College Student Arrested for Speeding in Texas

Earlier this month, a sophomore from Texas A&M was arrested for going 43 miles over the speed limit . Sounds fair, you say? Well, according to Texas State Law, it's not.

The cop that arrested 19-year-old Michel Henry booked the kid for speeding, not for reckless driving. In Texas those two things are completely different offenses.

Jack Henry, Michel's father, is up in arms about his son's arrest. Evidently, Jack and his wife didn't receive their son's one allotted phone call. When Michel never arrived at his destination, his parents got worried.

“I’m trying to find everything I can to think he’s not upside down in a bayou,” said the teen’s father. “We believe we called everybody.” They even filed a missing persons report.

Now the Clute Police Department is scrambling to figure out how the boy was arrested on a speeding charge, and how they weren't notified of the missing persons report. The officer that made the arrest claims that he was trained to arrest speeders that were that far over the limit. And you can't deny driving 88mph in an area set at 45mph is dangerous. However, state law remains state law, and it's obvious the officer was in the wrong.

What do you think? Is it absurd that the kid got arrested, or was the officer just doing his job?