Beep at Speed Cameras

I started Beeping when I pass a speed camera.  Not an angry Lean on the Horn Trumpet or even a full blown Honk, but a little Beep.

I started doing it out of frustration in the hope everyone else would start doing it and the residents would insist the city remove them.  But it turns out to serve as a learning tool and reminder where the cameras are. A little Beep adds a physical action to the mental note of where the camera is.  I've been doing much better avoiding camera tickets.  And the beep makes it fun going past cameras.  It is now a little game.  It's one type of challenge when I am following a line of cars going slow and another challenge when I am the leader of the pack... :)

I do have to admit that some speed cameras make sense - like the one when entering the town of Damascus that gets people to slow at the town edge or the ones in front of schools.  But others, especially the portable ones seem like speed traps set up to generate $$.  Damascus put a portable camera at the extreme border of the town, right were the speed changes from 40 to 30 next to a wooded stretch.  Being a portable camera box it is small and unobtrusive.  An outright speed trap.

I know, technically I should drive the speed limit, but how many people do?  Big brother is watching and I can't afford repeated $40 tolls on my commute.  I respect the ones by schools and really key locations, but the ones on open clear roads that invite you to speed piss me off.  I've been tempted to throw things at them, even fantasized about getting a BB gun to shoot at them.  A Beep relieves my anger and frustration but is not a physical destruction of property.  And it reminds me, slow down here.