Certainly is Kafkaesque . . . especially the notion that everyone thinks themselves guilty.  Wonder what a cop would have done in your situation. Probably would have passed  you and kept going. Oops, its not friday! Guilty!
 > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:27:52 -0700
> From: rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> Yeah, me too in an 85 Vanagon hardtop with a 1.9 east of Payson, Arizona.  Photo speed trap.  In the afternoon on the way eastward everyone (locals) started slowing down as we approached it; alas, then next morning on the westward trip it was early (6 am), no cars at all on the road, a little groggy perhaps so I forgot about the speed trap and didn't notice a thing until the cameras flashed....doh!!!  Guess I was in a hurry to get to Phoenix that morning, and it was downhill, so 55 in a 45 zone.  Guilty!!  Nice souvenir photos of the front and rear of my van.  Arizona locals hate those photo speed traps I've been told.
> 
> Rich
> San Diego
> 
> --- On Thu, 10/13/11, Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> 
> From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Is it possible to speed in a 84 Westy w/ 1.9 engine?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 9:06 AM
> 
> Yes it is! 
> Got a speeding ticket this am on the way to woik.  Clocked @ 43 mph in a 30 mph zone after a 2 block startup from a right hand turn.  Motorcycle cop w/ a radar gun on the side of a busy 1 way road w/ 4-5 lanes.
> When he asked if I knew how fast I was going, I demurred, saying afterall I was in a VW Bus & couldn't possibly be speeding.
> But NOOOOOOO!
> I behaved myself, as The spousal Unit was in the car, taking her to work after dropping her Audi off for a new head gasket among other issues( 199,000 miles), & he wrote it up for only 5 over.
> I think he felt guilty giving someone in a VW Bus a speeding ticket, & he should have!
> 
> YMMV,
> 
> Mr. BZ-thot I was immune