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>From: D. Jay Newman [mailto:jay@SPRUCEGROVE.COM]
>
>My advice is to pay the ticket and get a used sedan. Something
>boring and broken in, but not noticible.
>
>This will lower your insurance premium quite a bit (sports
>cars pay a premium), and you'll be less noticed by the cops.


Surely this is a fundamental violation of the freedom that Americans are so
protective of?  Why should he not be able to drive a sports car without
discrimination?

My (very limited) experience of the US highway police was not good.  On a
vacation my fiance and I stayed with friends in New Jersey, and managed to
get a lift down to DC with one of their parents.  He was a very steady
driver, but we got pulled about 100 yards after a set of traffic lights. The
officer claimed we had been speeding, all of us in the car knew we had not
even reached the speed limit.  After getting the ticket our friends father
explained he would simply have to pay up and that arguing against the police
over there was futile.  He also said that mobile speed traps mostly picked
on out of state cars.  "To serve and to protect" eh?  To serve tickets
apparently.

Generaly if you get a ticket from a cop in the UK (as opposed to a speed
camera), you have either done something stupid, or you have "attitude".
There will always be exceptions of course but my experience with UK traffic
police has been for the most part a positive experience.  Interestingly a
significant number of trafpols belive that speed cameras in the UK are for
revenue generation and do not improve road safety.

Regards

Mike




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