'[I] did more loops than I could count': Masked roommate racks up hundreds of dollars in red light camera fines

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 16, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

This is genius. One guy shared the way they got back at a thieving roommate — and their methods are certainly food for thought. 

Roommate relationships can make or break your living situation. If you decide to live with someone responsible and clean, you'll probably get along just fine. But of course, you don't really know what it's like to live with someone until the moving vans are pulling away from your house, and your roommate is setting the stove on fire with their dinner. You just have to hope that they'll be a good person to live with. If you can find a roommate who's also your friend, that's the best case scenario. 

This person, u/Redditous-Randomous, shared that their roommate was their friend throughout college. Then, the OP caught their roommate stealing, and was "so betrayed." If you're living with someone, you only have so many options to protect your belongings. If you can't even trust your roommates to not steal from you, that's a living arrangement that is no longer viable. So this dude decided to burn that bridge in a hilariously odd way. 

Check out the entire story below — it's a short read, and the OP answered questions in the comments, adding more context to the tale. Next up, these teachers taught a few smartie pants students who were so pretentious that they thought they didn't need to learn anything new. 

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    Rectangle - Got my sty room mate hundreds of red light tickets
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    Font - Back in the early 2000s I was in college. I had a roommate that was like my best friend - until I caught him stealing from me and then pieced together that he was behind previously undetermined
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    Font - disappearances of items in the apartment over the years. I felt so betrayed and the evidence was iron clad. I confronted him about it. He lied about it. I decided to move out. In my last week there I
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    Font - got a brilliant idea. He left his keys on a hook by the door. I had a ski mask. There was an intersection less than a mile from our house with red light cameras in every direction. I started taking the car
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    Font - out in the wee hours of the morning and just doing big donut loops in this intersection. It felt like I was surrounded by paparazzi there were so many flashes going off. I did this at least 5 different
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    Font - nights and did more loops than I could count. I had moved out before any of the tickets could have arrived but I heard about them from the third guy who we lived with.
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    Font - D1133 Those are easy to get out of if they can't see your face clearly. You probably cost him time however. ↑ 1.7k Reply Share Redditous-Randomous OP. Yeah I'm sure he didn't have to pay. But I'm also sure he had to at least go to the court house. And this was at a time when the process re red light camera tickets in this particular city was a nightmare. It was well known to be a giant mess and really hard to get a hearing about them.
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    Font - scarletantonia27. This has me cracking up! Just picturing someone donning a ski mask ripping f ng donuts through an intersection with the lights flashing is such a lovely thing to imagine hahahaha thank you for this
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    Font - stualpyo "Roxanne, you have to run that light tonight. Those days are over, the days are over, of you and your roomies petty fight" 310 Reply Share Redditous-Randomous OP Hahaha - we'll played.
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    Font - Rich_Sell_9888 Where I'm from,only four times would cost you your licence and a couple of thousand dollars to boot.I doubt the ski mask would get him off unless he could tell who it was.If that worked every hoon would wear a mask.
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    Font - Redditous-Randomous OP I'm not going to say what state it was, but I will say that it's a state that requires the state proving it was you who was the driver. And yes, the ticket goes to the registered owner but the owner can go to court to fight it. The burden of proof is on the state. The issue more was that it was new in the state and being contested so the process was really messy, especially in that city.
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    Font - Now that I think about it... I'm pretty sure his dad was the registered owner lol!!!!
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    Font - theharderhand. Did you? The triggers for the flashes are before the crossing basically more or less parallel with the lamps. So to trigger extra photos you would have to have passed that lamps again and again. Donuts on the intersection wouldn't trigger further photos. Each trigger also triggers two pics. One at the moment is passing the trigger and one some milliseconds later to see if someone just rolled the trigger or really went past the intersection.
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    Font - problemlow These setups will work differently in different places
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    Font - dsdvbguutres. What's the plan if 5-0 pulls you over? "No officer, this is just a misunderstanding. Let me explain. I stole this car, and impersonating its owner, see?"
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    Font - SerDarthNick Dang, what did he steal? I'd guess you committed more crimes than he did by stealing his car. I'd never commit a felony over some stolen cds or something. 5 Reply Share Redditous-Randomous OP. Now as a father and mature? adult, this sounds completely insane. I would never do this now. Way too big of a risk. But my 20 something brain felt differently.
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    Font - Gosu_LiPOS Please don't enact your petty personal revenge on public roads by "pretending" to drive recklessly. Darwin will award you soon enough, try to keep innocent people out of harms way when you do get it.
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    Font - WarmasterCain55. Highly illegal and he'll probably be able to fight it in court
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    Font - futurefirestorm What an ingenious revenge plot. Nice.
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