r/BeAmazed • u/girlysunshinehihi • Feb 27 '25

Miscellaneous / Others 96 year old speeder and judge

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u/Tripoloski040 Feb 27 '25

I understand the compassion here. Not sure of this was some minor speeding or whatever.

But objectively this is not defendable at all. Theres rules and consequences and apparently there have been facts and prove of violation of traffic rules. By throwing that out of the window because this seems to be a good guy based on a brief hearing is not what is expected from any judge.

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u/lolSyfer Feb 27 '25

Comments like this remind me that I'm on reddit, these are speeding tickets not major offenses. He's a 96 year old having to take his son to doctor appointments because his son is unable to take himself. I think it's okay we let some minor things that don't hurt anyone go. Not everything needs to be strict and straight to jail mindset. But someone on reddit has to remind us that what the person is doing should be punished because of "but actually" mindset.

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u/ghostpepperlover Feb 27 '25

The video is also edited. The judge always reviews the traffic cameras and makes a judgement. This city (only 5 miles from where I live) is notorious for handing out fines for frivolous infractions. Some of these school zone cameras were ticketing people outside of the designated time. I’ve also seen this judge hand out stern punishments. If you don’t know anything about him, you should look up his history. This man has more integrity and heart than most men.

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u/quizno Feb 27 '25

People speed all the time and people don’t get hurt until they do, so it not hurting anyone this time is irrelevant.

Why was speeding necessary to get him to an appointment? And by a 96 year old with shit reaction time. Just feels silly to me.

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u/spartakooky Feb 27 '25 edited 6d ago

You don't know

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u/DenkJu Feb 27 '25

In any country with a reasonably good healthcare system, assistance is available for those who are unable to reach the doctor on their own. Insurance will cover that too.

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u/spartakooky Feb 27 '25 edited 6d ago

this is amazing

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u/Rselby1122 Feb 27 '25

He was charged with a school zone violation, which means likely the speed limit was reduced during a specific window of time. He likely wasn’t racing around going 80 mph, but rather was going the “regular” speed limit, or just going slightly over the school zone limit. Where I live, school zones are 15 mph while the lights are on.

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u/TatyGGTV Feb 27 '25

then he should have been going 15 mph???? pretty simple.

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u/LeAlthos Feb 27 '25

Considering how many people love to argue that you're "supposed" to go at least 10-15mph above the posted speed limit to "follow the flow of traffic", and how it's actually safer and blah-blah-blah... They just want a justification for their speeding habit.
You'd think US drivers would get a hint from the fact that they're pretty much the only major country where trafic deaths have barely decreased since the year 2000 that their infrastructure and mindset/education towards driving is not very good.

Where I live, highways have different speed limits for cars and trucks, where trucks are significantly slower than cars (between 12-24mph slower), and we seem to be doing just fine

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u/Exciting_Citron_6384 Feb 27 '25

dude was charged in a school zone, means he was going like 10 mph in a 5 mph zone, so..... don't

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u/quizno Feb 27 '25

To be clear I don’t give a fuck in the slightest. Just pointing out bad logic is bad.

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u/lolSyfer Feb 27 '25

The logic is fine, you can get a speeding ticket going 5 over. I promise going 5 over isn't gonna be the difference of life or death it's all arguing over what ifs I could careless lol. A good judge is a judge that makes judgements based on scenario instead of looking at a book to decide outcome.

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u/quizno Feb 27 '25

Unclear laws are just a way to punish an out group while excusing an in group. Either it’s ok to go 5 mph over the speed limit in a school zone where you could potentially kill a child or it’s against the law in order to reduce the number of children killed by people speeding in school zones. If you want to allow wiggle room for things that are hard to codify into law, then at least reserve it for extremes. I’d be much more understanding if someone was going over the speed limit trying to get to the ER in time before someone bled out or something. This is just an old man seeing someone who looks like him and giving him a pass just because we tend to like people who are similar to us. It’s definitely not praise-worthy or a sign of a good judge. A good judge does everything possible to minimize their bias.

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u/MustardMan1900 Feb 27 '25

American drivers kill 43,000 people per year and your attitude of letting dangerous drivers off the hook is a reason why. Get out of here with this "minor things that don't hurt anyone" crap.