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Intredasting meeting I just had.
Oct 25, 2012, 6:05 PM
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I'm leaving this job tomorrow, but went ahead and followed thru with one of the "tours" I had on my calendar. This company does camera-based traffic enforcement--things like photo radar speed cameras, red light cameras, etc. The newest creating, called Crossing Guard, is being piloted in 6 or 7 counties in Georgia, including Cobb, Marietta, and a few others. It's essentially a camera device mounted on schoolbuses that takes video of vehicles passing stopped buses when the STOP sign/arm contraption is extended.
Photo radar cameras are controversial, and personally, I think they're bulllshit, because I'm not hurting anybody going 76mph in a 65 zone on the interstate. But, generally speaking, I'm ok with red light cameras, and these schoolbus cameras as well, because those kinds of violations put others in direct danger.
One of the processors walked me thru some of the video he was looking at in Cobb County--capturing license plates, issuing tickets, rejecting/accepting, etc. Really interesting to be looking at that stuff in GA from an office in Tempe, AZ, and issuing $300 tickets, and also a little creepy and Big Brotherish.
What say ye, Junge? You ok with this sort of activity?
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Lot o points [181931]
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I have heard of this. I am for it.
Oct 25, 2012, 6:07 PM
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Too many kids have been killed around Atlanta getting on/off school buses.
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That happens a lot? I had no idea.
Oct 25, 2012, 6:10 PM
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I just thought it was common sense to enforce something like that because of the possibility of it happening.
The effective part of it is that once people are slapped with hefty tickets, word spreads fast, and people start paying attention to the stuff they didn't give a second thought to before.
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Lot o points [181931]
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Too many selfish jerks on the road in Atlanta.
Oct 25, 2012, 6:10 PM
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morans.
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Rock Defender [54]
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I'm aginn it.
Oct 25, 2012, 6:10 PM
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I don't know why, but I am.
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Might make you 3 minutes lateto a meeting or sumthin***
Oct 25, 2012, 6:32 PM
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Re: Intredasting meeting I just had.
Oct 25, 2012, 6:11 PM
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I am all for remotely screwing the people in GA.
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Lot o points [181931]
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How will it screw the people of GA?***
Oct 25, 2012, 6:11 PM
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Re:they had a woman in Chicago drive on the right
Oct 25, 2012, 6:30 PM
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of a stopped school bus freaking sidewalk rather than wait on a school bus. the driver filmed here because she did this every day. they got the cops to wait at the end of the street and he busted her one day. her mom was interviewed and she referred to the place as abandoned. someone could have walked out of the door of the building where she drove and been killed. she is a totally unrepentant jack a$$ who thinks they are above the rules.
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110%er [7831]
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They are watching you
Oct 25, 2012, 6:37 PM
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personally I think an officer should have to write the tickets.
Maybe we could prepay for speeding.....pay an extra fee and you are allowed to speed X amount over for X amount of dollars.
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fine with red light, not fine with speed cameras
Oct 25, 2012, 6:57 PM
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there's more discretion involved with speeding violations, but you generally ran a red light or you didn't.
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When I lived in Atlanta I went through a "yellow" light at
Oct 25, 2012, 7:06 PM
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Windy Hill and Cobb Parkway and a nice $100 ticket was in the mail along with a picture of my tag as the light was red.
I never tried that again.
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Re: Intredasting meeting I just had.
Oct 25, 2012, 7:17 PM
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Cops at Dunkin Donuts? What are they getting paid for? Another waste of taxpayer $$$?
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