{"id":98,"date":"2005-07-20T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-12-23T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T04:46:47","slug":"how-google-maps-got-me-out-of-a-traffic-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/how-google-maps-got-me-out-of-a-traffic-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Google <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3755154.stm\" target=\"_blank\">saved the life of a hostage<\/a> in Iraq, people continue to find new ways to make the most out of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/google_ticket.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"157\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Google Map helps fight traffic tickets\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lifehacker reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A New York City driver arguing a traffic ticket in court used Google Maps to get out of paying the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a weak Wifi signal in the courtroom, he was able to prove the street in question was a two way street (not what the officer claimed) and the Judge dismissed the ticket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original article can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/index.php\/news\/article\/google_maps_helps_fight_traffic_tickets_07160942\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after Google saved the life of a hostage in Iraq, people continue to find new ways to make the most out of it. Lifehacker reported: A New York City driver arguing a traffic ticket in court used Google Maps to get out of paying the ticket. Thanks to a weak Wifi signal in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/how-google-maps-got-me-out-of-a-traffic-ticket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}