“But nathan, were you speeding?”
Kind of.
When I got the ticket, I immediately looked everything up.They dinged me EIGHT FEET from the speed limit sign, as you head out of town.
What do you do when you see a speed limit sign as you’re leaving a speed zone? You speed up. Which is what I started to do.
I sped up to match the sign I was going to pass in approximately one second.
(If even that. If you’re driving at 35mph, how long does it take you to travel eight feet?)
Grift like this should be illegal.
Nobody likes speed cameras on highways, but I get it. If the speed limit is 65, and you’re doing 90? You get dinged.
But this is basically entrapment; a means of milking citizens for money.
What’s funny is: Google Maps has begun diverting people around the small town, Strawberry Point, Iowa. Google Maps is actively helping people avoid the cameras.
It seems to be a bad trade off at the expense of citizens. Sure, the cameras are generating extra revenue for the town governing body, but at the expense of the local businesses.
If people don’t drive through town, the gas station doesn’t sell gas, drinks, and snacks.
The coffee shop loses customers.
Anyone that might have stopped for whatever reason, no longer even visits.
You’d think the local government would have thought things through, but then again, politicians aren’t usually the best and the brightest of society.
