(ot) i fought the law and the law won.

[rocco16v at netzero.net (L F)]

What you say may well be true.
However, my point is that the officer had no ulterior motive for singling out this one car (other than it was loud) for issuing his ticket.  
  Yes, he needs to give out tickets.  But why choose this particular car?  Something had to trigger the 'write' response.  They don't (usually) do the eeny-meeny-miney-moe thing...

Larry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mr.utility@highstream.net 
  To: L F 
  Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org ; brett cooke 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:51 AM
  Subject: Re: (ot) i fought the law and the law won.


    He is, in essence, an
  > unbiased third party (i.e has nothing to lose or gain by ticketing you), so
  > his word carries greater weight than yours.


  Unfortunately this is not true.  Most precincts have a required minimum number 
  of tickets they have to write per month...  I live in OK, and I always see the 
  OHP more often at the end/beginning of each month...  Why?  $ is no.1, 
  especially since 911, we are still in a little bit of a recession, etc...  
  Oklahoma City went from approximately 60.00 for a 1-10 mile over the posted 
  speed limit, now that fee has almost double, 133.00 for the same offense..  
  Funny, I can't imagine why it is twice as dangerous to speed when revenues are 
  down...  :-(..............

  Hopefully food for thought, and not fodder for ridicule...  :-D

  David                 fahrvegnugen


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