Originally Posted by xenigo

It would appear to me that those glass-smooth roads in Texas are funded by people they issue tickets to. When I was there about a year ago, both myself and my girlfriend were issued tickets. I was going at a pretty leisurely 83 mph, slowly passing people who were traveling around 75. When I had put some good distance between myself and them... I saw some crazy mother fucker coming up behind me at around 150+. Scared the living shit out of me.

Then he turned on his strobe lights... and pulled me over. He issued me a citation for the inspection certificate on a company car (wasn't my car), speeding, AND registration. Total came to around $380.

I had to be back in California about 2 days later so I couldn't hash it out in court with them. Left a pretty bad taste in my mouth about their system... certainly isn't the way it works here in California. Here, the only times I've been pulled over have been while going well into the triple digits.