Eddie Van Halen Speeding

[FORD]

[cadaverdog]

America has a very odd legal system, can police captains let celebrities off with all crimes or is it just up to a certain level? How famous do you need to be to qualify?

A speeding ticket in California is only an infraction. It's not really considered a crime. Infractions are fairly easy to have dismissed if you know the right people.
Speaking of odd legal systems isn't there a popular theory that the real Jack The Ripper was a member of a royal family and the legal system there has helped cover that up for a hundred plus years now?

[cadaverdog]

What I don't understand is him writing a letter to admit that he had. I guess he was wanting kudos from Van Halen or tickets or something but it seems to me that's a career ending letter to write if he is identified. My best guess is the guy is an idiot.

First off the cop who wrote the ticket probably cut Eddie some slack to begin with and wrote the ticket for less MPH if he was doing 90 95 in a 65 otherwise he would probably have been arrested for wreckless driving. Secondly. Fixing a ticket for a celebrity unless it was for cash money or something of value probably wouldn't get a high ranking cop like that in too much trouble.

[Seshmeister]

Speaking of odd legal systems isn't there a popular theory that the real Jack The Ripper was a member of a royal family and the legal system there has helped cover that up for a hundred plus years now?

I think that was the plot of a movie or two. The reason for that is how many other people does anyone know of from the late 1800s? Saying it was a vagrant called John Smith who then died of TB doesn't make for as good a story.

Jack the Ripper is like JFK, it's an industry that has created hundreds of books and theories which makes money.

Like JFK it's worth noting that if any one of the theories was correct immediately 2000 aren't. I always found it kind of puzzling that they all kind of prop each other up despite being completely at odds with each other. It's the same as religions...