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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a two-step process:
1. Pay the ticket.
2. Move on with your life. [/quote]

You forgot the third step: slow the F down.

There should be speed cameras on every road in the state. Or better yet, a automated sensor system in your car, like a EZ pass with embedded GPS, that keeps track of where you are, which road you’re on, and fines you accordingly every time you go more than 10mph over the limit.

That would be the ideal situation.

I’m sick and tired of people doing 50 mph through my neighborhood. [/quote]

This thank you.

I once got to sit in at a meeting with a local politician with a bunch of people bitching about their traffic camera tickets.  So MPD brought in the video and still footage of every single violation the people in the room were complaining about.

And every single video and every single photo showed a clear violation of the law - these were almost all for red light violations for people who either made aggressive right on reds or stopped 10-20 feet past the stop bar.

It was just one whiny complaint after another "well right on red is allowed at this intersection" and "well I did stop for the red light."

One of the most vocal complainants made the aggressive right on red with pedestrians in the crosswalk who had to wait for him to make his turn and he still thought he was in the right and was an aggrieved party!

So OP what is the citation for that you think you didn't commit and should be left off the hook?[/quote]
1. Relax Matlock.
2. It was a speed camera ticket on Macarthur Blvd, but in an area with such high traffic during rush hour that it’s impossible to speed without plowing into other cars. I only drive that way during the work week in the 8am hour, so I’m puzzled as to how I could have been going over 25. I’m contesting it because I need actual proof that I was speeding, not a machine that likely hasn’t been serviced in god knows how long. They’ve just admitted during a an audit last month that over 55% of speed cameras in work zones weren’t properly inspected issuing tens of thousands of tickets improperly. 
I don’t know about you, but I’m not wasting $100 for something that can be handled during my lunch break and possibly save other drivers from being falsely ticketed.[/quote]

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