Local Improvement ProjectOne year, each member of England's Staffordshire City Council was given £10,000 each to spend on local improvement projects. Robert Marshall spent some of his endowment on the installation of traffic cameras.
Shortly thereafter, one of Marshall's cameras caught a councilor driving 42 miles per hour in a 30 zone. The councilor in question? Robert Marshall of course.
["My experience," he said later, "proves that the cameras are totally indiscriminate and are working properly."]
Marshall, Robert (?- ) British politician
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