Caught on Click! Cameras Nab Speeders

My exwife got nabbed by a Camera in Denver for running a red light.

 

I guess if they send you a pic of your car speeding, maybe you could send them a pic of the money order for the amount owed..LOL

 

Funny story about these camera's. When cities first launched the camera's back in the early 90's they had a guy that was caught speeding and in the mail he got a photo of him in his car along with a speeding ticket for $80.00. Instead of just paying the fine the driver thought he would make a joke and took a photo of $80.00 cash and mailed the photo along with the ticket to the police. A week later he got another letter from the police station but this time the envelope contained a photo of handcuffs. The speeder quickly sent off a check to pay his fine.

That story always made me laugh. I don't know if its true or not but it is still funny.

 

I remember that one as well. Photo copy of the money- Hilarious!!

 

I'm sure one took my pic in the truck the other day. I started to slow down but knew I couldn't make it so I just floored it. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if I get something in the mail. And at that particular light, I have no problem believing they changed the timing and have a guy sitting there with a button that reads "Semi at point of no return".

 

Maryland delegate proposes penalty to camera company for bogus tickets

By Reed Black, Land Line Now staff reporter

In Maryland, a state lawmaker figures that if drivers have to pay a penalty when they're caught by a speed camera, the private company that operates the camera should have a pay a penalty if it issues a mistaken ticket.

For each mistaken ticket, Delegate Jon Cardin is proposing a $1,000 penalty for both the camera company and the city it's operating in.

Cardin says there have been lots of bogus tickets issued, some of them to truckers.

"We had a situation where a speed camera on Cold Spring Lane in Baltimore City was giving violations out to truckers who were obviously incapable of going beyond a 35- or 40-mile an hour speed limit just based on the fact that the road wouldn't permit that," Cardin told "Land Line Now."

"And you could obviously see that they were not going over the speed limit based on the two double time stamped pictures," he added.

Cardin hopes the Maryland legislature will take up his bill when the session begins next month.

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Sioux City IA was having an issue with their camera. I fought it with the EOBR record showing I was at 56 in a 55 at the same time and place their camera said I was going 65 in a 55.

After 2 weeks, I found out they had a ton of tickets in a short window they were having to figure out what to do.

Nobody notified the public and the media refused to report on it.


Their excuse? Qualcomm legal threatened a lawsuit if they used their name because their system is not designed or capable of detecting and recording speed....