Comments on: Don’t sing and drive http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/30/dont-sing-and-drive/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:06:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/30/dont-sing-and-drive/#comment-25127 Brad Wood Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:31:27 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/30/dont-sing-and-drive/#comment-25127 Singing while driving helps me to stay awake. But then I guess that means I shouldn't be driving anyway if I'm that sleepy. I got a camera ticket when I was about two blocks from home, at a time no buses were even running, having entered a protected right turn just an instant after it turned yellow and almost immediately (didn't even feel like a full second) red. Ouch! 361 dollars!! I'm contesting it via a Trial by Written Declaration, mentioning that, among other things, I wasn't certain that there wasn't someone behind me who very likely would have rear-ended me if I had screeched to a stop. When they first started using those cameras there was a considerable grace interval before the ticket was issued. But of course they have turned out to be dandy revenue-enhancers, so there is no such allowance now. Singing while driving helps me to stay awake. But then I guess that means I shouldn’t be driving anyway if I’m that sleepy.

I got a camera ticket when I was about two blocks from home, at a time no buses were even running, having entered a protected right turn just an instant after it turned yellow and almost immediately (didn’t even feel like a full second) red. Ouch! 361 dollars!! I’m contesting it via a Trial by Written Declaration, mentioning that, among other things, I wasn’t certain that there wasn’t someone behind me who very likely would have rear-ended me if I had screeched to a stop.

When they first started using those cameras there was a considerable grace interval before the ticket was issued. But of course they have turned out to be dandy revenue-enhancers, so there is no such allowance now.

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