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Speed Cameras Used To Charge People With Other Crimes

12 January 2006 160 views No Comment Print This Post

Techdirt points to this (inevitable) example of function creep in the use of traffic cameras:

A motorist who made V-signs [equivalent to the middle finger -mz] at a police speed camera has been convicted of dangerous driving and banned for a year.

Sean Toehill, 21, took both hands off the steering wheel to make the gesture, although…he was not speeding and did not lose control…

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