{"id":188424189,"date":"2010-12-21T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188424189"},"modified":"2010-12-21T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:03:09","slug":"lax-on-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188424189","title":{"rendered":"Lax on speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Getting There by Michael Dresser<br \/>\nIn June 2009, the Getting There column recounted the story of lead-foot lobbyist Bruce C. Bereano, who had amassed a startling number of traffic tickets during his driving career.<br \/>\nAt the time, the colorful Bereano had been ticketed 22 times in the state since 1996 &#8212; though the disbarred attorney won not-guilty verdicts in about one-third of those cases.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe tickets follow an April 30 citation in Queen Anne&#8217;s County for going 70 mph in a 50-mph zone. Though Bereano frequently contests speeding tickets, in this case he pleaded guilty and the judge knocked the convicted speed down to 59 and let him off with a fine and court costs amounting to $60. Had he paid by mail, the fine would have been $160.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s puzzling why any judge would give a break to Bereano at that time because he had a guilty finding on another speeding ticket in June 2009 and a probation before judgment on another ticket the previous month.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOn one hand, it&#8217;s pretty funny how this guy keeps getting off or getting slaps on the wrist despite a record of speeding convictions. But all it would take is one crash in which someone is hurt, and the humor would quickly go away.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2010\/12\/bereano_isnt_slowing_down_at_a.html\">https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2010\/12\/bereano_isnt_slowing_down_at_a.html<\/a>oldId.20101221200309965<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Getting There by Michael Dresser In June 2009, the Getting There column recounted the story of lead-foot lobbyist Bruce C. Bereano, who had amassed a startling number of traffic tickets during his driving career. At the time, the colorful Bereano had been ticketed 22 times in the state since 1996 &#8212; though the disbarred &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188424189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lax on speeding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188424189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188424189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188424189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188424189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188424189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188424189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188424189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}