This last January, Kim Ferguson, a long-time resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, was pulled over for speeding . An officer clocked at 31 mph in a 15 mph school zone. It had been the first ticket she had ever been issued. Being over double the speed limit, she was facing a $200 ticket.
“I said, ‘Oh my gosh. I’ve never had a ticket before. I don’t know what to do,’” Ferguson told KLAS .
The officer took pity on Ferguson and wrote her a ticket for going 20 mph—only a 5 mph difference. She argued she was following the flow of traffic, too, so he altered the ticket. Therefore, he said, she wouldn’t have to pay the $200…