Well, not really, but she
could have.
Woman says she got two speeding tickets for one infraction
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=CalgaryHome
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A Calgary woman received two speeding tickets from two cameras less than two blocks from each other in the northwest corner of the city. She accuses the city of double-dipping.
Melissa O'Farrel admits she deserved the ticket she got for speeding through a green light at the intersection of 14th Street and Northmount Drive N.W., but says the second ticket she got from a Multinova van on the other side of the intersection is overkill. O'Farrel asks, "Why would they be so close? I mean within 37 seconds of each other. To get one speeding ticket and then to get another one? That's ridiculous".
She wondered, could police cameras really hit her twice in the same minute for speeding? She called police and was told the tickets are valid and she'll have to go to court to argue otherwise.
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Charlie Pester of POINTTS Traffic Defense says getting tickets you don't deserve is a by-product of governments using too many cameras to do police officers' jobs.
"Cameras make money, policemen aren't a profit making source. They're not out there, or they shouldn't be out there, as a method of collection revenue for the city, whereas these things do, these things make big money for the city and the province."
And as O'Farrell says, the burden of proving she shouldn't pay twice is on her shoulders. "Why should the onus be on me to correct something that could be a mistake that wasn't my own?", she says.
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While I am not in favour of these speed on green cameras, this lady is dumb. There are some FANTASTIC comments though. I think there are some people from CP who post comments on CTV, I am pretty sure I have heard most of them before.