| dmak_el |
| Money Money Money. That's all they care. :limpwrist |
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| TrevorK |
I wonder how long until we hear stories of people vandelizing these?
With the vans, there was always someone inside to call it in. But with these, there is no one to alert the police. |
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| snugs |
lol, all the local hardware stores are going to sell out of krylon if one of those things shows up in my area. Spray over that camera and no more pictures.
Wonder what will happen if somebody takes one of those tickets to court, with no human operator how can they verify the validity of the ticket. What a joke. :rolleyes: |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
| The van or a suv sits near it. They're gonna use those where there's no direct room to park a van, but park a vehicle with somebody to watch it just around a corner, but insite. |
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| wubba_65 |
They've had one of these in Sherwood park for over a year now. As was mentioned above, the operator sits in the vehicle within sight and good sight lines to record which lane the infraction occurred in.
Money grab for sure, but really, you should'NT be speeding anyways, so i don't know why everyone is so opposed to it. If you are willing to break the rules set by society, you pay. I'd rather pay $120 for a photo radar ticket than $120 PLUS and insurance increase for a pull over. Sure you can't talk your way out of photo radar, but how often are you able to talk your way out of a pull over, unless you have tig ole bitties, and you tremble your lip like you're gonna cry?
If you don't like the tickets, then don't speed. |
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| 180sx |
GET A PLATE COVER HAHA and isn't operator supose to be inside to make sure equpment doesn't malfunction? also there supose to be a sign that warns you speed is monitored within 1000 feet or something.
that thing has wheels tie a rope to it , with the other end of it to my car and FLOOR it. |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
"Eastcott said cops can now use the camera to slow speeders on Groat Road where it's been too dangerous to park a van. "
Where on earth will you park or sit and operator on Groat Road within view of one of these devices?.
You're still not solving this particular problem. What, is the operator just going to get dropped off and sit on a deck chair next to the bloody thing?.
This is idiocy at it's finest. If they actually stopped wasting money on crap like this, they'd have alot more money for other things.
What's the cost on one of those units? $50,000?. |
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| youngbex |
| i think it would be funny for some old guy to hit it in his old tough farm truck, the thing would break into who knows how any pieces |
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| snugs |
quote:
Originally posted by wubba_65
Money grab for sure, but really, you should be speeding anyways
werd homie :thumbup: |
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| oldraven |
quote:
Originally posted by snugs
Wonder what will happen if somebody takes one of those tickets to court, with no human operator how can they verify the validity of the ticket. What a joke. :rolleyes:
I'm sure they're banking on those people who would rather pay a ticket than fight one.
I was reading the rant section of the Journal yesterday. Someone mentioned a new Canada wide law that prohibits any use of cameras or other surveillance devices without the viewed persons knowledge.
That means photo-radar, is ILLEGAL, and a federal offense. |
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| snugs |
quote:
Originally posted by oldraven
I'm sure they're banking on those people who would rather pay a ticket than fight one.
I was reading the rant section of the Journal yesterday. Someone mentioned a new Canada wide law that prohibits any use of cameras or other surveillance devices without the viewed persons knowledge.
That means photo-radar, is ILLEGAL, and a federal offense.
Sure, but since when did the EPS have a problem with doing things that are technically illegal? :(
If they actually wanted to reduce the amount of speeding that goes on they should make the boxes HIGHLY VISIBLE and permanently install them at locations where the speeding has become a safety issue. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Ya when photo radar first came out they had those folding signs within 75 of the back end of the van. Then they just posted "Photo radar" or traffic laws photo inforced every where so you know about it.
What I'd love to see is some guy with a truck has a custom airbrushing on his tail gate - gets it copy righted, gets a photo radar ticket, happily pays the ticket then nails EPS with copy right infringment.
Never mind farmer joe nailing it with his truck... what about some young punk who rolls up and tosses it IN the bed and drives off with it. |
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| PraxGTI |
quote:
what about some young punk who rolls up and tosses it IN the bed and drives off with it.
I'm Game. :thumbup:
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"Eastcott said cops can now use the camera to slow speeders on Groat Road where it's been too dangerous to park a van. "
Sweet! For $120 I can get a Photo taken of me driving down groat road AND it will have my speed registered. Finnally I can get some bragging rights!
