[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

This thread is being reduced to an argument about whether or not speed kills and whether it's morally right or not to try and get out of a speeding ticket.

Just a reminder: My original point was that since speeding tickets are demonstrably a revenue-enhancement rather than safety-enhancement scheme--otherwise, why don't cops ticket dangerous drivers who have done things other than register a certain number on a Stalker gun?--both sides need to play by the rules. If they do, there's no argument when you get caught: you played the game, you took the chance, you lost, pay up.

But when the "law" side changes the rules--"we'll stop the car because it's an Audi and it's orange, so it's _probably_ the orange Audi that was speeding 25 miles ago"--that's no fair.

In fact, for all I know there _was_ another orange A4 Avant that tripped the radar gun, not my daughter's. Who's to say?

Stephan