Funny thing about tickets.. Here in VA we have all these different stickers we have to put on our vechicles.. State inspection.. city tax sticker.. and of course registration.. So when I purchase my vehicle a couple of years back, it's state inspection had just been done a few months before.

So I like to do all things at one time, so I held off the state inspection until my tags came due.. do it all in the same month, right?

Well, yesterday a cop looked real hard at me while coming from the opposite direction in heavy traffic (thought he was going to nail me because I'd forgotten to put on my seatbelt)... Well, I can see him signal to turn in my side/rear mirror, but there's no way he's going to catch me in this traffic, right?. I fasten my seat belt, so I'm not worried.

Well, about 3/4 of a mile down the road, a different cop pulls me over for my state inspection sticker being out of date.. Seems the first cop had radioed ahead to have his buddy nail me (the cop who pulled me over was very nice and the first thing he asked was "What kind of Vehicle is this?? Never seen one before".. so that gave me the chance to proundly tell him about it being a limited production vehicle.. ;0)

Moral of the story, and my gut feeling on this?? With declining housing prices lowering the property tax revenue available to municipalities, we're seeing a lot more traffic related fines as a means of generating revenue. The cop that called me in really must have been looking for generating money for him to take such efforts to call his buddy down on me.

So until we get past this housing bubble, and diminishing property taxes, you all had better watch your speed and where you park.. Theirs going to be even more pressure to generate revenue to maintain their budgets.

Diogenes