Okay, I have sent off my check for $150 in order to put this matter to rest and to be able to discuss it in print. But I've left with many salient questions. For instance, how do you reduce crime by punishing people who never committed one? How does citing an innocent vehicle owner stop the next intentional, law-be-damned red-light runner? And isn't it at least a bit paradoxical that the District government's concern for privacy removed the one way I could have extricated myself from being punished for something I didn't do?