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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary
But most people seem to feel they've been treated unjustly when given a speeding ticket.
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Perhaps because few accidents are caused by speeding, and of those that are (like your ice skating pickups), only a small fraction are happening in circumstances where speeding tickets are likely. At least in my observation, most speeding tickets are given on open, fairly empty roads where speed is no problem at all.
Indeed, legend would have it that a lot of places put artifically low speed limits in such places just so they can catch out-of-towners and fatten their coffers thereby. I know some places do this with other things: a few years back I got a cititation in the mail for going through a toll gate without paying, with an automated photo included. It was from some town in Washington (a state I hadn't visited in over a decade) the license plate was clearly not from my state, and the vehicle was a car, not a pickup. So what reason is there for this other than money-grubbing?