So yeah, on Saturday night, I got one of those. It kind of sucked. At first I thought it was $148, but I looked at the wrong place. I finally looked at the damn thing last night and it’s $119, but if I take it to court it’ll cost me $148.50. Uh, that seems wrong.
Some funny things from it:
1. I admitted to the cop that I was going to Club Shakers, which is a local strip club. He told me he catches a lot of guys speeding there. To make matters worse, I got there and they were closed. Even though they’re supposed to be open from 7 until 2 Thur-Sat. Assholes closed on a holiday weekend. Also married guys are lucky, they can get sexed up whenever they want.
2. I lied to him about not knowing the speed limit. But it’s a joke, if you go south on Highway 61 right after it divides from Highway 151, it should be 65 MPH right away. Instead they wait a mile keeping it at 55 and then change it to 65 right past the airport driveway. I think they do that just to catch speeders there. Especially since when you head west on 151 it changes to 65 right away.
3. So I looked it up on the Iowa Court records website thing and it says my last speeding ticket was in October of 1999. The cost for it was $28. How does a ticket go up $91 in 10.5 years? I mean that’s insane. If adjusted for inflation, the $28 from 1999 would today be almost $37. $119 in 1999 would be almost $91. When I mentioned the police guy, I mentioned that’s a lot more than my last ticket and he said that they just raised the prices on July 1st. Ha!
4. At that point I said I hadn’t had a ticket in over 10 years. He said “Well, the state has to get it’s money somehow…” I see, the money isn’t mine, it’s their money and they’re just getting it from me, as much as they need. If you’re careful, the state won’t get too much of it’s money from you.
5. “…because the state of Iowa is broke, ya know?” Oh, so the guys I didn’t vote for who are running the state are doing a bad job and therefore the guys who are going a little fast have to pay for it? I mean, shouldn’t those dumb fucks who can’t figure out how to stay within a budget have to pay more? The other funny thing is that the guys who are going a little fast aren’t costing the state anything. I mean, shouldn’t the taxes for people with kids go up unless their kids are going to private schools? Why should a single person have to pay more taxes for other people’s kids to go to school? It’s bullshit.
6. So the state is going broke and what kind of state vehicle is he driving? A giant, gas guzzling SUV. Are you fucking kidding me? An SUV? I mean SUVs are fucking expensive and they use up lots of gas, which cost money. I mean are you telling me the state is going broke and you’re driving that money wasting vehicle? Nice planning, dumb ass state government. They’re trying to make me feel bad about paying a speeding ticket.
Now for something completely different.
Another thought. I was watching the P&T Bullshit episode where they talked about teen sex and one of the girls they talked to said some guys sent a picture on his cell phone of his area and she thought it was funny because he was proud of it when he shouldn’t have been. I bet the camera cuts off a few inches there.
Ya know, like how camera adds a couple…hundred pounds when you have clothes on.
