Ain't Nobody Watchin'…

Hard to believe, but reports say that Minneapolis’s new camera cops have snapped photos of nearly 2,000 runners of red lights. This fact reminds us that our favorite tune Paul Westerberg ever screamed is “Run It,” but it also reminds us that maybe we’re not quite the “nation of laws” we thought we were… or punk rock has gone way too mainstream.

We were just saying yesterday that we noticed one of these new cameras installed somewheres between the old Honeywell campus and the Swedish Institute, probably on 26th round about Park Avenue, and the first idea that popped into our head was what a great target that would make for a paintball gun.

It also reminds us of one of the Ethicist’s more memorable pronuncements in recent months—that there is something deeply depressing about the thought of a man in his car at an abandoned intersection deep in the quiet hours, waiting for the affirmation of a single lightbulb.

Has anyone else noticed an upswing in the public nuisance of revenue-generating tickets as the fiscal year apparently draws to an end for the MPD?


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