Tickets/Police in Europe.

["H.R.Stil" <H.R.Stil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 The poll:

 Bradley J. Otoupalik wrote:

> Now, not to get into a rant about police on this side of the Atlantic,
but, if they
>acted more like there euro counterparts, we would be better off.

Yep with fixed speed traps all along the main highways, speedtraps on
secondary
roads, speedtraps in town, speedtraps on almost every
 main intersection (redlight +speed!), mobile speedtraps popping up
faster than
 you can blink your eyes,radar-cars with cameras following you and on
top of that
police-cars ans bikes patrolling the highways.

>By that
>I mean that speeding tickets are rarely given throughout Europe.

Tickets are sent automaticly to the 'owner' of the car, pay up or
 go to court(hardly ever done overhere).
 I got 4 tickets up until now,
 1 in Hungary (doing 90km/h in a 60km/h zone (hey why are all
 the cars here 'foreign'?) Cost? US$4.50 (I rode away laughing!)
 3 in the Netherlands
 1 for doing 53 km/h in a 50km/h zone (25 US$)
 1 for doing 123km/h in a 120km/h zone (25 US$)
 1 for doing 124km/h in a 120km/h zone (25 US$)

 Tickets don't do anything to your insurance here, that is only
 affected by causing accidents.

 Since the first of October the law has changed here, if you are driving

 over 50km/h above the speedlimit you will automatically loose
 your driverlicence.

>the
>police are there to enforce the laws when someone is doing something so

>stupid that they will hurt someone else.
>Police should not be revenue agents, they should be public safety
officers.

Bradley I donot know where you come from, but obviously not the
Netherlands,
here cops ARE revenue agents. (speeding., parking, other things).

 I sometimes speed, just because I like to drive 'fast', but I will NOT
 speed in dangerous places or when it is busy.


GH/HH/GS

 Me NoSo

 '84 E23/M102 758i BFH

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