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Evil Speeding Monkey Defeats The Evil Speeding Tickets
11:50PM Jesus Diaz | Another idiot roams the world in his speeding car. The world being the squarish state of Arizona. This guy has avoided 37 tickets totalling $US6700 using a monkey mask. Still, not a match to Animal in Germany. [Thanks gitemstevedave]
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Don’t Speed Up Or You’ll Be Fired By A Goddamn Tank
1:20PM Jesus Diaz | This looks like a road in Sweden, Norway, or Germany. Wherever it is, they use their tanks to fire at speeding cars. Maybe. Whatever it is they do, I know I wouldn’t be messing with these traffic cops. [Thanks David] More »
GPS
11:05AM Nick Broughall | Something about TomTom’s new Safety cameras subscription service just doesn’t sit right with me. For $49.95 a year, you can receive twice weekly updates for your TomTom satnav that ensure you’ve got the most up to date information when it comes to those government revenue raisers. Both fixed speed cameras and red-light cameras are included and the positioning is verified by TomTom, so it should always be accurate… but really, are there so many new fixed speed cameras and red light cameras going up around the country to warrant twice weekly updates? And is that information really worth $50 a year, especially when you can probably update the map yourself on a TomTom with Map Share. My gut says no, and I generally listen to what my gut tells me. Like right now, it’s time for ham.
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TomTom Launches Safety Camera Subscription Service – Are There Really That Many New Cameras?
11:05AM Nick Broughall | Something about TomTom’s new Safety cameras subscription service just doesn’t sit right with me. For $49.95 a year, you can receive twice weekly updates for your TomTom satnav that ensure you’ve got the most up to date information when it comes to those government revenue raisers. Both fixed speed cameras and red-light cameras are included and the positioning is verified by TomTom, so it should always be accurate… but really, are there so many new fixed speed cameras and red light cameras going up around the country to warrant twice weekly updates? And is that information really worth $50 a year, especially when you can probably update the map yourself on a TomTom with Map Share. My gut says no, and I generally listen to what my gut tells me. Like right now, it’s time for ham.
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Vehicles
How to Use Speed Cameras to Bury Your Enemies in Speeding Tickets
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | I think that speed cameras are the devil’s technology that impugn our basic human rights, but Maryland high school students show how they can be used for fun and profit revenge. More »
Gadgets
Mini Coyote Saves Us from the Worst Orwellian Abomination Ever: Speedtrap Cameras
1:45AM Matt Buchanan | Of all the Big Brother things corporations, governments, and other nosy entities that want to examine all the minutiae of our daily lives looking for transgressions of stupid little rules, I feel like speedtrap cameras are the most egregious. Endemic in Europe, they’re gaining a foothold in the US. They break the whole system that governs the way we drive on American highways, the fundamental fairness of the road, that unspoken agreement between poh-lice and people who drive: It’s only speeding if a living, breathing cop spots you. And even then, they might just let you pass. The Mini Coyote from Novus can restore this balance. More »
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