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Replying to: andys120 (Jan 10, 2009 11:28 am) As it does mine. To take this to an extreme example lets say your car is stolen and used to rob a bank. The bank cameras catch the crook driving away from the scene. The police arrest you and you are sent to jail. You say to the judge, "but you can see from the photo that it wasn't me driving the getaway car". The judge responds "well, if you can identify the crook and tell us where he lives we'll let you go". How absurd would that be? I would tell the OP to fight the ticket as the judge seems really out of line. It would probably cost much more to do that than to just pay up. That may be just what the court is counting on. |
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 10, 2009 12:01 pm)
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Replying to: carnaught (Jan 10, 2009 9:39 am) |
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Replying to: euphonium (Jan 10, 2009 10:01 am) |
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Replying to: vinnyny (Jan 10, 2009 7:19 pm) I did say that I was using an extreme example to make a point. However, my example still applies to your situation. Your daughter may essentially own the car but is still LEGALLY yours. Unless you gave the boyfriend permission to drive it he was guilty of unauthorized use. Less serious than bank robbery but still illegal. My original point was that the court should not make you responsible for identifying a violator of the law. That is the job for which we hire police and which is what would have happened if photo radar was not being used as a substitute for a human cop.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jan 11, 2009 7:25 am) That said, I lived in Hawaii when they first tried the speed vans and the ACLU filed suit. There was such outrage that HI gave up on the photo radar idea. |
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Replying to: vinnyny (Jan 10, 2009 7:19 pm) She has no standing or position to loan YOUR car to anybody as she is not the owner. 
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Replying to: grbeck (Jan 09, 2009 8:03 am) Anyone getting caught by photo radar, when highway signs are posted warning of same, deserves to be in movies such as Dumb and Dumber. With tolerances of 10 mph given for speeders, one indeed has to be stupid and a dope to get a photo radar ticket.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jan 12, 2009 7:55 am) Are you also the guy who thinks he'll go to jail for removing the "Do not remove" tags from pillows and blankets, or do you sometimes get a little wild and tear those annoying tags off? I guess you never jaywalk when there are no cars anywhere in sight and everybody else is crossing. You missed my entire argument. Specifically, only the offender is guilty of the offense--and then only after he has been afforded his Constitutional rights. It's lemmings like you that allow the government to turn their children into brown-shirted, jack-booted, informants...
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