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Long story short<\/a>: Man gets speeding ticket for going 40 in 25 zone.\u00a0 Goes to trial to plead for reduced fine, ends up getting fined $1,000, a year of probation, driving school and a lifetime ban from the county.<\/span><\/p>\n At first glance, it\u2019s basically an epically large punishment for a seemingly innocuous 15 mph over the limit offense.\u00a0 Now most people probably wouldn\u2019t really care about getting banned from Walton County, Georgia, considering it\u2019s outside the perimeter, east of Atlanta and really isn\u2019t known for anything other than being a scenic route on the way to Athens.\u00a0 Honestly, in spite of the fact that the punished claims to feel that it\u2019s unfortunate that he can\u2019t legally visit friends he has in Walton County anymore, or capitalize on free babysitting, I can\u2019t imagine the ban is the end of the world for him either.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is however, the probation that he\u2019s put on, which makes him legally incapable of leaving the country during the year in which it\u2019s in effect.\u00a0 Considering he\u2019s a legal US citizen having emigrated from Jamaica, it doesn\u2019t sound like he has a habit of visiting his homeland on a regular basis, but now it\u2019s off the board as an option for the next year; I know people simply don\u2019t like it when the options are taken away from them.<\/span><\/p>\n So ultimately, the question is was this punishment justifiable or was it overkill?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A part of me is curious if this is one of those race things, because according to the omniscient Wikipedia, Walton County\u2019s demographics is pretty much over 80% white, and less than 16% black; with Georgia being a historically racist state, and Walton kind of falling into the criteria of \u201coutside the realm of progression,\u201d it begs to wonder if this a little bit race motivated.<\/span><\/p>\n However on the flip side, we have no idea how the guilty party acted in court.\u00a0 For starters, he didn\u2019t\u00a0have<\/em>\u00a0to attempt to plead the fine down, in which the situation may never had escalated to his eventual banning\/probation\/escalated fine, had he simply just paid the initial fine.\u00a0 Although he claims to not have been disrespectful to the judge, it\u2019s ultimately his-word-against-theirs, and in the court of law such is pointless, and he clearly raised the ire of the preceding judge.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, Mr. Guilty still broke the law when he was going 40 in a 25 zone.\u00a0 I know how much getting caught for that sucks, because the first ever ticket I ever got in my life was exactly the same circumstance, but all I had was a $129 fine to pay.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t banned from my county, nor did I even have to take a driving class afterward.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t affect my ability to be able to get on a plane to go wherever I may have wanted.\u00a0 A part of me feels for the guys for getting such a harsh punishment, but based on the seeming lack of remorse or notion that he hasn\u2019t learned that speeding is bad, it makes me wonder what hidden facts might have made the punishment worth the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long story short: Man gets speeding ticket for going 40 in 25 zone.\u00a0 Goes to trial to plead for reduced fine, ends up getting fined $1,000, a year of probation, driving school and a lifetime ban from the county. 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