1966 Barracuda Speeding Ticket

Back in 2005 I was traveling through a rink-a-dink town on a Sunday evening in my 2004 Ram Hemi 4dr 4x4. Truck had a true dual flowmaster equivalent exhaust on it and was pretty loud.

Getting ready to exit the town, the spd lmt was 45 and I was cruising right at 45 because I'd heard that the police in that town would get you for even 5mph over.

Well there was a trailer court on the south side of the highway in that 45 zone and I just happened to look over there and seen an officer standing outside his car talking to someone at a trailer.
Well, after the 45 limit, it changed to 55 outside of town, so coming upon that sign I floored the truck to come up to speed.

About 5-10 min later I see cherries and blueberries comin up on me real quick, and I mean quick!

Guess what? It was the cop that was outside the trailer yappin! Well I pull over.

He tells me when I went by, I was doin 69 in a 45!!! I'm like wtf!! Dude you were standing outside talkin to someone...I saw you! So, he then writes me a ticket anyway for $120!
I went to court to fight it and that schmuck was there with a big smile on his face.

The lady at the door to the court room who took my summons asked me why I was there and I told her and she was like...was it that officer right there with the stupid smile on his face? I'm like yes mam.

She proceeded to tell me that the judge was very, very unhappy with this officer. So far, there were 52 PEOPLE in there that had tickets by him!!!
There were 2 more in the same line I was in that spoke up and said they were ticketed by him as well!!

Judge just reduced it to a minor infraction, like failure to use signal when turning, if i remember right, paid I think $25 and was outta there.

A few months later I stopped for gas in that town and spoke with an officer who was in the gas station about it. He said that the guy was a rookie and was all gungho about even the smallest and dumbest stuff....town was like 2000 ppl or something.....so he even made all the townspeople angry. He told me he was reprimanded for it and was told one more stupid stunt like that, he'd get the axe. LOL