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How cheap are you? Just pay it. You got caught so why are you fighting the ticket for? No matter if you weren't going as fast as he said, you still were over the limit.
As Thread says, pay the ticket, guy.
Prior to today I had never been pulled over for speeding, am usually pretty good at being a boring/safe driver. Was heading back to LA from Mammoth (about a 5-6 hour drive), and got pulled over on the highway (was a 65 zone). I wasn't below the limit (tbh, on an open-road 2 lane highway, nobody is) but I wasn't going fast enough to fear getting pulled over. Saw the cop going in the other direction, didn't bother slowing down or anything, since I wasn't going at a speed where getting pulled over even seemed plausible. Guess he busted a U and pulled me over about a mile later.
First the guy says he clocked me going 87-88 while we were driving toward each other, and claimed he got me going the same speed with his rear radar (didn't even know that was a thing). There was no chance in I was going that fast... or anything near it. Going 88 in a 65 could be cited as reckless driving. He then asks me if I've ever gotten a speeding ticket before (no)... then accuses me of having illegal tints on my windows. I told him I don't have any tints, and he says "oh, ok. you're right these are factory."
He goes back to his car, comes back with a ticket which says he clocked me at 75... I know the guy is completely full of , and after doing a small amount of research I came across this, from a guy who got pulled over with the same in the same county.
Had a radar detector and reduced my speed to 65-70. The officer said my speed was 88.
http://www.justanswer.com/traffic-la...#ixzz3Nv5Paf8N
What's annoying is, if i wanted to have my day in court, I'd have to go all the way there (about 300 miles), but it, i'll just try to extend and extend and make a trip out of it
How cheap are you? Just pay it. You got caught so why are you fighting the ticket for? No matter if you weren't going as fast as he said, you still were over the limit.
As Thread says, pay the ticket, guy.
I'm in grad school, so i'm quite cheap. I've also had trips to Las Vegas and Mammoth in the last few weeks, so I'm in no mood to pay another few hundred dollars, particularly if the citation wasn't deserved. I wasn't even going as fast as the 75 I got cited for. I'm not just gna be suckered into a paying for this .
I didn't read all that but aren't you studying to become a lawyer? And you're asking random shelve stockers for advice on beating a speeding ticket?
Sure. I don't see which parts of civil procedure, torts, contracts, or legal research/writing (the courses I've taken so far) will really come into play when it comes to this situation.
I'm always open to suggestions from those who have experience in the matter. A shelve stocker who has gotten out of multiple speeding tickets would probably know more on the matter than somebody who has taken a semester of law school and has never argued for a ticket before.
I've also been living a parsimonious life since my rookie year tbh, so I can pretty well understand it. Sometimes the thugs in uniform just catch you for no reason, happens imho. There's no point in appealing against it or going to a law court because would screw you up even more, like my SL said, just accept it and pay it. There's no true justice in the society, just a lesson of life you gotta learn.
1. be a hot chick
2. be white (just to make sure you dont get shot for speeding)
Defensive driving. ~$25 course fee and 4 hours of your time. Boom. Done.
this does nothing for the situation at hand. thanks
What exactly are you going to tell the judge, Philo? I was going 68 not 75? That s not gonna fly. The cop seems like a power hungry, bottom of the totem pole but you're still ed. Best case scenario the judge orders you to take the defensive driving class...but then you'd have to make another trip to show you've completed it.
You can do the usual's people say which is try to extend to a point where the cop can't show up which helps your case, ask for the calibration test date of the radar, things like that. Easiest thing to do though is to take a DD course or try to get deferred adjudication which would probably end up as a probation period.
spurraider21, aren't you supposed to be the next Robert Kardashian? Might as well fight it. Personally I'd just pay them their blood money or do DD. Sounds shady but have seen them pull this before on friends & family. I told ya, all that skiing and snorting, Sundance style, would catch up to you.
I'd pay "such a person" $300.00 to never come around me & mine again. The part in "A Bronx Tale" is a prime example of this protocol. Pay it. Get away from such negativity as soon as humanly possible so you can once again enjoy your life on your terms.
Contentment is priceless.
there were other cars on the road around me... pickup trucks and SUV's mainly (it was a skiing trip). how the he can be so certain that his radar didn't pick up something else, instead of my small-ass honda civic, in that split second, considering we were driving in opposite directions. it was clear and sunny and he was wearing sunglasses the entire time. he was alone and operating a radar while driving... easy to make a mistake. he told me i was going 88 and then cited me at 75. was he lying then, is he lying now, or both? "doing me a favor" isn't gna cut it.
What exactly are you going to tell the judge, Philo? I was going 68 not 75? That s not gonna fly. The cop seems like a power hungry, bottom of the totem pole but you're still ed. Best case scenario the judge orders you to take the defensive driving class...but then you'd have to make another trip to show you've completed it.
i'm going to request discovery for everything i can, radar calibration, training, etc. i doubt he will be a no-show, its a small county
i've seen more than one story on the web of people in the same county being told they were going 85+ only to be cited for less. its fishy. if i bring those up to the judge, i can argue there's a systematic flaw in their approach.
there's no way i can pay a fee i didn't deserve and feel content about it.
also just to add, at no point did i attempt to assault the officer, reach for his weapon, storm out of my vehicle, make sudden movements or quickly reach for my pocket.
and the situation never escalated
A friend of mine got a ticket for going 52 in a 45 zone. I remember her pleading that asshole and that could care less. The smaller counties do this very often. The county judges are just as bad, so i'd just pay the ticket if i were you.
From my experience out in the West, Washington State patrol are the worst. California & Oregon come next. Idaho, Montana & Nevada cops are the laziest.
If you didn't give the cop a reason to remember you, there's probably 15 things he'd rather be doing that show up to court to contest a petty speeding ticket.
Fight it, I'd say you have an 80% chance the cop doesn't show.
There's no illegal way to beat it that you're going to try, so that leaves legal ways. Hire a lawyer.
then accuses me of having illegal tints on my windows. I told him I don't have any tints, and he says "oh, ok. you're right these are factory
LOL so self-righteous
Just pay the ticket man. I know it sucks having to pay for something that 90% of people do anyway, but you did go past the limit and that's what matters...
Take responsibility and start driving like an 80 year old. I know it's tough driving slow when everyone else in the road drive 10kmph faster than the limit, but at least you're safe and there's no way they ticket you.
Pay the ticket.
I'm in California. I can't just take a defensive driving class instead of paying the ticketLOL so self-righteous
And for everybody saying "pay the ticket" please read the le of the thread
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