@schlep.
That was my exact point, but it blew right past you.
The ONLY time I’ve been hassled for lights was literally 30 years ago by a Cracker Jack box local deputy, who’s responsibility wasn’t to protect and serve the public. It was solely to fund the city’s (villages) revenue. If you haven’t had the pleasure of living in or near a “speed trap” town, you wouldn’t understand.
Fwiw I give everyone every bit of respect they deserve, always have, and even some to those that don’t deserve it. But sometimes it just doesn’t matter, because you’re getting screwed regardless of how nice you are.
And I wasn’t bragging about getting tickets, although I probably had enough traffic tickets by age 21 to paper a wall (most of them well deserved). I was pointing out the foolishness of worrying about having driving lights. The 5 ticket thing was a real revenue generator for this town. Even had their own city tow truck that the maint guy would show up in when he got the call from Barney. Then the city would tack on an exhorbitant tow bill of which they got 100% of the revenue for as well. The one time I got my 5 ticket string, I was actually 100% legal and not disobeying any traffic laws either. But somehow , even with a copy of the dmv paperwork, the officer couldn’t “ verify” with dispatch that my vehicle registration had recently changed. Well no sht Sherlock. The internet didn’t exist and the dmv wasn’t open for them to “call” on a Saturday afternoon.
Good times. The best part was the look on Barney’s face when my defense attorney was also the county prosecutor that day and somehow the county “did not have any records of the alleged violations”!!
I support ethical law enforcement all day long and twice on Sundays, lol, but it’s hard to get behind the crooked ones.
Back to driving lights, who gives a f?
They’re lights. Put them on, don’t put them on, doesn’t matter.
Btw, do you feel guilty for removing the do not remove tag from a new pillow, or just live with it so as not to break the “law?”
