I know, but the were equitable. Not surprised they are gone.
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Indigent. I think you mean a person, right? You know Stan, when you die, if you go to heaven, you are going to share that space with a lot of those very same people. If they let you in. Awkward!
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About 2.5 decades ago, I had trouble at a stop light when a indigent with a squeegee wanted to clean my windshield at an intersection in a large northern city, when the light turned green. By the time I was rid of the indigent, with horns behind me blaring, the light went from yellow to red as I escaped the intersection.
Afterward I received a notification that I owed for the Red Light offense, and after many threats from that city government, I sent them a well worded letter, telling them "cold day in hell," and whatnot. I never paid on the sake of principle. My car insurance company never found out, and at that point I knew I would do all within my power to keep traffic cameras from Beaufort County. Governments do NOT need more, and varied revenue streams, they need less ... much less. I am not sure what happened to the Indigent with the Squeegee, but maybe he found gainful and real employment, thereby providing a service to humanity as we know it. |
You've got that right, Stan, and when the machines screw up, getting recourse is often dificult.
There was a case in the UK where a man got a ticket in the mail from a speed camera saying he was driving over 400 miles an hour on a British motorway. He sent a letter back saying that this could not possibly be right because he drove an old Toyota, not a jumbo jet. He got a letter back that the machine was always right and he should pay up. There was another case some years ago when this issue was hot at the legislature, when a legislator brought up the case of one of his constituents. She had received a red light camera ticket in the mail from a town she said she had never been to in her life. Further, on the day she allegedly ran the red light, she could document that she was in intensive care in a hospital in Las Vegas, and the car was in the parking garage there. The town still did not want to cancel the ticket. |
In court, one cannot face their accusers.
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Clearly, Bob has never driven in Greece, Spain, Malta, or Turkey. I have, and Greenville drivers are MUCH MUCH better than those. Heck, the UK Foreign Office even has an advisory to its citizens traveling in Spain about driving because of the craziness of Spanish drivers. Driving in Italy was also a bit hectic due to Italian drivers tendency to view highway signs like stop signs as mere suggestions.
The worst thing about red light cameras is that they are an undemocratic police state measure right out of Orwell's "1984", but that sort of thing seems right down Bob's ally from some of his posts here. |
Your bigotry notwithstanding Big Bob, the cameras have been ruled unconstitutional by the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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Greenville has some of the worst drivers on the planet. The red light cameras were good and a big plus, they treated the rich white good ol boys like everyone else.
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I read this twice, and by the second reading, I realized that the issue may well be about:
The school boards of Pitt County have determined that they may have been shortchanged by the City of Greenville on civil proceeds due to them by the Fine and Forfeitures clause in the NC Constitution; however, now believe they must work diligently to succeed in getting the highest court in North Carolina to overturn their recent ruling on traffic enforcement by cameras as unconstitutional so that schools in Pitt County can settle up with the City of Greenville, and continue to get more revenues from an unconstitutional levy just recently struck down. If I got this right convoluted issue right, then I am smarter than I pretend to be, and alternately, the Pitt County schools' administration /school boards got some real intellectual /wise governing work to do, both independently and collectively, unconstitutional collection of unwarranted fines collected notwithstanding. |
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Remember these two things: I am NOT a Leftist, therefore I endeavor to communicate on a higher level.
One more thing Big Bob; as a Leftist bigot, you need not worry about my salvation.