Why Tickets Cost What They Do

Guest Post by Eric Peters

If you’ve been forced to pay the state money for not having caused any harm lately – i.e., been issued what is styled a “ticket” because you drove faster than an arbitrarily posted “speed limit” says you may, or made a right turn on red (also without causing any harm) or not worn a seatbelt, etc. – you will have noticed how much more money the state is extracting from your hide as punishment.

In order to fund the enforcement of this rigmarole, in a kind of chicken-or-the-egg feedback loop of serial predation.

The “egg” being what a single 2023 Ford Explorer Police Interceptor costs, that being just shy of $40,000.

The “chicken,” of course, being you (and me) when we get “pulled over” – as the euphemism styles being implicitly threatened with murderous violence if we do not – and are issued the “ticket,” which amounts to our helping to finance the equipment used to “pull us over.”

Isn’t it great?

Let’s say a small-town department of Armed Government Workers – for that is what “police” are, or at least, have become, if we are to use honest language – buys six of these Ford Explorers at about $40,000 each. That comes to just shy of a quarter-million dollars. Not counting all the Batman Gear – body armor, leg webbing, multiple mags for their semi-auto pistols – that most AGWs now suit up with every day (the assertion being they need to armor-up like Batman to “pull over” dangerous “civilians” – as they style us – though in fact working as a roofer or electrical line worker is far more dangerous than “pulling over” people).

That comes to a lot of money to recover.

Especially when you add in the cost of fueling these big, heavy – and thirsty – SUVs.

It is interesting to note that when AGWs still used cars to “pull over” people, the equipment they used cost much less. For example, the Ford Crown Victoria – which used to be the most commonly used car for “traffic enforcement” until it was cancelled after the 2011 model year – was priced under $30,000 new, for the “civilian” version (police – who are not in the military – love to think that they are; hence we are “civilians” to their “corporals,” “sergeants,” “lieutenants” and even five-star “generals.”)

The police version cost about $27,000 – which it could because it was very basic. Nothing new is. The rise in the cost of “civilian” vehicles reflects this – and so also the cost of enforcement vehicles used by AGWs who are also civilians.

So, about $13k less than what a new Explorer traffic-mulcter costs. Yes, inflation. But it’s still a roughly $6k uptick in real, inflation-adjusted dollars. Plus the Batman gear. And someone’s going to have to pay for that.

Guess who?

In Virginia, the state where I live, the fine for “speeding” is now at least $6 for each mile-per-hour over the arbitrarily posted maximum speed; with the baseline fine plus abut $60 in “court costs,” the total for a “little” ticket amounts to a lot. As in about $150. Enough to buy three tanks of gas for the AGW who issued the ticket!

The cost rises to $8 per mile – plus another $200 – in addition to “court costs” (as if it costs the court a cent to take your money) if the “speeding” occurs in a “residential” area.

Which is essentially everywhere nowadays.

Thus, a ticket for doing say 45 MPH in a “zone” posted 35 MPH will cost you close to $200. That equals about 40 percent of a month’s payment on a new Explorer police Interceptor. If an AGW issues just three such pieces of payin’ paper in one “shift” then he has paid for the ride he uses to take you (and many others) for one.

If you exceed whatever the posted limit is – anywhere – by 20 MPH or more it triggers what is styled a “reckless” driving charge. Thus, 56 MPH in a posted 35 zone in which probably 90 percent of the cars are doing at least 40-something. It is also considered “reckless” in Virginia to drive faster than 80 MPH anywhere – including on Virginia highways with posted speed limits of 70 MPH and almost everyone doing at least 75.

There are also “gotcha” tickets for “offenses” that have nothing to do with driving or the “safety” of other drivers, such as not wearing a seat belt, which is illegal and punishable – the punishment always taking the form of the government’s greasy paws emptying your wallet.

After all, someone’s going to have to pay for all those new SUVs – which they’ll use to make you pay for them. Plus the Batman gear.

When you hear that siren and see those wig-wags flashing, you’ll know just who that is.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
Soup

Sounds like a real laugh riot.

