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125+ Other things your $125 Redflex ticket could buy (besides paying off these crooks)

1.  125 McDoublesTM

2.  25 $5 Footlong Subs from SubwayTM

3.  One month of FAMILY HEALTHCARE PREMIUMS

4.  Website hosting for one year (cornerhost)

5.  School supplies for your children

6.  School clothes for your children

7.  62.5 gallons of Gasoline (@$2/gal.)

8.  One month car insurance

9.  5+ Cases of Beer

10.  Life insurance premiums

11.  Almost three full months of SARTA tickets

12. Car Maintenance or Repair

13.  New Door or Window for your home

14.  Donation to your favorite charity

15.  Donation to your favored political party or candidate

16.  One or two fancy dinners with your wife or girlfriend

17.  Replace all the light bulbs in your home with CFL energy saving bulbs

18.  New pillows and sheet and comforter set.

19.  288 rolls of toilet paper, over five years’ worth (24 rolls @ $10, 1 roll per week consumption 52 week year)

20.  138 Loaves of bread ($.90 ea. @ the Nickles’ Bakery Thrift Store)

21.  125 dozen eggs (on sale @ $.99/dozen)

22.  41 Gallons of milk (sale $2.99/gal.)

23.  17 months of a generic prescription ($7 various pharmacies or insurance co-pay)

24.  5 months sewer bill @ $25 per month

25.  School books for your child

26.  Used computer from Craigslist

27.  Bicycle for your child

28.  12 movies

29.  2 new video games

30.  30 comic books

31.  80 movie tickets at Movies 10 (the dollar theatre, actually, $1.50 now)

32.  15 first run movie tickets from Tinseltown ($8.25 ea.)

33.  10 custom made T-shirts with your very own original design from BlueCotton.com

34.  Large libary fines from forgetful children

35.  Build your own home gym

36.  Books

37.  CDs or MP3s

38.  Buy Eyeglasses from an online store (5 pairs or more)

39.  Concert Tickets

40.  Sports Event Tickets

41.  Hats (everyone loves pretty hats)

42.  Car Stereo Head Unit

43.  Digital Music and Movie Player (not iPod)

44.  Shoes

45.  Cable TV service and Internet + Premium services for a month

46.  Digital Camera

47.  Super Fancy Programmable Thermostat

48.  12,500 pennies to throw in wish fountains

49.  5 months membership to the YMCA

50.  50 games of bowling (2.50 per game, excluding shoe rental)

51.  A blender, a toaster, and a coffee machine.

52.  A new Microwave

53.  Lots of socks

54.  Lots of underwear

55.  A one way plane ticket out of the Canton area (from the Canton-Akron Airport)

56.  Round trip Greyhound ticket from Canton to Atlanta, GA (14 day advance purchase)

57.  Your electric bill

58.  Your natural gas bill

59.  41 euchre tournament entry fees (@ $3 ea.)

60.  A fancy watch

61.  A new cellphone

62.  4 months cell phone bill

63.  Pet Food

64.  Veterinarian appointment

65.  125 bags of marshmallows

66.  6 rounds of miniature golf for a family of four (@ $5 each)

67.  VOIP telephone service for a year (not unlimited)

68.  Windows XP operating system disc

69.  Newspaper subscription

70.  Donate to the EFF and help protect all our digital rights

71.  Gloves hats and scarves for winter

72.  Ties

73.  Belts or suspenders (whichever way you roll)

74.  Batteries for your remote control(s), for life

75.  297 Forever Stamps (at $.42 ea. that’s almost two and a half years if you mail out 10 letters/bills per month!)

76.  A Nintendo DS

77.  A used PSP

78.  $125 Cow that pays for itself at $1 per day earnings

79.  New Toilet

80.  New faucet for kitchen or bath

81.  Massaging shower head

82.  A framed print of art for your wall

83.  A printer

84.  Furniture

85.  Lamps

86.  46 High Speed 6′ HDMI 1.3a cables

87. 5,250 business cards (vistaprint 250 free business cards with $5.95 shipping x 21 orders)

88.  1 Case of Bubblegum Flavored Floss (2,593 ft.)

