Busted By Technology!

[cindysphynx]

Oh, Man!  Can today get any worse?  I open the mail and there, lying 
in the pile, mocking me, is a "Notice of Infraction."  What is a 
Notice of Infraction, you ask?  Why, that's what you get when the 
District of Columbia decides that you have been speeding on their 
streets.  

Now, I live in Maryland, I work in Maryland, I shop in Maryland.  Why 
on earth would I be in the District of Columbia on a Thursday morning 
at 10:39 a.m., burning rubber on a street I have never heard of, 
headed toward downtown?  

Oh, but they've got the goods on me, all right.  They have an itty-
bitty grainy photo of the back of my car, all right.  I get to take 
their word for the part about the speeding, and the fact that none of 
the other cars in the picture was the actual culprit.

Ironically, the last time this happened, my husband fought an 
automated ticked for running a red light.  He actually beat the 
ticket because even the judge could not discern from the photo 
whether the light was green or red and concluded that the equipment 
may have been malfunctioning.

What to do, what to do?  Hmmm.  Well, I guess I'd better pay it this 
instant before the fine automatically doubles, although I know full 
well that I wasn't there, that I would never blow down a residential 
street at 38 mph, and that there is no way I could ever prove it.

TickedAtATicket!Cindy (wondering if the judge would accept a time-
stamped post on the main list as proof of her innocence)