Theres a big difference with a couple tickets at 5 miles over the limit and 69 tickets – some including extrmeme speeds. 69 tickets & disregard for others safty = some jail time.

It’s illegal to walk around in public shooting a b.b. gun, but if I’m responsible with it and don’t shoot anyone or anything but street signs as target practice, why can’t I do that?

Idiots like you make me sick.

Also, the freeway where she got tickets is fairly new. There were 8 deaths on that 7.2 miles of freeway in the first year it was opened with numerous people getting caught at speeds in excess of 100 mph. Since the cameras were put in speeds have decreased to 65-75 mph (75 still being 10 mph over the limit) and no deaths have occurred. Once again, the cameras have proved to increase everyone’s safety. Albeit they are a nuisance for us lead footers, but one that promotes safety.

The freeway cameras also have helped catch 4 car thieves as their photos were taken speeding away from stealing the cars. The police knew what direction they were headed, the license plate and what the thief looked like.

One person noted we should look at how many accidents she has been in. I think we need to look at how many accidents occur around her, not to her. With her speeding and swerving through traffic she could be causing a trail of accidents behind her.

I may not like the idea of cameras but they get these Jeff Gordon wannabes off the roads. Or in this girls case, Danica Patrick wannabe driving a honda civic.

I could smell the styling products and perfume oozing off this story.

But really, that many speeding tickets is insane man. It’s a wonder she didnt hit anyone. Shows how dumb some people are. Maybe if she managed her schedule better she wouldnt always be late.

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although that IS quite ridiculous… several states have ruled speed cameras to be unconstitutional. and there have been several studies showing that red light / speed cameras actually decrease safety in order to raise revenue.

so her throwing the tickets away isn’t entirely absurd. HOWEVER somehow i *highly* doubt her motivation behind her action was to mount a political protest against camera enforcement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_cameras#Political_Issues

ooooooh wait. that might not work this time.

LeftLane linked to this story on a Toledo, OH ABC station website and not any of the Phoenix newspaper or TV websites. Odd.

All of the tickets occurred in an 8 mile stretch of road. Imagine how she must drive on the non-photo enforced roads.

She actually got 64 speeding tickets on a photo enforced portion of freeway, 5 more speeding tickets on surface streets and a red light running photo ticket in less than 5 months. One local report stated she lived 20+ miles away from where the tickets occurred but worked as a mortgage broker in the area of the tickets. Her excuse was she sped because she was always late for meetings.

On 15 occasions, she was clocked speeding twice in one day. She sped three times on two days, and was clocked speeding four times in a day on four occasions. This woman must have been dumb since those speed cameras are in fixed locations along 8 miles of freeway. All she would have to do was slow down for a few seconds as she passed each camera.

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