Wow, where do I get a piece of that action?

Seems that the recently installed speed cameras out in Baltimore have made the state a passel of bucks.

Eighty-eight hundred speeding tickets were issued by speed cameras in their first six weeks of operation in Baltimore, and considering that each ticket netted the state forty bucks, it’s safe to say that they’ll stay in place.  Over three hundred grand in just six weeks!  Those are results any state would long to have.

Naturally, as state officials insist whilst toting fat sacks of cash, the aim of the speed camera program is to NOT rake in epic piles of free loot for cash starved states, but rather to “change driver behavior”.

Drivers, meanwhile, are somewhat underwhelmed by the move and generally report negative experiences.  One is left to wonder if any “behavior” is actually “changed”, what with nearly nine thousand incidents, or if this really is just a colossal cash grab for desperate states.

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