Notice Speed Cameras

[EL PRESIDENTE]

More coming in Oregon. Fuck these things.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/03/drivers_slow_down_or_else_auto.html

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Indeed. The police state needs revenue to buy all their armored cars though.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

We need to start a revolution. Burn, Portland, Burn!

 

[PtldPlatypus]

What do you call police cameras?

Cop-arazzi.

 

[Sedatedfork]

I got hit by a speed camera about 10 years ago. It was on Burnside Bridge going East. I was probably going 35 mph to 40 mph, but it's a freaking incline and about 100 feet up you see a 40 mph sign. They put the camera in between the speed limit sign and the bridge. So technically it was a 25 mph speed limit. I was going to fight the ticket, and even showed up to the hearing. It was clear it was going to be a long day so I just pled out to avoid wasting any more of my time.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I have zero problem with these things, unless their location and installation are kept secret. If you know where they are, slow down until you get past it. Simple.

 

[ripcityboy]

The camera has seen you! YOU don't want to go against the COLLECTIVE do you? We are sending you this pill in the mail in loo of payment for first offense. Take it and ignore any headaches for about a year.

 

[Chris Craig]

What are the police to lazy to actually do their jobs and make their quotas on traffic stops instead of depending on machines to do their jobs.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

What are the police to lazy to actually do their jobs and make their quotas on traffic stops instead of depending on machines to do their jobs.

Or the other perspective--putting cameras out to monitor speeding frees police up to actually be able to do their jobs.

 

[Chris Craig]

Or the other perspective--putting cameras out to monitor speeding frees police up to actually be able to do their jobs.

For Cops on traffic patrol stopping /monitering speeders is their job

 

[The Professional Fan]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

fuck the law, yo. hope some anarchist take those fucking things down.

 

[barfo]

Trivia: I understand that in the UK these cameras are called "Gatsos" after the company that makes them, Gatsometer, which was founded by rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, who invented them to help himself drive faster, and then figured out that they could be used to make everyone else drive slower. Bastard.

barfo

 

[Chris Craig]

 

[Chris Craig]

 

[PtldPlatypus]

For Cops on traffic patrol stopping /monitering speeders is their job

And having fewer cops assigned to traffic patrol makes more resources available for other policing activities, benefiting the public as a whole.

 

[Chris Craig]

Trivia: I understand that in the UK these cameras are called "Gatsos" after the company that makes them, Gatsometer, which was founded by rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, who invented them to help himself drive faster, and then figured out that they could be used to make everyone else drive slower. Bastard.

barfo

Typical

 

[H.C.]

I don't see why this matters at all, anyone bitching just needs to frankly diaf. Don't like getting ticketed? Learn how to avoid being caught speeding.

And having fewer cops assigned to traffic patrol makes more resources available for other policing activities, benefiting the public as a whole.

Yeah for stop and frisk!

 

[Chris Craig]

And having fewer cops assigned to traffic patrol makes more resources available for other policing activities, benefiting the public as a whole.

Nah, they will have the same amount assigned just doing less work.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Nah, they will have the same amount assigned just doing less work.

Well, with that indisputable logic, there's not much more to say.

 

[Chris Craig]

Look I appreciate the few good cops out there who are in it for the right reason, but the justice system is corrupt as shit just like everything else in this country. Making up charges to arrest people just to meet quotas and fill privately owned prisons which exist purely, to make money, not reform criminals which is what their purpose should be.

Our very system is predicated on forcing people into desperation, to commit crimes, to feed the machine. Our system is built on keeping people down. Our government brought drugs here, got people addicted. We have the largest prison population of any country in the world by a long shot. We have only about 5 percent of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. It's fucking ridiculous.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Look I appreciate the few good cops out there who are in it for the right reason, but the justice system is corrupt as shit just like everything else in this country. Making up charges to arrest people just to meet quotas and fill privately owned prisons which exist purely, to make money, not reform criminals which is what their purpose should be.

Our very system is predicated on forcing people into desperation, to commit crimes, to feed the machine. Our system is built on keeping people down. Our government brought drugs here, got people addicted. We have the largest prison population of any country in the world by a long shot. We have only about 5 percent of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. It's fucking ridiculous.

