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A ticket and a surcharge on their insurance will hopefully teach them a lesson before someone innocent is hurt. One less idiot driver in our world is a good thing.
Some years ago a Portlander actually wrote a sign he'd hold up when the police radared in a local school zone around a bend from his house. Finally, the police ticked him, but there was a public uproar they were forced to take back the ticket.
What could they ticket him for? That's freedom of speech.
Depends. If the guy is driving like a bat out of hell, then no way. School zone? Then they deserve what they get.
At the same time, I live in an area where the speed limit is 30, even on very safe stretches of road (four-lane in places, I might add). Further, the police of my community have a very rigid interpretation (A good friend of mine received a ticket for driving 33 mph in a 30 mph zone. I saw the ticket myself). In this case, the entire point of speeding tickets in those areas is not public safety but revenue collection. In that case, we as citizens have a public duty to prevent police 'protection' that is onerous and wholly unnecessary. A friend of mine was a policeman. He could always tell when the city was short on cash, because he would be asked to go out and ticket more drivers.
That being said, if you're caught warning somebody, the police can really give you a ticket for any reason in retaliation, not necessarily for the warning itself. That same policeman said that he could pull over anybody he liked and hand out a slew of tickets for any number of violations, and the driver would basically have no recourse.
There's one area not too far from me that is like that. I had a cop in a neighboring suburb tell me that that area is all about revenue raising. When you see excessively low speed limits where they don't make sense, watch out!
Perhaps interfering with governmental administration.
Boy, that's a dangerous catch-all phrase if ever I've heard one. That could apply to any action by any government citizen at any time. The only thing required is ingenuity on the part of the arresting officer.
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