Parking tickets & GATSOs
I agree with Al - don't speed and you'll never be bothered by speed cameras.

The issue which puts the frighteners on me is that the whole concept of law - "Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" has been rewritten for speed cameras and traffic wardens.

The system is geared to make it difficult and imposing for people to protest, so most folk just cough up. That smacks of rank unfairness to me, it's not up to some traffic warden being paid by the ticket or a road camera ticketing someone for nosing into a boxed junction - in once recent case because they were letting a bendy bus out - because it's so bloody arbitrary.

My fears that this simple rewrite of something so utterly sacred would be the thin end of the edge seem well founded, even the BBC published a short film interview showing serving police officers admitting they were going for the "soft targets" in order to meet their arrest quotas. That'll be the bloke caught eating an apple in his car in a traffic jam then, which is in turn recorded as a crime statistic and in turn waved at the electorate under the banner "More crimes being solved" when the serious ones aren't.

Anyway, enough of a rant from me... If you can beat the system at it's own game then please do so and keep at it until the system starts playing fair once again. Or we get the opportunity to vote a new system in its place.

*and breathe*
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 21 Aug 2008, 12:26, Reply)