{"id":16,"date":"2007-11-28T20:31:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-06-19T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T21:21:20","slug":"traffic-camera-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/traffic-camera-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Camera Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The urban landscape increasingly features traffic cameras. One could argue whether they exist to control driving behavior or to fill city coffers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mwilkie\/115688590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/47\/115688590_725e9c28b2_z.jpg\" alt=\"red-light, green-light, 123. Photo by Mark Wilkie; (CC BY-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, they are not going away. So it&#8217;s not entirely surprising that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knoxville News Sentinel<\/a> reported that a local resident went off the deep end and shot a camera three times from his minivan with a .30-06 caliber deer rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m10!1m8!1m3!1d12908.647874507842!2d-83.923573!3d36.016338!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1631198228908!5m2!1sen!2sus\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident happened here at Broadway and Interstate 640 in Knoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The urban landscape increasingly features traffic cameras. One could argue whether they exist to control driving behavior or to fill city coffers. Either way, they are not going away. 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