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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2523 days ago
The difference between these two scenarios is that the asshole kid throwing rebar is easily detectable and to do it has to be at the location of the crime.

The asshole spoofing traffic data, depending on how the transmitters are set up could potentially do it from a long distance away, and may actually be hard to detect.