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THE SPEEDING TICKET MYTH

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By profittbigpaul


Think about what you know regarding speeding tickets. When was the first time that you

ever heard of them? Maybe you were in your car with your parents when they got pulled

over. Maybe you were taught them in kindergarten or in grade school. Maybe a local

friendly police officer came to your school to deliver a lecture about not speeding. What do

you remember learning? SPEEDING IS BAD!

Now, try and remember back to those days right before you got your license. Do you

remember going through a Driver’s Ed class from your high school? Did you take a class from

a local DMV or read a manual? What did they tell you?

SPEEDING IS BAD!

Think about the last time you received a speeding ticket. Did the officer lecture you? Did the

judge scold you? Did the insurance company raise your rates? What information does this

reinforce?

SPEEDING IS BAD!

We are conditioned to think that speeding is unlawful and unethical from a very early age,

and this knowledge is constantly reinforced throughout our lives. Two questions immediately

come to mind:

1. Is speeding actually bad?

2. Why are we conditioned to think this way?

In regards to the first question, the honest answer is yes and no. Obviously, driving at a

higher speed increases your chances of suffering a fatal injury if you collide with another car

or a roadside object. Faster vehicles are harder to control and take longer to come to a halt

in case something suddenly jumps in front of you. Generally, the faster you drive, the more

dangerous driving is.

Obviously, this is not something that I advocate. Driving at an unsafe speed is pointless, only

saves you a few minutes of time, and can endanger the lives of other drivers.

But we need to consider the terminology here. Let’s say that driving in a way that increases

the danger level of the driver and other drivers is unsafe driving. But is speeding always

unsafe driving? Speeding is defined as exceeding the posted speed limit, not being unsafe.

Is the speed limit always the best indicator of what speeds are safe? Absolutely Not! If you

drive 45 mph on an empty road where the speed limit is 30 mph, are you driving unsafely?

The chances are that you aren’t. So, when you see those red and blue lights come on behind

you, you will end up feeling picked-on and ripped off.

So, unsafe driving is certainly bad, but if speeding doesn’t consist of unsafe driving, then it’s

harmless. Still, we were conditioned from a very early age to think that all speeding is bad.

Why?

The answer is very complicated and hard to pin down. On one hand, ingrained knowledge of

the possible consequences of unsafe driving can save lives and reduce property damage. You

can’t really argue with that.

On the other hand, however, this ingrained knowledge can be used against you to justify

charging you with outrageous speeding fines and penalties that are then used to fund

private companies, city governments, and lawyers’ extravagant lifestyles! Because you’ve

had the idea that speeding is bad hammered into your head year after year, you won’t think

twice about writing that check.

But maybe you should! Are you aware of how many other people benefit from your cost?

Insurance companies:

Besides paying the cost of the ticket, your insurance company will

greatly raise the cost of your coverage. The average speeder gets a rate increase of 25% per

year for a single offense! That can be well over $600 per year in some cases! Now, you may

be thinking "That’s only fair. People who drive faster get into more accidents." That’s true.

But what about all of those speeders who aren’t driving unsafely? Does going ten miles

over that speed limit really make you more of a liability? Probably not. So, even if you aren’t

increasing their risk, you are filling out their coffers with ludicrous premiums. The point of an

insurance company is not to ensure the safety of your property or body; it’s to make a profit.

Nothing helps an insurance company meet their bottom line better than a speeder who

doesn’t increase their risk but is forced to pay a higher rate. What’s worse, these companies

know this very well! Just last year, the Geico Insurance Company gave United States police

forces over twenty million dollars to upgrade their speed detection equipment and to supply

additional radar guns. Why would they do this? Do you think a private company would give

this kind of money away out of legitimate concern for your safety? Certainly not. Geico

knew that it could cut a larger profit margin if police forces caught more speeders!

City Governments:

Many cities do not charge a sales tax. Often times, these city governments

are under-funded and cannot meet all of their citizen’s needs without another way to come

up with the funds. Where do you think that ridiculous speeding fine goes after you pay it?

No matter how you spin it, the simple fact of the matter is that the more speeders the city

catches, the more money they will have! With the corrupt nature of many city governments,

do you really want to cut a check to help some politician buy another flashy car (so HE can

speed and get away with it?)

