Letter to the Editor: Only the Weak Complain
Issue date: 4/1/09 Section: Forum
Whereas it is true that only the strong survive… I feel it poignant to point out that only the weak, of both mind and morals, complain. After reading the assistant editor's awkward attempt at reasoning his way out of a speeding ticket, I find myself unable to see why gross accusations and jokes at the sake of a man doing his job have replaced the usual entertaining writing found in this paper.
The last time I checked, going 15 mph over the speed limit is grounds for being pulled over. Whether you were simply going with the flow of traffic or not, you were breaking the law, and that officer had every right to pull you over. Maybe he did notice you had New Jersey tags on your car, and maybe he also knew, a fact that you didn't point out in your writing, that New Jersey has the highest auto insurance rates in America. I can completely understand that statistic if everyone has the same mentality as you in thinking that it's okay to go 15 mph over the speed limit. Believe it or not, I have been pulled over, on 15, in Maryland, and asked the same question in regards to drugs, and was also asked if my car could be searched. I gladly obliged with the officer's wishes, knowing that he was only doing his job, (all the meanwhile, my Maryland plates were in plain view).
If you would have done any research whatsoever, even a simple search on Google, you would have easily found that in 2007, New Jersey had eight times the amount of marijuana seized by the DEA in comparison to Maryland. So maybe the cop was just acting off information he found easily accessible on the internet. With a nearby state having so many illegal drugs, and a car, flagrantly breaking the law from that very state, I see the officer having more reason than necessary to pull you over.
Granted you may be caught between cities that make you "dirty", like, Philadelphia, New York, D.C. and Baltimore but just look at poor little Delaware, America's nipple, stuck between all of the aforementioned cities… I don't see them using this as an excuse for poor behavior.
The last time I checked, going 15 mph over the speed limit is grounds for being pulled over. Whether you were simply going with the flow of traffic or not, you were breaking the law, and that officer had every right to pull you over. Maybe he did notice you had New Jersey tags on your car, and maybe he also knew, a fact that you didn't point out in your writing, that New Jersey has the highest auto insurance rates in America. I can completely understand that statistic if everyone has the same mentality as you in thinking that it's okay to go 15 mph over the speed limit. Believe it or not, I have been pulled over, on 15, in Maryland, and asked the same question in regards to drugs, and was also asked if my car could be searched. I gladly obliged with the officer's wishes, knowing that he was only doing his job, (all the meanwhile, my Maryland plates were in plain view).
If you would have done any research whatsoever, even a simple search on Google, you would have easily found that in 2007, New Jersey had eight times the amount of marijuana seized by the DEA in comparison to Maryland. So maybe the cop was just acting off information he found easily accessible on the internet. With a nearby state having so many illegal drugs, and a car, flagrantly breaking the law from that very state, I see the officer having more reason than necessary to pull you over.
Granted you may be caught between cities that make you "dirty", like, Philadelphia, New York, D.C. and Baltimore but just look at poor little Delaware, America's nipple, stuck between all of the aforementioned cities… I don't see them using this as an excuse for poor behavior.
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