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Speed Cameras

Are Speed Cameras legal, effective, and used to promote public safety?

  • Yes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    14
Seriously?

Does this really need to be explained?
All claims must be supported. If it's so easy you should have no trouble explain it

I'm not even going to bother, except to paraphrase what Lovebug said. Privacy is assumed and a right on ones own property. Not in public.
Why?

If you don't get that, you never will.
I won't get it because it makes no ****ing sense. And you're avoiding the explianation because you know it would make no sense.

I am pretty sure you accused me of being silly because you can't really form an argument to my statement. And you just had to attack me for disagreeing with you. The nerve if some people, disagreeing with the Lord of planar.

In two posts to me you have managed to attack me and attempt to evade proving your claims and if they are so incredibly easy to comprehend they would take moments to explain. Instead all I have seen is broken thoughts mixed up with ad hominem argument and basis other illogical garbage.
 
Maybe. If red light cameras were really for safety, I might agree. But I don't like the idea of being filmed, and at each stop light And stop sign. It's too Orwellian.

Can't say I like filming either, but we should never expect privacy in public anyway.

I am flat out sick and tired of all the stupid BS people do on the roads. So much wasted money in property damages, and worse yet, senseless injuries and deaths.

I want these people stopped!
 
Who cares why they are interested? Does someones interest level somehow warrant you complaining about being filmed? If your backyard is visible by the public(not surrounded by trees or far away from a street, etc) then why can't people pull out their cameras and watch you tanning in your backyard? What is your complaint if it is in the public?

The whole idea it is ok if the government watch people go about their daily lives because something might happen is simply faulty logic. It's one thing if someone walks by and sees other people doing things, but it's another when that guy watches you non-stop no matter where you go. The one is simply chance occurrence of someone going about their life, while the other is spying.

I think we are now comparing apples to oranges. I, for one, don't see nothing wrong with cameras in public places, like intersections etc. I also refuse to become afraid someone might catch a glimpse of me while being out on the road. Period.
 
And Again.. the same issues are still a problem with redlight cameras. Do they actually know who is driving? Is there an officer issuing a ticket to an individual? No and nope.

I don't know about elsewhere, but when I go my photo ticket, the county had everything accounted for. The letter explained the process should the person being cited disagreed, and there was no ambiguity to it. They had a perfectly fair process.

I'll admit I hated getting the ticket, but the rules are the rules...

As much as I hate some of the things they do in Oregon, most often, they make sense.

When a photo has your picture, plain as day in it, and to get out of it, you have to sign a affidavit that it was not you... Do you really want to test their ability to enhance such photos?

My face... Clear. My license plate... Clear...

Again, I don't know about else where, but they had all their ducks in a row here.
 
I think we are now comparing apples to oranges. I, for one, don't see nothing wrong with cameras in public places, like intersections etc. I also refuse to become afraid someone might catch a glimpse of me while being out on the road. Period.

No, you're comparing someone seeing and overhearing you in public with a camera. A camera is more comparable to someone watching you and paying close attention to everything you're doing. Both actions happen in the public, but the later is spying and something that many times people consider creepy and unwelcome.
 
Why would anyone be interested in my back yard? I'd probably be more worried about some weirdo peeping in while I get my tan. But knowing that everyone who walks by can see in my yard, no, I don't really expect any privacy. Inside my home I do, unless I leave the lights on and the curtains open.

Now I have a privacy fence around my yard, and tan in the buff. One of these days, you might see me in the news for shooting at a drone!

Actually, I have thought about the trouble one can get into. I would use a baseball bat and a ball of string.
 
I call them Revenue Cameras and they suck like a bucket of ticks. We had them on the interstates around Phoenix and in the city for a while. It was ridiculous. People were getting tickets right and left. Me too. Citizens revolted and then discovered that unless you were served you could pretty much ignore the ticket. I did get served with one. I never paid the others. Like parking tickets except they are much more expensive.

Finally most of the Revenue Cameras were pulled. They still exist in a few areas of Scottsdale, Tempe and a few other municipalities in the Phoenix area.
 
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