A red light camera in Knoxville, Tennessee claimed a white Toyota pickup truck photographed running a red light was actually a silver BMW convertible. . . .
A closer look at the photo showed the optical character recognition software used by the Australian red light camera operator Redflex had mistaken the number “2” on the pickup truck’s license plate for the “3” that appears on the BMW’s plate. Knoxville police insist that each violation is carefully scrutinized by two human beings . . . Neither noticed that the description of a “BMW convertible” on the citation in no way matched the Toyota Tacoma shown in the photo.
“But instead of some public servant reading this and calling me on the phone with a ‘Whoops! We screwed up! Sorry!’ I will have to go downtown and perform my obeisances in an orgy of forelock tugging, curtsying, and groveling, and beg my betters to please let me go about my business unmolested,” Tamara wrote.