Big Brother's Traffic Cam

Cameras, they're everywhere. In an interesting development, it appears that the l'amour of an unfaithful wife was caught driving the cuckold's car through a red light:

One marriage appeared to have ended when a man showed up to dispute a ticket that was mailed to his home, said Mark Escalante, a Hawthorne motorcycle officer who reviews red light violations. The driver turned out to be somebody with whom the man's wife was having an affair, Escalante said.

Interesting statistic: 1,414 tickets in a month, with 200 more on the way. That comes out to $143,646 gross revenue to RedFlex, the contractor that runs the camera, and $80,000 to $96,000 for the city of Hawthorne.

For the record, I don't mind traffic cameras too much, so long as the cameras are used to deter traffic violations, not to catch people in a poorly designed intersection.