$54 Ticket for a burned out light bulb

With all the other stuff that goes on around this town, you would think the police would have enough to do than write out $54 tickets for a burned out light bulb on the car. We just had Super Bowl weekend and I understand that the police were out looking for drunk drivers. DS was returning home from work on Friday night and got pulled over. He wasn’t drinking or speeding but he did have a light burned out and so the freaking cop wrote out a ticket.

What happened to the days when the cop would just point it out to you or write a citation and give you so-many days to go to the local station and show them the problem had been fixed? Actually…maybe it’s still that way in places I used to live. The police have better things to do with their time. I guess the township here is looking to scrape up every dollar they can…but certainly not to fix our community roads.

So, fine, now we’ll be more diligent about checking all the lights but what if one burns out from one check-up to the next–even, say, overnight? Just SOL, I guess.

~ by lostkitty on February 6, 2008.