(V-Max 2 Busa @ May 22 2007,19:32) I got one last month, here in California it was $151.00. The real pisser is that I always wear my seat belt just sometimes get a little ahead of my self and start driving then put the damn thing on, that's exactly what I did, pulled out of a driveway onto a street reached over and put the belt on, only problem is their was a CHP on the other side of the road writing someone a ticket and he looked right at me and I at him, he dropped what he was doin & jumped in his car and flipped a Uey and was literally doin about 85 in a 25 MPH zone in front of an Elementry School to catch up to me, damn near ran into the back of me at the next stop sign, lights a flashin & sirens a blaren...WTF This guy was really pissed that I wasn't wearing a seat belt and in his opinion I only put it on because he looked at me, WHATEVER....Why waste my breath...Frickin Grow Up. I saw the commercial last night and it stated that "Cops Are Writing Tickets To Save Lives".......WHO IN THE F@*%!+ DO THEY THINK THEY ARE KIDDING.... CAN ANYONE SAY GOVERNMENT GREED?
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?? Just out of curiousity I crunched some numbers, Seems they are running this REVENUE PROGRAM nationwide let's say they were to only write 100 tickets daily in each state (actual numbers have got to be higher than that) That's 5,200 tickets daily which at $151.00 each that comes out to $785,200.00 a day in REVENUE. Annually that comes out to $286,598.000.00 , Yup! Two Hundred and Eighty Six and a one half MILLION Dollars.
Now does anyone care to debate the Red light cameras? $351.00 to accidently run a red light, OH THAT'S RIGHT, THOSE ARE DESIGNED AS A DETERANT SO FOLKS DON'T PURPOSELY RUN RED LIGHTS, Couldn't possibly be just another REVENUE PROGRAM, COULD IT?
PERSONALLY I THINK GOVERNMENT (at all levels) IS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL, THEIR LUST FOR POWER AND GREED FOR WEALTH IS UTTERLY OBSCENE!!!