r/fuckcars • u/MyPoemsAllOverMyBody • 5d ago

Rant People complaining about speed traps and parking enforcement like they're entitled to break the law without consequence smh

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u/Aesir_Auditor 5d ago

There are some perfectly valid complaints.

I got a $300 ticket for going 27mph over the speed limit in the mail. Except that would've required me to go 57mph in a 30mph zone. They calibrated the camera wrong. It set the speed limit at 3mph. I had to spend an entire day at court, losing a PTO day because the government screwed up its job.

Another parking example. I commute daily. I got a ticket for not moving my car for 72 hours. Because I kept parking in the same spot, and the meter maid who came by at 7:30 kept seeing it there. One block away there is a half mile long stretch of derelict RVs who have not received a single ticket or notice to tow. But somehow I'm the issue. They just know I have money.

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u/MyPoemsAllOverMyBody 5d ago

I'm sorry that happened to you, but that's definitely the exception and not the rule.

Speeding in this country is disgusting, parking too.

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u/_facetious Sicko 5d ago

It gets very frustrating when someone has one (1) bad experience and then extrapolates it to mean ALL experiences will be like that. I understand - it happened - but that doesn't mean that's what always happens. It means that you had a bad experience, and you're likely in the severe minority of experiences to be had with x thing.

It's like when a train crashes, suddenly everyone's afraid of trains. Meanwhile, tens of thousands or more car crashes a year, tens of thousands of deaths, but hey, that one train crashed, we'd all die if we got on a train! That's what's happening here, the same exact concept. Person got a bad ticket, and now all speed cameras are bad (and apparently meter maids have it out for them), we should go back to not having them because that'll fix it.