89.  6 pet bunnies

90.  A TV capture card for turning your home computer into a DVR

91.  A whole classroom of students their own individual calculators

92.  125 shares of CItiBank stock

93.  An hour long massage

94.  1,250 copies

95.  10 flashlights

96.  5 smoke alarms

97.  5 Dairy Queen Ice cream cakes….mmmmmmmmm

98.  A paintball gun

99.  An airsoft pistol

100.  A bunch of Lego

101.  60 yards of Duct Tape

102.  A set of used tires.

103.  Numerous stopwatches

104.  A small claims court lawsuit

105.  250 DVD+/-Rs (1,175 GB of storage!)

106.  A 1TB internal or external Hard Drive

107.  25 2 GB SD cards

108.  A ceiling fan

109.  Space heater for the garage

110.  Vacuum cleaner or Shop Vac

111.  Alarm Clock

112.  Folding Table and Chairs

113.  Seamonkeys

114.  Board Games

115.  Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary, Valentine’s Day, and Sympathy Cards for the year

116.  3000 Cheques

117.  9 Doctor Visit Co-pay

118.  Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

119.  New curtains for your home

120.  Rat poison

121.  A lawn mower

122.  Nearly 10,000 Acetaminophen tablets

123.  Paint

124.  12 haircuts

125.  Lottery tickets

And

126.  Anything else YOU want!  Instead of being forced to pay a fine that is illegally generated, and if you want to contest it you must go to court and in that court you are guilty until proven innocent.  Hell, even with proof you ARE innocent you are still found guilty in Chillicothe, Ohio!

(Special thanks to Steve McKinney, he’s the one who found that link to the Chillicothe tragic miscarriage of justice, and thanks to Mom for helping me finish out the list when I got stuck and ran out of ideas)

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Friday, March 6th, 2009 Politico, Red Light Cameras No Comments

Dirty, Dirty Redflex

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/photo-enforcement-executives-ignore-own-tickets/

Redflex Red Light and Speed Enforcement Cameras have supposedly NEVER caught their own executives speeding or running red lights.

Yet ACS equipment has fined Redflex Executives, and Redflex Equipment has fined ACS Executives.

I find it very curious that this is the case.  Both companies are in the Red Light and Speed Enforcement Camera business, and business is BOOMING.

The executives cited in the above editorial avoided paying their tickets by ignoring legal summonses and refusing to pay them.  Granted, in the one case, the violation occurred BEFORE the executive in question was employed by Redflex.

But on the Media side of things, I have to call foul.  When you hire someone to preach to his buddies at a newspaper about the virtues of red light cameras, and that publication comes out in support of red light cameras, I find it difficult to believe that they should be allowed to run any story in their “newspaper” without a huge disclaimer detailing their exact relationships with the issues and stories in question.
This is a gigantic miscarriage of the public trust.  It smacks of bribery and back-door collusion.  No one, with ANY brain, approves of Red Light Camera and Speed Camera Enforcement;  not when educated on the FACTS about the issues at hand.  Personal privacy issues, illegal surveillance, bribery, perjury, falsification of documents, quotas, criminal FCC code violations, and lies, lies, and more lies.

Tainted study results, invalidated studies and conclusions, these are not charges to be bandied about lightly, and they are ALL TRUE!  As Spider Jerusalem said:  “Lies are news, and The Truth is obsolete!”

Next we have Redflex conveniently “forgetting” to file their contractually mandated equipment maintenance and calibration reports:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/colorado-safety-benefits-of-yellow-timing-increase-documented-in-denver/

The City didn’t care, until they got embarrassed when The Rocky Mountain News requested those reports.

Redflex also falsifies certification documents for equipment located in Louisiana.  Small problem, the notary was making up certification documents in Arizona at the time.  Never touched or even viewed the equipment, let alone properly tested it:

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/24/2464.asp

I’m sorry, I should really just leave them alone.  Redflex continuously and callously violates the law, creates hazardous situations, contributes to increased accident rates, falsifies documents and data, and manipulates studies so badly that they’re declared invalid in their entirety.  I’d say this company is doing fine destroying itself without my help.  But it’s taking hundreds of millions of dollars from innocent people each year, and that is despicable beyond words.  They need to refund every ticket ever issued and fold the company, and work in public servitude for the rest of their unnatural lives for atonement of their sins.

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Friday, March 6th, 2009 Automobilia, Politico, Red Light Cameras 2 Comments