Houston: City Considers Installing Photo Radars

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I don't understand, do you not have these already?

All our speeding fines are issued by radars that take photos. How do you guys normally get speeding fines?

These cameras are all over Los Angeles and other parts of So Cal. I've stopped chasing the yellow lights.

-HECK!

There are "speed enforced by radar" signs all over the place in Colo.
They recently changed the law so that we don't get fines or points by these machines because they found them to be inaccurate.

So a couple of months ago, I get a letter from the city police stating I need to slow down blah blah blah because my speed was tracked at such and such in a such and such limit.

It was a long and drawn out letter basically saying that if it continued I would be "visited by a police officer."
Still waiting for that man to show up at my door so I can feed him a good meal and watch a movie with him.

one time there was one of those radar sign things that told you your speed when you were going by. I had gone by it several times already and didn't see any cops so I was feeling ballsy and just floored it. MAUAUHAHAH

They have photo radar in Canada, too.

I'm not sure where this happened, but a few years ago, a man received mail from the authorities with a fine for $100.00, and a picture of his car running a red light. The man decided he was going to be an idiot, so he sent the authorities a picture of a one hundred dollar bill. A week later, the man received more mail from the authorities: It was a picture of handcuffs.

^ I heard that before someone too

In Taiwan, we have the speed cameras, but they are often hidden in bushes and other areas where they're hard to spot. Government makes a fortune off them each year due to "repeat offenders" (you can't lose your license in Taiwan for being caught speeding or wreckless driving or drink driving...well, you basically have to kill someone to have your license suspended).

It's illegal to hide them in bushes and stuff over here. They have to be out in plain sight.

There was a story about someone who got caught by a cop with a speed-gun and the policeman with the radar gun was hiding behind a light-pole so he couldn't be seen. The person who was speeding fought the fine because the camera was technically hidden and therefore illegal and they won, they didn't have to pay the fine.