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Originally Posted by tcar
I'm OK with that. I WAS speeding, afterall.
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What if you were not?
I got stopped last year by two less than honest and scrupulous deputies while on the same motorcycle in the same area. Lo and behold, for once in my life, I truly was not speeding on the darn thing. Didn't bother these two in the least. They wrote me for 16 over (conveniently one mph into the next higher fine bracket) and took the rather callous attitude of "tell it to the judge". I felt completely helpless. There is absolutely no way to fight something like this, and these two ass clowns knew it. Their chesshire cat grins made me want to knock their teeth out through the backs of their necks.
Some of you may remember my thread about that incident. I went ape-shyte ballistic on those two, heaping untold verbal abuse upon them. I wrote a nasty letter to both our County Sheriff and our County Executive. My letter resulted in two internal affairs deputies calling me, but otherwise nothing came of it. They know they are untouchable.
We have no defense if they decide to lie, or if one of them makes an honest mistake. There are no checks and balances. There needs to be some. Due process... they should have to prove their allegations. Not to themselves, but to the rest of us. Guaran-farking-teed they would find other ways to spend their time. Right now it's just too darn easy. Too darn profitable.