"If you're not speeding, you have nothing to worry about..."

[2011G6E]

Just got a speeding photo fine in the mail. Had to check my calendar to make sure we were actually down in Rocky when the date said so, because who remembers exactly what you were doing and which piece of road you were on three weeks ago...which kind of makes a mockery of the whole "it stops people speeding" crap.

There's a few issues with it, as far as I see...


Now, you guys look at that photo and tell me which one of those two cars is ours and is speeding at 69 in a 60 zone? I've probably crapped in my own nest by letting you guys know that we own a Triton now...but you see my immediate doubts. Is it the silver car in the background, or is it ours?
Some years back, when they were discarding too many photos because of more than one car in the pic, they came up with some rubbish about "now we understand better how the cameras work" (what...you didn't understand them before...?") and can pick on car out of a bunch...in a static photo...even if they're close together...
I think the obvious and honest answer in a case where there is more than one car as to which one is actually speeding is "The one whose number plate we can read..."

Not to mention what's going on with that licence plate...why is the "F" so far away from the "A" in the blow up? I shouldn't question though, as they say they "use a clearer one for processing purposes"...sure you do, chuckles...

Also, there's the little matter of location...everyone, and I mean everyone familiar with or who lives in Rocky will know where this camera was situated...just down the road from the tourist center on the road into town. They almost have a reserved parking spot there, and it buggers me how they make any money at that location because as I said, everyone knows they're sitting there most days. They obviously trust getting tourists coming out of the 70 zone just before this into the 60 zone where the camera is set up.

We'll pay it...what real choice do we have? Take a day or two off work and go to court? Yep...and then get told "we're right, you're wrong, pay up".


And the Great Road Safety Lie continues...