Red Light Camera Watch Continues–On To Memphis

Well folks, for those of you who thought that the land of Elvis and country music would never go so low as to install red-light traffic cameras, I'm sad to announce that that is not the case. Lawsuits going after the red-light cameras, which enforce even the tiniest of law without discretion of any sort, are ...

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Watch Traffic With World Traffic Camera Lite

My mother is an inveterate traffic watcher. Whenever we go someplace--me and my mom and dad--and one of us needs to stop somewhere that mom doesn't want to go into, she'll inevitably ask that we park facing the nearest available road so she can "watch traffic".  I'm starting to wonder if maybe I have a good ...

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Speed Camera Creator Gets Awards, Prosetylizes Wildly

I guess a sort of omniscience comes your way when you're an award winner like James Tuton, recently-named CEO of the year for his work with American Traffic Solutions, Inc.  Has to be...after all, he could say this with a straight face: “From the outside, what many people see is the fury over speed cameras,” he ...

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New Orleans Crime Camera Jury Pool Not Taking Information Blackout Well

I've always had a problem with the whole "outside information" concept of juries--why exactly do we WANT juries to go in poorly informed again?  That just plain doesn't make sense. But apparently New Orleans likes its juries dumber than rocks, because the judge in the case is poised to have a little "talk" with the jury, ...

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Chevy Chase Has Your Number, Speeder

It used to be that, in Chevy Chase, you could buck the law as long as you were in a sufficiently large group.  They had speed cameras, but the cameras would snap a picture of whatever was in front of it.  If there were two, three, or more cars, it was impossible to tell which ...

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Speed Camera Guerilla Fights Back With Masks

Who was that masked man who, down in Phoenix, took on the state's freeway camera system armed with nothing more than masks in the shape of wildlife? His name is Dave VonTesmar, and he's a forty seven year old flight attendant  who's triggered the speed cameras over eighty times in a year.  and the interesting part ...

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