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retmil46 · #12 12-08-2012, 03:14 AM

On the face of it, if what's been related to you is accurate, sounds more like "revenue enhancement" than any violation of traffic laws on the young man's part.

My next bet would be that the young man starts receiving flyers from certain local attorneys offering, for a sizable gratuity to themselves and/or a certain judge, to make the offense disappear.

My friend and his wife south of Austin experienced something similar about 4 years ago. She was driving a company van making her rounds, working for a certain national delivery company at the time. Said van was mechanically limited to 65 mph max. A member of the gendarme of a certain locality pulled her over and ticketed her for doing 80 in a 55. When she tried to explain that was impossible due to the engine governor on the vehicle and asked if she could see the radar display, the cop became quite belligerent and basically told her to just STFU and take the ticket, "or I"ll find something else to charge you with too".

Shortly thereafter, they were contacted by a judge - not attorney, but sitting judge - from said locality, who for a gratuity that amounted to about 2/3 of the fine on the ticket, offered to "nullify" said ticket so it wouldn't be reported against her license and place her on "probation" for six months - but if she got ticketed again during her "probation", then he'd have to lower the boom on her.