OT: Speed Cams

[Mike Schwartz]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:

> Just a note to my fellow phoenix drivers. Yesterday it was announced
> that the federal government has allocated $275 million in stimulus money
> for the purchase of 350 speed cameras to be put up in the Phoenix area.
> We all know about the speed cams on the 51 and such, but these are being
> put on the surface streets!  They even have already planned where they
> will go: http://media.bonnint.net/az/15/1516/151641.jpg
>
> I also heard on the radio this morning that they are lowering the 11mph
> overspeed grace limit down to 5mph, which means if you go 5 mph over,
> you will get auto-ticketed by a speed cam, and more likely to be pulled
> over by police using radar.
>
> P.S.  Apparently due to current "flaws" in litigation, you do not have
> to pay a speedcam ticket as the law says you must be served in person
> (How are they to know that you received the mail with the ticket, so
> they can't put a warrant out for your arrest for not paying it).
>
> This has been a public service announcement :-)
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> This has been a public service announcement :-)
Is any part of this an April fool's joke?
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
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