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By Harriette Halepis

Here’s something that you don’t hear about every day: a retired sheriff’s deputy is attempting to help his son beat a speeding ticket. Why? Simply put, Roger Rude doesn’t believe that his son was speeding when the speeding ticket was issued.

You see, Rude had installed a GPS tracking device in his son’s car a few months ago. Prompted by his son’s urges to “put the pedal to the metal” (Rude does not make any excuses for his son’s love of speed), he installed a GPS tracking device in his son’s car.

This device has the ability to track his son’s whereabouts, but it also has the capability to record his son’s speed. Rude has a computer printout of his son’s location and speed on the day and time in question. The funny thing is that his son was well within the legal speed limit (according to the tracking device) when the speeding ticket was issued.

Needless to say, Rude believe that his son is innocent. Further, Rude believes that his GPS readout will effectively prove that his son was not speeding. Rude and his son will attend a court hearing where the speeding ticket will be contested.

This case just goes to show that a GPS tracking device can do a lot more than help you find your way out of a traffic jam – these devices just may save you a few pennies that would have been spent on speeding tickets.  Rude isn’t trying to “…get a guilty kid off…” he just wants his son “to see that the system works (Sun Journal).“