I was visiting some friends in Columbus last night when this little tidbit crossed within earsight (not an exact quote):
“I heard that they just passed this new law that gives you a like $200 ticket for talking on your cellphone without a hands free device and that they will pull you over if you are more than 3 MPH over the speed limit, instead of 9 MPH.”
This sounded a little fishy to me, but what do I know; I don’t watch the news or read the papers (they’re usually full of the same old BS day after day, it tires me). However, I do believe in perusing the “internets” for my information.
According to Snopes and the Georgia DMV, this (circulating email rumor) is FALSE. The fines have not been increased, etc etc. Oh, and you can be pulled over for 1 MPH over the speed limit, but it has always been like that – it’s up to the officer.
Now get in your car and go do a little speeding – please talk on your celly while doing it, okay?
Read this if you wanna know more about Georgia laws.
2 responses so far »
1 James. Sr. // Feb 18, 2008 at 10:52 am
I am not opposed to enforcement of traffic laws. However I am opposed to excessive fines and unfair tickets. Example where the speed limit sign is hidden How about when they pull you over for some unclear reason and write you for failure to maintain lane and reckless driving, because you were in the left lane and you had to cross the right lane to get to the shoulder of the road. The City of Duluth, Ga. did this to my son. they later dropped the failure to maintain lane, but they also ticketed him for parking in a handicapped zone. His tires on one side were on the blue line, but they was still plenty of room left. He agreed to plead guilty to parking in a handicapped zone and was fined $1,351.00 Ga. law only permits the max. fine of $500 for parking in a handicapped zone. The City of Duluth was bad wrong in this matter. I have uncovered information they are doing this to people on a mass scale. Also Duluth is not alone in doing this.. other cities are running A free style take your money scam. I am opening a website to bring people who have been victims of this kind of human rights abuse together. Not just in Duluth, Ga. but from all over the country. So they can network and maybe file some class action law suites. If examples are made of a few of the scam cities the others will take note. You can find the website at http://www.unfairtickets.info
2 Matthew Smith // Feb 18, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I’m glad to hear someone is trying to step up to the extortions of the speed enforcement system. The fines and methods of assigning them are absurd. I’ve been burned more than once (though I may have been asking for some of them)…
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