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Is this illegal?
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:24 am
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:24 am
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Saw this making its rounds on Facebook, but basically there’s a cop with a Tacoma in Richwood (small town when you’re coming into Monroe), and he’s posted up on the side of the road on 165. He looks like a surveyor, wearing regular clothes, and an unmarked truck. Well he’s looking through a camera to take pictures of peoples license plates, who are speeding. Then those people get a ticket in the mail for speeding. So is this legal or illegal? I feel like posting up on the side of the road, in a regular truck, in regular clothes is deceiving, and aren’t mail in tickets unenforceable or something like that?
This is what the guy on Facebook said.
Saw this making its rounds on Facebook, but basically there’s a cop with a Tacoma in Richwood (small town when you’re coming into Monroe), and he’s posted up on the side of the road on 165. He looks like a surveyor, wearing regular clothes, and an unmarked truck. Well he’s looking through a camera to take pictures of peoples license plates, who are speeding. Then those people get a ticket in the mail for speeding. So is this legal or illegal? I feel like posting up on the side of the road, in a regular truck, in regular clothes is deceiving, and aren’t mail in tickets unenforceable or something like that?
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Got a ticket for speeding without getting pulled over and no cops in sight. This is coming into Monroe off hwy 165 when the speed limit changes from 65 to 55. Y’all slow down or risk receiving one of these. ( I was actually leaving Monroe at this time)
This is what the guy on Facebook said.
This post was edited on 8/12/22 at 9:29 am
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Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:25 am to sta4ever
so is he gonna go out and do breathalyzer tests at the bars next?
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:25 am to sta4ever
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This is what the guy on Facebook said.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:26 am to sta4ever
So is it a surveyor or not? If it is, and hes using a total station, hes not taking pictures of peoples license plates.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:26 am to sta4ever
Throw it in the trash.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:26 am to sta4ever
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Richwood
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:27 am to sta4ever
I'd throw it in the garbage and make them come enforce it
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:27 am to The Egg
Wow that’s crazy! I guess technically they could fine you for going one mile per hour over the speed limit.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:28 am to Splackavellie
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So is it a surveyor or not? If it is, and hes using a total station, hes not taking pictures of peoples license plates
No he’s not a surveyor. He’s a cop, acting like a surveyor.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:29 am to sta4ever
Is it a civil violation or a criminal violation?
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:30 am to sta4ever
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we thought he was filming or surveying in a regular suv but once we passed right beside him he’s got police on his shirt and is actually clocking and filming
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:30 am to sta4ever
If he is shooting everybody, without probable cause, it is certainly not enforceable. Just like the trailers in Baker.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:30 am to sta4ever
I got a ticket on 540 leaving Fayetteville, AR with something similar. I was on a downhill stretch with a wooded median. I looked over and saw someone standing back in the trees with what I thought was a camera. I thought that’s a weird place to hike. Went around the bend and they 6 to 7 state troopers lined up pulling people over.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:32 am to Shexter
Sorry. I forgot that it’s easy to see the lettering on someone’s shirt, from 100 yards or more.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:36 am to Bwmdx
That situation is a little different as they’re actually pulling the folks over and the driver gets the ticket. The scenario in the OP I don’t see how they prove who the driver was.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:38 am to CAD703X
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Richwood
Home of he mayor that used a hammer for a gavel.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:38 am to Bwmdx
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I got a ticket on 540 leaving Fayetteville, AR with something similar. I was on a downhill stretch with a wooded median. I looked over and saw someone standing back in the trees with what I thought was a camera. I thought that’s a weird place to hike. Went around the bend and they 6 to 7 state troopers lined up pulling people over.
Yeah they’ll do that around Baton Rouge sometimes, but as far as this situation goes, they aren’t clocking, and calling it in to some cops down the road, to pull someone over. They’re just clocking, taking pictures, and mailing tickets. I bet a lot of people up there are going to be abused by this, and a lot of them don’t know any better, then to pay the ticket.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:40 am to latech15
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If he is shooting everybody,
just give him time.
Dukes of Hazzard
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:41 am to Ingeniero
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I'd throw it in the garbage and make them come enforce
I’m not sure that’s the best approach.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 9:42 am to sta4ever
So in your opinion speeding isn't illegal but catching speeders is somehow illegal.
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