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Then you are innocent. Rip up the ticket and forget about it.
Could it be his way of driving?
Then you are innocent. Rip up the ticket and forget about it.
:gasp: a police officer illegally profiling me. Never.
A pattern means nothing you can't ticket someone because you think they might do something. I have had tickets and each one of them was legit however I haven't been ticketed for over 4 years.
It's starting...
...but I'd echo another poster's sentiments and fight it. However, if your previous tix were for moving violations (specifically, speeding), that could bite you in the ass while pleading your case.
Maybe he just wanted your autograph B2B.
Apparently they can.
Speeding tickets from 5 and 7 years ago shouldn't factor in whether or not I broke the law on April 6th 2009. It should be about today.
It's starting...
...but I'd echo another poster's sentiments and fight it. However, if your previous tix were for moving violations (specifically, speeding), that could bite you in the ass while pleading your case.
I feel the same way about my possession of marijuana charge from 99 but it factored in my recent case.
If I actually broke the law I could how something like a record could factor in. I broke no law.
Oh, ok. I wasn't aware of how long it'd been since you got your last tix. You may have already mentioned that and I missed it. It may not be a problem then.
Something similar happened to me on July 31st last year. It was nearing midnight and I'm sure dispatch just sent out an alert to all units to ticket any moving violation whatsoever because they were still 200 citations under quota, but still. This is in Hays County.
Now I've heard a lot of about HCPD being a bunch of gots. Probably not nearly as bad as Williamson County. Standard WillCo pull over procedure:
"I pulled you over because you're sticker's expired... Whoops, I thought that 8 was a 6, my bad. Are you a smoker sir? Oh, so you smoke Camels. You have any marijuana in the car, anything illegal? OK, just thought I'd ask because there's a funny smell coming from your vehicle. Can you please step out of the vehicle, I'd like to ask you a few questions. How much have you had to drink tonight? Nothing? I'm not sure you're sober enough to drive, so we're going to do this thing called nine steps forward, nine steps back. Oh, well you did fine. Go home."
Welcome to the real world.
If you think this sucks, take the ticket to the Judge.
That's a shame...
I got four tickets in my Mach 1 coming home from Thanksgiving driving under the speed limit with my wife in pre-term labor just because a small town cop wanted to with me.
You got caught doing something you wouldn't have done if you'd known a cop was watching you. Pay your ticket and move on. If you can't handle a cop magnet car, get rid of it. You know as well as I do you're likely to get pulled over even if you do everything exactly right.
I have a similar story and also was warned that I'd be arrested.
I was leaving a Spurs game one evening and while driving home, was stopped for absolutely no apparent reason. The officer approached my window and asked me if I knew that the light above my rear license plate was out. I told him I didn't know that and assured him that I would get it corrected immediately. He then asked me for license and insurance, and I complied. When he returned to my vehicle, he had written me a ticket -- with a fine of something like $110 -- for the burned out light. I immediately went into smart ass mode and the situation escalated.
I asked him how I was supposed to know that the light was burned out without standing behind a running car. I said, I thought it was helpful of him to save me the risk of standing behind a moving car by pulling me over to advise me, but that giving me a ticket for it was complete and utter bull . He asked me if I wanted to go to jail; I said "for what?" He told me that because I wouldn't sign his ticket, the charge would be resisting arrest. I told him he had to have an arrestable offense first and that he still didn't have one. He said he didn't care and got on his shoulder walkie-talkie and called for a tow truck.
Allowing my indignation to give way to some sensibility, I signed the ticket, but wrote a lengthy protest on it -- for whatever it was worth. He was obviously pissed and threatened again to have me arrested for writing my protest. I quickly finished.
I went the next day, before sunset, to have the light replaced. I went down to the municipal court a couple of weeks later. First I talked to a brick wall prosecutor who would bargain my fine down only $10. I advised him that I'd be happy to take the ticket to trial. He told me I'd have to enter a plea with the judge. So I went before the judge and before I could even open my mouth, she started laughing. She asked why I had come; I said I was there because I thought the ticket was nonsense. She laughed again, said, "I'm sorry you've been harassed. The Legislature is going to change this law, but even if it didn't, there's no way I'd allow someone to pay a fine for a ticket like this one. The charge is dismissed."
And to think that I almost got arrested for it. . . .
I wouldn't have done anything differently had I known the cop was right there watching. Didn't know and never thought acceleration was a crime. I'm not going to give up my vehicle just because a few asshole feel like ticketing me for no good reason.
This thread is worthless unless you post some pics of your Mach 1.
Not sure exactly what you did, but I doubt you deserved more than a warning. I hope you have the time to contest. I'd be pissed in the same situation.
Joe Chalupa - if this happened to you, you'd be playing the tiniest borrowed violin in the world for 3 years so the only reason I can think for you to side with the policeman is B2B gets under your skin.
stop breaking the ing law you criminal
Are u the guy who threw something at a car while driving a few months back.
Probably not
Well, since someone wrote that you were in a Corvette..
"People that can afford to drive a Vette can afford to pay a bull ticket, especially in this ty town. Man, I'm jealous. I'm paying $500 a month for a Ford Fusion", thinks Officer KrispyKreme. "Besides, only assholes drive Vettes and pass like that. This will take up thirty minutes or so, and then I can go to lunch and commiserate with my crime fighting brethren."
Wrong. I'd show up to challenge the ticket or take defensive driving. I'm not siding with the police office I'm just saying that I can see how the cop interpreted it as aggressive driving.
B2B doesn't get under my skin. Remember that HE was the one that was beginning to melt, not me.
I think he just gets annoyed when others don't see things HIS way.
And more often than not I agree with his rants but I also try to see both sides to a story and play devil's advocate.
Last edited by JoeChalupa; 04-06-2009 at 12:48 PM.
In that scenario, not signing the ticket is an arrestable offense (unless TX law varies). It is your bond. IIRC, some dude in Utah or Arizona found out the hard way and got tazed for it.
EDIT: Found it, guy doesn't listen to instructions too well.
http://www.break.com/index/dude-taze...ng-ticket.html
Once the ticket is written up, it's pointless to argue then and there. You're only going to make it worse for yourself.
You're much better off saving it for the judge.
Last edited by DisgruntledLionFan#54,927; 04-06-2009 at 12:47 PM.
Afford? I paid 9k for the car. Thats it. Maybe only an asshole who can afford a 500 dollar a month payment should be ticketed.
I like it when people re-tell stories, and they throw in that they had some really witty, Dawson's-Creek-verbiage-type rebuttal that completely put the story's villain in their place.
Sorry about your ticket, though, Pacey.
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