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Even more amazing is that his fellow fuckwads would vote for his bill. They must all have personal-enrichment and fuck-my-enemies bills, for which they trade their votes like baseball cards.

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It's the hick one-cop towns with the $400 pay-now-or-go-to-jail fines that take the shine off of what would otherwise be a sensible form of enforcement.

Fortunately (inevitably), <a href="http:\/\/www.trapster.com\/" target="_blank">there's an app for that. </a>

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I remember one in Scotland, which was at the bottom of a dip in the road. The speed limit on the flat sections of the road was 50, while the dip had a limit of 40. That was clearly nothing but a speed trap, and should be removed. I do not object to cameras which were not set up primarily to collect money.

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Note to any readers intending to come to the drinky thing in St. Louis, the section of I-70 between the airport and downtown is a 'Revenue Enhancement Zone'.

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Lundberg manages to beat Sarah Lou when it comes to petty revenge.

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I got a ticket, my second in 20 years, a few years back. I kept forgetting to pay it. Hey, in Ontar-iar-io it used to be that when you renewed your driver's license you could pay it then, nobody cared. 3 months later they mailed out a letter to me informing me that my license was suspended as of right then. Which I didn't receive until 3 days later, after driving around on a suspended license. Oh my god. What a horrible week that was, compounded by the fact that I was just recovering from H1N1 (yes, it was that year) AND opening in a play. In other words, PAY YOUR TICKET.

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worse than that, they were so poorly calibrated that many innocent people did in fact get cited. BTW,municipalities still have them littered allover city streets here. I've got a set at the intersection nearest my house that constantly gets false positives- inexplicably snaps pix of cars for no reason several times a day.

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Going to court on another matter, I had to sit through far too many cases of drivers protesting red light camera tickets. There is no defense.

Following that most unfortunate experience I stop at every fuckin' light. I want to keep my $500.

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He blamed his mother. Now that is low Senator even for a Republican.

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Why all the hate for the cameras? Is it really THAT hard to not speed?

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1. Done 2. Done 3. Done 4. Done 5. Done 6. Done

If only they paid half as much attention to America's "to-do" list.

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