Red-light cameras: they just think of everything for our benefit

With this particular device, they're nobly saving us from ourselves -- selflessly, altruistically!

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

It's About "Safety," Not "Money": On the same day in September, Washington, D.C., and New York City made traffic-camera announcements, with Washington declaring a revenue crisis and New York revealing that just one speed camera in Brooklyn had earned the city $77,550 in a single day. The District of Columbia had projected $93 million in annual camera income, but estimated it would collect only $26 million, while New York City, which has many fewer cameras, was marveling at the 1,551 tickets the Brooklyn camera zapped on July 7. [Washington Post, 9-29-2014]

Some communities have reportedly abolished them because they were bad for business -- ticket revenues sharply declined..... Wow, a perfectly succinct account of DC's present warmongering madness:

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw140831.html

As summed up by a Vox.com writer: "The absurdity runs deep." America uses American military equipment to bomb American military equipment that ISIS captured (from inept Iraqi soldiers, inept in part since America disbanded Iraq's professional military in 2003). America's Kurdish allies, fighting ISIS, use inferior Russian weapons they captured in the 1980s. ISIS has a so-far-safer haven in Syria because America declined to arm moderate Syrian rebels, largely out of fear that radicals like the future ISIS would capture weapons America provided. "So now (America is) bombing the guns that (it) didn't mean to give ISIS because (America) didn't give guns to their enemies because then ISIS might get guns." [Vox.com, 8-8-2014]

I keep telling everybody that "weird news" sites are among the best for general news, but nobody listens.

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