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Posted Tuesday, September 9, 2008, at 2:11 PM
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Well, it has finally happened to me. Yesterday the mail brought a letter from the SafeStreets program in M'boro. It showed a series of pictures taken by an automatic traffic camera: an intersection at two separate moments, and a close-up of a license plate. There my Jeep sat, frozen in time, in the middle of the intersection, turning left, with two bright red lights on the signals above me. It took some time, then I remembered that afternoon a couple of weeks ago driving to dinner in the 'Boro. I wasn't in a hurry, but I remember a light that changed VERY quickly from yellow to red before I got thru my turn. I wonder whether the other two cars in the intersection in the photo also got this letter. I will pay the citation (only $50! thought it could be much more), but I am reminded of a story I heard once. A man gets a letter with a citation and photos of his violation. Angry, he sends a photo of his fine payment to the police. A few days later, he gets a letter with a photo of handcuffs. He paid the fine.


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A fellow in the northeast tried to trick out automatic cameras like these at toll booths -- but he got caught:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime...

-- Posted by Jicarney on Tue, Sep 9, 2008, at 3:34 PM

Sorry I got a laugh at your expense but you are the first person I have heard of who got a ticket that way. I am always looking at those little cameras and wondering if they really work, now I know!

-- Posted by breezy on Tue, Sep 9, 2008, at 7:55 PM

Dang, I thought this was gonna be a radiology thread :)

-- Posted by Tim Baker on Tue, Sep 9, 2008, at 10:11 PM

Lol Doc!

No such luck.

-- Posted by nmonajjem on Wed, Sep 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM

Well, Photo finish is the name of a cosmetic by Smashbox I think. I wondered WHY? you'd have a blog about makeup....?

-- Posted by mmp84 on Wed, Sep 10, 2008, at 7:29 PM

I always wondered if they really worked.

Thanks for telling me.Hope your meal was worth the ticket.

-- Posted by Wheelbillie on Wed, Sep 10, 2008, at 10:25 PM

Dr. Monajjem,

I am going to do some serious blog hijacking, but are you familiar with heriditary angioadema. I am trying to find a doctor with some experience with it.

-- Posted by greasemonkey on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 10:03 AM

gm,

Heard of it, don't know enough to be helpful. I am sure you have done web searching, but www.hereditaryangioedema.com looks very helpful - I learned alot with a brief perusal.

Good luck.

-- Posted by nmonajjem on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 10:43 AM

Yeah ive read alot on there,its a very helpful site. Thank you though.

-- Posted by greasemonkey on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 11:00 AM


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