Comments | megadrainbamage: Sheesh, I really can't seem to behave myself at all, here...

megadrainbamage

Sheesh, I really can't seem to behave myself at all, here...

Mar 26, 2009 19:01

Just got a ticket in the mail the other day, they nailed my van with photo enforcement, for running a red turn arrow (the through traffic had gotten the solid green by then, and the online video footage shows an oncoming lefter going through the same red turn arrow ( Read more... )

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flidaisairmid March 27 2009, 00:43:28 UTC

You know, that is one weird sort of flaw/twist/idiocy with the new video taping ticket systems- you may not know who exactly is driving. The brat in me would love to contest these kinds of tickets in a head trip form. It is not the vehicle owner who must be ticketed or appear in court, but the vehicle itself. Drive the thing into the courtroom, and let it be a part of the proceedings.

It's a very good thing i will drive only under pain of death , isn't it ?

megadrainbamage April 1 2009, 15:24:52 UTC

Tempting and fun as that sounds, I'm afraid that I do have to point out that it is the registered owner of said vehicle (not the vehicle itself, the plant in Detroit that first breathed asbestic life into it, nor the union that oversaw this entire metallic miracle) who is responsible for the ticket in these situations. No matter who or what may have been driving it at the time. So, since my DH has both current vehicles registered in his name alone, he is the one responsible for any tickets issued by mail through the wonders of photo enforcement ( ... )

flidaisairmid April 1 2009, 15:45:42 UTC

Yes. Cats rule !!!!!

dawnaree March 29 2009, 19:48:36 UTC

The video taped laws are really screwy if you think about it. It also goes for the ipass lanes and the regular ones to. Could you just see if the ipass ran out in the van? Mom would get a ticket. She wouldn't even understand it anymore I don't think. Glad the gnome was able to show you stuff with the spreadsheets. Like the saying goes if you need to figure out technology, ask a kid. Some things they do make them learn in school does come in handy.

megadrainbamage April 1 2009, 15:40:30 UTC

Actually, we have had an i-pass run out on us without our even realizing it. Awhile back, RTF took the kiddo shopping for clothes at the mall, and she started whining about not being able to get something or other (a.k.a. standard kid distraction aimed at making us lose our minds and forcing our resistance to run out), so he put the kibitz on any further shopping, since he'd just dropped a fair wad on crap she didn't really even need, because it was cool, etc., and they came home. The next day, he realized that he'd somehow managed to misplace his credit card, or forgot to get it back from the last stop he was at, which he couldn't even remember which one had been the last stop. So he frantically called all the stores in the mall that he'd been to, but his credit card hadn't turned up at any of them. And when we checked the activity on the credit card online, we found that someone had gotten hold of it and gone on a little shopping spree at the mall ( ... )

dawnaree April 3 2009, 14:49:03 UTC

Well, you can get a somewhat warning just from the colored lights that go on at the toll booth. If it's white, it's fine. If it's yellow, you have I think $10 or less still on the account.

mixter79 March 31 2009, 01:35:04 UTC

Wow, Meg, we REALLY can't turn our backs on you for even a second, can we?

I'd recommend that you make a trip out to Hangover Park and see if they still have that old cardboard cop around, and if so, drag him to court and blame it on him.

megadrainbamage April 1 2009, 15:48:23 UTC

Hee hee hee, funny you should mention him, but Oobles really wants to go to prom because it's her senior year, and would like to go with a date, but since she and her boyfriend broke up awhile ago, and she's not going out with anyone else at the moment, she figures her prospects may be kind of slim. And she's made it pretty clear that she doesn't want some guy who's going to be a pain in the neck, put pressure on her to do things she doesn't want to just because it's prom, etc. So oddly, Officer Corrigated was the first candidate who came to mind. He'd be perfect. He wouldn't argue with her, or put any kind of pressure on her, or spread rumors about her, or drive like a maniac, and he'd undoubtedly respect her the next morning every bit as much as he did before he showed up at our doorstep to pick her up (possibly with a postage due sticker on his little corrugated forehead).