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Camera Ticket
Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:49 am
Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:49 am
Beware that the "Villages" and towns of Opelousas, Mangham, Winnsboro, Oakridge, Eros, and Mamou are now using Metatraffic which is a system to mail you a speeding ticket.
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Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:50 am to Barneyrb
Never received it in the mail. Sorry....
Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:51 am to Barneyrb
Wipe your arse with it and mail it back.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:52 am to Barneyrb
Unless it comes served or certified, they have no way of proving you got it.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:57 am to Barneyrb
Only suckers pay those things
Posted on 3/27/24 at 7:58 am to RocketTiger
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Never received it in the mail. Sorry....
Dont worry, if its anything like the toll road bill I got by a video camera they will add fees and then it can suspend your license. I never got it since I moved but that didnt stop the state from almost suspending my license.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:00 am to Barneyrb
I never pay them in my personal vehicle.
But I have to pay them when I’m driving my company car - the company I work for pays them and I have pay them back.
But I have to pay them when I’m driving my company car - the company I work for pays them and I have pay them back.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:05 am to Barneyrb
It seems the camera systems are slowly replacing the speed trap cops.
I just got back from a trip up to north Louisiana and towns like Winnsboro and Mangham were posting (small) signs advising of cameras. Waze even warned me too.
They're cheaper and more efficient than Deputy Dooright if they're enforceable.
I just got back from a trip up to north Louisiana and towns like Winnsboro and Mangham were posting (small) signs advising of cameras. Waze even warned me too.
They're cheaper and more efficient than Deputy Dooright if they're enforceable.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:14 am to Barneyrb
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:17 am to AubieinNC2009
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Dont worry, if its anything like the toll road bill I got by a video camera they will add fees and then it can suspend your license.
I've gotten several over the years in LA. No they don't suspend your license when you dont' pay them.
Let me correct myself, I"m assuming i've gotten several, b/c i never actually recieved them in the mail as i don't recall any certified letters of that nature. I never recieved the threatening letter from the law offices of "Go frick Yourself" either saying i had to pay for those tickets either.
I wasn't driving my car that day i supposedly got a camera ticket that i never recieved in the mail.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:38 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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They're cheaper and more efficient than Deputy Dooright if they're enforceable.
It seems like a get-rich-quick scheme for small town police departments.
It has zero to do with safety.
Here’s a picture of your car going 13 mph over the speed limit on a largely empty road with confusingly fluctuating speed limits. Pay us, criminal.
This post was edited on 3/27/24 at 8:45 am
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:53 am to Norbert
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on a largely empty road with confusingly fluctuating speed limits.
And they also cannot answer the question when you have to start adhering to the new speed limit. Sign says it will be dropping from 55 to 35 ahead, do I need to slow to 45 now, when I see the sign, or when I get to the sign. Deputy will tell you that you need to slow down to that 35 when you see the sign. Yet, when I am in the 35 and see the new sign going up to 55, I have to wait until I get to the sign to start speeding up.
FYI, I tried it on a stretch in a small town where the speed limit dropped for less than a mile and you could actually see all 3 signs (slow down ahead, the 35mph sign, and the 55 mph sign) on a clear day. I was popped for 60 in a 35 because I didn't slow down fast enough when the 35 mph sign was visible.
This post was edited on 3/27/24 at 8:56 am
Posted on 3/27/24 at 8:56 am to Barneyrb
Throw it in the trash
Posted on 3/27/24 at 9:00 am to Barneyrb
What I did when I got one:
1. Never pay it
2. Filed a FOIA request for everything even slightly related to the ticket and where I got it, as well as statistical data on the number of tickets issued, and contract with the ticket company, training of the officer, calibration, etc etc. I believe that I got over 30 pages of requested information.
They had to pay an attorney to gather the information, review it and send it to me. So they lost money on a ticket that I never paid.
Make them waste their resources and they will stop this nonsense.
1. Never pay it
2. Filed a FOIA request for everything even slightly related to the ticket and where I got it, as well as statistical data on the number of tickets issued, and contract with the ticket company, training of the officer, calibration, etc etc. I believe that I got over 30 pages of requested information.
They had to pay an attorney to gather the information, review it and send it to me. So they lost money on a ticket that I never paid.
Make them waste their resources and they will stop this nonsense.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 9:06 am to Weekend Warrior79
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Yet, when I am in the 35 and see the new sign going up to 55
I had this happen to me in Krotz Springs I believe.
Officer said I was going 55 in a 35, or something like that. I pointed to the visible sign ahead that said “Speed Limit 55”, and he said that the 55 limit starts at that sign.
Was there any sympathy for what was clearly just a misunderstanding of the current speed limit? Nope. Pay up, sucka.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 9:07 am to TeddyPadillac
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Let me correct myself, I"m assuming i've gotten several, b/c i never actually recieved them in the mail as i don't recall any certified letters of that nature. I never recieved the threatening letter from the law offices of "Go frick Yourself" either saying i had to pay for those tickets either.
I wasn't driving my car that day i supposedly got a camera ticket that i never recieved in the mail.
Sure you do,
You might want to brush up on your state's laws.
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A registered owner who fails to respond to a violation notice within sixty calendar days after the date of issuance of the violation notice shall not be able to renew his driver's license until all matters regarding the alleged toll violation are disposed of in accordance with law.
Posted on 3/27/24 at 9:09 am to Barneyrb
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Traffic camera laws are popular in part because they appeal to a law-and-order impulse. If we are going to stop those nefarious evildoers who jeopardize the health of the republic by sliding through yellow lights when no one else is around and driving through empty streets at thirty miles per hour in twenty-five zones, then we need a way around such pesky impediments as a lack of eyewitnesses.
Yet traffic cameras do not always produce probable cause that a particular person has committed a crime. To get around this “problem” (as a certain law-and-order president-elect might call it), several states have created an entirely novel phylum of law: the civil violation of a criminal prohibition. Using this nifty device, a city can charge you of a crime without any witnesses, without any probable cause determination, and without any civil due process.
In short, municipal officials and their private contractors have at their disposal the powers of both criminal and civil law and are excused from the due process duties of both criminal and civil law. It’s a neat trick that would have made King George III blush.
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Traffic-camera laws seem like such minor, insignificant intrusions on liberty that few grasp their constitutional significance. But they reflect a profoundly mistaken view of American constitutionalism. One might say that the traffic camera is a sign of our times. Its widespread use and acceptance reveals how far we have drifted from our fundamental commitment to self-government. When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
How I turned a traffic ticket into the constitutional trial of the century
Posted on 3/27/24 at 9:11 am to Beessnax
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Make them waste their resources and they will stop this nonsense.
Some communities are sitting there waiting to rip these things out. They sign these stupid contracts where the camera company makes all the money and they don't get as much as they thought they would. They are stuck in these contracts.
In Tennessee, we even had a state rep burn one and tell everyone not to pay them.
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Posted on 3/27/24 at 9:17 am to Norbert
That happened to me in Moundsville, West Virginia 40 years ago. I won.
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