D&P Highlight: Third party policing: Are we okay this?

0:00You're listening to the Dana N. Parks podcast on KMBZ. The Missouri lottery. It's from Fox four. The Missouri lottery is looking for one lucky winner who is sitting on an unclaimed prize of $6.6 million. Where was it sold? It was sold to Missouri. And if you purchase a ticket over the weekend at a Kansas City gas station, that mysterious winner could be you on Saturday. Okay. An unknown person walked into the quick trip at 106 in state line. Oh. And purchased a Missouri millions ticket that made them an instant millionaire, but they don't know that yet. Apparently, according to the unclaimed prizes page on the Missouri lottery website, the individual secured the $6.6 million jackpot with the following winning numbers. Get your tickets out. Seven, 11, 24, 25, 31 and 37.

1:02The mysterious winner has until the end of February of next year to claim their prize otherwise, they will lose the jackpot entirely. And the earnings will go towards Missouri's education fund. Very funny. Ha, ha, I get the joke. I'm not saying that that might be a Johnny's quick trip, but that's a quick trip. Would he buy a, what was his? Mo millions. Mo millions ticket. Don't know trying to think what we were doing on Saturday. Well, he wasn't working so that he wouldn't have gone down to that quick trip. Probably not. You're probably golfing. What's funny about these stories when you figure out there's a winner sort of locally, even beyond locally, if they say like winning ticket was sold in Nevada, I always do that like, okay, was I in Nevada? I don't think I was in Nevada. Don't we all do that? No, is it possible to ask? We were at one of these places. By the way, with the $6.6 million after the federal withholding of 24% and Missouri state withholding of 4%, the check would be worth $4.7 million.

2:02Sold. I frequent that QT and I never buy lottery tickets. Oh, man. You can't wait if you don't play. Does anybody buy Mo millions? Not a lot of people. Speak. That's why the jackpot's only $6.6 million. Speaking of tickets and we're not going to make this a topic, but Sam had a theory yesterday and he was right. If you missed the, I think, 3 o'clock hour yesterday, a car that I happened to own that I was not driving in a state where I do not live was photographed by a computer apparently speeding on the day that my daughters arrived on the East Coast, okay? And a lot of you reached out yesterday and said, if you don't pay this, it'll go to collections. They said, your insurance is going to go up. So last night I went home, Scott. I wrote a letter to one of the lawmakers in that town and said, look, this is not how we do business in Kansas City. I don't understand why this is how you do business there.

3:04The back of the ticket says you cannot go to the police department to handle this. And you cannot go to city hall and I thought, man, if you're a taxpayer and you get a ticket in your town and then the city tries to tell you a straight face, do not show up here to give us your money or discuss this. I'd be angry, right? Can you imagine if you got a ticket in Shawnee? And they said, pay it. You have no other option and don't come here. I don't speed in Shawnee. I looked a little closer. No one does. The ticket last night because I'm not going to pay it. I'm going to fight it because I've never set foot in the area where this happened. Well, your car has. And in the tiny, tiny print, tiny, tiny print, it says this violation is not a moving violation. No points will be assessed for the violation and it will not appear on your driving record. And that's on because if I'm caught speeding, it most certainly is a police

4:09matter. I would assume it goes against my driving record if you're not allowed to double it, which is also sort of a scam. So I started thinking, Sam, why would this not be a moving violation? It looks like in the photograph that the computer sent me that the car is in fact moving. The fact it tells you that the car was going 11 over the speed limit. Would you like to know why it is not a moving violation? Please explain it to me. And I think I found the paragraph that addresses this. Now, answer is not from the police department at all. Pretend like you're writing for the USA today. The answer is that the red light cameras were deemed unconstitutional. Something about taxation without representation. Yeah. Something about the right to confront your accuser. There's like three or four different amendments that violates. Yeah. So the cities all over the country, including I think they're back in Kansas City in a couple of spots said, well, it's not a police matter. So it's not the government doing it. Yeah. What we're going to do is we're going to hire a third-party company to find you,

5:12and then that company is going to take that fine and give it to us. You guys, it's a money grab. But that, that, that. This is not from the city where this and by the way, I want to be clear, my daughter did not run a red light. She was speeding according to a computer. If in fact, she was the one behind the wheel, which I don't even know. I don't know. It could have been her sister, Scott. I don't know who was driving. I think I know who could have been stolen. Who knows? It sure looks like an official police ticket, doesn't it? It says notice of violation. What is the violation? It's speeding. So, Lutely looks like a ticket. How has this not been challenged? How is this not illegal? Now, by the way, you can go online and give us your debit or credit card. That does include a state authorized $15 processing fee. So, what are you going to do when they turn you over to collections? You're just going to eat the bad credit report? I haven't decided. I have to pay it. You have to pay it.

6:13I'm so angry because there's even a little seal they've taken the city's seal and put the seal up top. Again, this has nothing to do with the police department or the city. It's a money grab. I read somewhere they made $3 million in one month on these speed computer cameras, delivered through again some private third party company, which is why you can't go into city hall or the police department and say, I don't understand what this is. They don't want you showing up there because they're not in charge of any of it. Yes, they are. We need one person with millions of dollars to be affected by this that will fight it all the way up to the Supreme Court again so that then they can say, hey guys, we already told you once knock it off. But nobody's going to do that because it's cheaper to pay the $60 ticket or whatever the ticket costs. What you need to find is some sort of civil liberties group. Oh, yeah. That has deep pockets that is willing to do this almost in a class action sort of way.

7:15Here's funny. Listen to this. Questions. If you have questions, please contact customer service. And then there's a 1-800 number attached. I guarantee you I haven't called that customer service number is going to go directly to a call center. Absolutely. If this were happening here, dare I say, there would be riots in the streets. There would be packed city council meetings. Yes, of course, and there should be. It is happening here. You want to take my money. But there's I can't call a local county prosecutor. I can't. And by the way, they do allow a few exceptions for speeding. If you are crowning with child on the way to labor and delivery and you can prove it. If you had your car stolen and you can prove it, you can request a hearing. Other than that, city doesn't want to deal with it. Pay the fine and go away. That that can September of 2025, about a year ago, the city paid $2 million to a third party company to reinstall red light and

8:16speed cameras throughout the city, which city? Kansas City. I'm not okay with this. Again, not okay to speed. If in fact she was behind the wheel of that car, she shouldn't have been speeding. She knows now she feels terrible. Scott, you know what she said? She was mom. I'm so worried. This happened on the first day I got into town. There's more kind of it happened to her roommates. Because now the kids are all talking about it. She said, we just I didn't know. I didn't mean to speed, but she said, now I am like stressed out driving. I'm not ever going to speed. Was there another one in the mailbox last night? There wasn't one last night, but there's about a three week lag. Yep, three weeks. By the way, the ACLU is the organization that fought it and took it to this Supreme Court last time. So they're going to have to do it again and lost. No, they won. They won. That's why they pulled all the cameras out of all the cities across the country and then they found a workaround 913 586 777 985 866 777 985 if you miss a segment, be sure to check out the Dana Parks podcast. You can follow us on Apple podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your

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