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Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Driver improvement... Jenny and I were headed home after a peaceful round of shopping at Sam's Club back on September 30th. On said date I was pulled over by one of Evansville's fine officers of the law at which point he readily wrote me a citation for exceeding the posted speed limit. Officer scribbledygoop indicated that Michael T. Bacon did commit the following offense: vehicle speed 46 prima facie speed 35. I am a true believer in justice, and so I was not in the least irritated AT the officer who wrote me the ticket; until he purposed to tell me that had I only been driving 45, AND had it not been raining slightly, then he wouldn't have bothered stopping me. Anyway... Fast forward to November 10th when I appeared in Vanderburgh court with all the other criminals. That entire process is a joke. They herd people through like cattle. "Pay the fine?" "Take the course?" etc. It was an interesting experience. I opted to forego my third physical presence in a defensive driving course and chose the online course. It's a very good deal for the lawbreaker, because they hold off putting any record of the speeding ticket on your license, no points etc., and once you complete the $40 online course, you don't pay any other fine, and there is no record of the infraction on your license. So, in my mind it was a gimme. Well, here it is 3 days from the end of the allotted 90 day period in which I have to complete said online indiana driver improvement course and I've finally logged on, paid the fee and started taking the course. The reading material is actually decent, (they do lose points for using the phrase "collision causation"), but they have definitely formulated the quiz questions with Hoosier's lesser educated in mind. Here is one doozy of a question:
3/03/2004 06:44:00 PM by Todd Bacon 0 comments | ||
