Least Surprising Thing Ever: Manhattan Speedster Afroduck Arrested
from the told-you dept
Well, that didn't take long. Remember that jackwagon that sped around Manhattan in a mega-illegal time-window of just over twenty-four minutes? Remember how he was all: pssh, you can't identify me! Remember how Ray Kelly decided to declare his own personal war on a man named Afroduck, proving that reality is way more insane than anything you can think of from Adult Swim?
Yeah, he got busted, and it only took a day or so.
ABC 7 News was on hand to see Afroduck get taken into custody early this morning at the 25th Precinct in East Harlem. They report that [Christopher Adam] Tang is 30 years old. He gives no comment to the reporters, and he smiles.The report goes on to say that no details were given on how they found Tang or tied him to the dash cam video he uploaded, but when Ray Kelly boasted that they have license plate cameras for that kind of thing, he wasn't lying. Commenters in the original piece noted that the fact Tang wasn't pulled over as he went about his speed run seemed like a complete lack of police presence, but there's no shortage of license plate and traffic cams.
It will be interesting to see how an arrest based so heavily on evidence from this kind of technology, assuming we don't learn of some other method for the identification of Tang, is used in court. Until then, stop making speed runs in the country's largest city.
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Sure you are responsible for parking tickets on your car, but drivers are responsible for their own behavior while in said car, or so I was led to believe. So, if they can't prove who was driving, how do they convict this guy?
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Now, if the speed cameras show his car going through a particular section of street at X mph and his video shows him at that place and time, now they have a way to put HIM at the place and time of the violation.
Still I don't like them keeping video and data like this (as has been discussed numerous times here) to be able to go back in time and see if you committed a crime that they didn't catch you doing at the time.
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Saying "I did it" under a persona that can be directly linked to yourself, and then saying "It was actually an anonymous friend whom I shall never name, but I just pretended it was me" is not reasonable doubt.
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Wait... what?
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I'll just get this one out of the way...
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Factual issues aren't actually that tough
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Good deal.
I drove a semi for a few years and witnessed countless collisions. I saw everything from people not paying attention, tailgating, showing off, driving while tired, driving intoxicated, speeding, being impatient, and pretty much every bad habit you can think of.
I saw an eight year old girl ran over from a guy sending a text while speeding in stormy weather and it ended up leaving a 4 inch hole in her head, a leg torn completely off, and mangled beyond recognition. It was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life and it still haunts me today.
The rules of the road exist for very good reasons and someone breaking them also ended up almost killing me while I was 5. I was tossed through the windshield almost 120 feet when hit by a speeder doing 80 mph in a 25 mph zone. I should have probably died but by some freak of nature I walked away with minor injuries.
Well okay not freak according to my grandma, she said it was because I was so goddamn hardheaded.
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Idiot
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