[SoCal Pubbie]

"getting stopped for speeding, hauled off to some magistrate's house and given the choice of paying an exhorbitant amount on the spot or coming back four weeks later for a trial."

It happened to me in Texas in 1981, though it wasn't even for speeding. I gave the cop the cash right in his squad car.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Happened to my sister when we lived in Monroe, NC. (Land of Jesse Helms)

I had given birth to my first baby. She and her boyfriend were on their way to see him....Paid the cop 200.00 on the spot..

Of course, it was 29 years ago.