Teens copying enemies' license plates to get revenge via speed cameras
Teens are known for having a lot of time, some seriously outrageous ideas for filling that time, and a slightly obsessive need for revenge. Add a few residential speed cameras into that mix, and what you have is a creative perversion of the entire speed camera system. Teens in Maryland have evidently been printing out the license plates numbers of rival teens, putting them on their own cars, and then purposely blasting by speed cameras posted in residential neighborhoods. The rival teen -- or his parents -- then gets a $40 citation in the mail. The police say they haven't heard anything about it, and the local government doesn't sound like it has come up with any way to prevent or limit the habit. Which means that teens will be teens, and parents will be left to complain about it and fight the citations in court. Said one parent, "I hope the public at large will complain loudly enough that local Montgomery County government officials will change their policy of using these cameras for monetary gain. The practice of sending speeding tickets to faceless recipients without any type of verification is unwarranted and an exploitation of our rights." Oh, these kids today...
[Source: The Sentinel]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Benfolio 6:06PM (12/24/2008)
You'd think someone would trace the plate number to what type of car it is caught on the camera, but I'm sure it's easier just to automatically mail a ticket to the plate's owner.
Big Brother fails again.
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Derek 10:43AM (12/25/2008)
It's also not that hard to find a friend with the same make/model as your victim. Yet another reason to drive something interesting, as opposed to the excess of blahmobiles on the market.
Noidor 2:33PM (12/25/2008)
Or do it like it's done in Japan - conviction is warranted not only by a speed camera, but also a picture, which verifies that it is in fact owner of assigned license plate who is driving the car.
scott 6:08PM (12/24/2008)
Maryland teenagers have the most ghetto mentality...yet they're the "richest" state. I grew up there, and schemes like this are very common.
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samgross144 6:16PM (12/24/2008)
I'm growing up there, and you're right. The funniest thing is that it's trickling down from the richer high school (Wootton) to the poorer high schools (Richard Montgomery and Rockville).
It's made even more convenient by the fact that the county has placed speeding cameras right in front of these schools, resulting in more rear end accidents there. Hmmm.....
Flashpoint 6:58PM (12/24/2008)
this is ridiculous.
If a cop caught you with a fake license, you'd be fked.
Why not simply damage the person's car with a bb gun or spraypaint homosexual slurs on it?
samgross144 10:22PM (12/24/2008)
No, if you got caught, Daddy's lawyers would get you off.
XJ 2:03AM (12/25/2008)
MoCo has its ghetto parts, but Rockville is not ghetto -- unless you're comparing it to Potomac or Bethesda. 98% of the nation would be considered ghetto if you're comparing anything to these two towns.
SimbaDogg 8:54PM (12/25/2008)
@ flashpoint
sure that would work...but you know what, i'd be more willing to take a $40 dollar ticket in the mail. trashing someones car, between a couple guys...thats real personal.
innoc3nt 3:04AM (12/26/2008)
I'd go one step further and say that MoCo doesn't really have ANY "ghetto" parts. At least not like the kind of slums you find elsewhere. I mean, Seneca in Germantown is supposed to be one of the most ghetto schools in the county, but compared to the rest of the country, it's pretty good.
tekd 11:42AM (12/26/2008)
Yeah, Rockville isn't even vaguely ghetto as far as Maryland goes. It's a pretty nice suburban city where you can walk around past nice mini-park areas, lol. Not the definition of ghetto by a longshot. Ghetto cities are the ex-industrial powerhouse cities where half the population has long gone away, leaving half the city to become crackhouses.
chconline 6:10PM (12/24/2008)
Just abolish speed cameras. There's just so many reasons why they simply don't work, and this is one of them.
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Reader 6:41PM (12/24/2008)
You could say the same thing about centralized government.
Punster 8:09PM (12/24/2008)
Exactly...
(In response to Reader)
JP 11:40AM (12/28/2008)
Ok, get the tag numbers of those responsible for institution of the cameras, along with those responsible for changing the laws to be able to ticket the registered owner of the vehicle............I'd love to see those guys get a couple hundred unwarranted tickets in the mail. Hmmmm.......
Jeff Banks 6:12PM (12/24/2008)
All you need to do after that is to print out a mask...a la Jeremy a.k.a. Bill Odie.
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Matt 2:43AM (12/28/2008)
exactly what i was thinking
Michael 6:18PM (12/24/2008)
Haha.
Number one rule: Don't make enemies in high school. It's not worth it. None of that crap matters after it's over, anyway.
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dinnercoat 6:27PM (12/24/2008)
Here's a neat trick.
-Find out what city council member pushed for the cameras
-Find his/her license plate number
-....
I suppose "city council member" could be replaced with any public official who pushed for the cameras.
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Level 7:01PM (12/24/2008)
Thats a good Idea lol
Thanks for the kids in Maryland for thinking of the unthinkable lmao....