Terrminator's dying gasp
I never was real clear on why the guy posted to begin with!?
"Okay, enough already. I never realized how condescending and
sanctimonious the majority of "advisors" would be. I'm laughing my @ss off just waiting to read the next insult about how stupid I am for passing a cop
on the open highway, inching past him a full 1 mph faster than he was
going.
Please spare me the "do the crime, pay the fine," accept
responsibility for your actions, and any other self-righteous cliche. That's
not the point of this thread.
I don't dispute the fact that I was going 68 mph in a 65 zone. I don't dispute the fact that the cop has a right to pull me over for doing so. I don't even mind paying the fine, being late for work, or any other consequence related thereto.
My knee-jerk reaction was to just stop by the courthouse and hand them my check ASAP.
I've had tickets before and deserved them because I was clearly flying
past everyone else on the road.
What bothers me is this notion that I was pulled over, as you say, for
"being an idiot, since only an idiot would pass a cop going the speed
limit." Sure he was going the speed limit. His only purpose for being on
the road that morning was to write speeding tickets. He was baiting me,
and I took the bait. That makes me the intellectual equivalent of a
fish. Sobeit. I get your point and no longer require being told I'm an
idiot and I grovel at the feet of all your intellectual superiority.
(What, did I run over your dog? I'm sorry, okay.)
I will go to court on my court date, plead guilty for going 68 (but not
70), pay whatever fine -- but at least I will have the satisfaction of
confronting a system that is arbitrary and lacks consistency. Perhaps
it gives many of us a perverse pleasure to see others punished, the fact
that that someone else "gets it." But I don't think it's funny, and I'm
sick of traffic laws being used as an easy revenue machine. Because,
let's face it, a cop can basically pull you over for anything, and it's
not right, and next time it could be you, and I won't be laughing then,
either."