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Posted: 11/26/2007 7:57:32 PM EDT
[#1]
This is terrible. Destruction of public property. Creating an unsafe driving condition! What a shame. I am so upset. Good thing those things couldn't be taken out with a silenced .22 long rifle from the wooded area behind the intersection in the middle of the night when traffic is at a minimum and there being nothing in the background that could be hurt. That would just be double bad and I would slap the perp with a wet noodle. 
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Posted: 11/26/2007 8:00:20 PM EDT
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How dare they mess with a revenue generation machine!!
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Posted: 11/26/2007 8:03:19 PM EDT
[#3]
Hmm.. Then again maybe his actions will save someone's life.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people jam on the brakes and nearly cause collisions, or stomp the gas (and nearly cause a collision) in an effort to get through the signal before it can snap their photo. It happened to me the other day - someone ahead of me stalled going into the intersection so I had to wait on them. When he got going again I realized the light was in the process of changing and that it was one of those intersections with the camera. I gunned it and almost ran over that car trying to get through the intersection before it could get me. 
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Posted: 11/26/2007 8:19:53 PM EDT
[#4]
maybe we need a long range paintball rifle. then it's not destruction and no sound either.
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Posted: 11/26/2007 8:30:55 PM EDT
[#5]
No! You would have to shoot the front of the camera! |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 5:04:12 AM EDT
[#6]
Go in on foot and wear a mask. |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 5:05:39 AM EDT
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What you really need, is a home made flame thrower. Then kill the motherfucker with fire. Instantaneous 1800 degree heat on that
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Posted: 11/27/2007 9:42:33 AM EDT
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A bug spray that has DEET in it is quite harmful to transparent plastic. So, any of you camera technicians out there make sure you don't have bug spray on your hands before working on the cameras.
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Posted: 11/27/2007 12:26:13 PM EDT
[#9]
$4 laser pointer
$8 pack of AA batteries, or even better an AC power source $0 use of solder iron $ .01 zip ties Aim laser at camera optics Bloom or saturate CCD sensor in camera Voila! no vandalism, no pictures I rule |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 12:28:09 PM EDT
[#10]
I say tannerite will do a much better job and send a better message.
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Posted: 11/27/2007 12:57:20 PM EDT
[#11]
Did anyone notice that it was not even an American company?
"the Australian company that Knoxville hired to run the program." |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 1:12:06 PM EDT
[#12]
This will permanently ruin the CCD? |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 1:14:14 PM EDT
[#13]
The city here just installed 3 of them at intersections on the loop.
In 2 weeks they had 1562 tickets sent out to people that 'ran' the red lights.  $75.00 per ticket with the city only getting about $32.00 of it.  BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 1:47:49 PM EDT
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It's certainly possible that it would ruin the CCD. Optics and such can be very sensitive. Anti-satellite technology uses the same concept... laser damaging an enemy satellite's optics. And it would be very subtle. |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 3:44:58 PM EDT
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The same company does all the cities in DFW, as far as i can tell. If you "ran" the red light and got a notice in the mail, you can be pretty sure you did go through after the light turned red. The notice has 3 photographs on it, 2 show your car proceeding through the intersection against the light and the 3rd shows your plate. At this point you think, "I'm gonna fight this one"......then you watch the several second video that shows the light change and then 1 second later you enter the intersection and run the light. My wife got caught in Garland, I got caught in Dallas and a few others in the dept have been caught in Dallas and other cities. All of us were determined to fight the ticket until we saw the videos of ourselves. mm |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 6:02:10 PM EDT
[#16]
Why don't they save on the cameras and just send us our monthly tithing notice in the mail?
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Posted: 11/27/2007 6:15:53 PM EDT
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Stop at the damn light and you won't have trouble. Now one can argue about signal timing, flashing red at night, etc, but at basic level running a redlight is plain unsafe, and mostly to the other person. Speed cameras are a different story.
BTW the Brits have legions of speed cameras and have some countermeasures. |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 6:23:34 PM EDT
[#18]
I certainly hope nobody here is advocating criminal mischeif and destruction of property?
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Posted: 11/27/2007 6:33:36 PM EDT
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Are you in East Texas? |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 8:34:42 PM EDT
[#20]
I am torn between burning or shooting the fuckers and simply not running red lights.
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Posted: 11/27/2007 10:48:39 PM EDT
[#21]
I choose neither. I prefer to bitch about it on arfcom. I will use plenty of angry emoticons to express my displeasure.     
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Posted: 11/28/2007 4:39:50 AM EDT
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In general, I believe you, however, there have been studies upon studies that show that simply lengthening the time before the cross traffic light turns green does a much more effective job of preventing death and injuries. Then again, there would be no revenue associated with it. I saw this in Team and suggested a .50BMG from further away.
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Posted: 11/28/2007 5:39:04 AM EDT
[#23]
I am a proponet of a non destructive, photon-based, optical jammer. I hope I qualify under mischief. |
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Posted: 11/28/2007 7:48:44 AM EDT
[#24]
Damnnnn!!! those are some pretty pissed off Brits going after those cameras! To think they willingly gave up their guns, and now are forced to right "The Man" with 'tyres soaked with petrol' BIGGER_HAMMER 
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Posted: 11/28/2007 10:06:53 AM EDT
[#25]
Your annual tithe is due at the end of January. 
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Posted: 11/28/2007 12:11:27 PM EDT
[#26]
I used to live in Baltimore and when they installed the red light cameras they shortened the yellow to less than legal. I believe 2.5 seconds of yellow was required.
If the reason for installing cameras was for safety as they claim they should also install count down timers. the first one I saw was in Cambodia about 4 years ago and it seems to work and they don't have cameras. |
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Posted: 11/29/2007 8:39:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2007 10:35:41 AM EDT
[#29]
A lot of times, you can reverse the image and the plate numbers come out very clearly.
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Posted: 11/29/2007 1:00:25 PM EDT
[#30]
Unfortunately I think our British brothers didn't give up their firearms, much like we won't give up ours. I'm thinking it's more of a "turn them in, or else". Just that they did it twice.
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Posted: 11/29/2007 3:06:50 PM EDT
[#31]
I think a paintball round is enough of a protest. However, "tyres filled with petrol" is an interesting thought.
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Posted: 11/29/2007 9:05:47 PM EDT
[#32]
BTW.... I don't advocate someone here going out and shooting paintball or burning "tyres" at a red light camera. No....
Pay a homeless guy to do it for you.... civil disobedience the way the demmycrats do it. |
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Posted: 11/29/2007 9:06:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/2/2007 2:52:19 PM EDT
[#34]
Now that's funny!
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Posted: 12/2/2007 4:16:49 PM EDT
[#35]
they tried it on myth busters if you want to beat it you got to be going 160 miles an hour |
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Posted: 12/3/2007 8:17:17 PM EDT
[#36]
I suppose it's just out of the question to obey the traffic laws?
Just asking.... |
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Posted: 12/4/2007 6:54:23 AM EDT
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Has nothing to do with obeying traffic laws. It is all about the cities trying to generate a new revenue source as others dry up. |
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Posted: 12/4/2007 8:02:15 PM EDT
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so what do you think a 308 AP round might do? I recently aquired 100 of these projectiles and I loaded them up but so far I have found nothing to try them out on!
things that make you go hmmmmmm. |
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