{"id":73538,"date":"2009-12-09T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010466913_carfacingthewrongwayreceivedtherightticket.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:06:28","slug":"car-facing-the-wrong-way-received-the-right-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/73538","title":{"rendered":"Car facing the wrong way received the right ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In need of a common sense U-turn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not often The Seattle Times\u2019 editorial opinions are pointed the wrong way in regards to common sense. Except for a car parked in the wrong direction on a freeway, apparently [\u201cThe right ruling on a wrong-way car,\u201d Opinion, editorial, Dec. 7].<\/p>\n<p>If no ticket can be given because a police officer didn\u2019t see the car drive in the wrong direction, then that would also mean a body with four bullet holes can\u2019t be murder unless a police officer saw the shooting. Or a drunken driver isn\u2019t drunk unless the police officer saw the drinks consumed.<\/p>\n<p>And so forth, on and on.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial writers need to make a common-<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span>sense U-<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span>turn, and hope a police officer doesn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Don Johnson, Kirkland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Traffic ticket sent to Supreme Court?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having a traffic ticket reviewed by the Washington Supreme Court doesn\u2019t say much for the intermediate judges in the appeals courts, or any other decision-makers in the system who allowed this farce to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest the appeals cost be apportioned out to those involved, and deducted from their termination pay.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Terry Slaton, Federal Way<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In need of a common sense U-turn It\u2019s not often The Seattle Times\u2019 editorial opinions are pointed the wrong way in regards to common sense. Except for a car parked in the wrong direction on a freeway, apparently [\u201cThe right ruling on a wrong-way car,\u201d Opinion, editorial, Dec. 7]. If no ticket can be given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}