Feel like you're being written up for no particularly good reason?
You are.
1) TSA apparently has a written policy that each Air Marshal must report at least one Surveillance Detection Report (a fancy term for a suspicious person report) per month. Of course, being the subject of SDR can lead to being put on a watch list. But failure to make the quota is taken as proof that the Marshal isn't being alert. (HT: Of Arms and the Man)
2) One of the children tells me that the recent spate of silliness on Wisconsin highways was merely a method of collecting Federal moneys. Lots of motorists were pulled over for "5-over-the-limit" violations (huh???), only to get a warning for the speed--but a TICKET for not wearing a seatbelt. (I was among them, of course.)
The seatbelt violation was the Federal-money rider. Seems the more tix written for seatbelt violations, the more grant munnies were given to the coppers.
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Up here speeding is the big ticket. Problem is - in most of Rhode Island, there are roads that are geared for 35-40 mph that are posted at 25 mph, roads geared for 50 are posted 35-40 tops. People know those speed limits are ridiculously low in RI, so they take them as a joke - bam - the instant state revenue generator (and many cities and towns here too). For a small state, we're big on corruption.
BMP
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That's how the federales get around the inability to Constitutionally mandate primary seat-belt-usage enforcement.
Have you tried the "I only took off my seat belt so I could get to my wallet and show you my driver's license" defense?
Completely off-topic - congrats on breaking Jessica McBride's blogroll again :-)
Have you tried the "I only took off my seat belt so I could get to my wallet and show you my driver's license" defense?
That ALWAYS works around here. Then when I get the speeding ticket (which here is the greater of the two fines), he decides not to hold the seat belt crap against me.
One former dayjob co-worker once did this:
Cop: Do you have a medical reason why you're not wearing your seat belt?
My former co-worker: No, I have a political reason why I'm not wearing my seat belt!
Now there's an unexpected reply from the driver, eh?
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