Yeah but also fuck the system.
A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape
Submitted 1 day ago by Amine_Jouahri@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agreed. I feel this man driving his shiny, expensive, murder SUV, probably supports the system though. So in this case, they can both be fucked with the same fuck.
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Wait I lost count here, how many fucks is that?
…fuck
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Upvoted for the unequivocally not AI assisted song. The world needs more weirdly passionate people like this
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
He’s been making these videos for some time. Interesting dude.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
They just had a huge ghost plate bust yesterday on one of the Long Island bridges. Must’ve been 15-20 police cars and 10 flatbed tow trucks along with one of those multi-car trailers. Tons of cars pulled over.
Looking for toll dodgers, fake plates, fake temp plates and all that.
There’s a huge number of people with covered plates of one kind or another.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 18 hours ago
IMO, this is a reasonable response to license plate camera surveilance.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 21 hours ago
I’m confused. Are we against surveillance or not?
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 20 hours ago
We can hate a surveillance state and assholes at the same time.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 hours ago
Hate when people think that there can be no nuance to things. That “yet you participate in society” meme.
javasux@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
We are against private companies tracking you across state lines on behalf of the police. We are not against toll cameras, speed cameras, red light cameras that enforce rules at a single point.
I’d wager this driver just thinks he’s above paying tolls, or bring punished for breaking traffic laws.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
TL;DW?
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Filmer finds car with post-its on the plates, removes it, looks up the records for the plate, sees a bunch of infractions, later the owner of the car comes up and the filmer yells at him for having their plate covered and speeding in school zones, then there’s a montage of him removing coverings from a bunch of other plates
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 18 hours ago
TYVM!
Thanks for taking the time to explain it rather than yell at me.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
The cameraman exposes someone who put sticky notes over part of their front and back license plates and then calls out the driver of the car when the driver confronts the cameraman for removing the sticky notes. The cameraman highlights to the driver his dangerous history of speeding, including in school zones.
The ending of the video shows other instances of people doing things to conceal their license plate like crumpling the sides of the plate, putting tape over, or scratching off the paint so the letters aren’t legible, etc.
dan69@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel like those cameras should have pairs pulled together and if entrance and exit don’t match - then double it and pass the fine to them in the mail.
granch_bibblyfibble@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Well, in summary, it’s about how a driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Another shiny black Escalade.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Do they cover their plates to be unidentifiable when doing mischief?
Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s to avoid speed cameras and tolls. Sometimes they’ll swap them out with fake plates or dealer plates too.
I’ve got a set of old NYC film plates on my wall. They’re flimsy plastic, but from a distance you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. They even have grime painted on them.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
From my understanding it’s rather common in the boroughs because the bridge tolls are so extreme, and they’re all toll-by-plate arrangements now.
Azteh@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
How does a toll by plate arrangement work if it can’t read your plate? Where I’m from (not the US) all pay by plate places require you to have signed up for their service with, typically, a credit card, in order to use them.
Varesti@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
People just straight up don’t have plates at all here, they don’t bother to try to cover up part of them. I wonder what he’d do about that?
mechoman444@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I can’t speak for New York, but down here in Georgia, where I live, these speeding cameras are often operated by private companies rather than the police. The fines people pay generate revenue for those companies, and it’s not always clear how much, if any, of that money actually goes to the police or the city.
In many areas, these cameras will issue you a school-zone speeding ticket when it’s not even school-zone hours, or cite you for going just one mile per hour over the posted speed limit. I find it difficult to believe these cameras are consistently accurate enough to justify that level of enforcement.
Honestly, I stopped paying these tickets years ago, and literally nothing has happened.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I was driving from Queens back to Jersey at like 130am and got dinged for 38 in a 25 because it was a school zone. Two-lane road with a wide grass center median, was a 35 on both sides of the 25 school zone.
That being said, is what it is. I almost wish we had them in my town. Every road in my town is 25, but people treat them like they’re 35, 45. People walk in my town, I walk my kids to school, I walk and run all the time, and people fly around. I wouldn’t mind some kind of enforcement, because the cops just can’t keep up with it. That and the red light runners. I am just getting back from a run now where a guy ran a red light through the crosswalk I was using. I should at least be allowed to throw shit at their cars. Maybe I ought to try it out.
And a woman was killed in a crosswalk five days ago. I need some accountability.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Are your school zones active 24/7? In some states, they’re only active for like 1-2 hours leading up to and just after school starts, then again from just before school lets out and active for another 1-2 hours.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You are 100% correct and I completely agree with school zones and stopping for buses and so on and so forth.
The issue however isn’t that people should be going slower in areas where pedestrians are more likely to cross the street is that the enforcement should be on a state level instead of private companies profiting off of this nonsense.
And the cameras need to be extremely tightly regulated; look at what’s happening with Flock.
Private companies should have absolutely no ability to charge fines for people driving on public roadways. Moreover, regarding the type of enforcement of one mile over the speed limit, how can the camera possibly be that accurate? It is just using regular old radar.
I am a firm proponent of following traffic laws, just not like this.
toynbee@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
From what I recall, quite a few years ago, there was a protest where many people stopped paying them on the basis that you have a right to face your accuser; I don’t know what happened with that.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They get around it by making it a civil fine, so the 6th amendment doesn’t count, not criminal.