- Jul 1, 2011
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... he stretched the truth of the offense location - - - for MORE than 2 miles!!!
I'm leaving small town E TX starving, with a pile of BBQ and headed home and suddenly, there he is on my bumper. He couldn't/didn't lite me up at first because we were on a two-lane with guard rails and no safe place to stop. Several hundred yards before the next available pull over on go the blues, I pull off and he conducts his business. After visiting the car once and returning to the cruiser, he returned asking for my phone number. That really struck me as odd but it has been years since my last ticket so maybe that's normal.
After the stop was completed I noticed the address of offense @ 950blk but knew we stopped well beyond that. I doubled back toward town to check the postings. Since I drove way to far before seeing a speed limit change, I realized he picked an address at a lower speed to increase the fine. Admittedly I didn't go all the way back to town and document all the changes but here's what I found out. Approximately 100yds beyond (toward where he pulled me over) a business with an address of 1128, the limit changed up to 55mph. Checking the odometer I drove to where he wrote me up and it was over 2 miles past the limit change. There was plenty of places he could have pulled me over before that guard rail section and honestly, he was not behind me until that section.
I can accept a 5mph over the limit ticket, but not 10mph over the limit. How do you deal with the small town 'legal system'?
I'm leaving small town E TX starving, with a pile of BBQ and headed home and suddenly, there he is on my bumper. He couldn't/didn't lite me up at first because we were on a two-lane with guard rails and no safe place to stop. Several hundred yards before the next available pull over on go the blues, I pull off and he conducts his business. After visiting the car once and returning to the cruiser, he returned asking for my phone number. That really struck me as odd but it has been years since my last ticket so maybe that's normal.
After the stop was completed I noticed the address of offense @ 950blk but knew we stopped well beyond that. I doubled back toward town to check the postings. Since I drove way to far before seeing a speed limit change, I realized he picked an address at a lower speed to increase the fine. Admittedly I didn't go all the way back to town and document all the changes but here's what I found out. Approximately 100yds beyond (toward where he pulled me over) a business with an address of 1128, the limit changed up to 55mph. Checking the odometer I drove to where he wrote me up and it was over 2 miles past the limit change. There was plenty of places he could have pulled me over before that guard rail section and honestly, he was not behind me until that section.
I can accept a 5mph over the limit ticket, but not 10mph over the limit. How do you deal with the small town 'legal system'?
