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Originally Posted by rustyBob
I look at it this way ...If you get caught speeding MAN UP and take the punishment...
if you run the posted speed limit in the slow lane then chances are you wount get a
ticket for speeding because everybody else will be passing you...
as for the cops....treat them with respect and they will return the respect
act like an azz and your on your own....fool.
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You may not wanna hear a true story, but here goes anyway:
Back in December of 1975, I was fixing to get out of school and was hired for a job in the southern part of the state. I had just bought a brand new Ford F-100. I had spent the day in what would be my new home town, looking for a place to live. On the way home, about 15 miles from home, I drove thru a small "hick" town which I have done many hundreds of times before, driving the posted speed limit or a few miles an hour less. "Bubba the cop" was parked in front of a mom/pop grocery store and he was sitting on the check out counter trying to make time with the new, young check-out girl..... I drive right on minding my own busines when I see Bubba's flashing lights behind me, so I pull over, he pulls over behind me and gets out, tells me I was speeding thru town like a race-car driver, I politely ask "how fast was I going", he said "too fast", I ask "what did you clock me on the radar at", knowing full well the car was parked, not even facing my direction for a radar reading, Bubba says" I didn't clock you on the radar, it's been broken for a month now, "I observed you speeding and that's that".
Being taught to respect my elders and cops, I politely took the ticket which stated: "Speeding:15 mph in excess of the posted limit".
So when I get home I tell my parents and they jumped my butt for speeding as cops are never wrong, at least in their mind anyway. For days I continued to tell my parents I was not speeding and they finally called the store to talk to someone there and possibly verify my story, they did and were told the cop said "he was going to get that kid in that shiny new truck" right before he got his big fat a$$ off the counter and came after me...
So I go and talk to the town judge in my home town and ask him for his advise on the matter, he told me to go talk to the city judge in hickville, who just happens to be the mayor also,he said he knew the man and he was a "fair man", that went well, the mayor/judge told me the fine was $75.00 for speeding and if I went to HIS city court and contested it, the fine was automatically doubled and I was automaticaly guilty, thank you very much..........
Soo much for honest cops/judges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I did get even,I waited the 30 days before paying the fine, by then I was living and working in another city a hundred miles away and wrote them a check on my closed out checking account, which naturally bounced BIG TIME....my mom is the one that suggested I do that,with dad's blessings.....they came to my mamma's house 3 times looking for me as they had an arrest warrant for me, she told them the truth, that I was living in another city a hundred miles away....
For the next 2 years when coming home to visit I had to detour around that town!!!!!!!!!!!! For all I know, they may still have a warrant on me!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW: I've had 4 or 5 speeding tickets since I began driving in 1970, deserved all of them, never argued with a cop, was always respectful and courteous and that has gotten me more warnings than tickets, but not all cops are honest, no matter what you think!!!!!!!!!!!!
David