Comments on: High School Students Using The Speed Camera “Pimping Game” To Exact Revenge http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:03:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: careminfo http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1571494 careminfo Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:20:20 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1571494 Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

]]> By: JasonS http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1470299 JasonS Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:27:08 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1470299 Heh, I let a friend use my car, and the sunpass thing wasn't working, and yes, she went thru enough times to not only rack up 6k in fines, but they suspended my license for 3 YEARS. And of course I wasn't the one driving, but you know that's the new 'justice' of the land. You are guilty before you can prove innocence. And luckily in Florida they don't care about the fact you didn't do it. I don't think people 'get' just how screwed up this is. As long as you are not wearing your personal transponder (cellphone), the .gov will insist it's you, hold you liable for the fines (even if you have air plane tickets showing you were not in the state/country) and yeah, you lose your driving "privlidge" for 3 years. And that ficticious NAU thing? Just try to get a drivers license out of USA once you've lost it there, you've lost it everywhere. Funny how that works. Heh, I let a friend use my car, and the sunpass thing wasn’t working, and yes, she went thru enough times to not only rack up 6k in fines, but they suspended my license for 3 YEARS.

And of course I wasn’t the one driving, but you know that’s the new ‘justice’ of the land. You are guilty before you can prove innocence. And luckily in Florida they don’t care about the fact you didn’t do it.

I don’t think people ‘get’ just how screwed up this is.

As long as you are not wearing your personal transponder (cellphone), the .gov will insist it’s you, hold you liable for the fines (even if you have air plane tickets showing you were not in the state/country) and yeah, you lose your driving “privlidge” for 3 years. And that ficticious NAU thing? Just try to get a drivers license out of USA once you’ve lost it there, you’ve lost it everywhere.

Funny how that works.

]]> By: Rich http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469283 Rich Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:44:58 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469283 "the raised vs. non-raised letter comparison would work if that were true in WA. Most of the special and personalized plates (including the one on my car) have letters just silk-screened, not embossed. Only the standard plates are still embossed." You could also Photoshop something like a drop shadow or other minor distortion to simulate the appearance of embossed characters. “the raised vs. non-raised letter comparison would work if that were true in WA. Most of the special and personalized plates (including the one on my car) have letters just silk-screened, not embossed. Only the standard plates are still embossed.”

You could also Photoshop something like a drop shadow or other minor distortion to simulate the appearance of embossed characters.

]]> By: Rick Cain http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469256 Rick Cain Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:09:47 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469256 Lets just go straight to the source and surgically implant a GPS tracking device into all humans, which will automatically deduct from their bank account the speeding ticket. Lets just go straight to the source and surgically implant a GPS tracking device into all humans, which will automatically deduct from their bank account the speeding ticket.

]]> By: Jess Hurchist http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469220 Jess Hurchist Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:56:39 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469220 #17 "Eventually, all vehicles will be equipped with GPS and memory to keep track of the vehicle’s mileage, to be used by the state to determine the road-use tax owed by the owner. Add an RFID and this scam will be harder to pull off." When that happens all vehicles will also have a direct link to the driver's bank account and every time the speed limit is broken will initiate a direct debit for the appropriate fine. Until either there's no money left or your license is revoked when the car will stop. #17 “Eventually, all vehicles will be equipped with GPS and memory to keep track of the vehicle’s mileage, to be used by the state to determine the road-use tax owed by the owner. Add an RFID and this scam will be harder to pull off.”

When that happens all vehicles will also have a direct link to the driver’s bank account and every time the speed limit is broken will initiate a direct debit for the appropriate fine. Until either there’s no money left or your license is revoked when the car will stop.

]]> By: BubbaRay http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469114 BubbaRay Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:29:56 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469114 Aren't there covers for license plates that become opaque at viewing angles greater than 20 degrees? The cops can see 'em on the street, but to cameras they say something quite different, like "XXX-1234." Aren’t there covers for license plates that become opaque at viewing angles greater than 20 degrees? The cops can see ‘em on the street, but to cameras they say something quite different, like “XXX-1234.”

