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In reply to the discussion: My Two Hundred And Eighteen Dollar Traffic Ticket [View all]Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Now I have been driving since 1977 and speed is all I do for the most part, but these days I'm more cautious. But a few years back I was on Highway 14 going to Lancaster Ca. There was hardly any traffic, and I was alone driving in a car pool lane which was allowed during different times of the day.
Anyway there's this truck in front of me with 2 males, and we were both speeding along. All of a sudden the truck puts his breaks on because there was a motorcycle cop on the side of the road, "OFF" his bike. By that time, we both were going 65 MPH. That asshole cop got on his bike and got behind me even though there was a car in front of me and pulled me over. Told me I was doing 81 and he says he can prove it after I asked him. He comes back with his radar gun that says 81. That read could have been his last ticket. I told him it proves nothing.
I was going to fight it, but I moved too far away to chance driving all that way, spending money on the gas, and possibly get another bogus or deserved ticket. $500.00 out the window for a bogus ticket. How could I be going 81 while another vehicle in front of me knows there's a cop behind us.