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1. Is the security camera that keeps an eye on us citizens, mainly so we don't take a baseball bat or double-barrelled shotgun to the photo-radar camera. 2. Is the device that emergency vehicles trigger and cause the traffic signals facing the cross street to instantly change to red allowing the ambulance, fire-engine or police vehicle to go wailing through the intersection on it's way to wake me up for the fifth time in any one evening. 3. Developed by the French military, this device is able to detect the magnetic strips branded into the backs of credit and debit cards inside wallets or purses and then, somehow (I don't understand the science behind it) momentarily morph these cards into ferrous metals, after which the powerful magnet (in what appears to be an ordinary high pressure sodium street light "3") pulses, ripping the cards, and sometimes the entire purse or wallet, from the vehicle either through an open sunroof or window, to then disappear as quickly as a summer mirage into the hungry fixture above. Apparently, the Scottsdale City Council has given up all pretenses of gathering revenue via sales taxes, business licenses, traffic, photo radar and parking tickets, and has just begun stealing it right out of our pockets.
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