[Dean's World] Dave Price: Red Dawn

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Posted by Dave Price:
Red Dawn
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1196213664.shtml


   Hey, [1]it worked for those metric road signs, didn't it?

     KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Police have lost red-light cameras to traffic
     accidents but never to gun play. "This is the first one that's been
     shot," Capt. Gordon Catlett said of the wounded camera at the
     intersection of Broadway Avenue and Interstate 640 â one of 15
     camera-equipped intersections in the city.

   I'm not sure I'd want to encourage this kind of behavior, but I can't
   help enjoying it.
   Oddly, he hadn't even been ticketed by the machine, making it likely
   he belongs to some sort of vigilante anti-red-light-camera fringe
   group, probably [2]inspired by Glenn Reynolds, and will apparently get
   off pretty lightly.

     Clark, now facing a $50 fine if convicted and loss of his rifle,
     refused to say anything about the incident to police, leaving the
     motive unclear.

   When he tells his friends, the story will end with "But it was so
   worth it, dude!"

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_on_fe_st/odd_red_light_camera_1
   2. http://instapundit.com/mt2/asdaf.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=%22red+light%22