Watch out for those traffic cameras!

CAMERA FINES

4 weeks, 10,000 traffic tickets

Heath officials say they didn't expect such a windfall

BY JOSH JARMAN  THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

More than 10,000 violations had been recorded by Heath traffic cameras through Tuesday. At $100 apiece, that would net the city a little more than $830,000 after paying the vendor its share.

In four weeks, the cameras will have generated an amount equivalent to roughly 12 percent of the Licking County community's annual budget -- and a lot of anger....