Nashville, TN – A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says getting a traffic camera ticket isn’t a problem — he just burns them.
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State Rep. Andy Holt set such ticket ablaze on Wednesday and posted the video to Facebook. A news release issued in conjunction with the Facebook video urges others who are issued traffic camera tickets in Tennessee to ignore them.
Holt is a longtime critic of traffic camera tickets and has previously called for banning them.
Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch said in an email Thursday to the Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1TH1DkL) that Holt’s advice is unsound.
Rausch says ignoring or burning a ticket “does not make the violation and accountability go away.”
Ok so I hate these cameras too. But technically and logically what is so wrong with these cameras? Why is it worse than a cop stopping you? At the end of the day follow the law.