Speeding Tickets

Road fatalities per billion KM in the UAE: 310
In the US, its 7.6
In Canada, 6.1

Beyond the waste of lives, it's annoying as shit to commute to work in.

 

This sounds like a bad idea. An awful lot of time and effort to avoid paying a ticket. How much did they hit you for?
I can see being pissed off if you felt as though you weren't speeding and the ticket was unwarranted. But you were speeding. Despite a sense of cosmic unfairness at the current state of police affairs, you still broke the law. Sometimes you have to go along to get along. Just stay under the radar.

I've actually seen quite a few police officers speeding recently. They just zoom right by you. And the other day I saw two cops texting and driving in the same day. It burns me to see that sort of behavior.

 

its grass fed car officer..

 

Appeal the ticket, but I don't think a better plan exists than just saying you're not a habitual law breaker and you made a mistake about the limit - if the cop doesn't show the first time you get off, if they do you may or may not get off, but if they show and you waste their time with some pretend lawyer shit, they're coming correct and you are going down, for wasting their time and fucking around.

And, none/never. Various warnings and encounters, but I don't speed without a good fuckin' reason, or where I'm very confident about who I'm liable to meet.

 

I've never had a speeding ticket and have only been pulled over twice in the whole time I've been driving (about 4 years...yeah, I'm late to the game). And both those times were in the past year, too, lol. I got pulled over for doing 37 in a 30 but it was a new cop in training and she just gave me a verbal "be safe and watch your speed!" and the time before that was just state troopers harassing me and a coworker because they profiled us. Never told us at all why they pulled us over, but they saw us gassing up our boss's Lexus at a gas station (he let us borrow it because we were working all day at the restaurant he owned an hour away from the restaurant I normally worked at) and followed us down the road. I was nervous, so I pulled into an abandoned gas station for a minute to collect myself, and got back on the road and they were apparently hiding waiting on us a couple miles up the road. Of course, we got pulled over, got asked to step out of the vehicle, and I told them exactly what we were doing, whose car we were in, and where we were from, and they ran our info, yanked my coworker out of the car to search him. Said "only dopers wear toboggans in the summer." Well...they were right, really, both of us were/are potheads, but neither of us had anything on us, so it was really all just a waste of their time. They let us go, all disappointed, and moved along to harass the next people they came across.

 

Not a single speeding ticket ever; but on a few occasions I had to pay a 5 dollar fine for parking in front of my own house after Nov 15th when overnight parking isn't allowed.


Hotwater

 

I ain't had a speeding ticket in...decades.

 

I'm not sure over there of course, but in the netherlands when the police officer has witnessed you driving too fast that already counts as a solid testimony. In short: it is not worth the effort to fight the ticket in court. The reason you were speeding would not matter here in 99% of all cases, and even in the 1% you would have to prove there really was a need for it. You will have to pay for it.

I think he's here solely on a voluntarily basis You kind of seem a bit down and negative lately (as I see lots of rational and normal people and posts on here... and it is not a competition in normality anyway ). I hope it is just that you're being bored with this place!

 

I got my first speeding ticket in over 10 years recently. I was hit for being over the limit and also for being more than 20 mph over the limit. Thankfully I was just under 100, where a whole different set of fines kick in as well as a trip into town flanked by state troopers. So it seems to be nearly $300 in fines. The oinker was nice enough to tell me this and had me back on the road in about 15 minutes. I still had my time gain!

So I broke it down to the cost per lap at some of the various tracks. A good average is $10 a lap. So I have been hauling ass for a decade without getting caught. With works out to what? $0.003475 per illegal mile?

I got off cheap and hold no grudge to the oinkers (even though it was an obvious speed trap and they nailed a bunch of us at the same time).

 

this whole I dont want to waste the tax payers monies is bullducky .. they courts get paid the same whether you go to trial or you dont.
the ticket fine does not increase with trials. whomever said it does is an idiot. this is traffic court. unless dui related, it is not criminal court. geeze..

 

you know, i've never seen a ticket go anywhere, let alone speed, without someone carrying it.

 

I got a ticket for an unlawful lane change in Hawaii. The cop was absolutely wrong, so I got all het up about it--I was going to testify in court and prove that sucker wrong. Man, I got in the courtroom and there must have been 300 people in there and the judge was on a platform about 10 feet high! Looked like a stern god up there. Shit--I turned into a crawling worm and whispered --guilty, your majesty. Damn near

went to jail over that one. Evidently, they prefer your honor. No speeding tickets though.

 

did you mean "tuque"

like you wear on a head?

a "toboggan" is something made of wood you hop on to slide down a hill in the snow...a certain type of sled

 

i sort of think someone wearing a toboggan on their head would very likely be noticed, and somewhat wondered at and speculated about.

on the summit in the winter many track workers on the railroad often wore what everyone called tokes on their heads under their hard hats. never knew how that was spelled. i'm guessing tuque is how that's actually supposed to be spelled. never saw the word written down. only heard it mentioned from time to time.

 

this is why, among other things, people need to support public transportation, instead of transportation policies that force people to drive.
its one thing if someone actually lives more then 50 miles from the nearest post office, but more then 90% of americans actually don't.
that there are large distances between some small communities in some parts of the u.s., is really a lame excuse for not having better in most places, many of which did have service in the past.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap


to call it a toboggan is just weird...but weird is normal i guess in the south lol

 

We call it a beanie here

 

i don't even know what its title would be here. most people just seem to call it a hat.

 

i would call that thing a hat. a winter hat if i were trying to be more specific.