Date:         Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:12:51 +0100
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
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From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: Thanks RE: Photo ticket at stop lights
Comments: To: Sean Garrett <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
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I have one simple question for you.....

Did you go through the yellow (or red) light?

If the answer is yes, then pay your ticket, learn your lesson, admit that
you made a mistake, stop trying to pretend that the entire government is
corrupt, and spying on you, and out to cash in on your innocent and harmless
actions.

There is a reason why they install those cameras which take photos of the
cars who run yellow (or red).  The reason is that many innocent men, women,
and children are killed each year by folks who are in a hurry, and speed up
at the yellow. There is a trend towards ever increasingly aggresive driving
and road rage in the States... while the crime rate is also so high, that
hte police force is busy 24-7 catching the rapists, murders, and high school
kids killing their teachers.  There simply are not enough resources for a 30
minute personal ticket giving ceremony for running a light.

Here we have radar boxes both in the sities and on the autobahns and when
you get a ticket, you pay it, and people do not really freak.  We are not
living in a totalitarian, nor "Orwellian" society here either... it's just
that Europeans tend to be a tad more responsible for their actions than
perhaps residents of some other countries.

Now, having said all that.... if you did not run the yellow,  then fight it.

Good Luck with whichever you choose to do!

RSF

PS.  Most lights these days are controlled by traffic, and weight or other
sensors... so your timing it by using the clock may not do much good.

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Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf