Belgium speed camera news

The vans are in Belgium accounted for a quarter of the speed fines, even though they make up only fifteen percent of all vehicles on our roads.

Police wrote last year 3.34 million speed fines. About 836,000 of them were drivers of commercial vehicles.

Truckers and commercial vehicles are such a big percent, because the govt can just fine the company that owns the vehicle. I'm guessing they have to get the driver of a pov, not the owner, to pay a speeding find. It was the way the monkey costume guy in Arizona beat 45 tickets. He left the monkey mask in his car, and no matter who was driving, they wore the mask, and the speed camera was unable to show police who the driver was

 http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20150707_01765991?_section=65502283&utm_source=nieuwsblad&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=regio-nb&M_BT=3781870152613&adh_i=3de794afb14ea0722b0b81f1031e37c7&imai=b4042c0b-1f99-4ca2-9f1b-0d24f755e957

parking ticket tossed on appeal, for the technicality of a missing comma in the law as written

An appeals court has agreed with an Ohio woman who said her parking citation should be tossed because the village law was missing a comma.

Andrea Cammelleri says she shouldn't have been issued a citation in 2014 based on the wording of the law enacted by the village of West Jefferson.

The law lists several types of vehicles that can't be parked longer than 24 hours, including a "motor vehicle camper," with the comma missing between "vehicle" and "camper."

Cammelleri says her pickup truck did not fit that definition.

The village says the law's meaning was clear in context, but Judge Robert Hendrickson of the 12th Ohio District Court of Appeals says in last week's ruling that West Jefferson should amend the law if it wants it read differently.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/Womans-Parking-Ticket-Tossed-Because-Missing-Comma-311642131.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_LABrand

Texas state highway patrol, not very sharp... they get caught in their own car window

Found on http://www.mandatory.com/2015/06/29/helpless-cop-somehow-gets-stuck-in-car-window-forgets-doors-exi/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00002185

Finally! A cool cop story to offset the assholes that shut down the kids lemonade stand

On Monday, Lake County Sheriff's Deputy Zach Ropos stopped by the young girl's lemonade stand while on patrol in Painesville, Ohio, about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland.

 "I see a little girl come running up to my police car," Ropos, 22, told ABC News today. "She hands me a glass, I hand her a few bucks. I asked her what she wanted to do with the money ... she said she'd get an iPad, to help with school and play games."

Ropos said he told the girl's mother he had an old iPad at home he could bring them the next day.

"I went home that night, fired up the iPad, but nothing really worked on it," Ropos explained.

The next day, Ropos found a store that agreed to contribute to the cost of a tablet with him. Later Tuesday, Ropos met up with Gabrielle and her mother,  "I asked her how much she saved up, and she said she only had a few dollars."

Gabrielle explained to Ropos that her mother's car ran out of gas, so the child gave up her hard-earned money to fill the tank.

"When she told me she gave the money to her mom ... that's when I almost started crying because of how great of a kid she really was," Ropos said.

"Seeing her face is how I remember Christmas when I was 5 years old. She couldn't stop smiling," Ropos said. "Her smile was worth a million dollars."

Lake County Sheriff Dan Dunlap, told ABC News that he always tells graduating classes, "If you pass a kid's lemonade stand, buy a lemonade. You don't have to drink it. If you see an old person's garden, acknowledge it. There's plenty of chances in police work to be kind. [Ropos] took it the extra step."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/officer-surprises-year-ipad-smile-worth-million-dollars/story?id=32019219

Seattle good samaritan Daniel Gehlke is going to the mat to defend his right to free speech. Cops ticketed him for warning traffic of the police speed trap

“Freedom of speech cannot be infringed upon,” said Daniel Gehlke, who made the handmade sign that reads, “Cops Ahead! Stop at sign and light!” on a plastic container lid.

“It’s not freedom of speech when it’s against the law,” the officer responds.

“I’m Officer Elliott. I’m a Seattle police officer and I’m letting you know now that’s against the law,” said an officer during the dealings that were captured on cell phone video that was uploaded to Gehlke’s personal Facebook profile and YouTube page.

When Gehlke asked about the specific law that he was breaking, the officer said he was defying city municipal code 11.50.560 which refers to, “forbidden signs and devices.”

The municipal code prohibits “any structure sign, light or device that…bears any such words as ‘danger’,’ stop’, ‘slow’, ‘turn’, ‘impound’, or similar words, figures or directions…”

Gehlke told KOMO News he is going to fight the $138 ticket and he believes the content of his sign, not the language he used, made him a target for the police.



