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Re: Video speed traps a hoax



On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, snopes wrote:
>                               THE HARTFORD COURANT                      
>                               July 28, 1995 Friday 
> 
>             VIDEO SPEED TRAPS A HIGH-TECH HOAX, STATE POLICE SAY 
> 
>    Video camera speed traps on I-95 Conn. 
>    The warning flashed across the Internet, angering on-line users
> convinced that the state police had installed Big Brother-like cameras
> on the state's highways. 
>    The computer message is simply an urban myth -- and an old one at
> that. It's the high-tech successor to a hoax that has been passed around
> for a decade or more through more conventional means. 

A number of years ago my cousins living in Belgium told me the system
was being used there. Does anyone know if this was also a UL or is it
being used in Europe and serving as the springboard for the US UL?
They also reported ULish stories of photos being sent home and wives
questioning husbands about why they were in a certain town at a certain
time.

Konrad "but Belgium's small, you can get anywhere in 15 min." Vandegaer



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