When it rains, it pours. I started the week with a traffic ticket, and now I’m closing out the week with a second traffic ticket. Awesome!
The one I got today was from one of those damned red light cameras. The light turned yellow as I approached and I was close and fast enough that I would have had to brake hard to stop, but far enough away that it was going to be a little, well, “orange” if I blew through it. The intersection was clear with no side traffic in sight, so I took it, and as I went through I looked up and saw it turn red just as I entered the intersection.
I also saw a flash of light as the fucking red light camera took my picture.
So that’s just awesome. I have a commercial driver’s license, which means I can’t go to traffic school when I get a ticket. Also, I get 1.5 times the points as a “civilian” driver for a moving violation. And most non-production driving jobs want someone with a spotless record going back ten years. So I have well and truly boned myself now. Awesome.
The best part is that I got both these tickets in my cage, where I drive about 50,000 times more safely and legally than I do on the bike.
I’d better start looking for a law degree by mail correspondence course, because it looks like I’m going to be spending quite a bit of time in court soon…
