you need them?”

They are all over in the UK where they “set them alight” at night with a “petrol-soaked tyre!”

Google Gatso, and you can see their “handiwork.


21 posted on 02/13/2017 7:30:26 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Kaslin

I got one returning from a Freep at Walter Reed a few years back. They were doing construction north of Baltimore, and I sat in traffic for three hours barely moving. When the traffic did start to move, everyone was taking off. They had a camera set up on a platform right there at that point. The bastards.

I work for a living. I can’t have my license taken away. Some other ostensibly brave person can risk it. I can’t.


22 posted on 02/13/2017 7:30:31 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Kaslin

Good info here for red light cameras that also applies to speed cameras:

http://www.highwayrobbery.net/


23 posted on 02/13/2017 7:32:05 PM PST by Aunt Polgara
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To: Aunt Polgara

Interesting link...thanks for posting it.


24 posted on 02/13/2017 7:35:31 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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The ticket was $50 and because I knew I drove through the red light I paid it.

Now the thing is they put the red light camera right there where they can get the drivers that are going to or coming out of Fort Campbell. They even had a Camera on the Fort Campbell property site of the highway (Fort Campbell BLVD 41A). The Fort Campbell Commander made them move it.

25 posted on 02/13/2017 7:42:53 PM PST by Kaslin ( Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: jsanders2001
The city government probably loved the cash cow until some of their own family members got pegged. Sorry but the automated ticketing cameras are too Orwellian and the company that installs them splits the profits from the fines paid and penalizes the city if they dont collect a certain amount of revenue per month.

I'm wondering, in a purely humorous, South Park kind of way, if someone could hack the computer system so that every time the camera catches a car speeding, the computer takes a photo of the office desk, or office bathroom, of one of the City Council members and forwards *that* to the database...

26 posted on 02/13/2017 7:45:26 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Nextrush

No, ticket cameras are revenue generators for the companies that operate them, and for the local decision makers who take kickbacks. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/16/red-light-camera-exec-gets-2m-fine-30-months-in-prison-for-bribery-scam.html


27 posted on 02/13/2017 7:53:45 PM PST by PAR35
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The village reportedly cited almost 45,000 people and collected $1.8 million during the 15 months the cameras were tracking drivers. The village paid another $1.2 million to Optotraffic, the company that ran the speed camera program.
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The village has reportedly spent over $100,000 in taxpayer dollars on lawyer fees defending itself in the case. A lawyer for New Miami told Fox News that it planned to appeal the decision.


Optotraffics share was pretty good. I would guess it was a shell company and no recovery on that for the village.


28 posted on 02/13/2017 7:56:29 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Kaslin

IIRC, over in england or scotland some of these speed cameras were burned by dissenters.


29 posted on 02/13/2017 7:59:29 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Kaslin

http://optotraffic.com/


30 posted on 02/13/2017 8:05:56 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: TexasGator

http://www.dailytech.com/Students+Use+Speed+Cameras+to+Frame+Innocent+Drivers+Prank+Teachers/article13749.htm

Have fun with the cameras. No way they should hold up in court. No accuser and no accuracy.


31 posted on 02/13/2017 8:43:54 PM PST by wgmalabama (I was for Sessions before the country knew his name,)
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32 posted on 02/13/2017 9:51:08 PM PST by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: TexasGator

That’s pure BS. Breaking a traffic laws is typically a crime, usually a misdemeanor, and as such must be handled as a crime which means their must be a crime and witness to the crime and an arrest and an identification... etc. A traffic camera citation does none of that. Your reply was a complete fail.


33 posted on 02/13/2017 9:57:43 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Kaslin
"I got a $50 ticket in the mail one time with the picture of my license plate when I went through the red light."

You should have taken a picture of a $50 bill and mailed it to them :)

34 posted on 02/13/2017 10:02:14 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: rlmorel

I have had at least 7 of them. I have not paid a single one. I have never responded to one. I have beat everyone of them. They are all civil complaints since they do not meet the standards for a criminal prosecution.


35 posted on 02/13/2017 10:03:16 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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Sounds like they’re trying to replace New Rome Ohio which was once a speed trap town not too far from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio


36 posted on 02/13/2017 10:13:45 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Kaslin

Good.


37 posted on 02/14/2017 1:45:20 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: jsanders2001

Rochester NY Mayor Lovely Warren is getting rid of red light cameras purely on the basis that “minorities are being hit hardest.” Those darn law abiding white folks!


38 posted on 02/14/2017 2:11:24 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of CS paid is inversely proportionate to Mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Joe 6-pack
My first (and only) LOL!

:)

39 posted on 02/14/2017 3:05:48 AM PST by Does so (USA: Watching Muslims' 2nd Generation being "Radicalized"...)
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To: Kaslin

I got one once. It was for not coming to a complete stop for 3 seconds, or whatever it’s supposed to be, before making a right turn on red. No traffic in area at night time, I know that doesn’t matter but...would have made me feel better shelling out the 125 bucks if I’d done something more deserving of it.


40 posted on 02/14/2017 3:05:49 AM PST by kelly4c
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