If We Can’t Disintegrate Them, At Least We Can Fine Them
Va. Courts Predict A Deluge Of Cases – washingtonpost.com
… [A] large number of those facing the new fees are egregious or repeat offenders. According to a review of the roughly 4,400 tickets issued by Fairfax County Police since July 1, at least 300 are serious enough to be eligible for the new fines. Of those, about 75 involve driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. More than 100 involve driving without a license. Dozens of those charged have records with multiple past driving offenses.
Well, exactly.
These aren’t nice people who maybe go 55 or 60 on Fairfax County Parkway when the posted speed limit is actually 50 mph.
The people who will be nailed with these higher fines are assholes who drive drunk or who go 20 mph or more over the speed limit.
These are the same jerks who will try to convince you that it’s the people who are actually driving the speed limit who are creating the dangerous situation — because speeders then drive even more recklessly to try and get around the people who are driving more slowly.
Wrong. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! This is the same sort of idiotic thinking that produces statements like “You deserved to be robbed because you didn’t lock the door to your house.” That kind of attitude is born out of a self-centered disregard for the rights and safety of others.
What’s probably scariest of all about many of the people who are upset about the new fines is that they have no idea that they drive like complete assholes. They don’t think there’s anything wrong with how they drive! They’re completely oblivious! Maybe they’re too busy talking on their cell phones to notice that they’re tailgating at 65 or 70 mph. Maybe they’re just too goddamned fucking stupid to realize how unbelievably dangerous that is.
Actually, I think the world would be a much happier place if these assholes would just vanish from the face of the earth. But, seeing as how that’s unlikely to happen, the least we can do is fine the living shit out of them until they get it through their thick skulls that driving like a prick is a bad idea.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on July 28, 2007 under Uncategorized
You are a very angry person. The problem with the police in Fairfax is that they are arrogant, rude, overpaid “hall monitors with guns.” Many of the infractions that are in the penalty phase are not egregious enough for a normal person to support them. VA is becoming a police state. You probably like that…..
Angry? Really? It doesn’t anger me when people make assumptions about my personality based on a single blog post. Quite the contrary, I find it amusing!
I do like the high penalties, though. There’s NO good reason for ANYONE (who isn’t an emergency worker) to be driving 20 or more miles per hour over the speed limit. And that’s the leastegregious of the offenses receiving the new penalty.