Posted on 10/17/2023 10:02:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff
He was fast and then furious.
A man caught speeding down a Georgia freeway was bewildered when cops slapped him with a $1.4 million ticket last month.
Connor Cato was driving home through Savannah on Sept. 2 when Georgia State Patrol caught him going 90 in a 55-mile-per-hour zone, he admitted to WSAV-TV.
While he expected a hefty fine, Cato was astounded when he was handed the seven-figure charge.
He called the court assuming the fee was a typo but was reportedly told he either had to pay the sum or appear in court.
“‘$1.4 million,’ the lady told me on the phone. I said, ‘This might be a typo’ and she said, ‘No sir, you either pay the amount on the ticket or you come to court on Dec. 21 at 1:30 p.m.’,” he told the local outlet
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Also, how much are court costs?
A jobsworth.
Time to move out of Georgia and never come back.
No sir, the typo is correct. I’m looking at it right here.
must be a smartmatic or dominion ticket machine.
Article says the fine amount is a bug in the ticketing software that no state slug has bothered to fix since 2017.
This amount will not be the fine. The courts have had a large amount of people not showing or not caring if they had to pay or not. So the system is applying a fine to the super speeder if they are grossly over the max allowable speed limit and then giving them the real fine when they get to court. The likely fine in Georgia for speeding is $500 and up to 6 points awarded. But at that speed they could add reckless driving, which is a separate offense, which means up to $1000 and 4 points. But those not near over a million. It’s a scare tactic, not the finished fine.
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Savannah city government spokesman Joshua Peacock told USA TODAY on Monday that Cato's fine was just a placeholder.
"A speeding ticket can only be set by a judge in a court appearance and cannot exceed $1,000 plus state-mandated cost," he said.
While Cato still has to appear in court and is considered a "super speeder," he will not have to pay a $1.4 million fine.
>>A judge will set the real fine — which cannot exceed $1,000, plus state-mandated costs — at the mandatory court appearance.
Thanks for saving me a lot of time.
Why play this stupid game? Just have the cop issue a mandatory court summons.
Nah. If you live in GA you KNOW the State Police view I-16 as a big revenue generator. Lots of out of state traffic, straight as an arrow, light traffic, and little scenery change. Ripe for speeding. Drops to 55 just west of I95 interchange.
90 is nothing on I 16.
$1K for going 90 on a highway? I don’t consider that much more reasonable than $1.4M.
Maybe he had to get around a truck and soon after slowed down to 70 or 75 (which was probably what the speed of traffic was moving at).
I just can’t help imagining, let’s say, some shirttail Saudi prince, perhaps enrolled at GA Tech or Emory, getting one of these tickets, shrugging and paying it in full, no questions asked. It’s probably never happened, but one wonders...
Who wants to bet that, if the speeder actually paid the $1.4 mil fine, he’d never see as much as a penny of a refund?
Managing expectations.
He is GLAD to pay $1,000.00 for speeding. It just sounds so much better than $1.4 million
I knew inflation was bad, but DANG!!!
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