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| chris f |
quote:
Originally posted by oldraven
I'm sure they're banking on those people who would rather pay a ticket than fight one.
I was reading the rant section of the Journal yesterday. Someone mentioned a new Canada wide law that prohibits any use of cameras or other surveillance devices without the viewed persons knowledge.
That means photo-radar, is ILLEGAL, and a federal offense.
Not quite, on most of the roads in Edmonton there is a little sign with a piture of a camera and it says speed under it, informing drivers that photo radar is used on that strech of road. |
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| PraxGTI |
quote:
Originally posted by chris f
Not quite, on most of the roads in Edmonton there is a little sign with a piture of a camera and it says speed under it, informing drivers that photo radar is used on that strech of road.
Sadly using public roads is like a legal agreement, by using it you agree to the "terms and conditions" of a public road (photo radar signs etc), however the EPS don't own the public roads, so I think IMO they should not have the rights they do with photo radar. |
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| wubba_65 |
quote:
Originally posted by snugs
werd homie :thumbup:
DOAH :p |
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| 2000z |
quote:
Originally posted by wubba_65
I'd rather pay $120 for a photo radar ticket than $120 PLUS and insurance increase for a pull over.
If you don't like the tickets, then don't speed.
Except that I passed a cop yesterday on the whitemud. He was doing 85ish, I was doing 90ish. He didn't pull me over because I wasn't being unsafe. I was keeping with the flow of traffic in my lane. I could have slowed down to 80 and created a rolling blockade but I think I would deserve a ticket for that. Photo-radar bitches don't know or care if you are being safe/unsafe, they just keep clicking. I haven't got a photo radar ticket in over a year(knock on wood). Do I still drive over the limit? Daily. But I generally know where they park and slow down before hand, then speed up again. I used to flip them the bird every time but that got tedious pretty quick.
The least they could do is use photo-revenue to put more cops on the street(maybe re-instating the auto theft group of officers?) |
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| wubba_65 |
I'm not disagreeing with your points in the least.
1. Cops might not pull you over, but that is their discretion as to whether they want to pull you over for doing 10 km/h over the limit. Regardless of whether they do or not, you are still in violation of the rules set forth by our goverment. There is no way that he would pull you over for doing 80 Km/h (or whatever the posted speed limit is) because you are not speeding. I agree with moving with the flow of traffic, however, USUALLY when there is a photo van parked, people know about it before hand, or else they see the people ahead of them slowing down for a known photo location, and so they slow down as well. if the traffic is flowing at 100 km/h + down whitemud and 120 st (right by the shack), 99% of the time you know that there is no van sitting there.
2. They should be using the revenue from traffic infractions to put more cops on the street. But we have no right to tell them how to spend it as violators of the code. As taxpayers, we should have the right, but not as speeders. Auto theft division could be reinstated, but I'd rather it go towards busting the meth heads and dealers. But therein lies the problem. Different strokes for different folks. But the big taxpayers want to see safer streets, and apparently they consider big exhaust pipes a danger on the streets. :mad:
The reality is that while I would definitely question some officers motives behind the harrasment of certain target groups, I would say on the whole that the EPS does a decent job. You can't control all of the crime in a city as large as edmonton, especially when we have as many laws as we do. It is simply impossible, unless 1 of every 2 is Ned Flanders, and works for EPS. People bitch when they get a ticket for speeding, but the next day they go by the same location at 10 over, just like they did the day before.
If you don't like all the rules we have, move somewhere that there are way less rules (and consequently less punishment for offenders as well). If you feel that punishments are too light on offenders, move somewhere more stringent with their punishments (but be prepared to have a toe cut off for speeding 10 over).
