{"id":348,"date":"2009-09-29T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=348"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:57:50","slug":"speeding-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Speeding Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a powerful motorcycle, I think speeding tickets are an almost inevitable eventuality.  I did quite well and rode my current bike for over five years before I got caught and even then it was on the A4174 Bristol Ring Road which is apparently one of the highest revenue generating roads in the country.  Hardly surprising.  It&#8217;s a lovely straight dual carriageway and free from congestion at 1:30pm on a Thursday afternoon.  I bet it pays the salaries of the camera operators ten times over whilst enabling the police to say, &#8220;Look how many criminals we catch!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My 63mph in a 50mph zone is 26% over the speed limit.  On the 30mph limit on the A388 outside my house, that equates to 37.8mph.  I&#8217;d happily bet that less than one car in ten is under that during morning rush hour and that&#8217;s on one of the most dangerous roads in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, nothing to do but pay the fine and take the points as I can&#8217;t afford to contest it. Our glorious democracy might have a principle of innocent until proven guilty but only those with money to burn can risk demanding that proof be demonstrated.  I probably was speeding last Thursday on the A4174 but I&#8217;ll have to accept my guilt without ever seeing a shred of evidence to support it.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/speeding.png'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tn_speeding.png\" alt=\"speeding.png\" title=\"Speeding\" width=150 border=10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a powerful motorcycle, I think speeding tickets are an almost inevitable eventuality. I did quite well and rode my current bike for over five years before I got caught and even then it was on the A4174 Bristol Ring Road which is apparently one of the highest revenue generating roads in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=348\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speeding Ticket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}