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The more I read the more I'm glad I live in England where most cops are unarmed, and the speed offenses are less complicated - there is one rule: drive at less than the applicable speed.
No school zones, no city limits, no "field sobriety tests".
Parking tikets get you a fine from the local council - not the police.
Stop signs are advisory.
Nobody here knows wat Jaywalking is - unless they saw it on an american TV show. Cross the road wherever you like and if you're stupid enough to get run over, then it serves you right.
And there's none of that four way stop junction crap - we have nice sensible roundabouts.
I have been caught speding twice - once I was doing 95mph in a 70. I was followed and stopped by a motorbike traffic patrol who showed me the speed gun with the numbers on it. I admitted I'd done the crime, so I paid the fine.
More recently I was photographed by a fixed camera as I did 60 in a 40. Again I was guilty, so I paid.
That's all in 18 years of driving.
I got 2 parking tickets - once when I failed to read the signs and thought I was in a free parking area, but it was residents only. I paid.
Once wn I had bought a ticket but the warden hadn't seen it on my dashboard - and when I pointed it out to him he tore up his ticket.
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