Click It or Ticket Insanity

[Ron61]

To the above who have posted in favor of seat belts I could not agree more. In fact back in the early 60s I bought a 62 Ford and they came with no seat belts. I went and bought a lap belt which was all that could be installed due to the way the body was made and had them put in the front and back seats. When I had my Cobra, even though I was told that as long as the shoulder belts were out of sight and I had the lap belt fastened that was ok, I still wore the shoulder belts when driving it, but not the crotch belt. If I get in my car and start it I feel as if I have left my pants off until I get the seat belt fastened, even in my driveway.
As for tickets, I once got one for doing 42 in a 40 zone and that kind of ticked me off as it was 3 AM and the cop and I were the only ones on the street and it was a divided 4 lane that was straight for 1 mile. In fact they called it Miracle Mile. I had just taken some circuit boards to the buss station to ship back to the labs and the cop wanted to know why I was out at that time of night. I was polite and told him that I worked for Bell Labs and had been working on the Enterprise computer and had some circuit packs that had to be in Sacramento the next morning to be on a plane back East. He said he didn't know what I was talking about and thought that I was lying and wanted to search my car. I politely told him no, that if he wanted to search it to get a warrant. So he wrote me the ticket for the 42 in a 40 zone which the judge threw out. But at no time was he nasty about it and I figured I had gotten away with speeding before and this just kind of evened the score. I saw that same cop several times after that and he would wave at me.

Ron