XPost: nyc.announce, nyc.general, nyc.politics 
 XPost: nyc.transit 
 From: dogglebe@yahoooo.com 
  
 On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:09:44 GMT, Obwon  wrote: 
  
 >On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:05:34 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein 
 > wrote: 
 > 
 >>>>(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...). 
 >> 
 > 
 >There are a number of entrepreneures offereing 
 >a variety of camera defeating products,  from glare 
 >throwing sprays,  to tape to change the appearance 
 >of license plate no.'s  etc.  As the program ages so 
 >will it's effectiveness decrease.  So efforts at "Auto Law 
 >Enforcement",  will have the expected results. 
  
 There was a segment on some news program about those sprays and 
 transparent [late covers that supposedly prevent cameras from 
 photographing license plates.  Even when used together, the sprays and 
 the plate covers don't work. 
  
  
 Phil 
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