Couldn't belive it!, Can you belive this? Options

[marco-polo]

after my math final i left school and made a late stop at a sign...when i looked up the cops were on the other side of the road...didn't seem they cared, so i drove off and they turned behind me...didn't think anything of it until i saw those Damn LIGHTS...rolled down my window and he told me to cross the intersection and pull into a parking lot. While he was taking my info he asked me if i could roll up my window because it looked a little to dark. The other cop came to my window and measured the tint. They found out that my tint is 3% and wrote me the ticket for my tint and passing the stop sign by a few feet... my total is $350... Then he tells me that legal window tint is anything Above 25%... Lastly he tells me that the main reason for the ticket was due to the tint, but they didn't want to stop me just because of that "we didn't want to be mean."
throughout the whole process i was calm about it and didn't over react since i decided to get the tint.
ive had my tint since the beginning of summer and this is the first time any authorities say anything about it...

[SwissFerdi]

Does seem step. My only ticket (only time being pulled over as well, *knocks on wood*) was for rolling through a stop sign, 138. So unless TX has a steeper penalty for that, $212 for tint seems like a lot. FWIW, my tint shouldn't be anywhere near 3%, but I can't say it's much lighter than yours...I'd say between 20% and 30%. Never had any problems though.

Crappy situation man.