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Elspode · 09-22-2006, 12:34 PM

All of this would be perfectly valid if the reason for the ticket was actually to enforce public safety. Any more, the purpose of tickets is to generate revenue...involuntary taxation is what I call it.

We had a driver stopped a couple of weeks ago for having a tire that was *going flat* on an inside rear dualie. His pretrip inspection was on board, showing that there were no defects when he left the shop less than 30 minutes earlier, yet the Highway Patrol pulled him over because they saw the tire was low, and wrote him a ticket for it. It was in fact audibly hissing as he stood there writing the ticket. Since he then sent the truck on its way without forcing the driver to call a repair truck and have it fixed on the spot, I'd say the argument for public safety is pretty much dead, huh?

How was the driver supposed to know it was going flat? Pull over every ten feet and check it? This is one we would have fought, except that the courthouse for the jurisdiction in which it was written is over an hour away from the shop, so in the end, it would cost us more in time and effort to fight it than it would to just pay it.

Don't think law enforcement doesn't know that and use it to generate income.

09-22-2006, 12:34 PM	#14
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	All of this would be perfectly valid if the reason for the ticket was actually to enforce public safety. Any more, the purpose of tickets is to generate revenue...involuntary taxation is what I call it. We had a driver stopped a couple of weeks ago for having a tire that was going flat on an inside rear dualie. His pretrip inspection was on board, showing that there were no defects when he left the shop less than 30 minutes earlier, yet the Highway Patrol pulled him over because they saw the tire was low, and wrote him a ticket for it. It was in fact audibly hissing as he stood there writing the ticket. Since he then sent the truck on its way without forcing the driver to call a repair truck and have it fixed on the spot, I'd say the argument for public safety is pretty much dead, huh? How was the driver supposed to know it was going flat? Pull over every ten feet and check it? This is one we would have fought, except that the courthouse for the jurisdiction in which it was written is over an hour away from the shop, so in the end, it would cost us more in time and effort to fight it than it would to just pay it. Don't think law enforcement doesn't know that and use it to generate income. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog Last edited by Elspode; 09-22-2006 at 12:39 PM.