Monday, November 13, 2006

Blooming Americans have fined me $350

Found out today that the Merced SUPERIOR County Court of California has fined me $350 - the sods.
I was only doing 86mph in 55mph zone for crying out loud!

I wrote them a lovely letter explaining that I was a poor innocent tourist who was only going that fast as I was overtaking a lorry on a clear straight road and that the radar caught me when I was at the point of peak velocity and so clearly I wasn't doing 86mph for more than a few seconds......

But it was obviously to no avail.

Oh well now my money really has run out. Am off to Auckland on mon 20 Nov, 6 days and then I have to get a pretty well paid job pronto!

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