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TIL the number of pedestrians killed by drivers in the U.S. rose by 70 percent between 2010 and 2023
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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Where do you live? Where I am, they act like you murdered and ate a toddler if you go 5 mph over. I had a cop give me a $180 speeding ticket for going 30 in a 25, in a gated active adult community at 10:30 at night, and the cop had the nerve to tell me it was to protect "the children." It's an active adult community, children can't live here, and it was 10:30 at night. Not a lot of little kids playing in my neighborhood at 10:30 at night. Yet the cop actually said that with a straight face. I was already getting the ticket, so I made sure to remind him how absolutely absurd that excuse was, and he should just man up and admit that the county wants my Christmas money, and they're taking it.
They've got red light cameras everywhere around here, and now they're putting them in every school zone. I already got a $110 ticket in the mail for going 6 mph over in a school zone.
This week it was announced that they've been gaming the system by making the school zone area too big, and theyve been giving out tickets to people who weren't in the legal school zone. They should have to return the money from EVERY ticket.
That isn't new either. They already got in trouble for manipulating the timing on the yellow lights in intersections with red light cameras, so they can nail a few extra people each day, that didn't actually violate the law.
And by the way, I've learned to be a LOT more careful around the holiday season. Most of the tickets I've gotten in my life, especially the really stupid ones, have happened in December. The cops are always out on full force, and they must be trying to hit their annual quotas, or perhaps they just know that people have been saving their money for gifts, so they know they can pay a ticket instead.
Predatory pigs.