Anonymous
Anonymous

A lot of fucking Jews in Vero beach, ( sorry Stucky) check out this one.

boron
boron

I’m Jewish and I’m a veteran (Air Force, volunteered in ’62, I wasn’t drafted like you), so you know precisely where you can stick your “fucking Jews,” – as far up there as you can.
In addition to which: (https://dwellics.com/florida/community-in-vero-beach)
The Religion Of People Living In Vero Beach, Florida
The primary religious affiliation in Vero Beach, Florida is Catholic. The Religion Diversity score in Vero Beach, Florida is 16.3.

Religion Percentage of Population
Protestant 18.6%
Catholic 26.5%
Orthodox 0.0%
Other / Christian 0.0%
Mormon 0.6%
Jewish 0.3%
Muslim 1.0%
Buddhist 0.0%
Hindu 0.1%
Other / Non-Christian 0.2%
No Religion 52.7%
So you know where you can stick that “A lot of fucking Jews in Vero beach” as well – I’m sure the irritation will give you IBS; you’ve got it on the other end already.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Supreme Court 100 percent fucking Jews. Why such a small claimed percentage rules over everyone? Do your home work before spouting off your lies.

boron
boron

You weren’t even a stain in your father’s socks when I was on active. Go crawl back in your hole in the sand alongside your buddy, Saddam Hussein.
You got Jews on the brain.
Next you’ll be spreading the Bravo Sierra that the dodderer, Brandon, and his mentor, Barry Boy, are really Jews ,too!
Oh! and don’t forget Bill Gates – he must be Jewish, too. No?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Your 77 and haven’t figured it out yet, plenty of evidence on this site over the years to clue even the dumbest onto the con.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s “you’re” (you + are), shit4brains.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I’m only an amateur antisemite, so I’ll keep upvoting Boron, because I appreciate his being here and sticking up for his coreligionists. We Catholics are over represented on the Supreme Court, too, with both good ones (Alito, Thomas) and weak-ass, chickenshit ones (Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett). Gorsuch is some manner of Protestant, as I understand it, and he seems about 85% solid.

Sure, a high percentage of Jews are supportive of globalism and left wing idiocy, but can we at least agree that there’s no one worse than Episcopalians – except maybe Unitarians?

Anonymous
Anonymous

They are not just co-religionists. They are a race. And they know it. Start acting like one with your own people instead of arguing over which jew-derived religion is better or worse.

Joe
Joe

But the Unitarians let the animals inside their churches every so often-that isn’t all bad, is it?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Why would 45 jews (according to that statistic) need multiple synagogues? One family of your chabad kikes would be more than that.

“No Religion 52.7%”
oh, there you are. If you ever quit pretending to be actual White human beings you would glow in the dark in demographics.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Which well known minority
Hides in plain sight,
Plots your destruction
but tells you they’re White?

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath

Become the Grey Man…

Not hard, blend in with the Sheeple…

Ancient Chinese saying,

“In a lawn full of grass, do not be the blade sticking out over the others!!!”

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist

Far past time to keep complying with a system that wants you as it’s slave or dead.
Resist everything it wants.
EVERYTHING.

Euddolen ap Afallach
Euddolen ap Afallach

If one can not:

Feed themselves,

Cloth themselves,
OR
Shelter themselves

Sans the efforts of other humans,

Then one, is a slave of the same system.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston

Once you get south of the fall line at O-burg on I-26, it’s flat the last 70 miles to Chucktown. Posted limit is 70, you get run over going 80, most are going 85+.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Because copfux are welfare recipients?

What do I win?

Anonymous
Anonymous

One of the best critics of the scourge that is .gov police, ever (R.I.P.):
https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/william-norman-grigg/?ptype=article

Anonymous
Anonymous

Palm Coast Florida more Jews than chins. Fact Stucky.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Did you watch the video Jew man/ boy? You can hear the jew callers, at least three are pure Jews, ruining society one Shekel at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel

Anonymous
Anonymous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Walensky

Walensky is married to Loren D. Walensky, also a physician-scientist. They have three sons.[31] They are Jewish and members of Temple Emanuel

Shocking that they’re fucking Jews.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“Who” are Jewish, not “that”. People are “whos”. Objects are “thats”. You subliterate subhuman. Since you’re so white and so Western, can’t you bothered to learn even ONE language . . . your own? Not every one of your stark shortcomings is due to others’ actions, you pathetic white nigger.

