
Quoting
EWYLTJ
This site amazes me. I can't believe all of the pinheaded people who throw common sense out the window. While it is technically correct that the placard was registered to a different person, common sense and basic judgement should have dictated a different course of action. As I have said in another thread... there is still a law in my home town that for a person to drive a car down main street, he must have someone 50 ft in front of him waiving a red flag. So, if the local cops started up a similar ticket mill... I guess all the knuckleheads here would agree that each person who got a ticket violated the law and that we should "CHEER" for the cops who wrote the tickets.
This situation should be offensive to everyone... not just the OP. I think the OP should file a formal complaint with the SDPD and I'd forward a copy of that complaint to the Mayor and every city council member. I'd attend a city concil meeting and invite the press. Rather than humbling myself in front of a judge as was strongly advised, I would instead make a huge stink exposing the ridiculous lack of any judgment excercised by the SDPD.
The thing that is lost by these short-sighted posters is that government is here to serve the people. The people are NOT here to serve the government. Abandoning common sense does NOTHING to serve the people.
Finally... if the fine is $250, that means you'll end up paying well over $1000 after all of the costs and fees and other BS. There is no way in hell anyone is going to convince any reasonable person that there isn't a financial motive for the State. Even if the local cop shop doesn't get direct benefit, the State surely does... and the State surely sends lots of money to the local cop shop. Laundering ticket money through the State doesn't make those pinhead cops' motive pure...