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Wednesday
Sep092009

Wearing A Monkey Mask Will Get You Out Of Tickets

Pesky speed camera tickets getting you down? Just toss on a monkey mask like this Arizona driver and you can do whatever you want. Dave Vontesmar, the owner of the car pictured above, has been served with 37 speeding tickets in the mail. He claims that it's not him in the photos, and he therefore doesn't have to pay the fines, which could exceed $3,700.

"Not one of them there is a picture where you can identify the driver," said Dave Vontesmar, a flight attendant who works at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. "The ball's in their court. I sent back all these ones I got with a copy of my driver's license and said, 'It's not me. I'm not paying them.' "

"We watched him four different times put the monkey mask on and put the giraffe-style mask on," Officer Dave Porter told AZcentral.com. "Based on surveillance, we were positive that Vontesmar was the driver."

"It's obviously a revenue grab," he said of the new photo-enforcement program. "They're required by law to ID the driver of the vehicle. If they can't identify the driver or the vehicle by the picture, what are they doing to identify the driver?"

Cheers to you Dave! You've got some balls.

via Geekologie

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