Speeding in LA
 

Received an email earlier today......FYI

Speeding in LA

Monday, August 2, 2010 1:08 PM

"As many of you know that I work for the Arc of ST. Charles and we have STATE vehicles....... Well we just received notice from the State that effective August 1st, the Louisiana State Troopers will start issuing tickets to anyone for traveling 5 miles over the speed limit....... They have a quota of 900,000 tickets in the first 30 days........ 10 miles over the speed limit is no longer.......... Guess with all the state budget cuts, they have to collect money some kind of way........ Watch your speed!"

Yeh my uncle emailed me that a few days ago. Damn pigs!

:eek::eek:

I drive the speed limit...what's the problem?

got the same one yesterday !!!

Cops don't have quotas........so they say?

I go 5-7 mph over, but now Im gonna get pulled over for it.

Main Entry: ex·ceed
Pronunciation: \ik-ˈsēd\
Function: verb
Definition: To pass set limit

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dont feel like your alone ALL people over 90 yrs old drive the speed limit:eek::*****::*****::*****:

Being "alone" is not my concern...it's being alive.

naw im just messi with ya . ever sence my accident ive been drivin very alert ! makin an effort to drive the speed limit

What truck did you endup getting?

I used to speed, till diesel hit $4.50/gal.

I call b.s. on this. In one month troopers would have to write roughly 29000 tickets a day, they do not have the man power to do this. example, if one trooper writing tickets managed to write 5 tickets an hour for his 12 hour shift that would be 60 tickets. You would need 483 troopers writing a ticket every 12 minutes to make this possible.

Very good point Swamp

i understand the law is the law but 95% of people getting pulled over are trying to get to work!! do the super troopers have nothing better else to do but harass people trying to make a living. with all the drugs theft going on around you think they could focus on something better than 5 over the speed limit. maybe they just dont have the balls to do something about it and rather deal with traffic violations

That's always been the way it is when you have Texas plates in LA. :)

Most Houston area cops give 15mph. If you drive the speed limit around here you get killed. ;)

wah yeah that is the only ones that will pay the fines. :pissed:

Houston has more people than Louisiana. :cool:

They tried to sneak in a $15 increase in the cost of a drivers license and the legislature canned it. This is the way to make up the lost funds.

anyone have a link on this new speed enforcement? I googled it but no dice...

It's not going to be officially published. By law if you are 1 mph over you can get a ticket.

Yup........just go through Golden Meadow & Cutoff:cool:

Yea you got that right, Maurice also. I always set my cruise when passing through those towns.

Some years ago I went before the judge on a traffic violation. He ask me if I had any prior violations on my record. I told him I had a speeding ticket in Golden Meadow. He looked over the top of his glasses and started grinning and said, "Don't worry about that one ,we don't even acknowledge those". Everybody in the courtroom busted out laughing...

Sun, LA, just south of Bogalusa, used to be a 'speed trap'. My son got stopped there once doing 47 in a 45. :eek:

When they first started enforcing the toll on the new Leeville Bridge, I stopped at Griffins in Leeville to get my 'Geaux Pass'. Mr. Griffin said "I'm kinda new at does Geaux Passes but come in my office". After fumbleing on the computer for about 10 minutes he issued my toll pass. A month later,I got a violation for crossing the bridge without a pass. Now do I take a day off of work and drive 140 miles to go fight the ticket or do I just send them the $70. It was a no-brainer, i sent them a check.

That email is a hoax. 900,000 tickets? We only have about 3.5 million people in the state.

True . That would equate to 1 ticket for every 3.3 people in the state. Considering only 80% of pop. has drivers lisc. ,the numbers would be greater. Myth busted:rotfl:

Actually, I'd be surprised if 50% have driver's licenses, since a large percentage of the population is under 16 years old. ;)

Man, only 3.3M people in the state? Harris County alone has more people than that. :p

The question here is......are they legal?;)

Not likely, I'd be willing to bet that 30%+ of the population in Houston is illegal. :cry:

;)

That's the answer I was looking for Bob:smokin:

Washington Parish has more asterisks than Harris County has Texicans. :smokin: And aint none of 'em got a drivers license. :rolleyes:

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And they all attended the NObama inauguration, and only 1 missed work!

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You shouldn't have paid it.......many hundreds of folk got that ticket including me......all it took was a phone call. I told em I stopped and paid it and they said OK......sent me a letter saying it was waved......I think they counted on folks just paying and not calling

No worries here. I drive like a grandmaw! :]

You dont know!