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I haven't been pulled over for speeding (knock on wood), but hubby has and both times he paid. The first time we couldn't have stayed to fight it because he got out of the Marines before the court date, so we just hired a lawyer to take care of it. I dont think we would have fought it anyway. The second time was just recently, coming home from Las Vegas. The township of Moapa patrols the stretch of I-15 between Las Vegas and Mesquite via airplane radar, (you have been forewarned!) and I guess the town coffers were getting a bit low because they were pulling people over right and left for speeding. In fact, one cop had three people pulled over at once. Hubby WAS speeding, was going 10 mph over the limit and we were being passed by people. Anyway, the cop said he clocked us at 90 ( a bald faced lie, I was for some reason watching the speedometer carefully, I had my spidey senses going or something) but "let us go" at 85. Fighting the ticket would have been more costly than just paying it, after taking a day off of work, paying for gas, food, and a nights lodging to drive back, despite the ticket being a whopping $190. It was an expensive lesson learned...and now anyone reading this knows not to speed in that area!
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Formerly Medusa
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