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sguy78 on 10 March 2010
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bimmylee said:
sguy78 said:
famousringo said:
I'm not completely opposed to the idea of red light cameras, but I hear some jurisdictions have been shortening yellow lights to increase infractions, increase revenues, and make the intersection less safe than it was before the camera.

Hurting people so the city can get more ticket revenues? Now that's some real bullshit.

Whenever I hear "Revenue" mentioned in any breath while talking about money and government, it really lights a fuse for me. Government does not have revenue, they are not there for that! These governments claim that these traffic lights are for our safety. Anybody who believes that is completely delusional.

No kidding. My check is supposed to be made payable to the "City of Beverly Hills Photo Enforcement Program", yet the address is to some PO box in Cincinnati, Ohio. Not gonna happen. They won't get a cent from me. I'm not about to hand over $108 of my money to some private camera company in Ohio! They've gotta be out of their minds.

I'm in South Florida, and at a lot of the intersections, there are these large metal posts that are being built that are probably two feet in diameter, and have another post protruding from it with the traffic lights connected to them. I'm sure the reason for this is that every freaking traffic light was thown to hell during each hurricane we seemed to have every year for four years. We were all out of commission for about a month at one point. The thing is, there is a camera pointing in all four directions on every single one of these. My buddy and I are seriously thinking about taking some paint guns or bb guns and nailing the crap out of them in the middle of the night. They're not fooling anybody. Look at England with their cameras on every street corner. They claim it's about catching terrorsist after the fact, and the public safety. Isn't it rather convenient that people are getting citations for letting their dogs take a shit on the sidewalk or whatnot?