PHOTO ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS
I would like everybody to sit back and imagine the following scenarios. Take a second to imagine yourself driving down the freeway where the speed limit is set at 65 MPH. You look at your speedometer and notice that you’re doing 70 and everybody else is still passing you by as if you’re parked on the side of the road. Relax for another second and imagine coming up to an intersection and you have a green light, you approach the intersection and out of the corner of your eye you see a blur. Now sit back, take a drink of water, and picture driving down the freeway again, this time you’re moving at pace with the rest of traffic. Your wife and family sitting in the vehicle with you…BAM! Hopefully the completion of these stories, which have been happening all over the United States, will convince you that photo enforcement cameras are a great deterrent this day in age, especially with the immense volume of traffic.
A lady was driving down the freeway, abiding by all the traffic laws. She noticed the other vehicles for some reason were passing her. They must have been doing 10-15 MPH faster than her. She glances at her speedometer and sees that she is doing 70 MPH, 5 over the speed limit. As she is driving down the road, she spots a police officer sitting on the side of the road. As she passes him he begins to pull out. The lady thinks nothing of it, besides, maybe he is pulling over some of the people that are going so fast. The cop pulls up behind the lady and flashes his lights. The lady pulls to the side, the cop pulls in behind her. “Do you know why I pulled you over today ma’am?” the cop asks. “Well I am very sorry officer I’m doing 5 over the speed limit, everybody else is just going so fast they are whizzing right by me.” The officer replies “I am sorry ma’am but that is not the reason I pulled you over, I pulled you over because you are going too slow, you’re impeding the flow of traffic.” That lady got a $400 ticket...