French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines

horza writes "The city of Nice, France is rolling out 626 CCTV cameras throughout town, giving it one of the highest levels of surveillance in the world (1.8 cameras per 1000 inhabitants). The usual rhetoric was given — that they will be used solely for reducing violent crime — but the city will now begin sending out parking tickets solely based on the CCTV video evidence."

Not so Nice

[Anonymous Coward]

Not so Nice after all...

Re:Not so Nice

[syousef]

Not so Nice after all...

I hear they're thinking of renaming the city Merde.

Re:Not so Nice

[Anonymous Coward]

Vous savez, je sais que cette mouton merde n'existe pas. Je sais que lorsque je l'ai mis dans ma bouche, la Matrice dit mon cerveau qu'il est juteux et délicieux. Après neuf ans, savez-vous ce que je me suis rendu compte? L'ignorance est une bénédiction. Mais le plus drôle, c'est que je ne suis même pas dans la Matrice! Il a été la réalité! J'ai vraiment mangèrent du mouton merde!

Re:Not so Nice

[teh kurisu]

Oh the irony.

Re:Not so Nice

[CGordy]

Exactly. You can't wear a burqa in public, but in your own home? Absolutely.

Fines will be sent out as soon as they identify the culprits.

Re:I think this will result in fewer tickets

[Swanktastic]

This is brilliant. It's like the Laffer Curve of parking ticket enforcement...

Re:Laser Pointers!

[swarsron]

so if you ruin one line like the laser in the video, they only have several hundred left to identify you ...

Re:The problem is not the parking tickets...

[tehcyder]

You forgot the "boiling a frog" analogy that is traditionally inserted by lunatic libertarians at this point, just before explaining how they will shoot the next postman they see in order to prevent socialism destroying America.

Re:Not so Nice

[murdocj]

A better analogy would be to say every citizen now has to have a personal overseer follow them 24/7 and observe all their movements and actions within public spaces

This is exactly why I hate pair programming.

Re:Revenue Collection

[Eunuchswear]

What's to like?

An available pool of fresh organs for transplantation

Re:Not so Nice

[syousef]

My French is a little rusty and I'm lazy so I threw it into Babel Fish because I knew I'd get a laugh. I wasn't disappointed:

"You know, I know that this sheep shit n' do not exist. I know that when I l' put in my mouth, the Matrix says my brain qu' it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I realised? L' ignorance is a blessing. But funniest, c' how I am not even in the Matrix! It was reality! J' really have ate sheep shit!"

Re:Not so Nice

[kalirion]

I prefer the google translated version:

"You know, I know this is no sheep shit. I know that when I put in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I realized? Ignorance is bliss. But the funny thing is that I'm not even in the Matrix! It was true! I really ate sheep shit!"