Photo finish traffic violations

Those of you who are in South Africa know about the camera speed traps. For those of you who are not South African, we have multiple sites along most roads where our esteemed Traffic enforcement staff hide behind bushes, and monitor and photograph speeding traffic. It does bugger all to slow people down, or reduce accident rates, but it's a fantastic revenue generating mechanism for the local government body!
However, it seems that greed has now stepped into the picture. To facilitate payment of fines, the Joburg Metropole has put up a web site, where you can go and register and then see what fines you have outstanding for their area.

https://www.payfine.co.za/Default.aspx

Saturday morning thiss guy turns up at the gate at home, and issues me with a summons for an outstanding / unpaid fine. So I decide to go online, have a look at what I owe, and pay them up. My motivation for this is the fact that the Metro now also has random roadblocks, where they can pull you off the road, check online if you have any outstanding fines / summonses, and if so, will arrest you there and then, take you to the nearest police station (after keeping you locked up in the back of their van till they have a full load), and then force you to pay up / appear before a magistrate and make you pay up. The biggest fear is having to spend the night in a cell. The chances of being sodomised / beaten up / killed are probably better then 80%!
So, I go online, I have 11 fines outstanding. I open each in a separate link, and then browse through them to check that they are in fact my cars(s) (Yup, the Princess gets a couple). And what do I find?
Of the 11, 6 are of one picture, 3 of another 2 of another, and the Princess's 2 are also of the same picture!!!

So, not happy with raking in millions (yup, it's measured in millions) of Rands every month, they are now fraudulently manipulating the results of photos to make more money out of one incident. Which means that even the original offense is now questionable, as they could take your photo whilst traveling at 40km/h in a 80 zone, and manipulate the results any way they choose!!!!!!!

So, I sent them an email, and The Citizen newspaper, The DA (biggest opposition party) has a link on their site for reporting fraud / corruption, they got an email, as did one of the presenters on 702.
When I'm finished here, I'm sending a copy of this to the producers of Carte Blanche!!!

I have hidden the number plate and personal details, but here are some examples.....



One of 6... 13 Dec.2007. Beyers Naude . Princess ave. 73kn/h
















Two of 6.... 11 Jan. 2008. John Voster south of dale lace, 74km/h














Three of 6.... 03 Jan 2008. Ontdekkers at Abbot, 81km/h















You can see it's the same picture, different dates, times, streets even, and different speeds!

You have been warned. Check your fines online, verify the fraud, and take it up. I'm chattinng to my lawyer. I want to sue these bastards for fraud and corruption, and even try and get photo finish fining banned!!!!

Salagatle!