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Old 05-21-2008, 04:44 PM   #144
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Originally Posted by The Yen Man View Post
And then the person takes it to court to fight off. Can you imagine how much money it will cost to try to get that $120 ticket to go through? I would imagine a "smoking in the car" ticket to be a lot easier to fight off than a speeding ticket, just because collecting evidence fo the the smoking ticket will be so much harder to do.

Edit: Hmm, actually I thought of this after my post. But can't you just raise the fine? Why does it necessarily have to be $120? Just make it $5,000. That should cover the DNA test.

huh??? Cops don't have to "collect evidence" to issue a traffic ticket. Do cops take a picture of you without a seatbelt on when they pull people over for that? No. There is actually a ticket for throwing your cig butt out the window, and cops don't have to go collect the butt as evidence to give someone a ticket for littering out their car window. They have the authority to just see it happen, and then give you a ticket based on what happened.
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