[TUCKER]

Just the other day I was pulled over in traffic and issued a citation for speeding. The officer said he clocked me on radar at 50 in a 40 mph zone. After some fast talking on my part, he decided to give me a break and reduce it to 45 in a 50. During our conversation he went to explain to me that 10 miles and above and the state starts to take pts from your license or something like that. He asked me if I wanted to see the radar gun and I said certainly!

I didn't understand the whole thing at all and I don't feel he was giving me a break. I said I thought it was sort of strange that I was clocked at 50, why not 49,8,7,or 6, why 50? If you're giving me a break why don't you drop the ticket and cut the bullshyt? I know from past experience that atty's have challenged the accuracy of radar inside 10 miles over the limit and won. He just smiled and tried to direct his comments to my wife, who knew I had him hooked and never said a word!

He told me that if I showed up in court next month, the judge would probably dismiss the ticket. I asked him why and he said "because they do it all the time." I then asked him if he was going to be there and he said "Oh yes!" So I said "and you're going to say you might've made a mistake with your radar equipment when I plead not guilty huh?" He just smiled one of those UNCLE TOMMY type smiles and said you just show up!

Now my question is, do you see where I'm getting a break in here? I've got to go to court. I've got to appear before a judge. When I ask him in court, "If the radar says 50 and you wrote the ticket for 45, doesn't that say that something is wrong." I'm sure the judge won't appreciate me making that observation in open court, but I don't see no break here. At least not for me.

Now Kharma, cc5k, here is your compromise situation. This is a case of a cop not doing his job. Not doing what he's paid to do! This is what I was talking about in that earlier debate that we were having about compromising, settling, cutting deals and not doing your job! Has this ever happened to "ANY" of you? Do you call this a break? What do you think of this?