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Hummer drivers get the most tickets because driving a Hummer gives you the attitude that makes you drive the way that deserves tickets.

Those arrogant bastards. Or is it that the cops perceive them as arrogant bastards?

I see that the lefty blog Crooks and Liars links to this story. It reprints a big block of text under the stock wisecrack "Well, color me surprised." It's not the whole text of the article though. It's cut off after a set of quotes about how the kind of people who drive Hummers must be the kind of people who flout the law. Readers who don't click through don't see the complicating material: The cars that get the second and third most tickets ? Scion tC and xB ? are small. And though a Chevy Tahoe is nearly the same car as the Hummer, Tahoe drivers get less than the average number of tickets. Crooks and Liars also elides:

[A]re Hummer drivers being persecuted by state troopers?

I'll bet if the news story was about police disproportionately ticketing some category of driver the Crooks and Liars liked instead of hated, doubts about police behavior would have been the main point of the post.

I scanned the 118 comments to see if anyone brought up the skepticism about cops I would normally ? but not now ? expect to find on a lefty blog. But no. They devolve into denouncement of the "the modern day red-neck pig" ? where pig ? cop ? and theories about the penis.

Full post as published by Althouse on February 01, 2009 (boomark / email).