Busted By Technology!

[mjollner]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at h...> wrote:
> 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.


Oh, my sympathies!  I lived on Capitol Hill for several years and now 
reside in lovely, congested NoVa, though I commute daily to the 
District.  You're not the only person this false ticketing has 
happened to; the Post has had several articles in the Metro section 
about this problem and its many innocent victims.  

Fight the ticket!  Is the license number clearly visible in the photo? 
 If there's any doubt, you have a good chance of having it dismissed. 
 Don't let the home of "Taxation without Representation" get you down!

Mjollner