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Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps

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  • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

    ah, but then they'd have to build more jails. community service might be more appropriate, less costly.

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    Lost User
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    ahmed zahmed wrote:

    community service might be more appropriate, less costly.

    Lifetime driving ban? Three strikes.

    Bob Emmett

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      Photo radar tickets generated nearly $1 billion in revenues for D.C. during fiscal years 2005 to 2008. That surely can not be true.

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      Couple of weeks back I was in DC. I felt like these red light cameras/speed traps are there in almost every intersection of the city.

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      • K Kant

        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Devices-that-warn-drivers-of-speed_-red-light-cameras-draw-police-ire-7930619-50074717.html[^] :wtf: BTW, I use this app on my iPhone.

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        Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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        Like the cowardly cops that run 105+mph in a 70mph zone on I-95 constantly in South Florida.

        Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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          ahmed zahmed wrote:

          community service might be more appropriate, less costly.

          Lifetime driving ban? Three strikes.

          Bob Emmett

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          peterchen
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          That's still worse than death sentence in the US

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          • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

            Like the cowardly cops that run 105+mph in a 70mph zone on I-95 constantly in South Florida.

            Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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            Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

            Like the cowardly cops that run 105+mph in a 70mph zone on I-95 constantly in South Florida.

            Hey ... I think that same cop just drove past me ... here in Atlanta ...


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              Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

              Like the cowardly cops that run 105+mph in a 70mph zone on I-95 constantly in South Florida.

              Hey ... I think that same cop just drove past me ... here in Atlanta ...


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              Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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              Stupid Dekalb County now "Stricty" enforcing the speed limit on 285, now I have to run 70mph instead of 90 :(

              Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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                Stupid Dekalb County now "Stricty" enforcing the speed limit on 285, now I have to run 70mph instead of 90 :(

                Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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                Douglas Troy
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                I'm surprised you can even go that fast on 285 ... most of the time when I get on it ... I'm luck to hit 5mph. Freak'in traffic.


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                • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                  ah, but then they'd have to build more jails. community service might be more appropriate, less costly.

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                  Hmmm... maybe a pyramid scheme... make the caught offender work the van until they catch someone else. :-D

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                    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Devices-that-warn-drivers-of-speed_-red-light-cameras-draw-police-ire-7930619-50074717.html[^] :wtf: BTW, I use this app on my iPhone.

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                    Stuart Dootson
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                    It's OK - Steve's dealing with it[^] :laugh:

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                      I'm surprised you can even go that fast on 285 ... most of the time when I get on it ... I'm luck to hit 5mph. Freak'in traffic.


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                      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                      Represent :)

                      Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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                        ahmed zahmed wrote:

                        community service might be more appropriate, less costly.

                        Lifetime driving ban? Three strikes.

                        Bob Emmett

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                        Christian Graus
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                        I hope you're not serious. 'speeding' is a victimless crime, it does not affect road deaths, as the lack of change in stats at home ( they are actually up ) proves.

                        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                        • K Kant

                          http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Devices-that-warn-drivers-of-speed_-red-light-cameras-draw-police-ire-7930619-50074717.html[^] :wtf: BTW, I use this app on my iPhone.

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                          Chris Maunder
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                          How on Earth is it cowardly? You're not running away from something - you're just been given warning that there are radars there. If these were truly safety cameras then they would have BIG warnings telling you to slow down and take extra care at specific areas. Their goal should actually be $0 revenue from those cameras. If they don't want fixed cameras to be seen or known then they are revenue generators, plain and simple. As to breathalyser points, I reckon if you have the nouse to not only remember to fire up your iPhone, can drive and monitor it at the same time, and can avoid one of them then I reckon you have already passed stage 1 of the sobriety test. Stage 2 should be random, mobile, short placement testing stations. So then who cares if people are reporting them? They'll be gone in 5 mins...

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                          • K Kant

                            http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Devices-that-warn-drivers-of-speed_-red-light-cameras-draw-police-ire-7930619-50074717.html[^] :wtf: BTW, I use this app on my iPhone.

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                            smcnulty2000
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                            My favorite part of the article. "and 'people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught' in one way or another." Nice to know that the gods of justice will be meting out traffic tickets. Carma, I guess.

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                            • C Christian Graus

                              I hope you're not serious. 'speeding' is a victimless crime, it does not affect road deaths, as the lack of change in stats at home ( they are actually up ) proves.

                              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                              Christian Graus wrote:

                              'speeding' is a victimless crime, it does not affect road deaths

                              So exceeding the speed limit, thus having to take a tight corner in the centre of the road, causing an oncoming vehicle to swerve into a garden wall, is victimless? The only (2) 'near death' experiences I have had were as a passenger in a car being driven by a (sober) young (25ish) man in excess of the speed limit. On each occasion the driver had to pull over and take time to collect himself before continuing, in a more subdued manner. On each occasion their excess speed was the cause of our predicament. If a sign says 30mph, if you disagree, fight to get it changed. Until then, why not obey it? BTW: If everyone has the same attitude towards speeding as you, how would introducing speed limits ever reduce the number of road deaths?

                              Bob Emmett

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