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I have to admit I am getting tired of trumped up tickets just because I drive a red Porsche. It always seems that when I do something really stupid behind the wheel of my car there is never a policeman around but they always seem to make up for it with some of the stupidest tickets. Case in point, a couple Sundays ago I was on my way home from doing vinyl on Dana Martin’s newly acquired 993 cup car at Jerry Pellegrino’s EPE. It was about 10:30 AM and I was minding my own business in the middle lane behind a van doing about 75 with the rest of the traffic. I had been noticing a car coming up in the left lane for about a mile or so when the van clearly lifted off the gas slowing slightly. Because of the approaching car in the left lane I had to wait for him to get by before I pulled into the left lane too. Not two seconds after I got into the left lane behind a car that was obviously doing about 80 mph he hit his brakes and slowed way down catching me completely off guard. Just as I get slowed too we coasted by a State Trooper in the median between the Jersey Barriers with a radar gun. I wasn't worried because the whole time the fastest I was going was 75 and was doing well below that when we went by him. Well, out he came with his beady eyes looking right at my 22 year old red targa. After pulling over the officer made his way to my window and my curiosity was driving me crazy. What did I do? The officer responded that I was tailgating the car in front of me. After babbling pointlessly I finally blurted out the guy in front of me hit his brakes and I had to check up to even avoid hitting him. He then said he had that car as doing 67-68 mph and that I was traveling too close. Of course he was doing 67-68, he almost had me in his trunk to prove it. Now he takes my license and registration back to his car and I am thinking this is an open and shut warning. Wrong! $100 and I was speeding! Now think about it. The guy in front of me was doing 67-68 and he had me at 75+ while being six feet off his bumper. That doesn't even work out in that new, long-hand math. So I am pissed and as soon as the Post Office opens on Monday morning the request for a hearing is in the mail. Yesterday I received the announcement that my appeal is May 15 at 8:30 AM with NO POSTPONEMENTS allowed! May 15th is the day Andy and I will most likely still be driving back from the Mid-Ohio race. Doesn't seem very judicial to me. It appears to me if they schedule your appeal when you can’t make it, you’re guilty and you have to pay! But the flip side of this is If you get a ticket for something you know you did (and it was bad) you can show up at the appeal and if the ticketing officer doesn’t show your innocent. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? But hold your water it’s going to get worst. As of July 1st any appeal will cost you $20 just to get in to see the judge. Now this sounds like the perfect recipe for ticket them all and let God sort them out. Who is responsible for thinking up these “let’s screw all the citizens” laws. Probably the same people that made it a law that no body can work on any highway, street or road without a cop to talk to them. Scary huh? |
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