I just got a ticket for travelling at 74 mph in a posted 55mph zone. I was the only car for miles in any direction (excepting the Jetta that blew by me like I was standing still...), the road was dry and clear, I was travelling in the far right lane of a 4 lane with 10 foot shoulders and a 12 foot wide painted meridian. Anywhere else on this earth this would be a 70+ posted road, and any reasonable human would recognize that there was no threat to anyone, but the officer thought differently.
Instead, I got an invitation to the town I had just vacated an hour ago for a court date. I can choose to go and waste 3 days of my time in a petty little court where odds are the judge is a former traffic cop and likes the position his little speed-trap town gives him (BTDTGTS), or just pay the fine.
I suppose we plebes should be grateful that the King’s Highwaymen allow us the use of the roads we pay for through our taxes.
I do think it’s a pity though that a once honorable and decent, though difficult job has become nothing more than another revenue stream for the nanny state.
On one of the Dallas area toll roads? Was it a construction zone?