Click it or Ticket? Eff it!
You can stick this $101 ticket where the sun don't shine....
So I get pulled over day before yesterday... in the slow lane...doing 58 mph on I-5 south on my way to work. Cop gives me the typical line "Know why I pulled you over?" and for the first time in my life, I honestly said "nope". He tells me he noticed I wasnt wearing my seatbelt and now apparently you can get a seatbelt violation as a "primary offense" (meaning you dont have to be caught doing anything else). So I'm like "wow, I didn't know that I needed babysitting as a 28 year old, but thanks for coming to my rescue. Apparently doing under the speed limit in the slow lane and not tailgating translates into me obviously needing rescuing from myself on the off chance that I run off the road into something and need my seatbelt." Ok, so thats what I was thinking, but seriously, how effing lame is it to get a seatbelt violation when you're actually doing everything you're supposed to be doing as a driver?
Just needed to get that off my chest before my Percocet kicks in.....ahhhh.....the sweet relief.....
See the link for the a-hole that sealed the deal on the seatbelt law...
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So I get pulled over day before yesterday... in the slow lane...doing 58 mph on I-5 south on my way to work. Cop gives me the typical line "Know why I pulled you over?" and for the first time in my life, I honestly said "nope". He tells me he noticed I wasnt wearing my seatbelt and now apparently you can get a seatbelt violation as a "primary offense" (meaning you dont have to be caught doing anything else). So I'm like "wow, I didn't know that I needed babysitting as a 28 year old, but thanks for coming to my rescue. Apparently doing under the speed limit in the slow lane and not tailgating translates into me obviously needing rescuing from myself on the off chance that I run off the road into something and need my seatbelt." Ok, so thats what I was thinking, but seriously, how effing lame is it to get a seatbelt violation when you're actually doing everything you're supposed to be doing as a driver?
Just needed to get that off my chest before my Percocet kicks in.....ahhhh.....the sweet relief.....
See the link for the a-hole that sealed the deal on the seatbelt law...
Labels: ass clowns, click it or ticket, state patrol
posted by SquiSh at Thursday, February 22, 2007
1 Comments:
I personally have never gotten this ticket, but I will be the first to step forward and call it jackassery. I don't care if I just invented that word. It's a good one.
I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir when I say, who the hell are they to say we are required to wear our seatbelts? If we choose to not wear our seatbelts, the only person we are putting at risk is ourselves.
It's like outlawing cigarettes. No one can outlaw the sale of tobacco because "it is the choice of the individual to smoke". How is this different from the individual's choise to wear a seatbelt?
The only difference I see is the potential to die a slow painful cancerous death versus a quick through-the-windshield death.
I'm not a conspiricist by any means, but I can point out the "coincidence" that the passing of the seatbelt law provides added revenue opportunities to the state ($101/"violation"), and the rejection of an anti-tobacco measure allows the state/nation to absorb tobacco taxes of upwards to 125% tax depending on the state you live in.
My point is no one cares about your health or safety, they just want the money.
Right on Squish. I especially like your babysitter response.
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