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I'm reminded that my city used to have red-light cameras on major intersections. Each year the local newspaper would publish a list of intersections with the most red-light violations, and each year the list was almost identical to the previous year. The newspaper article was always presented as support for the red-light cameras ("Look at all these bad drivers we're catching!"), but in my mind, it was just the opposite. First, if people keep running the same red-lights in the same intersections at the same rate, then red-light cameras as a deterrent isn't working. Second, and most important, why not just fix the god damn intersections so people don't feel the need to run the red-lights? ... But then I remembered this scene from "The Jerk", an old Steve Martin movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBXuuy9xto


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