Tl;dr "im a victim, im innocent."

Lets say the cia did bring drugs here. Ok. You still dont have to use them. Im 30 now and no ones ever held me down against my will and injected me with meth or heroin.

Personal accountability. Addicts absolutely despise this term. It's so much easier to play victim. Ileven more annoying is the people who claim addiction is a disease. Oh really? Grow it in a petri dish then? Sack up and dont break the law.

 

[Haakzilla]

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...at first glance I thought this was officer HCP

 

[barfo]

Im 30 now and no ones ever held me down against my will and injected me with meth or heroin.

Well, don't go to any of these 'Meet-ups' that Sly promotes. Because that's what they do there, you know. They call it a 'shoot-around'.

barfo

 

[riverman]

You guys have no clue....speed cameras are looking for meth dealers and tweakers

 

[theprunetang]

I got caught by a camera heading west towards the Morrison bridge. However, I had just purchased the vehicle from my dad and hadn't changed the registration yet. They sent a photo of me and a ticket to my dad. He sent a photo back and said, "This obviously isn't me". They rescinded the ticket. And yes, I was 5mph over the limit.

 

[riverman]

In Taiwan speed cameras are the highway patrol....you could never pull anyone over in traffic there...too congested. My brother in law gave me an old car when he got a new one...I lived on the other side of the island...was playing baseball and opened the glovebox and it was full of those camera tickets...they never bothered to follow up on them ...I prefer them to talking to a cop on the side of the road anyday

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Look I appreciate the few good cops out there who are in it for the right reason, but the justice system is corrupt as shit just like everything else in this country. Making up charges to arrest people just to meet quotas and fill privately owned prisons which exist purely, to make money, not reform criminals which is what their purpose should be.

Our very system is predicated on forcing people into desperation, to commit crimes, to feed the machine. Our system is built on keeping people down. Our government brought drugs here, got people addicted. We have the largest prison population of any country in the world by a long shot. We have only about 5 percent of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. It's fucking ridiculous.

Have you seen the prison episode of 'Adam ruins Everything'?

 

[jlprk]

Tl;dr "im a victim, im innocent."

Lets say the cia did bring drugs here. Ok. You still dont have to use them. Im 30 now and no ones ever held me down against my will and injected me with meth or heroin.

Personal accountability. Addicts absolutely despise this term. It's so much easier to play victim. Ileven more annoying is the people who claim addiction is a disease. Oh really? Grow it in a petri dish then? Sack up and dont break the law.

So you believe that every law is a good law. The Nazi laws putting Jews into concentration camps, the American laws about slavery...they were all good laws. Anyone who broke those laws should have sacked it up and obeyed the law. They deserved what they got.

Until a couple of centuries ago, people were told that rulers are divinely inspired, and thus all laws by definition are approved by God. I guess some dependent-type people still believe that.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

So you believe that every law is a good law. The Nazi laws putting Jews into concentration camps, the American laws about slavery...they were all good laws. Anyone who broke those laws should have sacked it up and obeyed the law. They deserved what they got.

Until a couple of centuries ago, people were told that rulers are divinely inspired, and thus all laws by definition are approved by God. I guess some dependent-type people still believe that.

No. not every law is good. but laws like speed limits are in place for a reason and when you get your license you are agreeing to obey traffic laws for the safety of everyone. most of these people that speed 15mph + are also the ones swerving all over the road fucking with their goddamn phone. not to mention speeding saves you almost zero time, especially when not on the highway. speeding in the city is even more pointless. you have so many stop signs and traffic lights and people slowing down and turning in front of you. Do i like the idea of being on camera all the time? No. but guess what? I still wont be getting speeding tickets in the mail because i always set my cruise control to the speed limit, i dont care if it pisses people off behind me. I dont understand why people let other drivers raise their blood pressure, just go where you are going and quit worrying about everyone else. But we live in a society where everyone thinks the world revolves around them and that anyone in their way is doing so on purpose.