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$1,000 Speeding Tickets Proposed For Boulder
Denver Channel ^ | December 22, 2004 | Staff

Posted on 12/23/2004 8:55:06 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece

Getting caught speeding Boulder, Colo., could cost you big time, if the City Council's plan to increase traffic fines gets final approval.

If you're caught speeding 4 to 19 mph over the posted speed limit, you'll pay $500 and if you are speeding at 20 mph or more over the posted speed limit, you'll be slapped with a $1,000 ticket.

The current rates, which haven't been increased since 1982, are $100 and $300 respectively.

Tickets for street racing or eluding police would jump from $300 to $1,000 under the proposal that is expected to get preliminary approval Wednesday night.

City officials said the hefty fines will give judges more bargaining power when they accept plea bargains and they hope will make motorists think twice before breaking the law.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: extrortion; raisingmoney
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To: MississippiMasterpiece
Who's the whiskey-eyed carrotflosse that proposed this change?

One who is diligent in striving to find any way to support an ever growing government apparatus with finances.

81 posted on 12/23/2004 10:48:37 AM PST by EGPWS
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To: MississippiMasterpiece
$1,000 Speeding Tickets For Boulder Rich now......proposed new ticket fine $100,000.00

Now that's fair for THAT community.

/sarcasm

82 posted on 12/23/2004 10:53:20 AM PST by maestro
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To: longtermmemmory
If you are getting popped for going 4 miles over the speed limit on a highway then you are being stopped for having the wrong skin pigment. (aka DWB)

Could just as easily be pulled over on a back road somewhere, going 29 in a 25 mph zone.

83 posted on 12/23/2004 10:54:51 AM PST by closet freeper
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To: MississippiMasterpiece

I'm about sick of this garbage. These localities will let drug dealers and other assorted street scum have free reign, but Lord forbid you go 5 mph over the speed limit. Sickening.


84 posted on 12/23/2004 11:00:28 AM PST by flair2000
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To: paul51
new opportunities to rip off the citizens

Okay, I'll bite. How are they ripping you off if you don't speed?

85 posted on 12/23/2004 11:06:30 AM PST by Terabitten (Time to die, nerd boy! www.sluggy.com)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
I don't know any of the details, but I heard that because Mexican drivers where I live are notorious for driving with no license, no insurance, drunk, and with 18 people in the car might have had something to do with it.

I've seen that here in the Chicago area. Ahem.

86 posted on 12/23/2004 11:08:49 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: MileHi

The only money I contribute to Boulder is the tax dollars they steal from me each pay check.


87 posted on 12/23/2004 11:11:16 AM PST by 14erClimb
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To: Peter vE

Mental note made never to immigrate to Finland.


88 posted on 12/23/2004 11:11:34 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: Area51

Hey! That's the "we don't need no steeeeeeking badges" guy! :-)


89 posted on 12/23/2004 11:13:22 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: Centurion2000

What is so difficult about driving at the posted speed limit?


90 posted on 12/23/2004 11:29:55 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: MississippiMasterpiece

My Mom (known in the family as "Ol Leadfoot") lives in East Boulder. I've sent her a copy of this.


91 posted on 12/23/2004 11:34:54 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Goldwater4ever
"Driving is a privilege not a right."

Roger That!

92 posted on 12/23/2004 11:38:22 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: MississippiMasterpiece

Posted limits are not about traffic safety, they are about giving police laywer-proof justification to pull over and inspect suspicious drivers, and hopefully find evidence of a real crime.

Putting a $500 or $1000 fine on that inspection changes their nature from an arguably justifiable breach of privacy for the public interest to outright robbery.

If I read of a pickpocket working a crowd who was shot dead by one of his marks over $500, I would say he got what he deserved, and the shooter deserves a plaque and a ham


93 posted on 12/23/2004 11:58:37 AM PST by CGTRWK
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To: blackie
What is so difficult about driving at the posted speed limit?

Speed Traps. Stupid laws. The interstates were designed to 1950's cars to drive at 70mph on them. Limiting the speed limits for safety purposes is stupid considering that our cars now have so many more safety features.

94 posted on 12/23/2004 12:42:53 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
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To: Centurion2000

All of those things are accurate ~ that still doesn't stop us from driving the posted speed limit. :)


95 posted on 12/23/2004 12:55:00 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: ken5050
I can see huge fines for drag racing on the streets...to keep the kids from imitating the irresponsible scenes from TV and films.

But $1,000 for going 20 over the speed limit? Extortion, nada mas.

96 posted on 12/23/2004 1:01:43 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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To: Tragically Single
How are they ripping you off if you don't speed?

If you don't speed, no ticket. To be driving in a 40MPH zone, 40 MPH is perfectly safe and legal. 49 MPH is $500 fine. 50MPH is $1,000. You tell me

97 posted on 12/23/2004 1:04:44 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

OOpps. Make that 60 for a grand. To be honest, iI can see 60 desrves a ticket. A thousand dollars? Nope, it's a rip


98 posted on 12/23/2004 1:09:20 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: RightWhale

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,


99 posted on 12/23/2004 1:09:59 PM PST by cubreporter
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To: MississippiMasterpiece

Boulder? Yeah, but the fine is reduced if you're driving stoned with a lid under the seat.../xxxs


100 posted on 12/23/2004 1:11:05 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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