Faking It

September 7, 2006 - 8:02 AM by

Israeli drivers are notorious for their impatience and the way they ignore the rules of the road and the speed limit. The Israeli police and other government authorities are notorious for refusing to increase their budgets so that there is real enforcement of traffic laws, and not enough speed traps on the roads and highways. (the two are obviously related.)

So how do you try to get drivers to slow down on the cheap?

Fake speed traps.

A Hebrew web site has uncovered numerous fake cameras planted on roadsides around the country. The One Jerusalem blog magazine is helpfully showing its readers how to distinguish between the real cameras and the fakes.

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The model on the left is real — the Hebrew site points out all of the features that prove it is. The one on the right — as Elaine from Seinfeld would say, “Fake, fake, fake, fake.”

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