[Mgs] Was Attn californians, now "black plate cars"

[Richard Ewald]

After seeing a fatal collision at the intersection a few door down from my
house, I think the red light cameras should be removed and replaced with
heat seeking missiles.  Either that or sharks with freakin laser beams.
Rick

On Nov 4, 2007 11:16 AM, Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews at gmail.com> wrote:

> In California, the yellow lights must be on for a minimum time --
> determined according to the speed limit. Also, speed limits cannot be
> set arbitrarily low.
>
> Recently, in a city near me, someone who had received a red-light
> ticket, timed the lights and found that the yellow time was too short.
> The city had to refund many tickets. Of course, the city denied that
> this had been deliberate.
>
> Regards.
>
>
> On 11/3/07, David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Richard Ewald <richard.ewald at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > *This caused lines like you cannot believe at the DMV.  The DMV
> > > learned
> > > their lesson, and never did a wholesale plate exchange again.
> > >
> >
> > Here in Washington all license tabs were due at the first of
> > the year, and there were massive lines (I remember standing
> > in such a line with my father in the 60s).  Then in the 70s
> > they started basing the renewal on the month in which you
> > bought your car.  But we still have to get new plates every
> > few years, probably so the retro-reflective surface will be
> > nice and targetable by laser speed traps.  Now we're even
> > starting to see a few parasitic red-light cameras - we've all
> > read what a revenue shakedown scam those are!  "Yeah, we'll
> > just reduce the yellow light from 8 seconds to 2 seconds!"
> >
> >
> >
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