Originally Posted by
Superguy
Come on.
If you live in the DC area as your handle implies, you know that's bunk because of how traffic is enforced in the area.
2 reasons: precision and prerogative.
There's error inherent in the process that can't be compensated for, whether that's human or technical. Lasers and radar aren't 100% precise even when properly calibrated, and it's easy for the officer to make a mistake. Cops know this.
not DCA, CA is for California, my home for 2 decades already. Anyway.
Exactly. And because the reading of the radar or whatever else would make 56 debatable in court, so most of the times, you will get a ticket only when it is certain that you were above the speed limit.
BUT the reason for not giving a ticket is not because there is some leniency or because 56 is ridiculous, it is because the ticket could be challenged.
Going back to the carry on issue, most of the times that GAs says the bag is oversized is because the bag obviously does not fit in the sizer or completely covers the white lines of the sizer (a 75mph carry on).
In the cases where the bag is just at the limit , i.e. the edges of the bag are at the white lines of the sizer or almost completely covering it, most GAs will let it pass. Some will argue the bag does not comply but these are not the majority of cases.
We don't know how the Tumi bag (in the last post) fit in the sizer. Most likely it did not fit at all? the poster did not clarify, it seems he is admitting that the bag did not fit the sizer, so that's the end of the story.