Traffic Cameras

I went to the Grog Shop last night to see my coworker’s band Humphry Clinker. I rec­om­mend the port wine. On my way I got flashed twice by the traf­fic cam­eras on Chester. We’ll see if they ticket me for going 7 miles over the speed limit in the mid­dle lane of an empty street at 11 at night in clear weather. Inci­den­tally, the flash bulb going off is quite star­tling. I won­der how a piece of elec­tronic equip­ment can be vested with the author­ity of a full police offi­cer. Prob­a­bly gets in under the same clause that police dogs fit under. Can you tell I resent hav­ing my pic­ture taken for using pub­lic roads?

Comments on this post

  1. was it on chester ave & 71st? i’ve seen those speed-​cams in action last week when i was at CWRU for MGB. it was snow­ing and the cam flashed in the other direc­tion blind­ing me and the white sur­round­ings for a sec­ond. at first i thought a nuclear plant imploded or a light­ning bolt hit my wind­sheild but when i heard no boom i quickly real­ized where i was (chester near 71st).
    i heard that if you get a ticket, you can visit their web-​site and enter a num­ber and it will allow you to view a video of your infrac­tion. if thats the case, you need to post it on here.
    i still have the list of streets with cam­eras on my blog..

  2. Yeah, that is where I was. Some­body needs to do some­thing like this with those things.