Police Officers:

City governments believe that, without setting a quota, many officers won’t

pull in enough speeders to generate the appropriate amount of revenue. Sure, they’ll still

catch the really bad ones, the ones driving unsafely, and the ones that deserve to be caught.

But they won’t catch enough people like you and me! The city depends on minor speeding

offenders for funding, so they set quotas for officers to fill per months, or they can lose

their salary and become disqualified for promotions. That means, at the end of each month,

officers who are behind on their quotas are going to need to pull people over for frivolous

speeding charges! Did you put anyone else’s life in danger for going eight miles per hour

over the speed limit? No! But they have a quota to meet, so they’ll pull you over anyway.

Lawyers:

Most lawyers do not like being involved with traffic law because the amount of

money involved is relatively small compared to what they can pull for larger cases. However,

lawyers who are new to the business will often need to take these kinds of cases in order to

make ends meet. While these lawyers can usually get your ticket dismissed (often using the

same methods I will share later in this book), they will charge you essentially the price of the

ticket, claiming that it was worth it because they don’t get points on your license or raise

your insurance rates. But isn’t the point of getting a ticket dismissed to save money?

Considering the amount of people who depend on you to pay your ticket in order to gain

in some way or another, doesn’t it seem pretty hard to simply believe that the system exists

to protect drivers?

How can this system claim to be totally honest when so many people

benefit from you getting caught speeding?!?!

The simple answer is that it can’t. While the system works well enough to catch drivers that

are driving recklessly, drunk, or aggressively, it taxes honest people like ourselves way too

often.

This is the myth of the speeding ticket: if you’re caught speeding, you did something wrong

and you must pay. It’s very black and white. But we in the real world know that there are

just too many shades of grey for this to be fair.

That’s why I designed this system. My techniques can help people like ourselves break the

cycle and avoid paying out of our ears for fines that we don’t deserve.

The Cost of Tickets

Since the global economic collapse, the average American is struggling to make ends meet.

Unemployment is near ten percent, and foreclosures are on the rise. It’s never been more

important to save money in every little way that we can.

Are you aware of how badly a speeding ticket can set you back in this process?

The average cost of a speeding ticket today is almost Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars! And

the sad part is that’s just the cost of the ticket. You will need to add the increase in your

insurance premiums to that amount as well. So, let’s say you pay $1600 per year for your

insurance, and your rate takes a 25% hike after the ticket. This will increase the total cost of

your ticket to $850. You can lose sight of your speedometer, harmlessly go a little faster than

the posted limit, and suddenly find yourself $850 in the hole. Let’s take a minute to think

about what that money could have been spent on instead of needlessly paying your ticket:

You could have put yourself and your family up in a hotel room for over a week

You could have paid for two plane tickets to almost anywhere in the world

You could have upgraded your car with a new sound system or paint job

You could have bought groceries for well over two months

You could have invested it in the stock market, which means you’re also losing whatever

that stock would have yielded

You could have bought a new TV or paid the cable bill for up to a year

You could have paid off part of your credit card debt

And so on. I’m sure you can think of literally thousands of things you would rather have

spent your money on than paying that speeding fine. So why pay it? Later in this text, I’ll

show you a way to get around the system that the courts desperately don’t want you to

know.

Some Anecdotes

Before I started writing this book, I went around and asked people for their most

frustrating stories regarding getting pulled over for speeding. Here are two of my favorites.

I believe that they’re useful for illustrating the type of situation that my system is designed to

remedy.

Margaret from Fort Worth, TX:

"I was driving my child to school one day. My son has a

particularly difficult teacher (he’s in the seventh grade) who automatically fails students for

more than ten tardy marks. Because of auto troubles that my family has historically had, he

was at his ninth. We can’t really afford fixing our car at this moment, not on our budget. The

thing refused to start again, and when I finally got it running, we only had ten minutes to

get him into class before he would fail for the year. I decided to step on it a little, and went

45 down a back road that would have gotten us there on time. Sure enough, I see a cop turn

the corner after me and turn on his lights. I pleaded with the officer and shared my story, but

he didn’t buy it, and issued me a three hundred dollar ticket. He must have had to meet his

quota or had absolutely no heart. Thankfully, my son passed, but only after several parentteacher

conferences. We had to cancel the family vacation to compensate for the cost of the

ticket and the insurance hike, though."

