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Revenge against the speed cameras: U.S. man buys police department's website - and uses it to campaign against CCTV

London Daily Mail
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It's poetic justice for the 21st century.

A U.S. man is exacting revenge against a local police department that issued him a speeding ticket - by buying their domain name from under the city's nose.

Now Brian McCrary is using the website www.bluffcitypd.com to campaign against speed cameras in the Tennessee city - where they have caused something of a local outcry since they were installed earlier this year.

'It's kind of surprising that they'd just let it lapse like that,' Mr McCrary - who was caught doing 56mph in a 45mph zone and fined $90 - told reporters.

'I figured they would be aware [it was about to expire] and renew it on their own.'
The site has logged about 1,200 unique visitors since Mr McCrary bought it from website hosting company Go Daddy at the end of May.

At the time he had gone on to the website after receiving the $90 speeding ticket in the mail.

But when he logged on, he saw that the site itself had been replaced by a message from Go Daddy warning that the domain has expired and will be deleted or resold within days.

He sat back and waited. When the 42-day limit had expired, he swooped in and bought the domain for $80.

Go Daddy allows for people to purchase domain names on a subscription basis for a year, the Bristol Herald Courier reported.

The person who buys the name can do whatever they like with it for the year. When the year is up, however, the website company regains control of the domain.

They then have the option of cancelling it or of selling it on to someone else.
Go Daddy sends the subscribers to its 41million domains an email 90 days before the expiration date warning them that they must renew their subscription.

It then sends multiple reminders in the days leading up to the expiration date.
But, admitted Bluff City police chief David Nelson, renewing the domain 'just slipped my mind'.

Unfamiliar with computers, he had put another officer in charge of the website - an officer who had been on sick leave for several months.

'It's just one of those things that happen,' the police chief said, adding that he has spoken to officials about it.

Mr McCrary has not heard from officials - but he is hearing from people who have gone on the website, which took him 15 minutes to put together, and been surprised at its new content.

The Bluff City speed cameras have been causing something of an outcry in the local area since they were installed on January 1.

The camera issued 1,662 citations for speeding during its first six weeks on the job, according to an investigation conducted by the Bristol Herald Courier.

Each one of the citations comes with a $90 speeding ticket that Bluff City splits with American Traffic Solutions, an Arizona company that operates the speed camera and dozens of others like it across the U.S.

'Most of the people think it’s a speed trap,' Mr McCary said of the feedback he’s received from the website.

'In my opinion, it looks like this camera thing will come to an end.'
And what recourse do the police have?

The chief says he has now reached the point where he can laugh about the situation.
He has also learned his lesson - and is now working with a different company to host the department's website.

The department will have more control than it did with Go Daddy, he said - and the website itself will be bigger and better than before.

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