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| There is nothing more frustrating than getting a traffic speeding ticket. Although there are many traffic violations, usually when you get a ticket for one you feel somewhat at fault. For example, if you blow a traffic red light or a stop sign, fail to use your turn signal, or veer out of your lane, It makes sense for a cop to stop you. With traffic speeding tickets, however, it is different.
Every time I have been pulled over for a traffic speeding ticket, there have been literally hundreds of cars passing by, going over the speed limit as the cop writes the ticket. It may be illegal to speed, but it is such a widely disregarded law that is practically a joke. Getting a traffic speeding ticket isn't a matter of being justly punished for breaking the law – it is more akin to losing the lottery. Some cop or another has to make his quota, and you happen to be the unlucky driver who he selects to help him out. Perhaps he picks your car because it looks rundown and he figures that you won't put in the effort to fight the ticket. Perhaps it is because you are young, or a member of a minority race. Whatever the reason, traffic speeding tickets are almost never fair.
That is why I decided to fight my traffic speeding ticket when I last got one. It felt like such a fundamental injustice that I was determined to go against it. In the past, I had never fought back, but this time I was ready. I psyched myself up for it. I would give an impassioned defense, wowing everyone in the courtroom and winning the judge over to my side. I knew that they had used profiling to write my traffic violation, and although I may have been breaking the law by going a few miles per hour over the speed limit, I didn't deserve to be punished when everyone else who was doing the same thing got off without any consequences.
As it turns out, beating the traffic speeding ticket was much easier than I had imagined. The cop didn't even show up! There I was, pacing back and forth dramatically and ready to give the judge a passionate defense, and the case was over before it even started! I was just glad that I got to win. I didn't really care how my victory came about, as long as I didn't have to pay that speeding traffic ticket.
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