Gotta enforce speed limits.
And these things don’t shoot you if you look at them wrong – or are black.
Get to work, crackheads
Submitted 11 months ago by MacNCheezus@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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zakobjoa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And they fucking work!
cbc.ca/…/annoying-thing-speed-cameras-ottawa-they…
driving.ca/column/lorraine/speed-cameras-work
I can’t believe that people don’t want to see them installed in every school zones at least, if there’s one place where you don’t want people speeding it’s there!
“It’s a road design issue!” Yeah? What’s cheaper and can be done quicker, changing the road design or installing speed cameras?
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They also can’t testify in court, depriving accused speeders of their constitutional right to due process.
But back to your first claim: “gotta enforce speed limits.”
No, we do not. Speeding is a symptom of a street that was designed wrong to begin with. The correct solution is to fix the design, not install a speed camera as some sort of big brother band-aid.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 months ago
Sorry, but that is a gross misinterpretation. Drivers are not victims of an intrinsic speed devil that they cannot escape. They still choose to violate the speed limit in most cases.
What was done in these countries is to acknowledge, that physical design is more effective as enforcement, than the cop with a speed-meter.
Still the explicit intent is to enforce speed-limits, knowing that people would violate them if they could, but they can’t because they would wreck their car. Still those people choose to violate and are responsible for their actions.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sorry but it’s a black and white thing in this case, r either you’re under the speed limit and not breaking the law or you’re over the speed limit and breaking the law.
Also, tons of people object to speed camera tickets and win, the only difference is that there’s no officer there when the event happened to tell them “Say that to the judge if you’re not happy.”, the end result is the same.
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This one is in a school zone. People really shouldn’t be speeding through them unless they’re a “fuck them kids” kinda person, and if you are you’re a piece of shit.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Don’t know how there would be that much copper in there.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Perhaps you’re not the intended target audience, then.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, the intended target audience is desperate addicts who can be tricked into committing a crime that doesn’t actually benefit them at all.
sus@programming.dev 11 months ago
are you sure? There’s only 1 way to find out
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Guys, guys. Hear me out. What if (tokes) yeah…what if like if we like yeah. Oh? Sorry. What if we train pigeons to shit on traffic camera lens. It could be done. The military had trained pigeons to guide bombs against warships. Let’s train and breed pigeons to do this and release them in the wild.
penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Birds aren’t real
CameronDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Some of them used to contain bog standard DSLRs, so they were worth stealing.
jerrimu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OP sais this " … steal or vandalize speed enforcement cameras …"
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Using vehicle velocity as risk assessment method is fucking dumb. Might as well put that copper to better use.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So much wrong in this picture.
- Hey, want to commit a crime?
- photo enforcement sucks and doesn’t really work and is just used as tax revenue for cities
- meanwhile speeding continues as normal with all the casualties that come with it
- Cities, however, do need this revenue to not go bankrupt because they’re all designed wrong and can barely get any tax revenued while still affording details like infrastructure maintenance
- Cities should redesign their rod infrastructure instead. Where you still need car roads, design the roads for the speed you want. If you put a highway in front of a school, people will drive a 100 miles per hour because that is what the road was dest for.
- Cities should start changing laws to push for livable designs focused on humans beings instead of cars everywhere. You’ll need less cars, have less accidents, get more tax revenue from more local businesses
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Sir, this is a shitposting forum.
768@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Roughly 2.5 kg.
tourist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
how much crack will that score you
paddirn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Semi-related: Only small amounts of copper are typically stored in the human body, and the average adult has a total body content of 50–120 mg copper. Most copper is excreted in bile, and a small amount is excreted in urine.
misterundercoat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities… thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation.
quigat@lemm.ee 11 months ago
These are the Things that Make a Man Iron enough to make a nail, Lime enough to paint a wall, Water enough to drown a dog, Sulphur enough to stop the fleas, Potash enough to wash a shirt, Gold enough to buy a bean, Silver enough to coat a pin, Lead enough to ballast a bird, Phosphor enough to light the town, Poison enough to kill a cow, Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart.
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
prayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
saltpeter:100g
So we can make explosives out of humans? Oh boy.
obinice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So, I’m assuming then that people here think speed limits are bad, and drivers should be able to drive as fast as they like?
Otherwise, we wouldn’t be supporting vandalising equipment designed to reduce speeding, right?
Just so we’re on the same page is all. Safety bad, going fast good. Right?
trones@ythreektech.com 11 months ago
If these things were actually used to increase public safety I’d be all for them. Unfortunately our current system rewards corruption, so that’s not the case. Speed and red light cams are never actually used for safety, they’re used to extract money from the populace.
digitaltrends.com/…/red-light-camera-controversy/
This article is about red light cameras rather than speed cameras, but corporations and municipalities (corrupt or just naive) can be trusted to find ways to fuck over the public for profit using the speed cameras too.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Speeding cameras are revenue generating equipment, not safety equipment.
Roads are engineered to be comfortably driven at a certain speed. When legislators put a lower speed limit on these roads it creates a safety hazard and a moral hazard. If you want people to drive slower, you have to modify the road to lower it’s design speed. These modifications (lane narrowing, for example) are a safety tool, not the speeding camera.
I’ve never met anyone who thought these cameras were safety equipment!
kerrypacker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right.
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
What’s a “photo enforcement camera”? Speed camera? CCTV? Detects you then just drops on your head?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Speed traps or red light cameras, generally.
CCTV is considered surveillance, not enforcement.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 11 months ago
Buy chilean copper instead.
krondo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hooooly shit this people arguing over government issues bellow a shitpost thats logical …
NaNABCV@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Creeper shot of a school? Stay classy
AmosBurton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Or maybe some people just need more coffee 🤷🏻♂️