Tax Payers Money

Ok -- so last Thursday I was heading home from work after depositing my check. I've only lived in the same town for how many years?????.......... Over 10!!!!

Had my car since 1999 with the window tinted and now they stop me for the tint on my windows!!!!!

Never mind that the tint is technically illegal. Yes, I said illegal!

There is suppose to be 75% light transmitted through the window for it to be legal...... Mine was only 19%

But isn't there something better for them to be doing then to waste their time pulling me over for nothing else but my tint?? I mean isn't there a drug dealer, a criminal, a drunk driver or something to take care of????

The cop was nice but I do believe he is a newbie. That or he needed to fill his quota for the month since it is toward the end of the month.

He gave me a ticket. And see that is another thing...... I have been stopped before by Troopers and sheriff's (Ok, lets not get any bad ideas here) I'm not that bad. But even they have let me go on the tint.

Anyways, He gives me a ticket along with a piece of paper that if I get my windows fixed and take it to a garage or to the police to have filled out they will dop the ticket.

I'm tired of this harrassement (besides I've been wanting to change my tint anyways) So I ask the officer if having mirrored tint on the windows is legal and he was like, I'm not sure. All he knows is that it has to be 75% light transmission. He said he never ran into any car like that......Funny because I have seen a few of them around.

So I'm trying not to have attitude - but I ask him, "well then who do I ask to find out. Because I don't want to get this new tint and be stopped yet again. "

He said I could ask the judge.

HELLO -- and what exactly am I spending my tax dollars on??? Should an officer of the law be aware of what the laws are and what is legal and illegal??

Just eerks me to no end. Just another one of my many bitches and gripes of how this world works.