Is a 24mph over ticket the same price as a 15mph over? If it is, you might as well just pay it. Hell, even if you weren't going 74mph then, I'm sure you were recently. Chock it up to bad karma and get on with your life.

Why didn't you have your license on you?

Chances are that if you took the same attitude with the officer as you did in the post, that's why you got those additional tickets, just so you know. If you said that shit to me, I'd write you as many citations as I possibly could.

Oh, and the thing that shows you the speed you're going, that's the SPEEDometer. The odometer shows you the miles the vehicle has traveled.