MD. speed camera highway robbery!

[parkerbink]

Clearly there is something fishy here!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid180211731001?bctid=605230322001

[mrsleeve]

and this comes as a surprise to anyone?????

Just pay it or else.............................................. ..... the motto of all Govt big and small.

[briansjacobs]

pay the ticket or we will send the prrof to your parents

http://img.moonbuggy.org/traffic-camera-handjob/

[Kershaw]

great pic of my car!

[JasonC]

^^^ haha. Wheres Dan at, he has one of his e30

[mrsleeve]

Kershaw, I would lay the fine out in cash on the kitchen table and take a pic of that and send that in with the ticket.

[freeride53]

lol that's hilarious kershaw.

[briansjacobs]

Kershaw, I would lay the fine out in cash on the kitchen table and take a pic of that and send that in with the ticket.

to which the county returns a picture of a jail cell

[parkerbink]

Before they went away I ignored one in the Acura, they sent a second letter and then process servers twice while I was here, I did not answer the door. That was over a year ago.

I got another in the CR-V which is in my Wife's name one letter and that was it.

Seeing as there was no human involved they can't say pay or be f00ked.

[Jalves619]

Yep unless they actually serve you it gets dropped. But like Mr. sleeve says its just another incurred cost of driving. Registration, insurance, speeding tickets.

[Kershaw]

it was only $40, not worth the hassle to not pay it.

however, EVERYONE does 45-50 on that road. except for the cops. they do 60..... that spot is such a cash cow for them. a few weeks after i got my ticket i was driving down that same stretch and it caught 3 cars in a row, like flash flash flash. -_- $$$$$$$$$

[bimmerpirate]

yeah, that spot is pretty BS too. one way is going downhill where it drops from 45 to 35 and one camera is about 200ft past the sign. easy money for them. -_- I just watch my speed very carefully going through there with my work truck and just about all of PG county. they have speed cameras everywhere hidden in bushes. Not joking about that one.

[Kershaw]

on the other side of the road, they have a speed camera set up in someones front yard. the yard is even enclosed with a fence, its sitting like 3 feet from their front porch.

i wonder how much rent the owners get to charge...

[parkerbink]

Garfield Heights, Ohio will refund 984 speed camera tickets worth $98,400 after city officials admitted that they misled the public. In announcing the automated ticketing machines, officials promised that tickets would be issued to those accused of going 11 MPH over the limit. The city's contract with Redflex, the Australian company that actually runs the program, called for tickets to anyone going 10 MPH over the limit. The refunds will go to those caught in the 1 MPH gap during the first six weeks of the program, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

In Troy, New York, motorist Susan White was falsely accused of running a red light on May 20 at 4:32pm by an automated camera in North Miami Beach. The $125 ticket came with a photograph of a dark Chevrolet with an extremely blurry license plate. White drives a light-colored Kia Soul. White explained to the Times-Union newspaper that she has never been to Miami and was at work in Troy on May 20. After the Times-Union got involved, American Traffic Solutions canceled the bogus ticket.

A court in Siegburg, Germany found a motorist who had been flashed by a speed camera on the L 333 in Sankt Augustin-Buisdorf not guilty. At trial, an expert was able to show from the camera's photographs that it would have been impossible for the driver to have been traveling at the speed alleged based on measurements of distance traveled over time. A subsequent review of the faulty camera showed one bicyclist was photographed at 70 km/h (43 MPH) and another at 92 km/h (57 MPH). Despite the bogus speed readings, the General-Anzeiger newspaper reports that the device has passed all routine calibration testing.

In Melbourne, Australia toll road officials admitted their automated enforcement system issued 7269 bogus charges to over a thousand drivers because the camera system on the EastLink toll tunnel failed to properly read license plates, the Herald Sun newspaper reported. The same optical character recognition technology is used by speed cameras, and the EastLink's photo radar has come under even greater scrutiny after the Herald Sun revealed that maintenance logs showed a camera had taken photos "without targets in beam." Corrupt test data, communications failures, company investigations and other problems were extensively documented, but police officials insisted that the cameras which had generated 237,308 tickets worth $30 million were flawless.

[Kershaw]

flawless to their budgets!