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Spano; Does she smoke? If so, it may help her decide to quit.
Many years ago a fellow I know went to traffic school because of a few minor speeding tickets within a set time. He thought it was a most boring way to spend part of his Saturday, but he went to show he cared (about retaining insurance).

Anyway, while trying to stay awake while a child psychologist-in-training from the traffic department droned on, he happened to look down at his expensive London Fog jacket and he spied a 1/4" hole that had been burned in it by a cigarette (all cool people smoked back then, he thought). It both embarassed and ticked me him off enough that he quit smoking.

Also, he never quit speeding, but he spaced his tickets out enough that he never got re-invited to go to traffic school, never got his insurance raised due to the number of tickets he got, or bought another (obviously cheap)London Fog jacket.

Glad I may have helped.

You and Mrs Spanky are both shining examples of what decent human beings "ARE NOT". No respect or concern for anyone other than yourselves.

She deserved what she got, she sounds like she needs a good shot upside her head too.

She's useless, your useless, you deserve each other.

Usually taking innocent lives with them....

Spanko's partly right. Speeding tickets ARE mostly about the money, really nothing to do with safety. If it was about safety then you wouldn't routinely see the local police cruising around 20+ MPH over the speed limit. Some states with revenue shortcomings (California maybe?) see it as an easy way to pick up a few extra bucks by setting the speed limits a little low and putting the local deputy to work for a day. Fines vary by district but it doesn't take much to get to $300 nowadays, any ticket will get you that in a lot of places. The fine itself might be $50 but a lot of cash strapped districts (California maybe?) get creative with "court costs" and can easily tack on another $250 or so for that. Traffic school varies by state also, here in mississippi you can keep a ticket completely off of your record if you go to the $75 traffic school. You're allowed to do that once a year, so you could get a ticket a year forever and never have them show on your record as long as you sit through the traffic school every time. Traffic school makes a lot of money for the state.

I've got a friend who's a highway patrol here in mississippi. He told me the other day that they patrol the west bound lanes of the interstate a lot heavier than the east bound lanes. The reason is because the drug runners haul their dope across the state from west to east, but when they come back through the state from east to west they're carrying the money from the drug sales and they're more interested in the money than the dope. His last bust netted $6.5 million, he pulled over a couple of mexicans westbound on I-20 coming from Atlanta. They were in a dually pickup pulling a flatbed trailer with a car on it. His dog alerted on the tires of the car on the trailer, he ran a knife through the sidewall of the tire and found it was stuffed with cash, the other tires were as well. They'd hauled the car from Texas to Atlanta with the tires stuffed with cocaine (that's why the dog smelled it), sold the dope and refilled the tires with the cash for the trip home. When they interrogated the guys one of them told him that he should have stopped him on the trip two weeks before, he had $10 million in the tires then.

So, anyone that tells you that traffic enforcement isn't mainly about money is blowing smoke up your butt. That being said, isn't Spanko the guy who's always bragging about how rich he is? $300 should be a drop in the bucket for him. It's just the cost of doing business, no need to get angry about it. In the end traffic tickets are really about the money, but you gotta pay to play.

I doubt that this arrogant jerk could ride a Harley even if he owned one.

You forget....spanky is so tight with his money he can squeeze the crap out of a buffalo nickel

Some around here are so [bleep] stupid they wouldn't know they were being worked if I sent them a paycheck.

Tic toc, tic toc

All these "just don't speed" posts are amusing. Every driver breaks the speed limit at some time or another. Some just do it more than others. Just because we are guilty doesn't mean that we still don't get pissed off when we get caught.

And, speeding tickets are outrageously high. Way too much punishment for a minor offense.

Yes you are bless your heart

BTW ...I have it from another member here who has dealt with you and you really are a cheapskate figure that out neck gaiter queen.

temper temper little man.

Speaking of work........................... maybe we can find that picture of YOU at work.You know,your modeling gig,

Modeling ?????????????????????

You haven't seen spanky modeling his wife's neck gaiter?

Maybe Spanky could have traded the cops some old NRA magazines instead of cash.

You owe me a key board fawker! lol

I rode that road today and didn't see the jack booted thugs on patrol. I guess they are busy arresting harmless dope smoking hippies and confiscating their cash and stash.

Well The Wife is home an hour early. She said of the eight people there six were ticketed by the same JBT.

She said she endured the stupidity by wearing earplugs and taking off her glasses when they showed the stupid gore filled movies.

On the plus side it was eight hours she didn't have to spend listening to your blather. She should thank that particular "JBT". Hope you and he get acquainted in the near future.....

Last ticket I got was over 10 years ago and it too was a speed trap. I'm overdue and will get one soon.

Artificially low speed limits, speed traps, and exorbitant fines do nothing to enhance safety and everything to engender disrespect for the law and those who enforce it.

$335.00 is probably more than the average Johnson makes in a day. Top that with a day wasted listening to Officer Dipshitz spout absurdities and you have one pissed off citizen, or eight in this case.

Did you mention how fast she was going? If so, I missed it.

$300 is one hell of a fine. How fast???

George