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austinrealtor wrote:

PUCKER wrote:....I literally got ran over!

WOW! I'm amazed you're even alive to tell the tale. How fast was the object going that literally ran you over?

I know, I had to go through hours of intensive (cigar smoking) therapy to recover!

80mph!

carlson1 wrote:I know for a fact that two departments in East Texas told there officers to step up the citations for revenue.

They needed another patrol SUV and they needed two more slots filled.

That is DEAD wrong! Citations are to be about safety NOT a fund raiser!!!

I got a ticket (80 in a 65, apparently I-45 had just gone from the 70 mph zone to 65 mph) in my wife's car on my way to Houston a few weeks back....the Trooper gave me the "safety" speech. Like I told him, "I am going with the flow of traffic." Just for grins, I decided to follow the 65 mph limit all the way from there (mile marker 98) South to Houston....I literally got ran over! It was unsafe in my opinion. I thought about contacting the officer and letting him know that it wasn't safe, in my opinion, to go that slow on that road....but I was unable to find an email/phone number for him via a few minutes of web searching....and I didn't feel it was worth it to contact DPS and go through those channels, but I thought a sincere/friendly conversation of real-world experience might make him think about it....nah....it REALLY is about the revenue! So, I bought a radar detector when I got back in town.

I'm not gonna knock LEOs but what I fear (and why I bought a radar detector with built-in GPS with pre-loaded/updatable locations for speedtraps, red light/speed cameras, etc...oh, and driving a 'vette, I thought it was a good idea too ) is that as municipal/county/state budgets are in deficit that more and more citations will be handed out, some deservedly, maybe some not...but in the end, it's about revenue. I would make a guess that issuing citations is one of the easiest ways to increase revenue...raising taxes isn't popular with the voters, but you can set out the motor jocks/MRGTUs (Mobile Revenue Generating Traffic Units) and get that $$$ flowing in.