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Originally Posted by iHenry
Just curious if anyone has had any experience with taking people to court who do this intentionally? I've been thinking about it because I'm getting tired of it and the local police don't seem to care much when they do see it.
Currently, our state laws prohibit it. My main problem is I cycle during the summer months and have had this happen a few times. At times, it's caused my breathing problems to temporarily worsen and I don't carry my inhaler when cycling. I've also had this happen when driving my Subaru.
Since I already have a camera on my bike and in my car, I'm thinking about using that to file charges against offenders. I hear this happens a lot to people driving electric and hybrid cars.
Thanks in advance.
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No idea what law enforcement looks like in your city, but in places like PDX they don’t enforce burning buildings, stealing cat converters, camping on sidewalks, driving with expired plates… excessive exhaust soot would be so far down the list of things there.
The other challenge you’d face is IDing the driver. It’s one thing to match a vehicle to an owner, and another to ID the person doing the infraction. All that said, I give it little chance of going anywhere except to be logged in a book of complaints nobody will review.