Just got a ticket for this.

[sbergman27]

Originally Posted by camelll

Cops are dicks. They go out of their way to intimidate people.

You make me wonder why I bother to type so many words to express something which can be said so concisely. :-)

-Steve

[jamal1984]

Originally Posted by sbergman27

You make me wonder why I bother to type so many words to express something which can be said so concisely. :-)

-Steve

+1
It's a FREE Country after all, a lot of educated peoples live in this country.
As my first posted say, i don't get mad for getting this ticket.
There are a lot of right laws out there that i absolutely agreed to it, example.....Speeding, super dark window tinting, hit and run.....loud speakers....
etc,
But when it's come to something like this, in my 2cents it's Stupid, they are Bullying us, Harassing innocent peoples, trying to make revenue out of us, we are tax payers.
If i'm not a criminal or a killer let's me do something to my car that make it's look nice, let's me buy stuff spending the moneys to help the economy, rather than pull me over just for something like this. The more they doing this, the more it's remind peoples of communist.

[sbergman27]

Originally Posted by jamal1984

As my first posted say, i don't get mad for getting this ticket.

You are doing very well there, then. I think you should be concerned. And posting here demonstrates that you are.

I would be *angry* and concerned. To be sure, anger is a double-edged sword. Anger can prompt us to take action which we might otherwise be too lazy or distracted to take... or it can cloud our perspective.

I don't think that those agencies who abuse their authority really want cases which involve their abuses paraded before the courts. The courts *could* put a crimp in their style. Concerning my own recent adventure, I considered contacting an attorney, or an organization like the ACLU, to see what, likely small, action I could take too bring this incident to the attention of at least someone in the legal branch of government. I haven't. The infraction, in my example, was relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.

But still, what we're seeing can be viewed as death by a thousand cuts for principles which we thought we held sacred.

There are a lot of right laws out there that i absolutely agreed to it, example.....Speeding, super dark window tinting, hit and run.....loud speakers....

Indeed. I would agree. Others' freedom ends where my nose begins. And rattling the plates in all the houses one passes is... well... in a great show of restraint, I won't call for capitol punishment on that one. Just 25 years in a federal penitentiary, say. ;-)

But when it's come to something like this, in my 2cents it's Stupid, they are Bullying us, Harassing innocent peoples, trying to make revenue out of us, we are tax payers.

It's not just stupid. It's dangerous to the long-term health of our society. To be sure, we have lots of those. But this is a symptom of something that really eats at the foundations.

The fact that you or I got stopped and harassed is of no fundamental consequence. But the general trend, going far beyond traffic issues, *is*.

-Steve

[eht13]

Originally Posted by jamal1984

super dark window tinting

I wonder about this one. I'm in Georgia too, and I know our laws have a tint limit. But I see cars all the time that almost definitely exceed the tint limit. I assume they can pull someone over for just that reason, but maybe not... maybe there has to be another reason, such as speeding, and then they can also say, "by the way, I need to test this tint percentage". Did you (the OP) get stopped for any other reason, or just the eyelids/headlight decals?

[jamal1984]

Originally Posted by eht13

I wonder about this one. I'm in Georgia too, and I know our laws have a tint limit. But I see cars all the time that almost definitely exceed the tint limit. I assume they can pull someone over for just that reason, but maybe not... maybe there has to be another reason, such as speeding, and then they can also say, "by the way, I need to test this tint percentage". Did you (the OP) get stopped for any other reason, or just the eyelids/headlight decals?

just the eyelids, nothing else.