Traffic camera in New Orleans giving speeding tickets to parked cars

[wanderer2575]

This sounds like it came straight from Illinois, but here's a story reporting that speeding citations are being issued in New Orleans for vehicles that actually are parked near traffic cameras.

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04/11/traffic-camera-in-new-orleans-giving-speeding-tickets-to-parked-cars.html

[freebrickproductions]

Well, when you factor in the speed of the Earth's rotation, even parked cars are technically going at least 1,000 MPH...

[adventurernumber1]

That's ridiculous. That guy should be refunded all the money he ever had to wrongly pay for doing nothing (those tickets probably really added up in $ over the years).

I would say to definitely try parking somewhere other than there, but still, that's insane. This guy should get all his money back (he never sped, and he was parked legally, and I saw no indications that anything wrong was actually being done), along with everyone else who was ever wrongly fined.

If you get speeding tickets for driving at a grand speed of...0 MPH...I wonder what the punishment is when you actually largely exceed the actual speed limit on a road?     

[1995hoo]

It's absurd, but why would you keep parking there?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

It's absurd, but why would you keep parking there?

My guess is that's where his home is.

[jakeroot]

That's ridiculous. That guy should be refunded all the money he ever had to wrongly pay for doing nothing (those tickets probably really added up in $ over the years).

He gets the tickets dismissed by the local magistrate. His loss is mostly productivity hours.

[adventurernumber1]

That's ridiculous. That guy should be refunded all the money he ever had to wrongly pay for doing nothing (those tickets probably really added up in $ over the years).

He gets the tickets dismissed by the local magistrate. His loss is mostly productivity hours.

Oh okay, I must have read the article wrong, then. I had seen something that said something like that only one ticket had been refunded, but I must have jumped to conclusions right there without figuring anything else out, and the truth evaded my mind. Well, at least there was justice in actuality. Losing productivity hours would be annoying as well, but at least this incident isn't actually putting a dent in the guy's wallet, thankfully.

[jeffandnicole]

You can tell this is the slow, easy going south.  If this was the northeast, the news would've been all over this after the very first ticket.

[SP Cook]

All traffic enforcement is, of course. illigitimate, whether done in conformance with the Constitution by an actual person, or unconstitutionally by a machine. 

However, since we now KNOW that the machine is inaccurate, it must be destroyed, and the "vendor" who made it fined sufficient to deter it from making another.

[CtrlAltDel]

All traffic enforcement is, of course. illigitimate, whether done in conformance with the Constitution by an actual person, or unconstitutionally by a machine.

There is no "of course" about it. It bothers me sometimes that you really believe your opinion on the issue is the final word.

[jasonh300]

I can only imagine the police officer who manually reviewed these tickets...

Hmmm.  This guy drove by the same camera at a high rate of speed 60 times today, in the parking lane, half up on the curb, and the driver must be a midget because I can't even see him over the steering wheel.  And right in front of the house where the vehicle is registered.
Nope, nothing unusual there.  Issue citations!

[kkt]

All traffic enforcement is, of course. illigitimate, whether done in conformance with the Constitution by an actual person, or unconstitutionally by a machine. 

What an interesting point of view.

[GreenLanternCorps]

All traffic enforcement is, of course. illigitimate, whether done in conformance with the Constitution by an actual person, or unconstitutionally by a machine. 

What an interesting point of view.

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[Road Hog]

That's ridiculous. That guy should be refunded all the money he ever had to wrongly pay for doing nothing (those tickets probably really added up in $ over the years).

He gets the tickets dismissed by the local magistrate. His loss is mostly productivity hours.

At least in NOLA it sounds like there is a system in place for redress. In Texas the red light camera fines are administrative; there is no court. Whether the ticket is bogus or not, there's no mechanism in place to dispute the fine. You either must pay the fine, or refuse to and hope the city doesn't call the credit bureau. (Many cities have discontinued the cameras.)