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Imagine receiving a traffic ticket in the mail because you were speeding down a Russian road in Kursk with a Ukrainian attack drone on your tail. That's the reality facing some Russians living near the front lines after Ukraine's surprise seizure of Russian territory in Kursk Oblast. And they're complaining about it on Telegram.
Rob Lee, a well-known analyst of the Ukraine/Russia war, comments on X that "traffic cameras are still operating in Kursk, and people are receiving speeding fines when trying to outrun FPVs [first-person-view attack drones]. Some have resorted to covering their license plates but the traffic police force them to remove them."
Volunteers and military volunteers who arrived in the Kursk region are asking the traffic police not to fine them for speeding when they are escaping from the drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Several people who are near the combat zone told Mash about this. Cameras are still recording violations in the border area, and when people try to escape from the drones, they receive letters of happiness [tickets]. One of the well-known military activists was charged 9k [rubles, apparently—about US$100] in just one day. He accelerated on a highway that is attacked almost every hour by enemy FPV drones. Some cover their license plates, but the traffic police stop them and demand that they remove the stickers.
Mash claims that the traffic police are sympathetic and that given the drone situation, "speeding can be considered as committed in a state of extreme necessity." But those who receive a speeding ticket will have to challenge it in court on these grounds.
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 04, @08:55PM (1 child)
Seems like a Happy Face sticker on the traffic cam lens would take care of the issue...
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @12:46AM
In Soviet Russia, speeding tickets divert your news ... away from the war they started.
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 04, @09:41PM (6 children)
In the middle of a war, people are getting speeding tickets? Everyone has an AK or similar. Why are those cameras still operational? Pew-pew, no more camera!
On the other hand, I suppose the ticket is something to laugh about with your mates.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04, @11:13PM (3 children)
perhaps they take gun safety a lot more seriously than you do.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04, @11:49PM (2 children)
And, perhaps you're a clown. What's the closest you have ever been to a battle ground?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @12:23AM
(Score: 5, Informative) by Revek on Thursday September 05, @03:23AM
We really need a butthurt mod
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Opyros on Thursday September 05, @01:20AM
Ah, but it isn’t a war—it’s a “special military operation”! /s
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday September 05, @02:30AM
Believe it or not, most countries don't have citizens who are routinely armed to the teeth.
This is Russia. I suspect if someone did that, they'd be tried for treason - for disturbing normal life in a time of emergency or something - and sent to whatever the Gulag is called nowadays for years.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by zesam on Wednesday September 04, @11:30PM (1 child)
Changing the rules would be admitting something unplanned is going on there. IMO, The Russian government wants to convince its domestic audience the region is still under control, regardless how ugly the situation is.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @06:10AM
I learned during the COVID days that neither Governments, the Medical-Pharmaceutical Complex, nor Mass Media are trustworthy.
All have sold themselves to the pursuit of unearned largesse.
I can still trust my old doctor who is still private and not beholden to a healthcare network..but not everyone has an old experienced doctor in the family.
Apparently, the entire healthcare industry has a vested interest in marketing patent medicine.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sneftel on Thursday September 05, @01:11AM (4 children)
Let us be completely honest: virtually nobody is going to actually find themselves in this situation. An otherwise-law-abiding driver who sees a military drone in their rear view mirror, and is able to successfully evade it through the clever tactic of driving really fast, and just happens to do so past a traffic camera? I would almost believe that this happened to a single driver at some point in history. Almost. The idea that there’s an epidemic of it is utterly unbelievable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @01:26AM (3 children)
Thus earlier comments that this whole story is a classic smoke screen designed to divert your attention.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by sneftel on Thursday September 05, @01:46AM (2 children)
Mnyeah, no, that doesn’t seem likely either. I think the explanation is far less involved: a new excuse for speeding, seized upon by a nation of famously speed-hungry drivers.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday September 05, @02:08AM (1 child)
Where's my dashcam footage of the incoming drone?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05, @02:33AM
Query https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/faq/images-media [perplexity.ai]
Please generate a video clip of a military drone outside the back window of my car, in the format used by my dash cam.