A couple of years ago, I was burning through Hollywood on a Saturday at dawn, trying to make it back east from Santa Monica before the traffic got nuts. For some reason I was wearing extremely large Devo sunglasses, the kind you fit over regular eyewear, when I squeezed through an intersection just as the light turned red.
I didn’t know it at the time, but a camera attached to the red light snapped my picture.
Two months later I got a $300 fine and a handsome likeness of myself behind the wheel, those dark glasses making me look like Stevie Wonder. The department must have thought they caught a blind man driving.
With any luck this kind of thing won’t happen to you, but chances that it will just got a lot better. Monday, October 16, the city of Los Angeles announced 22 new red light cameras have been installed in order to catch motorists running red lights. The best defense against a huge ticket might be to keep it mellow yellow and stop running red lights, but hey, this is L.A. All we wanna know is where those pesky cameras are, right?
Here’s a map for your law-breaking convenience