Gene Cash
You mean only unsuspecting tourists get tickets? Well, anyone can fall for those speed traps where they hand out dozens of tickets, even if they are always set up at the same place while notoriously absent from our chaotic freeways-expressways.
'The act of exceeding an unreasonably low limit is hardly an "unusual risk." That means speeding ticket surcharges are pure profit for the insurance industry.
In total, we're talking about 7.5 to 15 billion dollars annually from tickets for government agencies and insurance companies. That's more money than several states take in from all taxes! Worse still, that total doesn't even include the money that "traffic schools," attorneys, radar-detector manufacturers, and scanner producers make.' (same source above)
I NEVER see them on the highways, at least here in Florida where you and I live. So I'd suggest the word "highway" in Highway Patrol is dropped in favor of Speed Patrol...
After the speed traps they can have plenty of leisure eating doughnuts.
That's part of the big business, certainly not free or economical. Most people though opt for the lawyer, where you pay too, but at least you don't have to bother. YOU PAY THE LAWYER AND YOU GET AWAY WITH A CLEAN RECORD. Ah, the trick is in the law, people say.
Speeding tickets are one thing, and genuine tickets are the other. Regrettably, it's mostly speeding tickets that feed the HUNGRY LION, while the prone to wandering keep jabbing away on the phone.
Do you work for the government by any chance?
OK, that's a legitimate ticket.
This one too.
And so is this... But have you called the Highway Patrol over people pbutting on the right and dangerously weaving around other vehicles? That would get you a ticket in the civilized world, I mean Europe. ;)