My reality is that I like it in Canada, I like the freedoms we have, and the rules that prevent people who care about the punishment from commiting crimes against me and my property. The other great thing about Canada is you're innocent until proven guilty. If someone messes with me or my property, I can deal with it as I like, so long as I'm not caught. :blue: |
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| 180sx |
all i can say:
death due to murders in city of edmonton 32
death due to speeding without alcohol? anyone
so why investigate murders :dunno: lets get 20 more different types of speed enforcement and make another few million dollars and than buy more moneymakers instead of hiring more detectives that can solve murders
roads in the city are crap , autotheft is up, brake ins are up etc
why hire more cop to investigate that lets either get more photoradar or redlight cameras or MORE OFFICERS that will sit at radar traps and issue more$$$ tickets. and lets see how long citizens will take it UP THEIR @SS
why is it that calgary doesn't enforce traffic like we do and gave up on everything else like we do ? becouse they have 6 murders and thats an issue but people speed there almost as much here and they don't care
so sick of this city and politics , i sweaR lets riot legislature |
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| 86SilverFox |
| ^^ i have to agree with u on the fact that they are putting there priorities into needless things. i'm not saying that edmonton doesnt have a speeding problem but with a record breaking year for homicides, am i the only one that thinks something should be done about this and not investing 50,000 into a radar box. however though it had brought me to want to buy a radar detector. all and all a complete waste of taxpayers money. |
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| GQsmooth |
quote:
Originally posted by 180sx
all i can say:
death due to murders in city of edmonton 32
death due to speeding without alcohol? anyone
so why investigate murders :dunno: lets get 20 more different types of speed enforcement and make another few million dollars and than buy more moneymakers instead of hiring more detectives that can solve murders
roads in the city are crap , autotheft is up, brake ins are up etc
why hire more cop to investigate that lets either get more photoradar or redlight cameras or MORE OFFICERS that will sit at radar traps and issue more$$$ tickets. and lets see how long citizens will take it UP THEIR @SS
why is it that calgary doesn't enforce traffic like we do and gave up on everything else like we do ? becouse they have 6 murders and thats an issue but people speed there almost as much here and they don't care
so sick of this city and politics , i sweaR lets riot legislature
100% agreed, our mayor is a dumbass. |
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| PraxGTI |
quote:
Originally posted by GQsmooth
100% agreed, our mayor is a dumbass.
I dont believe the mayor has authority over the police... |
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| sparkycivic |
he can if he ever grows some balls and speaks-out about them...
for the boxes, carry a large stick with you, and when you see a box, pull up beside it, and push it with the stick to point it in a harmless direction, and drive off... what's the guy in the van gonna do? take your picture???? |
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| Honda_Finatic |
| Son of a f*cking b*tch. What the hell is wrong with this city? In BC they eliminated photo radar... and i think they did in Ontario as well. I'm sick of how this city doesnt trust its citizens.... and finds way to keep an eye on us without actually being there. Sure its for safety.. but i find this is going overboard and seems like "big brother". :mad: |
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| ChromeDragon |
quote:
Originally posted by 180sx
all i can say:
death due to murders in city of edmonton 32
death due to speeding without alcohol? anyone
so why investigate murders :dunno: lets get 20 more different types of speed enforcement and make another few million dollars and than buy more moneymakers instead of hiring more detectives that can solve murders
roads in the city are crap , autotheft is up, brake ins are up etc
why hire more cop to investigate that lets either get more photoradar or redlight cameras or MORE OFFICERS that will sit at radar traps and issue more$$$ tickets. and lets see how long citizens will take it UP THEIR @SS
why is it that calgary doesn't enforce traffic like we do and gave up on everything else like we do ? becouse they have 6 murders and thats an issue but people speed there almost as much here and they don't care
so sick of this city and politics , i sweaR lets riot legislature
Ignorance is bliss huh? You can bitch like crazy about photo radar and not have a fucking clue what you're talking about.
If you have a problem with photo radar take it up with YOUR government that has cut police funding. Because of these funding cuts the police are FORCED to run their public service like a company. If they weren't making money from photo radar and ticketing we would have half the cops on the street that we do. Sadly, even with photo radar revenue there still aren't enough officers patrolling the streets.
Many cops hate photo radar as much, if not more than you do. Not only do they have to deal with the tickets themselves (police are people, they get ticketed too), but they have to deal with ignorant people bitching at them about it on a daily basis.
But you don't care about that. You just want to be able to break the law and not pay the consequences. If you don't like photo radar tickets, slow the fuck down! |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
I have no probs with the technology, but when they park behind trees and hide I hae a prob, if you wanna get me fair and square no prob, but when they get sneaky I have an issue.
