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InvisibleOneMoreRobot3021
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Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work.
    #5528820 - 04/18/06 10:12 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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LONGMONT, Colorado (AP) -- A man who said he bought a device that allowed him to change stop lights from red to green received a $50 ticket for suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.

Jason Niccum of Longmont, Colorado, said the device, which he bought on eBay for $100, helped him cut his time driving to work.

"I guess in the two years I had it, that thing paid for itself," he told the Daily Times-Call on Wednesday.

Niccum was issued a citation March 29 after police said they found him using a strobe-like device to change traffic signals. Police confiscated the device.

"I'm always running late," police quoted Niccum as saying in an incident report.

The device, called an Opticon, is similar to what firefighters use to change lights when they respond to emergencies. It emits an infrared pulse that receivers on the traffic lights pick up.

Niccum was cited after city traffic engineers who noticed repeated traffic light disruptions at certain intersections spotted a white Ford pickup passing by whenever the patterns were disrupted.

City traffic engineer Joe Olson said engineers plan to update the city's Opticon system this year to block unauthorized light-changing signals.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5528826 - 04/18/06 10:14 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

haha thats awesome. I gotta get me one of those.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5528831 - 04/18/06 10:17 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Opticon searching now.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: Cowgold]
    #5528836 - 04/18/06 10:18 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)



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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: Cowgold]
    #5528848 - 04/18/06 10:21 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I remember long ago people saying if you flash your highbeams at the right angle it would change the traffic light, but it never seemed to work, I guess it has to be an infrared flash.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5528853 - 04/18/06 10:23 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Only $50? That's great.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: daimyo]
    #5528854 - 04/18/06 10:24 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Great, I've created a flock of monsters - a bunch of stoners changing traffic lights at their whim.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5528877 - 04/18/06 10:32 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

Ebay said:
This listing (#9511113157) has been removed or is no longer available. Please make sure you entered the right item number.




no more opticon on ebay


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5528888 - 04/18/06 10:36 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Haha. Sweet. He got away with it for two years.  :grin:


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: PurpleKush]
    #5528894 - 04/18/06 10:38 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

WTF? that was quick...


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: JacquesCousteau]
    #5528896 - 04/18/06 10:39 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

funny, I've had this idea for a while now, just never got around to it.

I thought the lights had to be relatively new to have the sensors to allow this though...


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...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: badchad]
    #5528901 - 04/18/06 10:41 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

They are still online somewhere for sale..

I am definetely going to look into this :grin:


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: badchad]
    #5528902 - 04/18/06 10:41 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I want one


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5528904 - 04/18/06 10:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Wow, I've never heard of those things. :shocked:
Amazing that more people haven't caused trouble with them.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: eris]
    #5529029 - 04/18/06 11:25 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

On certain lights it is just as easy to flash your high beams to get it to change.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. *DELETED* [Re: Octavius]
    #5529308 - 04/18/06 12:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5529639 - 04/18/06 01:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Wow nice that's in Bongmont? Wonder if I can go get his Opticon for cheap at a police auction hehe.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5529738 - 04/18/06 02:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

It's called an MIRT light changer, you can build one for pretty cheap. I didn't know you could buy premade ones. I was gonna build one until I found out it had a penalty of $250,000 and was a fed charge, after I learned that I quickly gave up all ideas of mirt's and washed my brain of them.


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Re: Lazy Bastard manipulates traffic lights so he isn't late to work. [Re: Ythan]
    #5530124 - 04/18/06 04:27 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Longmont sucks.


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