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danny_galaga:


sweet!

JMB:
That is pretty awesome! Too bad my Powerball tickets didn't win.

wp34:

--- Quote from: JMB on December 12, 2012, 09:04:11 am ---That is pretty awesome! Too bad my Powerball tickets didn't win.

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+1

Now I have a new thing to dream about when I buy a lottery ticket. 

Speeding cameras are starting to pop up in Iowa like rabbits all in the name of "$afety" of course.   :badmood:

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: wp34 on December 12, 2012, 10:27:08 am ---
--- Quote from: JMB on December 12, 2012, 09:04:11 am ---That is pretty awesome! Too bad my Powerball tickets didn't win.

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+1

Now I have a new thing to dream about when I buy a lottery ticket. 

Speeding cameras are starting to pop up in Iowa like rabbits all in the name of "$afety" of course.   :badmood:

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we have cameras here.

"Redlight" - get you if you go through on red.

"speed on green" - get you if you are over the speed limit...by how much is not known.

"roadside" - portable units disguised as transformer boxes/garbage cans. Dirty dirty buggers.

"speedtrap" - a NONDESCRIPT vehicle with a camera mounted inside, parks on the side of the road (often in an area right after the speed lowers)and gets you...sometimes with another vehicle behind blocking the cop pretending to be broken down.

the problem with ALL of these units??...the offender CONTINUES TO OFFEND. somebody doesn't pull them over and tell them, "HEY! don't do that!" they continue down the road. There is no deterrent. You know what else? if they do notice they've been caught by a camera...more often than not, they start driving EVEN FASTER! They figure since they are already paying for a ticket they may as well.

they say things like "red light cameras make the roads safer" i say bullplop. I've almost rear-ended people on several ocassions who see the light change to yellow and JAM on the brakes because they think if they go through they'll get a ticket. HOW IS THIS SAFER than them simply travelling through the still empty intersection safely on a yellow light?

we recently had about a million dollars worth of tickets thrown out because the cameras where not properly calibrated. it showed photo radar pictures of school buses going around corners at 70km/hr. I've personally been in photo radar intersections where the camera flash is just clicking away taking pictures of an empty intersection.

money grab is what it is. FIGHT THAT BS!

/rant

wp34:
Well said lilshawn.

My town just put up "warning lights" at each intersection on the highway that leads to the high school.  These things are brilliant.  They light up about 10 seconds before the light is going to change to red.  That is a true safety feature.  You get a warning in plenty of time to start slowing down and there is no ticket involved.  Previously the light would turn yellow and you would have to decide whether it was safer to plow through the "amber" light or slam on the brakes and hope you don't get read-ended.

I was totally shocked when I saw these warning lights last week.  Most of the towns around here are scrambling to get speed and red-light cameras installed.  They don't want to miss out on any of the safety generating revenue.

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