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3/18/2014 1:21:26 AM
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I got caught by a red light camera for the first time.

I got a letter in the mail today and it had pictures of me going through the red light. I went on the website and I got to watch the video. It's kind of BS though. I was making a right turn during a red light, and there wasn't a 'No Turn On Red' sign, but they gave me a ticket for not coming to a complete stop. I understand that rules are rules, but I still don't think I deserved the ticket. I slowed down a lot but didn't completely stop. And there were no cars that were even coming through and there were no pedestrians. I didn't put anyone at risk. The ticket is 50 bucks. Meh.

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  • They use to be all over the roads around me. I got one once. Eventually peopled started complaining and they've actually turned them all off.

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  • Red Light cameras are at worst borderline criminal and at best unsafe. At our intersections with RLCs we have had more accidents than we did without them. Because California ass f­uc­ks you with the ticket (360 to 400 dollars) people are inclined to slam on their breaks to avoid crossing that cross walk. I got one the first year I was driving. 6 am, heading to a local fishing lake for the day. Doing the speed limit, and the road was totally empty. I am approaching the light and it goes yellow, and before I have time to react it goes red and there I am in the intersection, bam flash. Nothing I could do. Had I slammed on my breaks, I would have skidded into the intersection anyway. Ruined my, well, whole month. Got sent an expensive ass ticket, had to go to traffic school. They are nothing but a revenue generation racket for the city. They don't make thing safer. They are just designed to bend us over backwards and -blam!- us of our money. Californians used to be able to fight these tickets. The best defence was, "I want to face my accuser." Unless a representative wanted to fly out from Arizona to testify, you usually would have the ticket dismissed. Not any more however. California put a stop to that because, "MUH TAX MONEH!" Seriously, this whole state can go f­uc­k it's self. God knows it already jacks off to the thought of f­uc­king the people who live here.

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    • Edited by Enlightened One: 3/18/2014 2:34:34 AM
      I say fight it.. That $50 could go towards a video game! I say shred it and claim you never received it if they contact you.

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    • Edited by Legend To None: 3/18/2014 2:24:54 AM
      Wow those lights are basically creepy for our rights. Thought you had to be stopped by a cop to get a ticket not just roam around town and getting caught on camera... Do they have a sign stating tht light is used for tickets? We have some in our town but police said it's just for survallience of traffic not to enforce.

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      • People pay the tickets?

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      • I intend to drive like a Grandma lol.

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      • Wow thug cops. Evil big brother society. Pot legal

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      • At least it's only $50 and no points on your license. If you really want to get out of it, go to court and tell them to prove it was you driving.

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          I thought I had one coming for sure about a year ago. Saw the light flash me plain as day. Nothing ever came though.

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        • Well, if you were a Police officer you wouldn't need to worry about getting tickets.

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        • lol, mine was 400. But yea, same exact scenario.

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