Well, that is a workable alternative…
rzwitserloot posted in politics on February 2nd, 2007

I’m against a large number of frivolous laws, most easily observed in traffic law, that employ relatively small (below 1000 euros) fines to try and ‘fix’ the mindset of the people. If the money goes to ‘fixing’ externalities, sure, but that almost never happends.

Most importantly, the police hypocritically break these laws all the time and never suffer for it. The problem with this is simple: The people ‘in the know’ are not confronted with how often common sense clashes with such laws.

Of course, there is a workable alternative: This cop wrote himself a ticket. This guy really gets the whole ’setting a good example’ business. If all cops did that, the whole notion of traffic fines would become a lot more palatable!