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      05-06-2011, 02:30 PM   #13
wuzupfoo
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+1 VA

Lived there till 4 years ago when I moved to SoCal and I can confirm. VA is a police state. It is not uncommon to go to jail for reckless driving granted first time offenders usually do not get the "book thrown at them" but if you are repeat offender there is a good chance. This got much worse when they automatically made 20+ over speed limit automatic reckless. (55 is the interstate highway speed limit throughout the state)

Plus right when I left they were giving extremely high fines (like thousands of dollars for speeding) before a potential challenge to the Supreme Court (cruel and unusal punishment) forced them to roll them back.. and then there was the drunk driving challenge that several lawyers were going to challenge the VA court system on the fact that people were considered guilty of drunk driving and the defendant had to prove themselves innocent rather than the other way around.

VA is a great place but the traffic laws and enforcement are ridiculous.

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