Whose Fault is it Really if You Get a Ticket? Yours!

Ok, tickets are annoying and expensive.  Parking tickets, speeding tickets, inspection expiration tickets.  I know I hate them, but really, if you got one, it's your own damn fault, quit blaming the police.  If the speed limit is 65 and you go 75 and you get a ticket, that's your fault.  You knew what the rule was, it was right there on the side of the road.  If you don't put money in the meter and you get a ticket, that's your fault.  You knew there was a meter, it was right there.  If your inspection is up for 3 months and you get pulled over and get a ticket, that's your fault.  You got the letter in the mail 5 months ago!

I cannot for the life of me understand how people get mad and pissed off at police officers for giving out tickets.  It's part of their job.  AND you know the rules!  If you don't, you shouldn't have a license.  It's that simple.

And let's not forget, sometimes those tickets help solve other serious crimes.  Let's all remember that Son of Sam was caught because of a parking ticket.  Now, I'm hoping you're not out there randomly killing strangers or breaking into little old ladies houses or knocking over liquor stores, but if you are and you get a ticket while you're doing it, then good, that will help track you down and you're dumb.

Can we PLEASE lay off the police for this already?  Their jobs are hard enough.  Yes, they wrote you a ticket for parking in a no parking zone, but they're also the ones you're going to call when some dbag sideswipes your car while you were getting your teeth cleaned.  You're going to call them when you go to the shopping mall and see some poor dog or child locked in an unattended car in 80 degree weather.  You're going to call them when you're drunk and wandering the city at 3am and get mugged.

And by the way, to all you whiners running around getting tickets because you just can't seem to get the rules straight, thank you.  Because of you my taxes won't go up because your irresponsibility and flagrant disregard for the rules is helping to pay for the police force.  You see, it's not free to call the police because you notice a strange van parked in front of your neighbors house and you see lights going on and off in the house and you know for a fact that your neighbor is in another state tending to a sick relative.  Someone has to pay the officer's salary, for the car he's driving to investigate, the gas that's in the car, the bullet proof vest that just might save him one day.  Police are not free.  But by all means, let's do away with tickets and all of that can come out of our pocket at tax time!  How's about that?

Personally, I'm glad they write tickets.  Hell, I got one today because I forgot to move my car for street cleaning.  Well, someone's got to pay the street cleaners, so I guess it's my turn.  I'm off to drop my ticket in the ticket box with my payment.  But before I do, just so we're clear, let me give you the definition of the word "police" from Merriamwebster.com:

po·lice

 verb \pə-ˈlēs\

: to control and keep order in (an area) by the use of police or military forces

: to control (something) by making sure that rules and regulations are being followed