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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 months agoI’m starting to think people see those as a way to get out of speeding tickets.
In the 80s you just needed to know a cop and get one of those cards.
Its cheaper just to find a fleabag lawyer to talk to the prosecutor. They can get the points removed and change the offense to something like a broken muffler ticket. You still pay the fine, sometimes a little less, but it doent put points on your record and the insurance company won’t raise your rates.
Source: have done it several times. Costs between $200-300 for lawyer which is far less than the cumulative cost of insurance increases over time.
How does that work if, like, you were actually speeding?
Asking for a friend.
Yeah I've seen those too, like the ones you donate to receive. I've seen people just line them up on top of each other as some hope to receive favor from the officer.
socsa@piefed.social 8 months ago
Americans will literally do anything to get out of speeding tickets besides driving the speed limit.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Part of the issue is that speeds are set nonsensically here and in certain areas they’ll literally be set to randomly drop on a small section of road solely for the purpose of giving out speeding tickets.