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To: BlessingInDisguise
Well we all know that speeding tickets are not about safety at all but just another way for cities and towns to jack up revenue. The motorist is being played for a sucker with all these speed traps. These speeding tickets only hurt the working man. Those with connections get the tickets fixed. And those in with the police don't get tickets at all. Depending on what jurisdiction they are in, all they have to do is drop a name, flash a badge or sport a "I give to the Jaycees" bumper sticker and they are off the hook.

If this was about safety, cops wouldn't be hiding their patrol cars in shrubbery or posing as surveyors with their radar guns, they'd be out patrolling the roads pulling over the jerks that tailgate, weave in and out of traffic and who commit other acts of aggression and road rage.

Nothing against the cops here as they are just doing what they are being ordered to do - fill the town coffers with lots of speeding fines.

3 posted on 10/02/2002 4:14:49 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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4 posted on 10/02/2002 4:28:02 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: SamAdams76
Well we all know that speeding tickets are not about safety at all but just another way for cities and towns to jack up revenue. The motorist is being played for a sucker with all these speed traps.

Indeed, in places where speeding would actually be dangerous most drivers are cognizant of this fact and consequently there are often not enough "speeders" to make enforcement worthwhile, even though the few speeders that do exist in such places pose a much greater public danger than the many speeders on roads that are posted for 55 but could safely be driven at 80.

6 posted on 10/02/2002 6:18:51 PM PDT by supercat
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