]]> By: bob http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469080 bob Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:27:14 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469080 I live in this area and the cameras are a royal pain. They cause traffic congestion in areas that used to flow smoothly. I hope enough of this continues so they are forced to remove the stupid things. I live in this area and the cameras are a royal pain. They cause traffic congestion in areas that used to flow smoothly. I hope enough of this continues so they are forced to remove the stupid things.

]]> By: Mister Mustard http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469079 Mister Mustard Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:25:59 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469079 #26 - Greg Allen >>Doesn’t that usually show in those photo >>speed traps? Many states only have plates on the back. Therefore, they'd have to take the photo from the back. #26 – Greg Allen

>>Doesn’t that usually show in those photo
>>speed traps?

Many states only have plates on the back. Therefore, they’d have to take the photo from the back.

]]> By: Greg Allen http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469075 Greg Allen Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:08:15 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469075 Mr. Fusion raises a valid question, so I went to the faithful Snopes. Here is one similar story http://snopes.com/autos/law/snaptrap.asp but they could not confirm or deny it. The first question that came to my mind was about the face of the driver. Doesn't that usually show in those photo speed traps? Mr. Fusion raises a valid question, so I went to the faithful Snopes.

Here is one similar story
http://snopes.com/autos/law/snaptrap.asp
but they could not confirm or deny it.

The first question that came to my mind was about the face of the driver. Doesn’t that usually show in those photo speed traps?

]]> By: pcsmith http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1469041 pcsmith Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:17:53 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1469041 Thank God we still have some kids with imagination. The best we could come up with was grabbing a bucket of white paint, going to midfield of their stadium, and writing in 30 foot font the score of our victory over our rivals Of course that was the late 70's , before printers. Ir's amazing I don't have a record. Thank God we still have some kids with imagination.

The best we could come up with was grabbing a bucket of white paint, going to midfield of their stadium, and writing in 30 foot font the score of our victory over our rivals

Of course that was the late 70’s , before printers.

Ir’s amazing I don’t have a record.

]]> By: Mister Mustard http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1468986 Mister Mustard Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:18:47 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1468986 #2 - eggman All plates are flat in Delaware. #2 – eggman

All plates are flat in Delaware.

]]> By: Mr. Fusion http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1468983 Mr. Fusion Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:07:06 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1468983 And another urban legend makes the rounds. Until the police actually catch someone with a "photoshopped plate" then it just ain't happening. The fact that it could happen does not mean it has. All it would take to be demonstrated to be actually happening is for someone that can prove they were somewhere else, say a student attending a sport practice or at a game at another distant school, or a teacher in a meeting with several School Board members. Until then, BOGUS !!! And another urban legend makes the rounds. Until the police actually catch someone with a “photoshopped plate” then it just ain’t happening.

The fact that it could happen does not mean it has. All it would take to be demonstrated to be actually happening is for someone that can prove they were somewhere else, say a student attending a sport practice or at a game at another distant school, or a teacher in a meeting with several School Board members.

Until then, BOGUS !!!

]]> By: eggman9713 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1468919 eggman9713 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:54:01 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1468919 #2, the raised vs. non-raised letter comparison would work if that were true in WA. Most of the special and personalized plates (including the one on my car) have letters just silk-screened, not embossed. Only the standard plates are still embossed. #2, the raised vs. non-raised letter comparison would work if that were true in WA. Most of the special and personalized plates (including the one on my car) have letters just silk-screened, not embossed. Only the standard plates are still embossed.

]]> By: bobbo http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1468911 bobbo Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:47:29 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1468911 #2--Captain==that was a Columbo episode==I saw it a month or so ago. Perp got caught to because there was a sun angle shadow from the steering wheel but none on the photo from the hat. A bit simple, but entertaining. #2–Captain==that was a Columbo episode==I saw it a month or so ago. Perp got caught to because there was a sun angle shadow from the steering wheel but none on the photo from the hat. A bit simple, but entertaining.

]]> By: Angel H. Wong http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/10/high-school-students-using-the-speed-camera-pimping-game-to-exact-revenge/comment-page-1/#comment-1468879 Angel H. Wong Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:59:41 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36381#comment-1468879 #3 #8 & #13 Keep on dreaming. Chances are that they're going to raise the fees to get more cash. #3 #8 & #13

Keep on dreaming. Chances are that they’re going to raise the fees to get more cash.

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