It takes the cop 5 and a 1/2 minutes to write the ticket. He, or his fellow officers, felt it needed 3 more cops to make sure this was a safe thing to do



Cops, always pissy about the stupid shit, unless they are caught beating someone up. They always find excuses why their behavior is beyond reproach, and justified, but think some asshole spokesman can explain away why "might be distracted" is not a load of bullshit. Get a job slappy.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/seattle-mans-homemade-speed-trap-warning-sign-earns/story?id=31970993

A cop right where you want them, when they are most useful... when some jackass tries to cut you off in traffic by rolling on the shoulder to pass the traffic jam

NSFW language in the beginning. I love the cops just taking all the traffic to a stop, and pointing out to the idiot, that his day just got worse
http://twistedsifter.com/videos/cop-busts-cars-driving-in-shoulder-points-epically/

Waze, a tool for drivers to use in avoiding police, or something LAPD uses as an diversion while they spy on cellphones without warrants?

Google's real-time traffic app Waze is being criticized by some law enforcement officials who say its police-spotting feature could endanger officers. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is among the critics.

Beck said Tuesday the app could be used by criminals to target police or to evade officers.

"It is not always in the public’s best interest to know where police are operating," Beck said. (Moron, we already do, at every police station, in every clearly identifiable police vehicle)

"There is a criminal element," he said, "who are able to ply their trade and craft more effectively by knowing where police are.” (and how much does Beck get as an annual bonus based on ticket revenue, and making ticket quotas, a definite motivation to keep people from avoiding police speed traps?)

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-google-waze-los-angeles-police-charlie-beck-20150127-story.html

Compare that to the police using Stingray to spy on and track, without warrants, the locations of anyone with a cellphone.

A secretive cellphone spy device known as StingRay, intended to fight terrorism, was used in far more routine LAPD criminal investigations 21 times in a four-month period during 2012, apparently without the courts' knowledge that the technology probes the lives of non-suspects who happen to be in the same neighborhood as suspected terrorists.

According to records released to the First Amendment Coalition under the California Public Records Act, StingRay, which allows police to track mobile phones in real time, was tapped for more than 13 percent of the 155 "cellular phone investigation cases" that Los Angeles police conducted between June and September last year.

As L.A. Weekly first reported in September, LAPD purchased StingRay technology sometime around 2006 with federal Department of Homeland Security funds.

The portable StingRay device impersonates a cellphone tower, electronically fooling all nearby mobile phones — not just the suspect's phone — to send their signals into an LAPD computer. That signal reveals to police the location of phones in real time.

But the technology sucks up the data of every cellphone in the area, and these innocent phone owners never know police are grabbing their information.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/lapd-spied-on-21-using-stingray-anti-terrorism-tool-2612739

The New Hampshire Supreme Court agrees with the parking meter feeders, cities haven't got a leg to stand on when harrassing "Robin Hood" types preventing the town from issuing parking tickets

In a nearly complete victory for Robin Hood of Keene, the NH supreme court has affirmed nearly all of the superior court’s decisions against the people calling themselves the “City of Keene” in the city’s libelous assault on the heroic activists who have rescued thousands of motorists from parking tickets in downtown Keene in the last couple of years.

the city’s original suit in 2013 asked for a in injunction of a 50ft radius “buffer zone” around each parking enforcer that would preclude the named Robin Hooders from being in that zone. Eventually, they reduced their request to 30ft, then 10-15ft.

The claims of “tortious interference” with the city’s “business” of screwing over people shopping downtown and the claim of “conspiracy” were shut down on a free-speech basis:

The court’s judges know that telling government bureaucrats how you feel their job is wrong is fully within free speech protections, even if the bureaucrats don’t want to hear it. Further, the court opinion backed up the Robin Hooders’ non-verbal actions as protected free speech:

The City nonetheless asserts that specific aspects of the respondents’ conduct — “following closely, chasing, running after, approaching quickly from behind, lurking outside bathrooms, yelling loudly, and filming from close proximity” — is not protected by the First Amendment… The respondents counter that “[e]ven those activities that did not involve speech [are] expressive conduct entitled to First Amendment protection,” and, therefore, are insulated from tort liability. They assert that, “absent acts of significant violence,” the First Amendment protects their non-verbal acts from tort liability. We agree with the respondents.

http://freekeene.com/2015/06/09/supreme-court-vindicates-robin-hooders/

the Netherlands and Germany is cracking down on the Bandidos, and did a mass arrest roundup today

Belgian and Dutch and German police coordinated, a total around 400 police agents, ransacking 30 houses and arresting 19 people.

Police raids include Oirsbeek, Echt-Susteren and on a trailer park in Geleen.

In Belgium, a house searched in Borgloon.

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20150527_01700124?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nieuwsblad&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=seeding

Two weeks ago, in Germany, 11,000 pounds of fireworks (sounds like fun!) were seized in a raid on organized crime on the Lambert Wise Street in Tilburg.

Done at the request of the German authorities and led by the magistrate in Breda. Besides the illegal fireworks pot was also confiscated, amount unreported.

http://www.bd.nl/regio/tilburg-en-omgeving/tilburg/vuurwerkvondst-tilburg-maakte-deel-uit-van-grote-politie-actie-tegen-motorclub-bandidos-1.4920525