Mean if I'm doing 10-15 over and I see the radar trap of the van and slow down, then all is fine, but if it's in plain sight and I don't slow down, then yeah I deserve a ticket. |
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| ChromeDragon |
quote:
Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
I have no probs with the technology, but when they park behind trees and hide I hae a prob, if you wanna get me fair and square no prob, but when they get sneaky I have an issue.
Mean if I'm doing 10-15 over and I see the radar trap of the van and slow down, then all is fine, but if it's in plain sight and I don't slow down, then yeah I deserve a ticket.
It's not a game. Why should they have to be in plain sight?:blink: |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Why should they be able to park somewhere that would be illegal for every body else to park? I can bet that if I parked in about 70% of the places they do, my car would be towed.
Basically why do they get to break the law first.. kinda like a cop driving 140km/h in a 100km/h zone with the hope of catching up to any possible speeders.
I have my own way of not speeding.. I drive slow cars :P |
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| shawley |
thats just fucking bullshit
people slow down when they see the vans, if they don't see this thing there not gonna slow down, so what a little $100 ticket not gona slow everyone down, i think having vans everywhere, or cops on the side of the roads in a visiable location will let people know to slow down.
if i see a cop or a van i slow down,
a $100 ticket in the mail is not gonna make me slow down, but if i see a cop on the side of the road i'm gonna go slow, or slow down |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
quote:
Originally posted by shawley
thats just fucking bullshit
people slow down when they see the vans, if they don't see this thing there not gonna slow down, so what a little $100 ticket not gona slow everyone down, i think having vans everywhere, or cops on the side of the roads in a visiable location will let people know to slow down.
if i see a cop or a van i slow down,
a $100 ticket in the mail is not gonna make me slow down, but if i see a cop on the side of the road i'm gonna go slow, or slow down
percisely.... I get a ticket 2 - 4 weeks later, I'm like.. Hmm was I even on that road that day?
Not to mention, I got a ticket once, the ticket said I was doing 15 over, and I know I was doing 5 under, and it was the only time I had been on that particular stretch of road for months |
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| mx73someday |
Slower drivers cause more accidents than minor speeders. The argument "don't speed if you don't like getting tickets" is bullshit, have you never wandered above the speed limit by accident, I think everyone has, so does that make us all criminals? You guys should turn yourselves in if you feel the law should be enforced that literally.
Fee-based penalties only hurt the poor. Many families are living paycheque to paycheque, these tickets could break a poor family's budget, nobody plans on getting lame fines. I can't see a rich person caring much about a $100-200 ticket. How many hours does it take for someone making minimum wage to earn enough to pay a ticket? How long does it take someone making $100,000 to pay the ticket? Is that fair?
If you've ever earned less than $10,000 a year and got a ticket, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about, getting a ticket can be devastating. And meanwhile you look around in traffic and get passed by speeding city vehicles, buses, commercial vehicles and all kinds of assholes who deserve to lose their licenses.
Protesting this is a great idea. |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
quote:
Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
percisely.... I get a ticket 2 - 4 weeks later, I'm like.. Hmm was I even on that road that day?
Not to mention, I got a ticket once, the ticket said I was doing 15 over, and I know I was doing 5 under, and it was the only time I had been on that particular stretch of road for months
I think the whole point of how in-effective photo radar is can be summed up right here in SilverNeonRacer's post.
Getting fined for something where you're not even sure if you can defend yourself from, even in a court of law.
"They" say it's cracking down on dangerous drivers. If a dangerous driver get's a photo radar ticket in the mail, I'm fairly certain he/she will continue their wrecklessness. But if an actual officer pulled them over making a scene, I'm sure that leaves a much longer lasting impression, especially for younger drivers.
Besides, a dealer could be speeding on his way to make a delivery and all a photo radar will do is issue a ticket to a plate that is most likely stolen... If a cop pulled him/her over, it'd be a different story.
Just like the helicopter "We'll never use it for speed enforcement" I recall them chanting. Well, what are they doing with it now in conjuction with everything else?.
