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Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? If You're Driving, You Just Might Be
Cameras to Catch Speeders and Scofflaws Are Spreading -- And Sparking Road Rage

The village of Schaumburg, Ill., installed a camera at Woodfield Mall last November to film cars that were running red lights, then used the footage to issue citations. Results were astonishing. The town issued $1 million in fines in just three months.

But drivers caught by the unforgiving enforcement -- which mainly snared those who didn't come to a full stop before turning right on red -- exploded in anger. Many vowed to stop shopping at the mall unless the camera was turned off. The village stopped monitoring right turns at the intersection in January.

Drivers -- many accusing law enforcement of using spy tactics to trap unsuspecting citizens -- are fighting back with everything from pick axes to camera-blocking Santa Clauses. They're moving beyond radar detectors and CB radios to wage their own tech war against detection, using sprays that promise to blur license numbers and Web sites that plot the cameras' locations and offer tips to beat them.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1238113 ... =yhoofront

In Minnesota we're fighting back in court. Minneapolis "camera cops" at stoplights have been ruled unconstitutional.

I was APPALLED at the "speeding cameras" on the freeways in Phoenix... whas wrong with you peoples?

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:In Minnesota we're fighting back in court. Minneapolis "camera cops" at stoplights have been ruled unconstitutional.

I was APPALLED at the "speeding cameras" on the freeways in Phoenix... whas wrong with you peoples?

No kidding. We are working on a constitutional amendment to ban them.

I love how cities claim the cameras are to promote traffic safety. That is the biggest bunch of BS in the world. It's all about the MONEY.

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:In Minnesota we're fighting back in court. Minneapolis "camera cops" at stoplights have been ruled unconstitutional.

I was APPALLED at the "speeding cameras" on the freeways in Phoenix... whas wrong with you peoples?

Same was ruled in Rhode Island. I would think so in Florida since they are all on top of the lights but I never seem them go off and have had a few close calls and havent gotten anything.

On the other hand.... Maryland I got busted 3 times for those damn things. I learned the spots and it did nothing but make me drive slow for 20 seconds.