10-12-2013, 11:49 PM
Hmmm
I can't comment on the sadistic nature of the police officer, but the rest of this statement gave me pause. Not sure this OP in her 70's has any business driving 80 on a road not designed or built for that speed. It is the potential harm or fatality to herself and others that would dictate common sense and a lower speed. A thousand dollars to "clear" the situation? What exactly does clear mean if she was indeed doing as ticketed? I think common sense was indeed in place when she was ticketed, the purpose of which is to slow her down.
Again, hmmm
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I can't comment on the sadistic nature of the police officer, but the rest of this statement gave me pause. Not sure this OP in her 70's has any business driving 80 on a road not designed or built for that speed. It is the potential harm or fatality to herself and others that would dictate common sense and a lower speed. A thousand dollars to "clear" the situation? What exactly does clear mean if she was indeed doing as ticketed? I think common sense was indeed in place when she was ticketed, the purpose of which is to slow her down.
Again, hmmm
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Originally posted by Hunt Stoddard
Edited to add that I know of one very civic-minded woman who is now in her 70s who was given a ticket for hitting 80 on long stretch of the improved Saddle road by a particularly--I would say with reason--sadistic cop. In a modern car, on an open road, in open country without a soul in sight, 80 is not hard to do. In fact, I doubt it's an overstatement to say that one can blithely reach that speed without a second thought. This is the kind of situation where I think cops have something of a duty to exercise common sense. This woman had to go before a judge and then hire a lawyer, luckily only at an expense of about a thousand dollars to clear the situation. This was all, of course, fully realized by the cop who wrote her ticket.
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