If the government made such a huge budget cut to the police force, why the hell are we spending (last I recall) $500,000 per year to (maintainance, pilots, fuel, storage) on a chopper when another big Canadian city couldn't even manage one (I think it was Toronto?) I'm sure that money could be put to better use.
My whole point?, don't treat the public as this stupid and don't try to sell us on something to which you were clearly lying about. |
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| snugs |
quote:
Originally posted by BlueTurboEGG
treat the public as this stupid and try to sell us on something to which you were clearly lying about.
lol, that is a text book definition of politics. :p |
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| ChromeDragon |
quote:
Originally posted by shawley
thats just fucking bullshit
people slow down when they see the vans, if they don't see this thing there not gonna slow down, so what a little $100 ticket not gona slow everyone down, i think having vans everywhere, or cops on the side of the roads in a visiable location will let people know to slow down.
if i see a cop or a van i slow down,
a $100 ticket in the mail is not gonna make me slow down, but if i see a cop on the side of the road i'm gonna go slow, or slow down
So you slow down as you pass the van and then speed right back up. It wasn't very effective in reducing your speed now was it?
Now if you have no idea where the speed trap is, might you just slow down all the time? Do you see where they are coming from?
Now don't get me wrong, I don't like photoradar either, but I see it as a necessary "evil" if you will. Without it maybe all of your cars would be getting broken into on a regular basis. Photo radar keeps actual officers policing our streets, so I'm willing to accept it.
Now if only we could get a larger portion of the money coming in from the photo radar to go towards the police. |
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| PraxGTI |
quote:
Originally posted by ChromeDragon
Now don't get me wrong, I don't like photoradar either, but I see it as a necessary "evil" if you will. Without it maybe all of your cars would be getting broken into on a regular basis. Photo radar keeps actual officers policing our streets, so I'm willing to accept it.
Necessary Evil? I beg to differ.
Photo radar has been around for over 10 years, and yet I know for a fact all the people that were speeding 10 years ago are still speeding now.
Photo Radar is not a speed deterent, everyone i know who has ever gotten a photo radar ticket STILL SPEEDS. Therefore, photo radar is ineffective and useless. Its been 10 years in the failing. That is probably why BC got rid of it (not to mention that our photo radar contract is with a company out of the States, so part of the money is not even being re-circulated into our economy, its being lost to the Americans). The contract is WAY more expensive than a local contract that was offered (this was all in the news). They took the US contract basically off of a bribe.
Now, that is my opinion. I have never gotten a photo radar ticket, I have never gotten a speeding ticket, and I have never been in any collisions...I used to speed and i got lucky, but I dont anymore...you know why? Low insurance rates that I want to protect. You want people to stop speeding and be more careful, make it worth thier while... |
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| DarrylBleau |
I think you are all ignoring the greater issue with speed limits in general... it goes something like this:
1. Law reflects the will of the people, at least in theory.
2. Most everyone speeds, statistically speaking.
3. See #1. |
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| 180sx |
quote:
Originally posted by ChromeDragon
Ignorance is bliss huh? You can bitch like crazy about photo radar and not have a fucking clue what you're talking about.
If you have a problem with photo radar take it up with YOUR government that has cut police funding. Because of these funding cuts the police are FORCED to run their public service like a company. If they weren't making money from photo radar and ticketing we would have half the cops on the street that we do. Sadly, even with photo radar revenue there still aren't enough officers patrolling the streets.
Many cops hate photo radar as much, if not more than you do. Not only do they have to deal with the tickets themselves (police are people, they get ticketed too), but they have to deal with ignorant people bitching at them about it on a daily basis.
But you don't care about that. You just want to be able to break the law and not pay the consequences. If you don't like photo radar tickets, slow the fuck down!
cops pay photoradar since when? there was big ass article in the paper long time ago how city employees don't pay them.
also what is the profit from photo radar ? more than enough ,biggest revenue besides taxes
all i am saying is other cities don't use it and they are better cities
our focuses on profit vs living standart . as far as funding what calgary pd has morre somehow? or bc and ontarion that eliminated photorader ,did their pd go broke and fired half of the officers , no they made those officers investigate more important issues city has than citing in the van all day. ALBERTA is the richest province(funding) with edmonton making it look like Gothem city. Speeders here are no different than anywhere else /it just happens that we enforce it here 50 times more .
