iPhone Users Monitor Speed Traps

[MacUser]

Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local ... 74717.html

Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.

... That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints.

"I think that's the whole point of this program," she told The Examiner. "It's designed to circumvent law enforcement -- law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives."

The new technology streams to iPhones and global positioning system devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light cameras.

Lanier said the technology is a "cowardly tactic" and "people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught" in one way or another.


... Ralph Ganoe of Silver Spring said he uses detection software from a Washington-based company, PhantomAlert, to avoid speed traps and crowded intersections.

"Well, my pocket has money in it," Ganoe quipped, when asked about the software's impact on his driving record. "Everybody's got a heavy foot. ... Now I don't have to worry about where [the cameras] are at."

.. Founder and CEO of PhantomAlert Joe Scott claimed nine out of 10 police departments across the country support his software.

"If police come against us, it's going to make them look like they are only [after] revenue" from the camera-generated citations, he said.

Photo radar tickets generated nearly $1 billion in revenues for D.C. during fiscal years 2005 to 2008.

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If you are slowing down? What does it matter? Zowie.
This PhantomAlert company is messing with a CASH COW... and so he is going to be targeted.
What say you?

[Full Quiver]

Coward seems to be the wrong word, I was thinking Genius!

[RamboPreacher]

interesting. cash cow - sure - that's cause "everone" breaks the law. shouldn't they be getting tickets and fines for breaking the law? I think so.

i guess, that some people don't have a problem breaking the law, as long as they don't get caught.

[Paully_44]

i guess, that some people don't have a problem breaking the law, as long as they don't get caught.

does driving fast count?

[mavislb]

I can't equate breaking the law with sin for everybody (everybody has to work out their own salvation?), but for me I can't justify speeding being okay. It is breaking the law and as a Christian I am bound to the laws of this land as long as they don't violate God's laws. In a lot of situations I can equate people doing things like this with those just looking for an excuse or a way to circumvent the law. And if they can justify breaking "this" law, what happens to the next law they don't like? Obeying authority, even civil, was something Jesus taught His disciples and practiced.

[Paully_44]

And if they can justify breaking "this" law, what happens to the next law they don't like?

Speeding ... the new gateway sin?

[Full Quiver]

Speeding ... the new gateway sin? Wink

Yep, it leads to spitting on the side walk in TN and then to fishing from the back of a camel in Colorado.

[MacUser]

Let's move religion out of the way for a second and examine the details.

Speeding? Sure.. everyone should abide by the speed limit if at all possible. But these are Speed Traps. Most have fast reductions of speed with limited warning. When you don't rapidly stop.. they send you an automated ticket. That's fair right? I heard a comedian state that he had a ticket sent to him with a picture of his tag and sent the fine. He took a picture of the cash and sent it back to them with the picture of his tag.

Seriously concerning human law .. what if these happy lawmakers making new laws 24/7 don't stop and end up saying that you can only run your A/C for three hours a day to save the planet. You will comply right during 103 degree weather? Especially when they don't stop running their A/Cs.

What about when the Govt via laws mandates/manages your personal Heathcare to a certain limit... where you are deemed to far gone to get anymore treatment? Yet our elected leaders making these decisions are immune from what they pass because they have their own special healthcare program... and treated DIFFERENTLY than the people (you and I) they represent. Surely you will abide and be a good christian right?


What about Abortion / Family Planning Services. Our tax dollars collected from you and I are going to abortion clinics.. not only in the USA.. but family planning centers around the globe. Not only does your tax dollars now kill American Babies.. but babies around the globe. You are ok with this, right?

You have to examine all these situations and can't say that some slippery slope exists when you protest and equate that directly to breaking God's law. Some are unreasonable and must be stood against...

[Full Quiver]

Many areas change speed limit signs with the wind which causes you to never know what the speed limit is on any given week. Where I grew up the speed limit was 45 going one direction and 40 going the other direction on the same main thoroughfare through town. There were always cops sitting in driveways, private property, along that stretch of highway.

Now they have fixed that so the cops sit in the Kroger parking lot and ticket people that pull up to the door to pick up their wives as they bring the groceries out. My dad did this in a rain storm and was ticketed. Private property is just that and the police have no business there unless called for a specific reason. Now behind this same Kroger is a city street with retail shops where kids congregate on Friday nights. Just last night I saw some minors smoking. Where were the cops? Probably at Kroger a block away.

[MacUser]

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4 weeks, 10,000 traffic tickets
Heath officials say they didn't expect such a windfall

http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_ ... ml?sid=101

HEATH, Ohio -- City officials say they were shocked by the number of violations recorded during the first month of traffic-camera enforcement and decided to make it cheaper to protest multiple tickets.
More than 10,000 violations had been recorded by Heath traffic cameras through Tuesday. At $100 apiece, that would net the city a little more than $830,000 after paying the vendor, Redflex, its share.

In four weeks, the cameras will have generated an amount equivalent to roughly 12 percent of the Licking County community's annual budget -- and a lot of anger.


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Zowie. Someone needs to tell them about this iPhone app.

[MacUser]

In doing some quick web research.. these are also some effective tools against big brother.. for only $29.99


http://phantomplate.com/photoblocker.html


See News Stories about the product:
http://www.phantomplate.com/vidpop_cbs_bakersfield.html
http://www.phantomplate.com/vidpop_nbc_baltimore.html

[RamboPreacher]

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Zowie. Someone needs to tell them about this iPhone app.

uhm - no, They need to stop breaking the law!!!

[MacUser]

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Zowie. Someone needs to tell them about this iPhone app.

uhm - no, They need to stop breaking the law!!!

Well again.. we want to compare Apples to Apples... hehe

Running a red light is one thing..

but a speed TRAP.. is where speeds are 70 mph.. and in mere seconds drop to 55 mph for no apparent reason other than to ticket you.. and if you happen to be still going 70 like the rest of the highway. Bam you get a $100 ticket.

I stand firmly against that behavior.

[RamboPreacher]

i am against that kind of thing as well - BUT it's still breaking the law.

[EagerBeaver]

Speeding ... the new gateway sin? Wink

Yep, it leads to spitting on the side walk in TN and then to fishing from the back of a camel in Colorado.

Or not letting your dishes drip dry in Oregon!