Anonymous
Anonymous

White nigger downvoted. Have a stroke, Francis.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Honestly, that one made me laugh out loud.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Still laughing over last weeks’ “18” nigger cock”.

boron
boron

You got mush for brains, boy. You see a Jew in every church in the nation – and for once I agree with you – there’s one in every church.
But what you don’t see and (you can’t find) is a Jew lurking around every corner, except in your drug-addled brain .
We learned the hard way back in the ’30s to steer clear of vicious geniuses like you who need to find someone to blame for their shortcomings.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Usury is on deck now.

Pappa, why have we been thrown out of a 109 Countries?

Well you see Boron, we are parasites ( like Cops )and like living off everyone, we are the chosen ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan

Herbert Greenspan, was of Romanian Jewish descent, and his mother, Rose Goldsmith, was of Hungarian Jewish descent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke

The Bernankes were one of the few Jewish families in Dillon and attended Ohav Shalom, a local synagogue

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Here’s the thing about usury: prohibition of it started in the Old Testament. The rationale made sense at that time, like prohibition of pork, given the not-yet-full understanding of how to avoid trichinosis. Christendom moved away from that, and also moved away from a strict prohibition on charging interest (to a prohibition of overly high interest charges) once it was understood that it was hurting those it intended to help. Today Muslims who avoid standard mortgages have to use Islam-compliant schemes of ownership shares that are effectively interest in everything but name. And guess what? They’re more expensive than a regular loan. No one will rip you off more than your own people, whether it’s a sharia-compliant lender, a Bernie Madoff or a Hispanic Realtor selling overpriced “flips” to ignorant immigrants.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Here’s the thing about usury:

Fuck You, you jew cunt!!!!!

Only a fucking Jew would justify usury.

Going for 110, are we?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Please don’t capitalize jew. You don’t capitalize tick or mosquito do you?

boron
boron

You Goebbels-lickass types taught us well in the ’30s
we’re not going to allow you to stir up the sheeple against us again, nor will we ever allow ouselves to be disarmed again – ever again
Diminish us so that people consider us insects – huh?
Do you ever leave your mother’s basement? your mother’s bed?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Someone says something not nice on the internet and the fallback position is whining about the holohoax and projecting freudian shit onto others.

Doesn’t take a nazi to predict that.

boron
boron

you didn’t answer my questions, Goebbels-lickass (or do I call you Frances):
Are you afraid to leave your mother’s basement?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Madoff is a posterboy for it because he fucked over other jews so he couldn’t get away with it. Usury was only discouraged for their own people. They didn’t and don’t consider us the same.

World War Zoo
World War Zoo

@Anon
Intl finance is just the opportunistic infection of which every Godless, materialistic society succumbs. Its a dirty job for ugly people, but somebody has to do it.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“and for once I agree with you – there’s one in every church.”
For any observant spotters of physiognomy this is true, not counting the one on the stick that I assume you refer to.

boron
boron

that’s the only one I’m counting

VOWG
VOWG

Why don’t you Jew haters turn that hate on blacks and see how far it takes you.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Niggers are just a symptom.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Churches no better than fucking Cops, this one is for you Mark.

Semi-Employed White Guy
Semi-Employed White Guy

I think these “Lutherans” need to open a Bible sometime.

Anonymous
Anonymous

And Catholics need to have a revolution, including prosecutions, in their church.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Proving once again that “Christians” are not what they claim to be. Everyone can see by this video, these “Christians” are being persecuted according to the “Christian” doctrine.

Denomination does not matter. They are all the same. Every last one of them. Pedo-clergy behind the altar, in closets, back rooms, and basements where nobody can see them. Then, when the pedo-clergy become exposed, the “Christian” elites quickly find a rug to sweep the dirt under.

