Arizona Woman Gets 70 Speeding Tickets

Francesca Cisneros, a 32-year-old mortage broker in Scottsdale, Arizona, has set a new record for speeding tickets with the Scottsdale Police Department by acquiring 70 of them...in the past five months.

Between March 2 and July 31 Ms. Cisneros received 70 speeding tickets in her (are you ready for this) Honda Civic. I equate fulfulling the need for speed in a Honda Civic to building a Time Machine out of a Delorean. It just doesn't make sense. I can only assume that she was under the impression that once she hit 88mph that she was going to see some serious shit.

I can't for the life of me however, figure out what the Scottsdale Police Department was thinking. They have to check license and registration or they never would have known that Ms. Cisneros had accrued 70 tickets. So how does an officer pull her over, run her records, give her a ticket, say "Now you be careful out there" and then allow her to speed off like Cruella De Vil heading to a coat sale? You know she's just going to speed again. Telling her to "be careful out there" is like placing a young actress in front of Wilmer Valderrama and saying "Now, don't screw her." It's NOT going to happen.

Her top excuse to officers when being pulled over was that she was late for a client meeting. I'm sorry Ms. Cisneros, but you're a mortage broker. Unless the person you are running late to meet is in need of the human heart that you have in a cooler in your trunk...it's just not that important. Seriously...is the house going somewhere? Are you financing mobile homes?

So what is the reason for collecting so many tickets and thinking nothing of it? She threw them away. She actually believed that nothing could happen to her if she didn't pay them. Kind of like the same way that if you don't pay your mortage nothing can happen to you?

Sure, that's scary, but not as scary as this: she faces some $11,000 in fines and could have her license suspended. Could??? That's like saying to a pedophile that he may not be able to hang out at schools anymore. Let me tell you, I would rather share the roads with alzheimers patients then I would this woman. At least they don't know where they're going so they're in no hurry to get there.

Originally Posted on Myspace

Saturday, August 12, 2006