Some monkey business with the speeding cam

TheNailman

TheNailman

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well, gotta give him points for originality. . ..

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"Man Dons Mask for Speed-Camera Photos"

(Sept. 8) - An Arizona man who has been served 37 speeding tickets in the mail is refusing to pay them because he says the pictures captured by the state's photo-enforcement cameras don't show that it's him driving, AZcentral.com reported Tuesday.

"Not one of them there is a picture where you can identify the driver," said Dave Vontesmar, a flight attendant who works at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. "The ball's in their court. I sent back all these ones I got with a copy of my driver's license and said, 'It's not me. I'm not paying them.' "

But police disagree and say they've been watching him closely.

"We watched him four different times put the monkey mask on and put the giraffe-style mask on," Officer Dave Porter told AZcentral.com. "Based on surveillance, we were positive that Vontesmar was the driver."

Still, Vontesmar is confident that he won't have to pay the fines, which could exceed $6,500.

"It's obviously a revenue grab," he said of the new photo-enforcement program. "They're required by law to ID the driver of the vehicle. If they can't identify the driver or the vehicle by the picture, what are they doing to identify the driver?"

Arizona police are having a hard time getting a lot of speeders to pay tickets they receive in the mail. Read more about that on AZcentral.com.

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2009-09-08 22:32:57

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found another pic of his car on nasioc.
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well with those distictive teeth on the lower grille, he's asking for a positive ID...I mean how many other white Subies have custom teeth on em? not to mention the checkerboard side graphics
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if you're gonna flaunt The Man, try to be at least a LITTLE smart about it, eh?

if they have him under surveillance, he's toast no matter what he thinks otherwise.

 
yeah the cameras in Phoenix are crazy. we were in 3 photo shoots while we were there. the locals are used to them.

but it creates a 495 esque brake slam when people see them on the side of the road

 
boo to traffic cams

his logic is crappy though. In the eyes of the law, that's like robbing a bank with a monkey mask on and saying "well you couldn't see my face, im off the hook"

i still hope he gets away with it hahaha

 
well they do need to have a face pic to id him so what they need to do is stop him with the mask on or in the car and they can link it to that and then make him pay... I hope he wins. I got one in colorado when I went to school out there... I told them I had never heard of a traffic cam and they dropped it. LOLZ

 
traffic cams are bs. like somoen said it causes you to slam on your brakes in a situation were barely goign through a red ligth would be safer. so instead of u goign through a red ligth u slam on yoru breaks and cause a 4 car pile up. wow that's a great idea

 
traffic cams are bs. like somoen said it causes you to slam on your brakes in a situation were barely goign through a red ligth would be safer. so instead of u goign through a red ligth u slam on yoru breaks and cause a 4 car pile up. wow that's a great idea
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these aren't red light cameras.

they are a ford escape parked on the side of the road with a camera and a HUGE flashbulb that snaps a pic of you if you are going 11 MPH over the limit.

and they put these things all over the place. and in a lot of places it is where the speed goes from 65 to 55.

still all of the traffic hits their brakes and it becomes dangerous.

 
The U.K. is FULL of traffic cameras, and they WILL be coming here.

It's ALL about REVENUE, not about traffic safety or enforcement.

For example, Windham, Yarmouth, and Cumberland.

None of these towns have valid issues with people speeding, but they hide cops under every rock and behind every bush, to pull you over at +1mph (Yarmouth-seriously!) to +7mph (Windham, Cumberland is about +6mph over = for the ticket!)

This isn't about "keepig children safe", or any of that B.S., it's about making money off the backs of taxpayers that are already BROKE.

A responsible government wouldn't butt-ream it's citizens like this-but find me a "responsible government" and I'll eat my radiator core with a sawz-all.

Grrrr...

That is All.

Fwiw, in the U.K. my friends simply do NOT speed anywhere there's cameras, and that's basically anywhere there's a populace. Hence, they head out of town, to less-traveled roads, when they wish to pound on their cars, illegally.

 
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