If you’re as blown away by the above prospect as I am, folks, it only gets weirder when you do the math.  Three thousand speeders in forty five days is roughly sixty seven speeders a day.  Every day.  And that’s just the people who got warning letters from the town of Farragut, Tennessee–the cameras recorded around four thousand incidents.

Some were thrown out because of mechanical error or unreadable plates–some, however, were tossed out on judgment calls; for instance, cars stopped only mostly behind a white line on the road could have been cited but were not.  This is something of a positive move, but still, one drop of pure water in a tank of rat poison is still something I wouldn’t want to drink.

Ironically, the arrangement Farragut has with Redflex (there’s that name again) is that they get thirty two dollars for every fifty dollar citation issued if more than a hundred and fifty one such citations are issued in a month.

That means, if these same numbers hold when the citations begin–when the cameras “go live”–Farragut stood to clear six figures on their traffic cameras…that month alone.

Mmm-HMM.