I get the feeling you really like your tax dollars used to sneer at citizens in the “click it or ticket” campaign. I find the commercials disgusting, arrogant peacock displays from gubment cheese swilling officialdom.
.08 BAC? We are not children here. State and Federal legislative bodies are packed full of trial lawyers. Trial lawyers who still have ties to, or even still own law firms.
Well trial lawyers need clients. So .08 BAC is brilliant. Gives a steady supply of customers. You need more judges also. Where do judges come from? Trial lawyers. More money is required to hire more judges and build more marbled courtrooms. What’s the answer? .08 BAC.
It sure is cool the sheeple always buy the safety shtick.
Let’s not forget sobriety checkpoints! I have yet to experience one of those but God help the cops on duty if I ever do.
Excessive tint on windows? That’s another good one.
A few months ago I was pulled over for not signalling when I crossed an intersection, 3 houses from my home. At that intersection, you can go right, left, or straight. I went straight. At that intersection, if you go straight, you’ll run right into a house across the street, so you have to turn left a little, then right a little, but it’s still the same street. The street just doesn’t allign like most do. I told the cop I didn’t signal because it would give the impression to drivers that I was turning left onto the other street, which I wasn’t, I was going “straight” and staying on the same street. After 30 minutes of griping at him, and his supervisor (who was summoned), I was released, ticketless. The supervisor just kept rolling his eyes at me, wanting me to shut up so he could tell junior that he was wrong.
It’s crap like that that infuriates me. It’s not like cops signal everytime they turn anyway.
Uh...sorry, I had to vent... :)