Anyone ever fight a relight ticket?

[Ti28]

Just got one from Wayne Village from a camera on 59 and Smith Rd.

No warning or anything, just a $100 fine. Fucking kidding me? The light was red for .06 of a second!

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[importcrew]

I thought they were deemed unconstitutional. A lot of the red light cameras by me have been taken down completely. There's still one or two but 90% of the ones that used to be there are now gone.

 

[Ti28]

I thought the same also.....

 

[Shawn1112]

Shit they are all over the city. In the city though 1st one is a warning

 

[Ti28]

I love coming home to a surprise fine off $100! NOT!

 

[importcrew]

This is what I found on AVVO.com (A website where you can ask a lawyer a question).

Red light tickets in Illinois

I live in cook county in Illinois. Last year bunch of lawyers won a case and ton of money was given back to the general public about the red light tickets. Now I got a new one in the mail. I thought the red light cameras were removed and illegal to use. Should I pay it or try to fight?

Answer: They remain in place and the court case doesn’t affect yours.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/red-light-tickets-in-illinois--3366862.html

 

[VenomousDSG]

I love how the mayor of Chicago and people on his staff have received numerous tickets, and they just get thrown out.

I think one year Rahm had something like 56 red light tickets, and not a single one of them was paid. Apparently laws and accountability does not apply to those who put them in place, only us simple folk.

 

[Ti28]

I just watched my video.... Kinda hard to contest that fucker!

 

[Marko]

I love how the mayor of Chicago and people on his staff have received numerous tickets, and they just get thrown out.

I think one year Rahm had something like 56 red light tickets, and not a single one of them was paid. Apparently laws and accountability does not apply to those who put them in place, only us simple folk.

Rahm is a typical Jew

 

[VenomousDSG]

 

[Ti28]

 

[Blood on Blood]

Wipe your dog’s ball sack and ass on the check prior to mailing.

 

[Ti28]

I'm writing "welcome for the donation please send 1099" on the memo.

 

[The Beast]

Wipe your dog’s ball sack and ass on the check prior to mailing.

That will show them who won

 

[Ti28]

It's the thought that counts!

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Ahh, the one at SB 59 and Smith. Not sure why there was the need for one there, but... I got one years ago in WeGo at 59 and 64 in the GTO really early on a Sunday morning. the SW corner turning from EB 64 onto SB 59.

1) They should give you a website where the video of it is, and you can challenge it. Try challenging it.

2) If you challenge and lose, go pay them the $100 in pennies. That's what I did. I went right to the WeGo PD, with my $100 worth of pennies and made them count it out. When the desk clerk (or whoever balked), I argued that it is still legal U.S. currency and that since they wasted my time with a B.S. non moving violation ticket like this, I was gonna get my satisfaction and waste their time watching them count it all out...

 

[Ti28]

Yup!

 

[Shawn1112]

Ahh, the one at SB 59 and Smith. Not sure why there was the need for one there, but... I got one years ago in WeGo at 59 and 64 in the GTO really early on a Sunday morning. the SW corner turning from EB 64 onto SB 59.

1) They should give you a website where the video of it is, and you can challenge it. Try challenging it.

2) If you challenge and lose, go pay them the $100 in pennies. That's what I did. I went right to the WeGo PD, with my $100 worth of pennies and made them count it out. When the desk clerk (or whoever balked), I argued that it is still legal U.S. currency and that since they wasted my time with a B.S. non moving violation ticket like this, I was gonna get my satisfaction and waste their time watching them count it all out...

Iirc someone was arrested for doing that a few years back. Not because of the pennies but because of the big argument it caused or some shit.

 

[Shawn1112]

Found it

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anthony-sevy-pennies-choked_us_5a1f3cd3e4b0392a4ebb0a4b

 

[CMNTMXR57]

A friend got one awhile back (up in EGV or somewhere) and on there it said pennies were not an acceptable form of payment. So they got wise to us assholes.

When I did it, it was probably 10 years or so ago. Yea, the desk clerk and the sergeant there were not pleased. But I stood my ground...

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I got one in Volo at 12/120. My light was red but intersecting traffic had the green arrow to turn left so I just California-stopped it since you know, there wasn’t any fucking traffic coming anyway. You’d think they would add a right arrow during the left arrow but hey, municipality doesn’t want to give up their cash cow.

Wrote “extortion” on the “for” line. I’m not 100% sure the check ever went through.

Good luck fighting it, they have some retired fuck making 6 figures watching all the footage so they can say “an officer witnessed it”.

 

[Outlaw]

Did you go straight or turn right on red? If turning tell them you believed you heard an emergency vehicle approaching from behind so slowed enough to make sure it safe to turn and then proceeded to heed way to the emergency vehicle. Could work for straight too with some creative verbiage

 

[The Beast]

Just pay the ticket u are in a video it's not worth the fight

 

[FESTER665]

They have the cameras at 59 and Irving as well.

I agree, you can watch the video, if they got you, they got you, just pay it and move on.

 

[nytebyte]

Post a link to the video.

Is your face clearly visible in the video? Can it be identified without a reasonable doubt who was driving.

If not, they don't have a leg to stand on. At least that's how I understand the law is supposed to work after studying various cases like this. They need proof that YOU were driving the car.

But this being IL, I wouldn't doubt if they have some provision for ticketing the car instead of the driver, or some other bullshit to get around due process.