First Ticket

[bobcowan]

Speed limits and their enforcement often have nothing to do with safety and security. It's all about revenue generation. Always has been, and always will be. That's why there are quotas and traps. All the cops I know and trust even admit to that - in private.

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by bobcowan

Speed limits and their enforcement often have nothing to do with safety and security. It's all about revenue generation. Always has been, and always will be. That's why there are quotas and traps. All the cops I know and trust even admit to that - in private.

Probably - in my case by the time Court day rolled around and everyone in the neighborhood showed up with their tickets along with all the other misc cut through offenders, the line for court stretched through City Hall and way out into the parking lot. While standing in line I heard lots of people all grumbling about my neighborhood and the trap. For me however - 60 years old and a clean record - it was just 6 months probation and no fine and out the door.

I'm not sure anyone speaks to the neighbor any more who complained to the city.

[FUNFER2]

I agree, support the officers, their only doing their job to protect us all. I don't know how, but driving my cobra for 12 years now, I've never been stooped and I'm always getting on it, safely I should say.

I took my mother in the cobra to my sisters house where I was building a deck for her . Later in the day I looked at the clouds and could tell a storm was coming, so we left. It came in real fast and it was a complete downpour, and I was speeding down a 35 mph one-way street at around 50 mph. I came over a slight hill and a officer had his radar pointed right at me. I kept on driving and looking in my mirror for the famous red & blue flashing lights and worried that when he stopped me, us and the car would be a big bathtub. Well,.... he never stopped me !

He either felt sorry for my elderly mother or the Cobra, either way, I was lucky !

[Ron61]

Gee flip,

After all you were breaking the law and speed trap or not you were in the wrong. I haven't had a ticket in any of my cars since 1969 but I have sure deserved some. Normally here if you aren't doing something stupid like weaving back and forth they will give you 5 MPH over the posted limit. But don't count on it as the CHP officer may have had a bad day. And when I bought my Taurus a year ago I thought the speedometer was reading way slow as I would be doing 70 in a 70 zone and everyone was just flying by me. I saw a CHP officer in one of the Cameros as I was driving on the freeway and flagged him over. He asked me what I wanted and I told him I would like to get a speedometer check as I wasn't sure mine was very accurate. He said ok, I will get in front and set the radar at 60 MPH and you follow me. We went about 2 miles and pulled over and my speedometer was actually reading about 3 miles an hour fast. He told me that was why he used the radar as the speedometer on the Camero was reading about 58. Most of the police of any branch around here that I have had any dealings with are nice and will help if they can. If I am doing 70 in a 55 zone I wouldn't be mad at the cop for pulling me over, no matter what kind of car I was driving. And I figure that I got away with enough to make up for any tickets that I did get back then.

Ron