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Don’t speed and you probably won’t get a speeding ticket

There’s been a bit of a fuss locally in the "Readers' Letters" section of our local newspaper over police tactics used to catch speeders. Namely, one very upset woman wrote earlier this month that she was ticketed for speeding based on the use of “eye in the sky” tactics: a Missouri State Patrol aircraft tracked her as speeding. Her big complaint was that no highway signs were posted in the area warning about aircraft being used to monitor speeders.

So, as one reader following up on the original letter so aptly suggested -- if you speed you will get a ticket; if you don't speed, chances are you won't get a speeding ticket. Which, in most cases is true. The exception would be, perhaps, if police were using faulty monitoring equipment (speed guns, whatever). But that probably would be an exception.

I am reminded of one of the more fun categories on "Jeopardy": stupid answers. Those are questions which clearly state the answer in the question, i.e., "If you are caught speeding, what kind of ticket will you get?"

Don't speed and you probably won't get a speeding ticket. Duh.

Ah, well, what do I know? I’m just a guy who reads the papers.

[tags]speeding tickets, newspaper readers' complaints, newspaper readers' letters, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]