My TICKET!!!
So on Sunday, I was finishing up a long weekend of a family reunion on my step-dad's side. It was in Wisconsin Dells, about an hour north of here… After breakfast that morning, I began my trip home to Madison, driving solo on the interstate… I was cruising along changing my speed with the flow of traffic… Sometimes speeding up to pass slow groups, and then setting myself back at about 7mph over the 65 limit…
About 15 miles from my house I was pulled over… I got in a line of cars that flew up on my left… I joined in behind them… up ahead was two semi's passing each other in the right two lanes… Too keep up with the left lane I was driving 84… That’s when it happened… The cop sitting up ahead in the median pulled out and turned on his lights, I never saw him coming, in stead I hit my breaks like the cars in front of me and wondered why they were all braking.
When I was pulled over he asked a question to what I'm sure my answer wouldn't have mattered. "Why were you going 84 in a 65?" He was a typical state patrol officer, except he was acting a little extra macho in front of some civilian clothed ride along. I replied with the truth. "Just flowing the flow of cars in front of me, getting around these trucks."
It's then he comes to tell me that the cars in front were going much slower. They had the guy in front of me at 82… then he said he saw me… So I was the big fish because I didn't see the little blue car when I cam over the hill. My ticket cost, 230 dollars. 4 points will be deducted from my license… my insurance, priceless! At least it is now.
Since it is my first EVER offense, I plan to go to my court date and see if I can't get it lowered. But after my ordeal it got me thinking about government regulation. I understand speeding laws… Cars at high speeds are unsafe. But what is high? And what if all cars are going fast and the meet one really slow one? Who is MORE dangerous? I think it would be that slow car… Now I am putting this in the context of Interstate Highway's and other roads that require a person to use and exit and entrance ramp anytime they want to change directions. If I was in a residential area, or some backwoods-winding road, I can see the dangers I would present. But on an inter-state where traffic is already moving at fatality rates, and other cars are driving even faster, I tend to think of it as less of a crime.
This is building up to a post I am still working on. It's all about government regulation. This was just a way to set up my perspective. So in the mean time, think about this… Imagine if we had the safety regulations on travel and shipping today like we did when the west was still being developed… Kids in covered wagons, would have to be strapped down like luggage. If anyone were hauling certain cargo they would need permits, and delegated driving hours. Most people would need insurance incase their wagon breaks and hurts other travelers. And if you traveled in California, they would have to regulate what type of feed you gave your horse…(emission standards.)
I doubt the west would be what it is now… Just my thought
About 15 miles from my house I was pulled over… I got in a line of cars that flew up on my left… I joined in behind them… up ahead was two semi's passing each other in the right two lanes… Too keep up with the left lane I was driving 84… That’s when it happened… The cop sitting up ahead in the median pulled out and turned on his lights, I never saw him coming, in stead I hit my breaks like the cars in front of me and wondered why they were all braking.
When I was pulled over he asked a question to what I'm sure my answer wouldn't have mattered. "Why were you going 84 in a 65?" He was a typical state patrol officer, except he was acting a little extra macho in front of some civilian clothed ride along. I replied with the truth. "Just flowing the flow of cars in front of me, getting around these trucks."
It's then he comes to tell me that the cars in front were going much slower. They had the guy in front of me at 82… then he said he saw me… So I was the big fish because I didn't see the little blue car when I cam over the hill. My ticket cost, 230 dollars. 4 points will be deducted from my license… my insurance, priceless! At least it is now.
Since it is my first EVER offense, I plan to go to my court date and see if I can't get it lowered. But after my ordeal it got me thinking about government regulation. I understand speeding laws… Cars at high speeds are unsafe. But what is high? And what if all cars are going fast and the meet one really slow one? Who is MORE dangerous? I think it would be that slow car… Now I am putting this in the context of Interstate Highway's and other roads that require a person to use and exit and entrance ramp anytime they want to change directions. If I was in a residential area, or some backwoods-winding road, I can see the dangers I would present. But on an inter-state where traffic is already moving at fatality rates, and other cars are driving even faster, I tend to think of it as less of a crime.
This is building up to a post I am still working on. It's all about government regulation. This was just a way to set up my perspective. So in the mean time, think about this… Imagine if we had the safety regulations on travel and shipping today like we did when the west was still being developed… Kids in covered wagons, would have to be strapped down like luggage. If anyone were hauling certain cargo they would need permits, and delegated driving hours. Most people would need insurance incase their wagon breaks and hurts other travelers. And if you traveled in California, they would have to regulate what type of feed you gave your horse…(emission standards.)
I doubt the west would be what it is now… Just my thought
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