As for the officer, amazing. He actually has a functioning brain. Most “law enforcement” today lacks a functioning brain because most of them are over-promoted snowflakes with guns. Take away their guns and they run away, unable to get back into mommy’s basement fast enough. This officer needs to be promoted for using his brain.

Meanwhile, these “Christians” of all denominations still don’t grasp why churches are emptying. When you promote pedo-clergy and act “holier than thou,” people are going to say to hell with you. And guess what? According to your Book of Holy Fables, you are going to hell, first in line, as you are the new pharisees of today.

Standing by for the “Christians” to become offended and lose their freaking minds, followed by massive head explosions. All because they are “being persecuted! Reeeeeee!”

boron
boron

Christians (like Jews) are human beings – and as such are imperfect, unlike you obviously.

“To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends
And youths and maidens gay!”

We praise H-s Name and pray for forgiveness for our sins.
I understand that you do not sin and never have
As such, please allow me to pray for your eternal soul.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The modern world is what you get when you let jews be the arbiter of your morality.

boron
boron

I don’t know where you come from (personally I strongly believe you’re a Muslim), but you never stayed awake for World History in high school, otherwise you’d know that the Church has been the “arbiter of .. morality” for the past two millenia

Anonymous
Anonymous

BTJ says: but you never stayed awake for World History in high school,

High school history written entirely by, wait for it, wait for it,

JEWS

People In Govt. Service
People In Govt. Service

“– for that is what “police” are, or at least, have become Always Were, if we are to use honest language –

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/

Idaho
Idaho

if your a cop and its lunch time, its ok to drive 20 over the limit to get to the slop and feed before the rush. laws are for thee, not for me.

Dan
Dan

It’s all about money. EVERYTHING the government does is all about the money. Safety has NOTHING to do with it.

Anonymous
Anonymous

.Gov’s all about control. Money’s only a feature of that.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I know it’s beside the point, but this guy Peters sure seems to get a lot of speeding tickets. I don’t think I’ve gotten one for 20 years. He might want to switch to decaf.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I got a Boron and an Iska, I can sleep well.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Forget about him being libertarian car guy. It’s just different for men and women, even if you drive the same (which we don’t)

Anonymous
Anonymous

Easy problem to solve. Drive under the speed limit. It is all self-control. Obviously, that Peters guy is lacking in that department. I have been doing that for decades and have received no speeding tickets.

I have destroyed a few vehicles that ran into my rear bumper because they were too busy texting while pretending to drive.

Anonymous
Anonymous

okay grandma

Machinist
Machinist

Set your cruise control to ZERO. Then, you’ll have no violations at all.

Rob
Rob

Kansas is one of the states whose legislature condones and allows prosecutors to make you an offer just after you are convicted of a traffic offense-it goes something like this: “If you pay an additional 50% we will not report your offense to the auto insurance companies”. If anyone outside of .gov were to make such an offer that would constitute bribery, punishable by law. One of our kids had the opportunity to feed the pigs, as did I; we both refused and never heard a peep from our insurance company in the way of a big premium hit.

Skunks eating shit deserve more respect than the corrupt judicial systems, prosecutors, and legislatures that are four square in favor of that type of legalized theft. Fuk ’em all.

Euddolen ap Afallach
Euddolen ap Afallach

I heard this somewhere:

“A promise to appear form is handed to you by a local Pinkerton. (sheriffs are constitutional law; cops are private for profit subsidiaries operating under the Town or City incorporation umbrella.)

After signing “promise to appear” contract from the Pinkertons..

Take contract offer (promose to appear/ticket etc)and photocopy it.

Write across copy in blue or purple ink

“DECLINE OFFER OF CONTRACT”

Sign in front of notary public.

Mail back notarized contract offer
via registered mail to isuing
officer at his business address,
BEFORE 3 BUSINESS DAYS PASS.

Done and done.

In Commercial law, all
contract offers can be rescinded
or declined within 72 hours of
the offer/acceptance by either party
with no dishonor.”

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath

Commercial law ain’t Traffic law…

But I’d luv to hear how that “declined offer” works out…

After you take care of your warrant for failing to appear…

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