Do you really think Margaret deserved all of those consequences? I don’t think so, and if

you’ve bought this book, then I would guess you don’t think so either. Here’s another:

Thomas from Boston, MA:

"My brother has diabetes. When he had an episode, my wife and I

tried to speed to the hospital to see if he was OK. I was so focused on his health that I didn’t

even bother looking at how fast I was driving. Needless to say, I was very frustrated when

the police pulled me over for speeding. When I explained my situation, he hurried with the

writing of the ticket but still decided to issue one. I went to court and argued my case, but

the judge did not dismiss my case."

Examples of innocent, hardworking people with emergencies or slight lapses in concentration

being billed and treated as criminal offenders are rampant. They happened to me, and

they’ll probably happen to you at one point in your life. After all, it’s what the system was

designed to do!

"Other Methods"

One question a lot of people asked me when I told them that I was writing this book was

"Aren’t there already plenty of effective methods for getting out of tickets? Why shouldn’t I

just use one of those?"

Well, the simple answer is that these methods simply don’t work as well as my system. The

courts and the police are bound to obey and enforce one thing: the law. Because I use a

sound, legal argument that uses precedent case law and evidence rules of procedure against

the ticket-givers, I regain the power and am able to dismiss tickets at a much higher rate!

Let’s go over some of the more common myths about how to get out of speeding tickets and

precisely why they do not work.

Ticket Lawyers:

While these people usually do a pretty good job of getting you out of your

ticket situation, my system holds several advantages over using a lawyer. One, my system

essentially includes the same tactics that lawyers would use to get the case dismissed, but

without the expensive fee. Lawyers often charge around the same price as the ticket for

their service fee. While this means that you’ll get no points on your license and no hike in

your insurance policy, it doesn’t do much to save you money for the cost of the ticket. My

system will allow you to get your case dropped for absolutely no additional charges. No

professionals, no lawyers, and no more money coming out of your pocket.

Paying the Ticket:

Many people, upon being ticketed, simply just write a check and send it on

in. Why would you do this? Remember that it’s not just a fine that you’re paying. If the only

consequence for speeding was the fine, then I wouldn’t need to be writing this book. The

auxiliary consequences of tickets are often more painful and more costly than the upfront

expenses. Your insurance rates will rise by at least 25% (on average), and "points" will be

put on your license. In some states, all it takes is three or four speeding tickets to accumulate

enough points to have your license suspended for up to a year or more! I can’t tell you

how many people have told me that they weren’t paying attention to their point totals and

suddenly found themselves incapable of driving.

Don’t pay that ticket!

Simply use the system

that I explain later in this text.

Using a Good Excuse:

If you think you can walk in to court and tell the judge a pity-story

about how you were in an emergency and needed to speed, then I’ve got some sad news for

you, my friend. Unless you can back up your story with some serious evidence, he’s going to

assume you’re lying. He has to! Think about it. If excuses frequently worked for getting out

of tickets, then everyone who was pulled over would be bending over backwards, making up

ridiculous tales about how their child has a serious disease, etc. Because excuses are so easily

fabricated, any judge in their right mind simply can’t heed them. They’ll tell you that they’re

sorry about you situation, and tell you to pay up. Plus, there’s just too much money to be

made to listen or care about your potentially legitimate excuse.

Try to Reschedule the Court Date:

Many people try this sneaky tactic, which involves

rescheduling the court date to the ticketing officer’s day off under the assumption that

he won’t show up. While this can work occasionally, it is by no means foolproof and can

backfire in several ugly ways. First of all, it can be very difficult to even get the officer’s

schedule, which means you may have to guess. Even if you do successfully move the date, the

prosecutor will ask the judge to reschedule the date again once he sees that the officer isn’t

there (it would only be fair, since he moved the date for you!) Finally, this trick has been tried

so many times that most judges and prosecutors are savvy to it. Once they see that you’re

trying to pull a fast one, they’ll be sure to throw the book at you.

Questioning the Officer’s Judgment:

One little trick that many people try to pull is to

question whether or not the officer tagged the right car with the radar gun. People try to

suggest that a truck or another car was driving much faster than them in their vicinity, and

that the officer made a mistake and pulled over the wrong person. This method

doesn’t

work, ever.

In this situation, it’s just the officer’s word versus yours, and the officer always

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