Man Gets Speeding Ticket For...Parking

[MindPilot]

Getting a speeding ticket is never fun. It's even worse when you get a speeding ticket while your car is parked. For one UK motorist, that's exactly what happened, not once, but twice. On two separate occasions, he has been sent a speeding ticket when he knew his car was stationary.

It seems Jeff Buck has to park his car on the street outside his home in Nottingham. With no driveway or garage available, parking it on the shoulder along Watnall Road is the best he can do.

The problem stems from the fact that somebody else happened to speed past the camera perched above his parked car. Police officers who processed the photos and issued the fines somehow missed the fact that his vehicle was stationary.

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The UK is several steps ahead of the US in nanny-state-ism so if you want to see what the future holds, just take a look across the pond.

[uppityperson]

1. This is pretty funny. I got a speeding ticket when I was 1500 miles away

had to prove I went to work that day and that that was the only car I owned to get out of it. Was rather odd to get the notice.

This dept now gets to "look" at the picture to make sure the right car gets ticketed.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. I got a speeding ticket in Orem Utah

Which was quite a feat considering neither I or my car had ever been to Orem Utah,

Their system was so inaccurate that they abandoned photo radar in the mid-90's state-wide.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I had a client who got a ticket for careless driving when his car was parked on the side.

I tried to argue the obvious and was told that because of the crooked angle in which the car was parked, it proved he had been driving carelessly.

[MindPilot]

7. Similar thing happened to my dad in Denver.

We were moving and he had parked two vans back to back to make them easier to load. Cops came along and wrote him a ticket for DRIVING on the wrong side of the road! About the same time I was bringing the dirt bike from the back yard to the front and the cop gave me a ticket for riding without a helmet. Not only was I on private property; I was coasting with the engine off!

Both were ultimately dismissed for obvious reasons but this is why I hate traffic laws--they are just an excuse for cops to fuck with people and extort money for the state.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I had a client who got a ticket for careless driving when his car was parked on the side.

I tried to argue the obvious and was told that because of the crooked angle in which the car was parked, it proved he had been driving carelessly.

[zbdent]

5. isn't it funny?

The "nanny-state-ism" is RW spin for the totalitarian state that RWers actually masturbate to and dream of ...

[MindPilot]

8. This is where the Libertarian in me comes out.

I think there are groups on both sides guilty of wanting to control the minutia of people's lives. From the left it is about keeping us safe; micromanaging people's lives with the Utopian goal of a perfectly healthy and risk-free environment. The right on the other hand wants to legislate moral and behavioral purity to keep God happy.

Somewhere in the middle is leave me the fuck alone.

[MadHound]

6. These speed cameras will become ubiquitous here in the US shortly.

After all, they'll be better revenue generators than stop light cams. How long before people become pissed off enough to start shooting these damn things.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. There are guys in Phoenix who dress up like Santa and vandalize them

Saw them in action a while back,