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| jimmy |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 20:52:16
...back in March I was driving towards the center of town. The car in front of me was going too slow (it was a 35mph no passing zone )and I passed him. He was angry and shook his fist when I went by. A mile up the road I approached an intersection. Right before the lights there's a road that merges into mine and a cop ended up behind me.
I was watching him in my mirror and he was just looking around, not looking at me at all. Then the guy I passed pulled alongside the cop and told him to pull me over. As the light turned green, the cop put his lights on. The guy who ratted on me pulled over too.
They were talking and then the cop came over, very upset, and said, "That man said you passed him in a no-passing zone." I said I didn't. The cop talked to the guy some more and the guy left. A couple minutes later the cop came back for a ticket for going 40 in a 25 ( the limit was 25 near the intersection).
I don't know if that guy was friends with the cops or if he believed his story and decided I was gonna get punished for something.
At court they have one cop read the statements against each speeder. The cop who pulled me over wrote only, " I observed Jimmy_____ driving at a high rate of speed that I estimated to be 40 mph in a 25mph zone. It was a speed that was too fast for the busy area."
I said that the report wasn't complete and I told my story. I never denined passing the car to the magistrate and he didn't ask. I'm sure he knew and understood why I didn't admit it to the cop.
I won. If I had lost I could've appealed and the cop would've had to show up. I'm dying to know if he would've admitted the real reason he pulled me over.
The thing that still bothers me is that the guy thinks that he won. He thought it was his lucky day- someone actually had the nerve to pass him and then a cop showed up like magic so he could teach him a lesson.
I know I won. That guy was driving like a retard. I decided that he wasn't worthy to drive in front of me so I left him behind. He's a sore loser who did the cheapest,lowest thing anyone could do. I would never rat out another driver unless they actually hit me. |
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| Newo |
Posted - 05/08/2004 : 14:13:15
There's two types of police here, the Guardia Local and Civil. Get stopped by the Local and you can tear up the ticket or ignore the summons but the Civil are military police and major sense-of-humour donors so it's best to rile them none.
-Owen |
| floop |
Posted - 05/08/2004 : 13:43:44
congratulations Jimmy. i've never won a traffic case. but that's because i'm always guilty.
i've been to traffic court and/or traffic school almost once a year since i've been driving, at 16. i once got three moving violations all within a week (in Arizona. watch out for those fucks. they'll pull you over if you're going 10 mph over the speed limit). and at another time in my life, i got two speeding tickets within a matter of a month FROM THE SAME COP!
i am no stranger to the traffic court system.
here's some advice for you deviant drivers:
when you get pulled over, you should take your keys out of the ignition and put them in your hand, visibly, and put your hands on the steering wheel. this way, the police know you're a compliant citizen and it's a nice courtesy .. as if to say, "hey, i'm not here to start any trouble .. if there's anything we can do about this, if you know what i mean, nudge nudge.." ok. maybe not that elaborate.. but it's a way of showing you're not a criminal with a gun and it takes the edge off. and, i've heard, they appreciate that. if you're polite and compliant, half the time they'll let you go with a warning. if you smart off in ANY WAY, you're guaranteed to get a ticket. just bite the bullet and act polite. it's worth it.
2ndly. if you ever have a ticket and you have the option to go to court or just pay the amount through the mail, you should go to court (if you have the time). they will almost always reduce the fine by about 1/2 the amount.
3rdly, whatever you do, if you have to go to traffic school for any reason, get online traffic school. i can't stress that enough. don't waste 8 hours of your life when you can get the same thing done in 20 minutes in the privacy of your home (with a frozen pizza and some beer). and if online traffic school isn't availalable, DO NOT opt to get "Comedy Traffic School". it's worse that real traffic school.
heed my advice, or you'll regret it. |
| benji |
Posted - 05/08/2004 : 01:47:29
i thought you were going to print the monologue from Blaise Bailey Finnegin III from Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which starts exactly the same way.
 "I joined the Cult of Frank / I think that man deserves a DB!" |
| klikger |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 23:54:44
My dad represented himself in court yesterday to fight a speeding ticket (and he's not a lawyer). I wonder if he won. |
| SpudBoy |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 23:20:53
Well, you *did* say it was a no passing zone.
As to your second point...
<insert bait-taking, flame war, swimmer-calling, and other such internet sludge here>
Now that we have that out of the way, let's get back to our regularly scheduled forum, without the assumptions and so forth. And for the record, I am an excellent driver, but the cossack suit freaks out the locals.
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| jimmy |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 22:57:33
I think I need to clarify one point: in this case, it was a straight road with no cars coming the other way- it wasn't a posted "no passing zone" there simply wasn't a broken divided line. Passing wasn't encouraged because it's one of those "historical" neighborhoods where you're supposed to drive slowly and admire the rich people's houses. Nobody's life was endangered- someone's feeling's were hurt.
Incidently, if someone is so desperate to get away from you that they'd pass you in a posted "No Passing Zone", you must be a very incompetent driver. |
| SpudBoy |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 22:14:54
Well typically I get pissed off if someone is passing me in a no passing zone, since the *reason* it is a no passing zone is due to the fact that it is inherently dangerous to do so at that place, and therefore the passer is endangering my life as well as his own. For that, I yell "ASSHOLE", give them the finger, honk, and have glorious fantasies of following them home and bludgeoning them to death in front of their families for threatening me in that way. Ought to be a law - oh wait...
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| jimmy |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 21:20:03
I get passed from time to time- especially when it's snowing or raining hard on a winding road- once this past winter I pulled over. I don't care as long as they do it right. I don't understand the people who get really pissed- they take it as a direct insult. The worst are the people who speed up as you're in the other lane to block you. |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 21:10:02
quote:
That guy was driving like a retard. I decided that he wasn't worthy to drive in front of me so I left him behind. He's a sore loser who did the cheapest,lowest thing anyone could do.
He was angry and shook his fist when I went by.
That was me you low down, no good, sorry son of a bitch!
That wasn't my fist I was shaking.
Here's another look, since you missed it the first time.
And the doctors have determined I'm only mildly retarded, by the way.
You people, in your long buses. You think your soooo smart. You make me sick.
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 21:07:22
Gee, you're an awesome citizen, Jimmy. That guy deserves to be run over by an asshole passing someone in a no-passing lane.
I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That's what I aspire to basically. - Tom Waits |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 05/07/2004 : 21:02:59
They must have been Masons. ;)
Stay tuned for signature change at 400 posts. |
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