I realise u have your own view on things and i can apriciate that
but i haven't gotten a ticket in almost 1 year so i am not bitching about that , all i am saying our popo went bonkers enforcing more on moneymaking than cleaning up , and on top the company that maintains equipment and prints the pictures makes 40% of the profit. |
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| lovemytrx |
Where is the responsiblity for driving within the legal limits. Holy bleep, whine, whine, whine. Dont bleeping speed and you should never have an issue with photo radar or an officer pulling you over for speeding. Why not complain about roving radar and any other thing that is used to maintain the rules of the road.
On the positive side think of all the gas we will all save by slowing down, and if you do get into an accident while driving you wont be hit by someone doing double the speed limit and thereby decrease your chance of being more seriously injured.
I speed about 90+ % of the time and its good to have a reminder that I need to slow down.
One more thing, what would you rather have a photo radar ticket or an officer pulling you over and giving you a ticket with demerits and the possible increase in your insurance rates.
Yes its evil but its the lesser of many I guess and I would rather deal with that. |
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| No-Pistons |
| dont speed and you wont have a problem i speed all the time but i guess i really dont care though |
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| Honda_Finatic |
| For those of you who support this photo radar bullsh*t. Remember when there was NO photo radar? You mean to tell me that everyone drove like a wreckless maniac back then? No they didnt! Photo radar or not... you are always going to get your rule breakers. Not all of us speed so why should ALL of us feel the need to be on "alert"? |
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| PraxGTI |
when photo radar first came out my dad was getting like 12-20 tickets in the mail every month.
Now he doesnt own a car =/ lol |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
quote:
Originally posted by PraxGTI
when photo radar first came out my dad was getting like 12-20 tickets in the mail every month.
Now he doesnt own a car =/ lol
When Photo first hit and I had a radar detector I'm pretty sure I paid for one of the vans... then my truck got broken into and the detector got stolen.. my amount of tickets pretty much stopped as I learned to better spot radar.
Another issue I have is they use $30,000+ vans... I saw a 89 Jeep cherokee once with the photo radar equipment twas about a $4000 vehicle.. so there's no reason why they can't use cheaper vehicles as well.
And whats with the fancy paint job on the one(btw I saw that one blast through a cross walk once, everybody else was stopped and he almost nailed a Lady with a stroller - Yes I ratted him out. |
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| LeadSled |
IMO, the only reason its so prevalent here is not because Edmonton has a population full of Jeff Gordons and Danica Patricks, its because someone up high has got their priorities mixed up.... Oh wait, we have a new police chief now, don't we? It seems the old one was getting kickbacks from the photoradar contractors.
And what really bothers me is the amount of serious crime that takes place here when it seems there's a lot of resources going elsewhere. Calgary and Edmonton are not much different places, but from living in both places, there's a major difference in the police services and their priorities (and it shows in the murder and theft rates).
Here's one opinion about the actual safety benefits from photoradar: Daily Standard Photoradar Article |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
quote:
Originally posted by BlueTurboEGG
Another good read: http://www.members.shaw.ca/halotic/radar/
Wow quite the read, I read pretty much eveything on there. Hmmm gave me some ideas if I ever get another photo ticket. |
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| sneakyCIVIC |
| that thing has been around for a while.i see it in sherwood park all the time.with an unmarked blazer right behind it.it works though. |
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| 95neon |
| i think that photo tickets are becoming law entrapment rather than law enforcement. i think they should stop spending so much god damn time on finding out new ways to fuckin trap people into paying them money, and spend more time and money into important things, like finding out why 4 officers were sent into a man's garage under the impression that nobody was there and ended up getting killed, and then making a huge fuckin deal about, for fuck sakes, clean your fuckin heads out already, FUCK! :mad: |
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| Twisted-1 |
| Damn that is full of info. :thumbup: Good stuff to know. |
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| JdmCrx |
quote:
Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
And whats with the fancy paint job on the one(btw I saw that one blast through a cross walk once, everybody else was stopped and he almost nailed a Lady with a stroller - Yes I ratted him out.
your a real homo ay. Why would you rat anyone out? It's his deal if he hits someone. Not yours. People like you.. who call the cops.. for stupid things.. make me sick. A cop responding to one of these idiot's calls.. is one cop not making it in time to prevent a rape.
oh and this photo radar in a box is fucking retarded. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
quote:
Originally posted by JdmCrx
your a real homo ay. Why would you rat anyone out? It's his deal if he hits someone. Not yours. People like you.. who call the cops.. for stupid things.. make me sick. A cop responding to one of these idiot's calls.. is one cop not making it in time to prevent a rape.
oh and this photo radar in a box is fucking retarded.
