"There will be consequences" LOL!
http://www.thesentinel.com/302730670790449.php
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I wonder if this could serve as the basis for a defence against a speed camera charge? It certainly creates reasonable doubt.
Our friends in the UK, a country virtually overrun with the damn things, should be particularly interested...
Our friends in the UK, a country virtually overrun with the damn things, should be particularly interested...
This is an instance of 'guilty' until you can prove your innocence. Whether it be "Officer my car was stolen", "I lent it to a friend" or switched license plates the onus is generally on the owner to prove it was not him/her.
The funny thing is...
I was planning to do the same thing when the City of San Jose started putting a nondescript white van with blacked out windows and hidden photo radar on various streets in our neighborhood, which is just plain wrong. The goal is to reduce speeding, not generate more ticket revenue by catching more people (who have no idea they've been caught until a week later). Make the van obvious! Advertise the fact that they're checking everyone's speed! Park a patrol car on the block and leave it vacant 4 out of 5 days then issue tickets on the 1 day it's manned. These are things that will encourage motorists to slow down and make a neighborhood safer. Stealth citations from an unmarked photo radar van are about nothing more than revenue generation.
Anyway, I planned to record the license plate of the photo radar van the next time I saw it and do the same thing as outlined in the prank - they'd send citations to themselves. But then the program was challenged in court and deemed illegal in San Jose because the law states that only an 'officer' can issue a citation, and these things were not being manned by police, but city staff or a contractor (I don't remember which).
So, I never got to "stick it to the man" on this one.
I was planning to do the same thing when the City of San Jose started putting a nondescript white van with blacked out windows and hidden photo radar on various streets in our neighborhood, which is just plain wrong. The goal is to reduce speeding, not generate more ticket revenue by catching more people (who have no idea they've been caught until a week later). Make the van obvious! Advertise the fact that they're checking everyone's speed! Park a patrol car on the block and leave it vacant 4 out of 5 days then issue tickets on the 1 day it's manned. These are things that will encourage motorists to slow down and make a neighborhood safer. Stealth citations from an unmarked photo radar van are about nothing more than revenue generation.
Anyway, I planned to record the license plate of the photo radar van the next time I saw it and do the same thing as outlined in the prank - they'd send citations to themselves. But then the program was challenged in court and deemed illegal in San Jose because the law states that only an 'officer' can issue a citation, and these things were not being manned by police, but city staff or a contractor (I don't remember which).
So, I never got to "stick it to the man" on this one.