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I agree with JustJess in that what's catching my eye is the magnitude of the fine.
The kid broke the rules and should be punished, but a sheriff's deputy using taxpayer time and money to write a ticket for a sucker on a bus? That's ridiculous, as is the fact that unilaterally the fine is $300. Why don't the bus drivers have the jurisdiction? And didn't that cop have anything better to do than ride around on buses?
I'm under the impression that the fine is in place in an effort to maintain the buses, and to a point the dad is right, everybody makes mistakes. So in a minor instance like this why isn't it an escalating fine, something like first offense with no damage either a warning or like $25 fine, something token to prove that they're serious and then with further offenses the fines would escalate.
If you ask me the cop was just having a bad day, it's happened to me, a cop was pissed off that I'd almost gotten away from him (wasn't actively evading, just saw him start come around the corner so I started down side streets before he could turn his lights on) since he couldn't charge me with anything since I pulled over when he turned his lights on he "modified" the registration ticket that he was writing me, rather than an $80 fine he wrote it for a violation that was supposed to cost me $1000. Things like this are entirely too subjective.
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