🚀 go-pugleaf

In dc.general, hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dagwood splits the Atom) writes:
>In article <1992Jul9.204254.1999@access.digex.com> jamie@access.digex.com (Jame
>s Treworgy) writes:
.>I was recently pulled over for speeding in Virginia.  The cop said I was
.>doing 71 in a 55.  This was the first time I have been pulled over and what
.>the cop said differed significantly from what I thought was going on.
.>I was doing less than 65 (probably around 63).  I had always heard that you
.>can sometimes get out of a ticket by asking to see the reading on the cops
.>radar gun...

>Al Donaldson's bootlicking notwithstanding, you should contest this one,
>if for no other reason than to try to avoid the points on your license.
>If your speed wasn't inappropriate for the conditions, you shouldn't let
>the state or your insurance company cash in on artificially low speed
>limits.

>In the end, it's all going to depend on the judge you get, and perhaps the
>officer's inability to produce documentary evidence on the spot works in
>your favor.  Both RADAR (an industry group) and the National Motorists
..etc..


What are you saying here?? If you don't like the speed limit, then it's
o.k. to speed?? The police merely enforce the law, they don't make it..
You don't like the speed limit, complain to the highway dept; but don't
speed ot tailgate the guy in front of you.. Rationalization is not an
excuse for breaking the law.

If this guy has a few points on his license, maybe it will do some good
and slow him down a little. Might just save somebody's life.

I've driven in VA for a great many years; the state police normally "give'
you 5 miles over the limit as an error.. Like the poster said earlier,
"if you can't do the time, don't commit the crime"... I don't consider
myself a slow driver, but in the last few years, drivers have generally
increased their highway speeds; I guess it's the fast pace of modern life!
This is not to say that police never make a mistake or are always the
good guys; but in a dispute, the judge will always side with the police
in a "your word against his"..
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