Sunday, November 05, 2006

My Revvin' Is Chicago's Revenue

Some time ago, I read somewhere (how's that for vague) that the City of Chicago was putting up a large number of traffic cameras. Seems that was controversial for invasion of privacy or the amount of tax dollars the project consumed or both?

At any rate, though I still don't remember it clearly, according to an astonishly clear photo/ticket we received today, I ran a red light on October 3rd at 6:15 p.m. Yikes! And there aren't any warnings. The Camera has no mercy; it's just, we caught you red-handed (red-lighted?) and now you owe us NINETY BUCKS.

They've probably already paid the cameras off by now.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've been nailed by those cameras. :-( The worst part is that the ticket comes a month or later after the violation.

Kathleen said...

oh, the stinkers.

Anonymous said...

i got one too. i hate those cameras.