XPost: nyc.announce, nyc.general, nyc.politics 
 XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: dannyb@panix.com 
  
 >>(To NYC's credit, they actually seem to ignore violations ON CAMERA when 
 >>you don't quite make it before going red. I've been caught doing that 
 >>plenty of times downtown, and never got mailed anything.) 
  
 Having been _imprperly_ tagged by a light where the 
 license plate had a " 0 " in it, but either the computer 
 or the person.. read it as the " 8 " that my plate had... 
  
 (They dismissed it when I sent in a note, along 
 with a picture of the back of my car, showing that 
 I was _not_ driving a vehicle that had a BMW logo 
 on it...). 
  
 Anyway, there are a bunch of _fake_ red light cameras 
 around town, whose purpose is intimidation. 
  
 (The NYS law allows for X number of real cameras, 
 and then is either silent on, or allows for Y number 
 of decoys. Kind of like el Presidente Reagan's idea 
 for the shuffling ICBMs...) 
  
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