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August 1st, 2007 at 11:58 am
If by “here” you mean “Tennessee,” think again. There’s been a push to put in red light cameras here in Memphis. I vocally opposed it at a neighborhood association meeting a while back, but the general feel of the room was that the overwhelming majority (almost exclusively white seniors) wanted them.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:59 am
We have them in Knoxville. I’m talking about converting them to surveillance cameras as well.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I like the solution a growing group in Great Britain uses on those things. A tire full of gasoline hung off the housing, heh. Somewhere on the web is a website showing the results of those efforts.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:28 pm
red-light cams in US are harder to reach, being mounted in middle of road instead of road shoulders.
If you filled a tire with gas and lit it on fire, and then managed to throw it up to the cam, and not get yourself burnt or run over, that is a video I’d like to see!
August 1st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
And of course, they wouldn’t be misused, would they? I mean Martin-Marietta and San Diego didn’t really happen, did it?
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
You know, when I was going cross-country, I happened to stop off in a little town called Chloride, AZ. I mentioned to a shopowner there that I was moving to SoCal, and the first words out of her mouth, without even missing a beat, were “Do you know what you are doing?”
After having to go through customs… yes, customs… to get from AZ to CA, I came to the distinct conclusion I did not.
I swear I am just going to move to Montana one of these days…
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I was under the impression that this stop was to keep foreign organisms that are not humans out of California’s lush farmland (lush, assuming that they keep piping in water from other states that is), and not an achtung! papers please type of stop.
I was traveling from San Fran to the east coast (other direction, I know), but there does not seem to be any type of customs if you come in via the Lake Tahoe route.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm
you know, It just occurred to me that I took US-50 around Lake Tahoe, and not I-80. While hardly a “back route”, I was off the interstate.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Indeed, that is the point of the stop. Of course, said stop was, in my case, executed by an elderly gentleman who spent more time joking about the incongruity of my Florida license plates and my Georgia Tech bumper sticker than he actually spent looking in my car… Of course, since he spent no time looking in my car, that was easily accomplished.
Of course, I also know for a fact the 200-odd boxes I brougth into CA were not checked in the slightest bit, and did include a non-zero amount of foodstuffs and other materials that could, potentially, include hazardous organisms.
The check I do not mind so much – after all, foreign organisms are a nightmare-in-waiting for any ecosystem. But the uselessness of it, and the money spent to continue it, are merely indicative of the larger problems with this state – like, for example, border patrol checkpoints… on either side of the Salton Sea. That makes sense (and could never by bypassed by driving an hour or two west and using roads that do not have checkpoints on them)…
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Az also has inspection stations when coming from Ca. They claim it is to protect their citrus industry, but I think it has to do with protecting employment in Az.
Almost no Californians are employed in Az. They simply cannot pass the fruit and nut inspection at the border.