[blml] By the pricking of my thumbs

[Eric Landau]

At 11:27 AM 3/16/07, Ed wrote:

>I'm tooling down the highway at the posted speed limit. A car
>approaches from behind me at high relative speed, parks himself about
>ten feet off my rear bumper, and starts honking his horn. I speed up.
>Am I to be absolved of the offense of speeding because he caused the
>problem?

Not quite absolved, but you *should* have been allowed to get away with 
it -- because the cop who wrote you the speeding ticket really should 
have been spending the time chasing down and ticketing the other guy, 
who is far more of a danger on the road.  (Unless, of course, you were 
tooling along in the leftmost lane(*), forcing the prevailing 
above-the-limit traffic to get around you on the right, in which case 
he should have just shot you.)

(*) ACBL jurisdiction


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