What do you think of this?

cokewithvanilla

A speeding ticket...



:eek:

bigaudiofanatic

Um ok? I have gotten two of them.

cnh

So the questions are what state and how fast were you going to run up a near 500 dollar bill?

cnh

billbillw

In downtown Atlanta, doing 70 (on the interstate) can get you a ticket like that. These days, municipalities are looking for every excuse to generate revenue via traffic citations. Fines and court costs have drastically increased all over the country in the last few years.

cnh

I'll have to remember that when I travel that way, I have a close friend in Atlanta who works for Emory U. I guess I'm out of the loop because I can't remember the last speeding ticket I've had. Probably a good quarter century or so--you tend to keep to the limit when you have a family in the car? Times have 'indeed' changed!

cnh

cokewithvanilla

This was through murfreesboro tennessee. I've gotten one in Nashville (about 10 miles from this one) for the same thing and it was a quarter of the price. Crazy.

17 over, no registration.

Tony M

That is one frickin bill I would not like to see with my name on it. You don't get anything in return either. Just a bummer of the frikin speeding chances we all take or sometimes don't even realize we're speeding and get hit with that ticket crap instead of a warning.Whatever happened to warnings!!!!

Man.....are they for real on the outragious fines?!!

I feel for ya real bad.:(

George Grand

Don't speed, that's what I think of this.

warren

Thats a bummer..You would think that it meant what it said, NO EXCESSIVE FINES
For years the Supreme Court had little to say with reference to excessive fines. In an early case, it held that it had no appellate jurisdiction to revise the sentence of an inferior court, even though the excessiveness of the fines was apparent on the face of the record.29 In a dissent, Justice Brandeis once contended that the denial of second–class mailing privileges to a newspaper on the basis of its past conduct imposed additional mailing cost, a fine in effect, which, since the costs grew indefinitely each day, was an unusual punishment proscribed by this Amendment.30 The Court has elected to deal with the issue of fines levied upon indigents, resulting in imprisonment upon inability to pay, in terms of the equal protection clause,31 thus obviating any necessity to develop the meaning of “excessive fines” as applied to the person sentenced. So too, the Court has held the Clause inapplicable to civil jury awards of punitive damages in cases between private parties, “when the government neither has prosecuted the action nor has any right to receive a share of the damages awarded.”32 The Court based this conclusion on a review of the history and purposes of the Excessive Fines Clause. At the time the Eighth Amendment was adopted, the Court noted, “the word ‘fine’ was understood to mean a payment to a sovereign as punishment for some offense.”33 The Eighth Amendment itself, as were antecedents of the Clause in the Virginia Declaration of Rights and in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, “clearly was adopted with the particular intent of placing limits on the powers of the new government.”34 Therefore, while leaving open the issues of whether the Clause has any applicability to civil penalties or to qui tam actions, the Court determined that “the Excessive Fines Clause was intended to limit only those fines directly imposed by, and payable to, the government.”35

geebolt

WO!!! I live in Murfreesboro. What road were you on?

George

cstmar01

and I think a 15 dollar parking ticket is highway robbery....I would crap myself if I got a ticket like that...


and I agree with post below, would rather use that money for something else.

GoBigBlue

I can think of 1,000,001 things I'd rather do with $474.20 than pay off a speeding ticket. Sorry for your misfortune.

TouchOfEvil

Did you learn your lesson?

BuckeyeTim

I got nailed once doing 91 through Beckley WV at 3am while pulling a boat on the way home from a week of fishing in Key West. The cop was real cool about it. After he gave we a ticket, I asked him why he didn't ask if I had been drinking or shine the flashlight inside. He said.."You were standing on your brakes when I clocked you. If you can go through here at that speed, pulling a boat...You ain't been drinking".

I had to call the local magistrate to pay my fine...I whopping $104.

Demiurge

I think speeding in an unregistered vehicle was a pretty dumb idea.

snow

BuckeyeTim wrote: »

I got nailed once doing 91 through Beckley WV at 3am while pulling a boat on the way home from a week of fishing in Key West. The cop was real cool about it. After he gave we a ticket, I asked him why he didn't ask if I had been drinking or shine the flashlight inside. He said.."You were standing on your brakes when I clocked you. If you can go through here at that speed, pulling a boat...You ain't been drinking".

I had to call the local magistrate to pay my fine...I whopping $104.

Not sure what the speed limit was when you got pulled over but in some states 25 mph over is considered reckless driving and it is dont pass go directly to jail and an automatic loss of license for 1 year minimum and an humongous fine.

Demiurge wrote: »

I think speeding in an unregistered vehicle was a pretty dumb idea.

True enough. I am just as guilty as anyone here of speeding once in a while to some degree, I guess its up to everone to decide if paying the fine, possible points off your license and higher insurance premiums and possibly not getting employed if your looking for work or getting fired if your job requires you to use a company vehicile is worth it or not.

REGARDS SNOW

Norm Apter

Last December, I turned right at a stop sign (no, not a traffic light...a stop sign) without coming to a complete stop from a small park onto small road that approaches Sunset Blvd. Caught on video tape and was sent a $125 ticket in the mail...4 weeks later. I was like: WTF?

I remember back in the early 1990s being stopped for a speeding few times in which the cop let me off with a warning. Obviously I'm not a cute girl...

As billbillw noted above, the times they are a changin'...

TNRabbit

In 2005, I got stopped for doing 104 in a 40 mpg zone......and got off with a warning...

Norm Apter

TNRabbit wrote: »

In 2005, I got stopped for doing 104 in a 40 mpg zone......and got off with a warning...

You must be one smooth criminal...:)

Amherst

Be thankful you were not picked up in NJ. You would be paying similar fines on the tickets....the difference would be that your vehicle would have been impounded and towed away for lack of registration. Another several hundred in cost to recover.

bobman1235

TNRabbit wrote: »

In 2005, I got stopped for doing 104 in a 40 mpg zone......and got off with a warning...

They have 40MPG zones? Is it like, hybrids only?

obieone

You'll see more of this as tax revenues dry up.

Fongolio

Demiurge wrote: »

I think speeding in an unregistered vehicle was a pretty dumb idea.

I second that. We all know there will be fines if caught. Don't do the crime if you're not prepared to do the time.

decal

George Grand wrote: »

Don't speed, that's what I think of this.

My thoughts exactly.