Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:51:46 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Thanks RE: Photo ticket at stop lights
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There is an intersection in Dallas Area, Preston Road and Plano Road
where they installed the Video Red light Monitoring Cameras. The cameras
triggered only when they saw motion in the intersection while the light
for that direction of travel was stopped.
In the first week of operation the $125,000.00 equipment failed because
there were so many red light runners that the camera quit at about 2,000
offenders. That was somewhere about 10 am in the morning each day.
They simply didn't have sufficient capacity of recording tape to run all
day.
This is true, it is a real situation, I didn't make it up.
The $250,000 equipment that replaced it works just great.
Isn't it a wonder that so many people say screw you to the law.
I notice everyday that everybody's trip is more important than mine.
I was tailgated so close last night that I couldn't see the guys
headlights in my rear view mirror ........... that fool must have been
two feet from my bumper for two miles and had every opportunity to pass
on a three lane boulevard at 10 PM.
Defensive driving is the most important education you can get especially
when 75% of the vehicles in Texas have hand guns in them.
DON'T PISS THEM OFF>
Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:12:51 +0100 Robert Steven Fish
<fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT> writes:
> 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.
>
> IMPORTANT!!! In order to reply to me, you must have the word "FISH"
> somewhere in the subject line of the email. Otherwise it goes
> directly in
> the trash.
>
> <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{
>
> Robert S. Fish
> Salzburg, Austria
> 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> 1987 Golf Cabriolet
> 1991 Golf
>
>
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