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The main issue is that if it's safe to go 79 mph before the recession, it's safe to go 79 during the recession. And assuming that speed enforcement is about safety (naive assumption, I know), then cops can't crack down harder just because they need the money.
Speed limits have nothing to do with safety. That is the official reason, and a few dumb dumbs will parrot it but has always been a lie. Its about tax revenue. If most people start going exactly the speed limit in response to the changed rules of the game, they will just find some other way to ticket you for the revenue.
It's a speed "limit" for a reason. While I think they are indeed quite a bit lower than they ought to be, that is something you take up with the legislature, and abide by the law in the meantime.
It took twenty years to get Congress to drop its stupid-ass speed limit mandate. Most rational people can do a cost-benefit analysis of fighting their respective state for another 20 years versus just saying "fk it, I'll risk a ticket now and then."
Speed limits have nothing to do with safety. That is the official reason, and a few dumb dumbs will parrot it but has always been a lie. Its about tax revenue. If most people start going exactly the speed limit in response to the changed rules of the game, they will just find some other way to ticket you for the revenue.
and that's what I knew all along. I made the false assumption on purpose to help illustrate my original point.
I'd encourage anyone who gets a ticket for less than 10 over on a freeway to fight it in court, if only to teach the legislators a lesson that unfair laws only create contempt for the authority assigned to enforce them.
I encourage everybody to do this as a way to take away their financial incentive for writing tickets. Watching police sit at speed traps all day while MUCH more serious crimes are being committed just pi**es me off.
DUDE...I haven't posted this on the 'spin, but I got a ticket a few months ago for 90 in a 70 on the way to Vegas, and when I saw the lights flashing in my rear view mirror, I was hoping in desperation that I would actually get that much of a cushion (to no avail, of course )
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Originally Posted by sterlinggirl
I encourage everybody to do this as a way to take away their financial incentive for writing tickets. Watching police sit at speed traps all day while MUCH more serious crimes are being committed just pi**es me off.
same here! although one thing that makes me chuckle is a little anecdote from James May from "Top Gear" who, when he got pulled over, told the cop, "Wonderful! This must mean you caught the guy who stole my TV!" ... I hope I don't get tempted to make a similar quip next time I get pulled over.
But what can I say...speeders are like the low-hanging fruit of law enforcement.
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k it, I'll risk a ticket now and then."
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... I hope I don't get tempted to make a similar quip next time I get pulled over. 
