If I felt I was guilty I would not have made this post.
Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Steven Fish [mailto:fish@salzburg.co.at]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: Sean Garrett; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Thanks RE: Photo ticket at stop lights
> 
> 
> I have one simple question for you.....
> 
> Did you go through the yellow (or red) light?
> 
> If the answer is yes, then pay your ticket, learn your 
> lesson, admit that
> you made a mistake, stop trying to pretend that the entire 
> government is
> corrupt, and spying on you, and out to cash in on your 
> innocent and harmless
> actions.
> 
> There is a reason why they install those cameras which take 
> photos of the
> cars who run yellow (or red).  The reason is that many 
> innocent men, women,
> and children are killed each year by folks who are in a 
> hurry, and speed up
> at the yellow. There is a trend towards ever increasingly 
> aggresive driving
> and road rage in the States... while the crime rate is also 
> so high, that
> hte police force is busy 24-7 catching the rapists, murders, 
> and high school
> kids killing their teachers.  There simply are not enough 
> resources for a 30
> minute personal ticket giving ceremony for running a light.
> 
> Here we have radar boxes both in the sities and on the 
> autobahns and when
> you get a ticket, you pay it, and people do not really freak. 
>  We are not
> living in a totalitarian, nor "Orwellian" society here 
> either... it's just
> that Europeans tend to be a tad more responsible for their 
> actions than
> perhaps residents of some other countries.
> 
> Now, having said all that.... if you did not run the yellow,  
> then fight it.
> 
> Good Luck with whichever you choose to do!
> 
> RSF
> 
> PS.  Most lights these days are controlled by traffic, and 
> weight or other
> sensors... so your timing it by using the clock may not do much good.
> 
> IMPORTANT!!! In order to reply to me, you must have the word "FISH"
> somewhere in the subject line of the email.  Otherwise it 
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> Robert S. Fish
> Salzburg, Austria
> 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> 1987 Golf Cabriolet
> 1991 Golf
> 
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