Your Legislature is planning a 3-year pilot project to install overhead cameras at strategic intersections to photograph the license plates of cars that go through red lights.
While it would cut down on the number of scofflaws who are in a hurry to go nowhere, there is one potential downside:
These cameras are at almost all intersections in Scottsdale, AZ. Apparently, one man, in a hurry to go nowhere, sped through a red light and his license plate and the faces of the occupants of the car were taken automatically. The guy thought the ticket he would receive was just a nuisance and that he would pay it as soon as it arrived at his mailbox. Unfortunately for him, his wife got to the mail before he did, and included with the traffic citation was the picture of the car's occupants, and the woman sitting next to him in that car was NOT his wife. I think the story ended with him being in divorce court shortly thereafter.
So the moral of this sordid tale is, when they install those cameras, make sure you can explain to your spouse who the person sitting next to you in the car is.
Miulang
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar.../ln/ln01p.html
While it would cut down on the number of scofflaws who are in a hurry to go nowhere, there is one potential downside:
These cameras are at almost all intersections in Scottsdale, AZ. Apparently, one man, in a hurry to go nowhere, sped through a red light and his license plate and the faces of the occupants of the car were taken automatically. The guy thought the ticket he would receive was just a nuisance and that he would pay it as soon as it arrived at his mailbox. Unfortunately for him, his wife got to the mail before he did, and included with the traffic citation was the picture of the car's occupants, and the woman sitting next to him in that car was NOT his wife. I think the story ended with him being in divorce court shortly thereafter.
So the moral of this sordid tale is, when they install those cameras, make sure you can explain to your spouse who the person sitting next to you in the car is.
Miulang
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar.../ln/ln01p.html
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