Police Creativity: How to Increase a Speeding Ticket Charge
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This is creative. There is an extra charge on the speeding ticket in Atlanta, Georgia:
“HOLLY SPRINGS, Ga. — The surging price of gasoline has come to this: a “fuel surcharge” on your next speeding ticket.
Drivers caught speeding in this north Atlanta suburb soon will have to pay an extra $12 — to cover $4-a-gallon gas costs for the police officers who stop them.”
link: Speeders to pay extra for police fuel
Along the same lines, wouldn’t it be wise to add a ‘health surcharge’? If the police incident raised the officers’ blood pressure, then shouldn’t the offending motorist be penalized and made to contribute to a health plan? If one thinks about it, there are a myriad of other ’surcharges’ that could be added to the speeding ticket.
Catherine Forsythe
3 Comments
leftystrat
June 18th, 2008
at 7:01pm
It’s getting way too creative out there.
We’re seeing a totally out of control system where what used to be enforcement has turned into revenue generation.
Red light cameras, anyone?
OUSOB
June 19th, 2008
at 5:48am
It further verifies that speeding tickets aren’t about traffic safety. They’re about revenue generation.
E2001
June 20th, 2008
at 10:39pm
Oh, come on people! When did the Powers-That-Be ever NOT serve the almighty dollar?