I wasn't aware of that law, but I am glad to know about it.
There is a city just West of Fort Worth called Flower Mound, which
derives a major portion of their revenue from traffic fines because they
happen to have a few miles of busy interstate within their city limits.
Last year I watched a 4500-lb police cruiser drive 2 miles at over 100 mph
through rush-hour commuter traffic to write me a ticket for 80 in a 65 zone.
I just happened to be the last one in a long line of 80+mph cars in the left
lane. In fact, I had just let them by and then pulled in behind the last
one. I submit that public safety was not served in stopping my 2500 lb car
from doing 10 over using a behemoth doing 35+ mph over.
Rex Burkheimer
Parts Plus Marketing Director WM Automotive Whse., Fort Worth TX
Taxation is the art of plucking the goose so as to obtain the largest
amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul F Mele <Paul.Mele@usermail.com>
To: <epetrevich@relavis.com>; Rex Burkheimer - WM <rex@txol.net>
Cc: <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 10:04 PM
Subject: RE:Texas
> here's a different twist on Texas....
>
> [see attached .html file]
>
> Acc to National Motorists Assoc, tho, it happens everywhere. I read a
> similar story about a tiny town in FL on I-95 with 0.6 miles of interstate
> running through it that had a huge police force simply grabbing dollars as
> they drove by.
> I hope all of the list members who like to drive their cars support the
NMA
> efforts to can these twits.
>
> Paul Mele
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