Coming in to town from the south heading north
I was driving headed up to Hannibal (mistake… road was closed miles up without warning), I was coming at about 50 MPH into an obvious really small town. About 100 feet ahead I saw a 30 MPH speed limit sign. I looked at my dad and said, "There’s a 30 MPH sign, I’d better do it or I’ll get a ticket for sure in this town. As I passed right along side the sign I glanced at my speedometer and I was doing right on 30 MPH. No cars in sight. All of a sudden about 2 or 3 hundred feet ahead the lights came on. I thought he couldn’t be after me because I was doing 30. Wrong! He said he clocked me at 50. I commented that when I was passing the sign I was doing 30. He said I had warning signs further back. I was not about to argue with him. I knew better. He was in an unmarked car and was not dressed in what I would consider a uniform… it was more like a t-shirt. As he went back with my license to his car, I joked to my dad that if he tickets me I hope he uses the money to buy a uniform. Well, he can buy several uniforms now. He popped me with a $166.50 ticket. It is difficult to maintain respect for law enforcement when you got this type of thievery going on with an authority packing a badge, a gun, and a ticket book. Disgusting!
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