Sent my donation the the Washington State Patrol today...

[John]

So I'm just north of Steptoe on 195 on dry roads keeping pace with traffic at 63, the posted limit is 60. I see the car that just went by me headed south hit the brakes and flip around. Look down and I'm doing 63, keep tooling down the road and here come the lights. Chit. I pull over and he says "Do you know how fast you were going?" I tell him that I thought between 60 and 63. "No, you were doing 65" So I hand over all the paperwork and he goes back to his car. I figure he is going to run my info and tell me to slow it down a little. NOPE, he comes back and hands me a ticket for 65 in a 60. $93.00! They must love out of staters up there, knowing they aren't going to drive the 300 miles to fight a BS ticket. Washington must be hurting for cash eh?

 

[Ice Cap]

Yes we are hurting for cash and thank you very much for helping us out.

I have helped out a few times myself.

 

[ericbigbore]

We have a 7 billion hole to climb out of thanks to our skank govorner. Cmmon back and spend some money.

 

[Blu Du]

i'am going to send mine to ND this week 89 in a 75. $70

 

[woodzy]

absolutely terrible w/ their fines... Must be a huge revenue maker for the state?? Gotta love Montana!!!

 

[Perk]

I think every state is on the same recovery plan. Buy stock in the auto insurance companies, they will start making more money from the increased rates and their risk level will be the same.

 

[mcgyver]

that is pretty crappy...... I would think a 10% margin is reasonable....you could probably have close to that just with the variation from new to old tires

 

[John]

It sure isn't about public safety!

I think every state is on the same recovery plan. Buy stock in the auto insurance companies, they will start making more money from the increased rates and their risk level will be the same.

This system is a mess.

 

[snowrdr]

Now that ticket is horrible. Since budgets are tight they need to justify revenues streams by handing out more tickets. I just received a ticket last week for rolling through a stop sign (which I sure did do) but the intial fine was $300 and 3 points off of my license. But for being honest and "fun to talk with" he reduced it to 1 point and $115.00. For those traveling through Nevada I would not do more then 5 over right now! NHP is making a lot of public notice about cracking down on speeding. They are getting to the point where the one car pulls over 2 cars at the same time. (Just happened to my wife a month ago)

 

[johnsodo]

i got stoped to day doing 93 in a 75 and got a butt chewing (slow down)

 

[zach477]

Is Wy hurting for money too?? I got pulled over for doing 33 in a 30 in town and going through a light I would call yellow, possibly orange....not red. If the roads were dry and not patchy ice i would have stoped but since i would have slid into the middle of the intersection i just kept on it. $147 was the grand total there. Wy may be broke but so am I, it might be a few months before they get their money.

 

[woodzy]

set up a payment plan zach!!!

 

[buck50]

absolutely terrible w/ their fines... Must be a huge revenue maker for the state?? Gotta love Montana!!!

i got a ticket there in 97 for speeding on my way thru there to texas!! this was when there was no official speed limit, it just stated reasonable and prudent. i had a brand new car, and i was doing about 85 mph, on a secondary highway during the day. the cop goes by me, spins around and comes after me. i slow down to about 60 mph, and i kid you not, it took him about 10 mins to catch me!!!!! finally he comes up to my car and asks how fast i was going, i say 85 ish but what's the problem, there's no speed limit right!!! nope he says, on these secondary roads that are twisty and well travelled(i could see about 2 miles at this point, and only had 1 car go by in the 20 mins i was there) you can do about 60 ish, and on the main interstate about 65ish! i asked him why they didn't just POST those numbers then!!!! no response, but i sure did get that ticket, and i had to pay it on the spot!!! a little fishy, but i was headed for texas and didn't feel like arguing, and losing said argument i'm sure, with that loser!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SAWYER]

That's cause Wahingston sucks

 

[framus]

We have a 7 billion hole to climb out of thanks to our skank govorner. Cmmon back and spend some money.

God damn..thats poetry!

 

[m7bandit]

So I'm just north of Steptoe on 195 on dry roads keeping pace with traffic at 63, the posted limit is 60. I see the car that just went by me headed south hit the brakes and flip around. Look down and I'm doing 63, keep tooling down the road and here come the lights. Chit. I pull over and he says "Do you know how fast you were going?" I tell him that I thought between 60 and 63. "No, you were doing 65" So I hand over all the paperwork and he goes back to his car. I figure he is going to run my info and tell me to slow it down a little. NOPE, he comes back and hands me a ticket for 65 in a 60. $93.00! They must love out of staters up there, knowing they aren't going to drive the 300 miles to fight a BS ticket. Washington must be hurting for cash eh?

yep thats washingtons finest on the job

 

[CDA_RMK]

i got one over the summer 30 in a park zone but it was like 10 at night and it was posted 30 and 20 when kids are there lol that was a big one 250 big ones. got to love bike cops.

 

[TBWdracula2003]

this summer i was over in washington and i passed a guy, i got about 50 feet in front of him and bam i get hit, i was going 61 in a 50. $144 later ill know never to go back to the west coast of WA

 

[spring snow hero]

john you got lucky you made it through colfax. I was stopped at 4am for 27 in a 25.......I was kind of a dick to the kid and let him know how I felt.......he laughed and said don't ever speed through my town again. 4 others on my crew got tickets that same week.

****in colfax

 

[INDEEP]

Give him a break he was picked on alot in school. PIGS