Let me tell you about a personal experience I had with a traffic citation. While on active duty at Ft. Lewis Washington U.S. Army , I received a speeding ticket which I paid ( timeline 1986)I was on my motorcycle on an island somewhere in Puget Sound....forget the name of the island. Fast forward to 1991, I ran a yellow light in Pasco county Florida and was informed that my license was suspended out of Washington state? I had my drivers license from Massachusetts AND a license from Florida (in state because I owned property as the law was then )... I got arrested ...car towed, night in jail and went to court then released with a return date after my plea of not guilty. SO, I paid the towing and storage fee...got my vehicle and spent the next two days tracking down the paid ticket conformation because I did not physically possess the receipt of said PAID citation. I never had a drivers license from Washington state while on active duty my Mass. license is valid...the registry in Florida never notified me of my in state license being suspended by a state 2500-2800 miles away for an unpaid speeding ticket. After hundreds of dollars all I got was ......crickets......the towing contractor got paid...the court took money for the court costs...continued without adjudication was applied and everyone turned their back when I asked why I was not notified by mail when BOTH registries Massachusetts and Florida had my mailing addresses?? So all of you posting about “ don’t drive if you can’t pay a ticket crap “ should think twice before uttering such blind alliance to the slush fund known as traffic citations. I am an independent conservative .
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