Below, WUSA TV reported on speed cameras that Maryland loves so much. Of course they love the red light cameras as well. But, you'll love this story about the speed cameras. It shows the cameras are there for one purpose and one purpose only. To grab YOUR money. Red light cameras will be in St. Mary's eventually. I have no doubt about it. However, the County Commissioners have to approve it. If you don't like these type of cameras, you better make sure your Commissoners know it. All they are going to see is the dollar signs it brings in. But, if enough of our citizens stop it before it gets started, we have a chance. Charles Co. has it. And now I understand Calvert Co. has it. Who do you think is next? It sure seems like it is headed our way! It looks like we are on borrowed time.
Maybe we can flood the County Commisoners meetings with people like the Board of Education does every year for the budget.
FOREST HEIGHTS, Md. (WUSA) -- Will Foreman gets angry when someone tells him he has developed a system for beating the town's speed cameras. Instead, he says, he has come up with a simple, math-based system to prove those cameras are issuing tickets to drivers who are not breaking the speed limit at all.
"I'm furious. They're hard-working, working-class people here and they are being victimized by this group," he told 9News Now.
After threatening to fire employees of his auto parts business who kept getting the tickets, Foreman began to investigate 40 tickets received by those drivers.
Not one was legitimate, he says.
When the speeding tickets are issued, they are accompanied by two pictures of the vehicle taken less than a second apart.
Foreman simply charts the number of feet the vehicle travels between the two photographs and makes the miles-per-hour calculation.
In every case he has used the math to prove his point in court, his drivers have been found not guilty.
"It's either theft, total gross incompetence, or extortion with a badge," he said.
"The issue is theft. They're stealing from the public...they're charging people for speeding that are not speeding," Foreman said.
The tickets generate revenue equal to about one half of the town's annual budget, bringing it about Two-point-eight million dollars a year.
Because the town has a population of about 26 hundred residents, the math shows income of more than a thousand dollars a year from the speeding tickets for each resident.
Town officials did not respond to 9News Now requests for interviews, but the town administrator said he believes the tickets are accurate.
Maybe we can flood the County Commisoners meetings with people like the Board of Education does every year for the budget.
FOREST HEIGHTS, Md. (WUSA) -- Will Foreman gets angry when someone tells him he has developed a system for beating the town's speed cameras. Instead, he says, he has come up with a simple, math-based system to prove those cameras are issuing tickets to drivers who are not breaking the speed limit at all.
"I'm furious. They're hard-working, working-class people here and they are being victimized by this group," he told 9News Now.
After threatening to fire employees of his auto parts business who kept getting the tickets, Foreman began to investigate 40 tickets received by those drivers.
Not one was legitimate, he says.
When the speeding tickets are issued, they are accompanied by two pictures of the vehicle taken less than a second apart.
Foreman simply charts the number of feet the vehicle travels between the two photographs and makes the miles-per-hour calculation.
In every case he has used the math to prove his point in court, his drivers have been found not guilty.
"It's either theft, total gross incompetence, or extortion with a badge," he said.
"The issue is theft. They're stealing from the public...they're charging people for speeding that are not speeding," Foreman said.
The tickets generate revenue equal to about one half of the town's annual budget, bringing it about Two-point-eight million dollars a year.
Because the town has a population of about 26 hundred residents, the math shows income of more than a thousand dollars a year from the speeding tickets for each resident.
Town officials did not respond to 9News Now requests for interviews, but the town administrator said he believes the tickets are accurate.
Luckily, the SHS places date stickers on the back or road signs when they install them