Your the homo. I'm sorry if you wanna drive like a moron and almost kill a lady with a stroller in a city vehicle. You deserve to have your ass tattled on.
I dunno bout you... but I've been hit by a car as a pedestrian.
It not like I hold the guy there and make a cruiser respond. I just ask that the guys supervisor has a little talk with him when he gets back from his shift. |
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| shawley |
JUST SAW ON THE NEWS THAT PHOTORADAR IN EDMONTON IN 2004 EARNED THE CITY ALMOST 15 MILLION DOLLARS
if thats now a cash cow what is it? |
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| JdmCrx |
quote:
Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
Your the homo. I'm sorry if you wanna drive like a moron and almost kill a lady with a stroller in a city vehicle. You deserve to have your ass tattled on.
I dunno bout you... but I've been hit by a car as a pedestrian.
It not like I hold the guy there and make a cruiser respond. I just ask that the guys supervisor has a little talk with him when he gets back from his shift.
Who says i drive like that? I drive perfectly safe.. 3 years of driving.. no accidents. If it's not your business.. then don't make it your business, who knows what may have happened to the driver.. maybe he had a heart attack or sneezed or something.. yet you go ahead and rat him out and most likely get him fired when he has a family of 3 to feed and support. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Well he kept going so no heart attack.. and sneeze.. I dunno doesn't take that long to sneeze and all the other cars where stopped for quite a while.
Your defending the guy pretty hard, is a sneeze worth almost killing 2 people. Umm no.
Ok I'll word it differently:
I'm sorry if he want's drive like a moron and almost kill a lady with a stroller in a city vehicle. He deserves to have his ass tattled on.
And they probably won't fire him after 1 complaint, probably after 3 or more.
3 yrs... OOOOOOOooOOOO wow. My wife has been driving for 13+ years.. no accidents... Shoot my mother has been driving for 30+ years no accidents or tickets and she used to be a speed demon.
I've been driving for almost 10 years and I've only had an 1 accident that was only a 50/50 due to a technicality, so your nothing special. And unlike your average driver who does 20,00km yr, I put on close to 50-60,000km/yr.
I'm not telling you how to drive, but if people want to be jack asses and drive dangerously.... they need to be corrected. I state this from experiance. i used to push the limits, I used to take right hand turns at 50-60km/h wheels spinning almost t-boning people waiting at lights. I knew my car, I knew what it could do and I pushed it to that limit. I got set straight by one close call too many. When I rat on people I don't have charges pressed, I just ask that they be educated, ya know not learn the hard way.
Consider it my way of trying to save lives. Anyhow enough of this. |
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| JdmCrx |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
Well he kept going so no heart attack.. and sneeze.. I dunno doesn't take that long to sneeze and all the other cars where stopped for quite a while.
Your defending the guy pretty hard, is a sneeze worth almost killing 2 people. Umm no.
Ok I'll word it differently:
I'm sorry if he want's drive like a moron and almost kill a lady with a stroller in a city vehicle. He deserves to have his ass tattled on.
And they probably won't fire him after 1 complaint, probably after 3 or more.
Well if someone ALMOST hits you.. and ALMOST creates accident with you.. do you call the cops too? |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Every situation is circumstantial, if it's an honest mistake and they realize the mistake, no, but if they almost hit me then repeat to other people damn straight.
Everybody can "oops" it's when they "oops" and don't give a shit and keep doing it there's an issue. |
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| lovemytrx |
| City Employees should be held to a higher standard for driving skills because they are out in the public so much. Not to mention they do get more training than the average person on how to properly drive also. Safety should be and hopefully is their main concern. |
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