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11-20-2009, 03:39 PM #1
Houston Red light cameras - Arrgh...
aww poo they got me. I was coming to a secure right turn lane and only yielded, but didn't stop completly.
I'm in the wrong and have to pay the stupid $75. Silly question, but does anybody know if there's a difference between running a red light and failure to stop? Reason I ask is because I failed to stop. Legally you can turn right at the red light, so my violation should of been failure to stop and not that I ran the red light.
Pic for you to laugh at. She does look good on camera...
Last edited by chuckie669; 11-20-2009 at 04:00 PM.
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11-20-2009, 04:04 PM #2
Right turn doesn't apply at that sort of light because it's obviously only meant to direct traffic for that direction.
Why the fuck would you run a red light?
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11-20-2009, 04:14 PM #3
That thing takes a suprisingly good picture. I guess it'd have to in order to nab your plate number.
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11-20-2009, 04:25 PM #4
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11-20-2009, 04:31 PM #5
Damn, that thing looks good.
They getcha out here in d.c. too, they've got those red light cameras everywhere, virtually impossible to run a light and not get caught out here, I slam on brakes when the light turns red even if i'm like 100 feet away (usually overshoots the line by at least 60 feet), I at least try, paying 75-100 bucks everytime you run a light is a bitch, just stop next time. I know I Don't need my insurance to go up, especially since i've only had my liscense for a lil under a year.
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11-20-2009, 04:33 PM #6
There's supposed to be a sign up warning you there's a camera...you might be able to get it thrown out if there isn't one.
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11-20-2009, 04:39 PM #7
No signs up that I could find. They give you three pictures and a hi def video so that you can watch yourself run it over and over again.
I guess I'll just go straight from now on. That turn was early in the day and not a car on the road. I'd rather get pulled over, at least you have a shot and they use some gas. These just seem wrong.
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11-20-2009, 04:43 PM #8
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I'm pretty sure the actual city of Houston (don't know about clear lake) is getting rid of all their red light cameras
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11-20-2009, 04:46 PM #9
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All the ones here in Greensboro were forced to shut down do to the fact the money wasnt going to the schools like the law dictated. Plus it was so easy to get out of them that it wasnt even funny. Just ask them to prove that you were driving and they would drop it since they couldnt.
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11-20-2009, 05:02 PM #10
i don't know how asking them to prove who was driving would make a difference. They go on registered owner. Seems like nobody would ever have to pay parking tickets again if that was the case.
I didn't think the red light tickets would go against you on your driving record tho.
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11-20-2009, 05:20 PM #11
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we just voted to rid of them in college station
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11-20-2009, 05:26 PM #12
It passed 4-3 here. I talked to one of the city council members when we hosted our national night out who voted yes, and he basically told me he voted yes to kiss ass to a superior. I should've taken his food away...
My biggest problem is I'm trying to look up what exactly article X of the city ordinances are, but nowhere online do they post them.
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11-20-2009, 05:29 PM #13
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11-20-2009, 05:36 PM #14
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11-20-2009, 06:08 PM #15
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11-23-2009, 04:04 PM #16
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Solution to red-light cameras: a good target rifle, a box of steel-core match ammo, a rangefinder, and a good 'scope. Maybe try for a thousand-yard patch...
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11-23-2009, 04:09 PM #17
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11-23-2009, 04:14 PM #18
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11-23-2009, 04:37 PM #19
Not ture in texas, Running a red light should be "disregarding a traffic control device"
this is not a criminal offense like it would be if an officer stops u, it a civil offense. Pay it....thats cheap and theys how they keep people from fighting them, it cost more to fight it then to pay it.
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11-23-2009, 04:39 PM #20
I might get fired for telling this but if you only 12 mph threw one it wont trigger the camara
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