[wbradley]

Dadhawk, interesting regards to your speed. I visit my sisters place in AZ, and last year driving on the 101 loop around Scottsdale and Phoenix it seemed like I was driving too slow. The posted limit is 65, and apparently they can start ticketing at 75. I swear everyone was going over 70 everywhere, heading to and from Tucson too. Mind you, people were staying below 75. I felt weird when I hit 72 while passing.

Clearly it's different everywhere. And yes I completely understand a cop doing his job rather than doing nothing. What I dont get is a cop meeting out his own justice in the form of charging me with the only traffic offense that results in seizure of vehicle and considerable expense whether convicted or not. It says,"You were a bad boy, so we're gonna spank you". It is discretionary for the cop and he has no issue handing it out. Perhaps as a staff sergeant and inspector he had something more to prove. Its quiet on the roads here but he keeps his guys busy calling in 2 more cruisers so they could all fraternize together at the scene while .motorists on the offramp watch me standing there while my car is going on a flatbed, in my community. Did I hear someone say public shaming?

If I was the attending cop I'd have pulled me over, lectured me and done the right thing according to the law, and pressed no inappropriate charges and certainly not these ones. Funny, he asked me what I did for a living and I told him I had been unemployed for some time. Why would he care? Maybe he figured, oh well he won't miss any work.

Stunt driving charges have doubled or tripled in Ontario since the pandemic. The roads are quieter so people are super speeding. The massive court backlogs almost guarantees the grey ones will not go thru trial. The cops know this.