RE: RE: Anyone know how to beat a carpool ticket in California?

["Gilbert, Clark" <Clark_Gilbert@xxxxxxx>]

Oh, yeah, you're right. Let's all get out our civil disobedience suits
for the carpool lane. Let me see if I got the thought process correct: I
wanna go faster. But this is illegal. But morally, this stinks, yeah,
yeah, that's it. Well, ok, I'll do it anyway and hope I don't get
CAUGHT. See, there's that word again. Don't confuse caught with
convicted. Being caught still incurs a lot of cost, if you want to
fight. So you still are making the judgement on whether to continue with
illegal behavior, or back off. Like you said, the time to decide is when
you initiate the behavior.

Clark

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Oh please, spare us.  The ticket is NOT a fine, it is an accusation.
> legally, he isn't caught yet, and won't be "caught" unless he chooses
> to roll over and pay, as you suggest.  If you feel that it is morally
> defensible to (speed,abuse in carpool lane,jaywalk), (and let's not 
> start something over whether or not one should do any of those), then 
> you should fight it when caught.  If you don't really think it's
> right,
> then you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.  The time to decide
> 
> on the ethics of a situation should be when you initiate it, not when
> an external influence (traffic cops) makes it's opinion known.
> 
> 	ksh
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