Aside from the dreaded congestion pricing that’s plaguing drivers heading into the business district of Manhattan, New York is plagued with camera traps. In New York alone, there are over 2,000 cameras as of January, with 750 being in school zones.

New Yorkers hate cameras—and have gone to great lengths to curb them. License plate covers, rotating license plates, fake license plates, stolen ones, deliberately damaged ones, you name it.

One man was inspired by the efforts of other drivers avoiding toll cameras and decided to try using reflective tape to cover his plate number to stop getting ticketed for speeding.

As he discovered, not all devices actually work

One company, Alite, has been selling “perfectly legal” reflective tape drivers put over a number on their plate to make the number incomplete. It’s transparent so police can’t tell a number is covered, but when a camera tries to take a picture, the product is advertised to obscure the number it’s placed on.

A New Yorker, who had his voice changed and his face covered, admitted to paying $56 for two reflective strips to avoid speeding tickets. He admitted 25 mph is “too slow,” and he “can’t get anywhere at that speed.”

As he drove through a camera trap, he drove through confidently. Then he got a speeding ticket.

“I know a bunch of people that asked me personally, ‘Hey, should we get this, too?’ Just off the top of my head, about four friends asked me, and I said, ‘Dude, it doesn’t work. Just drive slow or don’t drive at all,'” he told CBS.

He was upset speed cameras caught him and didn’t want to slow down

A reporter told him people would likely respond to his frustration with a statement akin to, “Well, maybe you shouldn’t speed past the cameras?”

The man scoffed and defended his stance on speeding, saying those who abide by the speed limit need to get some “common sense.”

“My response to those people would be grow up, become an adult and gain some common sense, and then drive a little bit on your own to see what 25 miles an hour does,” he said. “It’ll increase the time that you need to get any tasks done … and I understand it if they’re doing it in school zones, right? I get that, that’s safety. But they’re doing it everywhere.”

He tried to get a refund for his purchase, but the company never responded.

Viewers couldn’t help but laugh at the man

“Wow, the guy breaking the law telling people to grow up and become an adult,” wrote a viewer.

Another wrote that his arrogance and entitlement caused them physical pain.

“Some people are so stupid, it hurts to watch,” read their comment.

Someone else couldn’t help but notice the contradiction in the man’s statement to his friends about cameras.

“‘Drive slow or don’t drive at all,’ almost like that’s the idea,” they wrote.