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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour
Evidently driving at speed equates to aiming a loaded weapon at an innocent.
Virginia isn't a very wealthy state, is it? I'm sure this is their way of keeping labor costs down for highway services (police, ambulance, fire) by way of far safer driving and also lines their pockets with the revenue from these speeding tickets and reckless driving charges.
I'm not saying any of this isn't usurious... I just thought I'd type out an explanation of sorts.
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Virginia is one of the wealthier southern states, largely due to the D.C. suburbanites who have advanced degrees in business, law and medicine. And because of the military bases and the political pull that brings in Congress, they do all right as far as appropriations. But from what I understand that's where you're unlikely to go to jail for speeding, it's more the rural areas where Smokey doesn't like the bandit tearing up their roads. But its always a luck of the draw with Courts, there may be five judges one has a fast car and the other four hate them, which is exactly what happened here. The judge's discretion has a big spread of what charges can be reduced or not. But the law in Virginia puts them firmly in the driver's seat on whether you end up with a criminal record or not.
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