Get a case of the yips after getting ticketed for entering an intersection a mere five seconds after the light turned red?

What to do?

Call Michael Moore?

Nope, call PhantomPlate Inc., in Harrisburg, Pa.

The same Web that inundates consumers daily with spam has finally come up with a useful bit of information: how to order a can of PhotoBlocker, a spray PhantomPlate says makes you partially invisible and thus immune from tickets for speeding or running red lights.

For $29.99, you can thumb your nose at speed-limit signs and pay no attention to whatever color those traffic lights happen to be even if you aren’t driving a cab.

PhotoBlocker says it makes your license plate invisible to cameras police use to take a picture of your plate and then mail you a ticket.

PhotoBlocker, the company says, coats your plates with a high-gloss reflective substance so all the film records is a radar flash and no numbers.

“The unreadable license plate fools red-light and speed cameras, resulting in the issuance of no traffic summons,” the company boasts.

Just one $29.99 can of PhotoBlocker allows motorists to “fight back and avoid unjust traffic tickets,” the company says, though traveling 60 in a 25-mph zone or entering an intersection five seconds after the light turned red raises the question of the justice of a ticket.

PhantomPlate spokesman Joe Scott said the company has sold more than 10,000 cans of the spray in 2years.

“One can does four plates and it lasts forever,” he said.

For details, he said, you can contact photoblocker.com or phantomplate.com.

We opted, however, to contact Joelle McGinnis, spokeswoman for the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, to offer sympathies for a system that’s now useless thanks to aerosol technology.

“District 15 of the Illinois State Police patrols the tollway. They’ve tried this spray out and found it doesn’t have any effect on our tollway violation cameras,” McGinnis said.

“We can still read the numbers when the spray is used,” said Trooper Doug Whitmore, Illinois State Police spokesman, who added that the Illinois legislature is working on a bill to make any spray that defeats traffic cameras illegal.

Oops.

Spend $29.99 and your plates aren’t invisible?

Guess it is time to call Michael Moore.

Jim Mateja writes for the Chicago Tribune.