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Originally Posted by why?
still don't see the problem. Speeding tickets are not for safety, they are for revenue enhancement. Tickets in general are for revenue enhancement and nothing else. While technically speeding is wrong, there are many many tickets and many many added fees onto tickets for money that are totally absurd and should never exist. Just because you received a ticket does not mean you did anything wrong. Their are lawyers that claim everyone commits 3 felonies a day without doing anything actually wrong or immoral.
I never said people should speed. Speeding is dumb, I usually try and go 60 on highways because I am cheap and want the best gas mileage I can get. Driving unsafe on any road is dumb and should not be done. Giving tickets for money does not discourage such behavior.
Municipalities budget ticket income into their annual budgets. Something is very very wrong with the system and it needs to be fixed.
If this stuff were real safety issues and people really wanted to fix them,they would make real punishments, like a week of community service, and yanking someone's license for a month. since they do not do that they do not want to fix the problem, they want to use citizens for atm's.
No idea why you think anything I said is contradictory.
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This is the real world. People have been paying fines for centuries.
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Originally Posted by Elkton86er
My problem with the way speeding is being handled is the lack of enforcement consistency. Either enforce the law or don't - pick one! If the speed limit "ought to be" 65 mph for safety reasons (or whatever) then enforce it - don't stop random people when everyone in sight is doing 75. If you're not serious about 65, then make the limit 75 (or whatever that you ARE serious about) and enforce that.
I don't mind driving 65 on a highway when all the other cars around are also doing 65 - I remember when the limit was 55! I have a problem when I'm the only one doing 65 getting my doors blown off by others doing 75 - 80 and we all drive past the cop and nothing happens...
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My point exactly.
I feel awkward moving at 65, I won't lie. I have no doubt that most of that is because at 65 you're getting NASCAR'd by other motorists.