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Originally posted by 90gs
girlfriends car is red, mines the silver one..
cops in california arent required to use radar guns anymore, they are allowed to estimate your speed, theres not even a spot on the ticket anymore for radar readout
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What the fuck? You guys have serious issues out there.
Last summer I got nailed on the July long weekend coming home from Niagara Falls. It was late at night, I was cruisin at over 180 Kph (100+ Mph), nobody ahead or behind me, when I noticed out of nowhere a car really gaining on me. Turns out it was the good olde O.P.P. - the guy had paced me in his Crown Vic for a few minutes from "less than a kilometer"(1/2 mile) away. And I thought this was bogus when I heard it, like "how the fuck reliable are those shitty Ford's speedo's with the steering wheels that lock up under heavy cornering (anyone else ever hear about that?).
I didn't say that to the cop because I knew I was in big shit - he came to my car and I was just waiting for him to tell me he got me going God knows how fast(I wasn't exactly sure myself). So when he said he paced me at 160 Kph I was a bit relieved, but still in shit. This guy was cool thank God and bumped me down to 149 Kph (90 Mph) in a posted 100 Kph (60 Mph), exactly 1 Kph away from getting an automatic suspension and a careless driving ticket (big time misery).
GETTING TO THE POINT: I ended up taking this ticket to court, met with both the prosecutor and the Cop again, who were both cool dudes, but couldn't reduce the charge anymore because he already had(he had to record that he already dropped it from 160 to 149 in a 100). They both said even the judge would never agree to a second reduction.
THE POINT: I don't know how your highway traffic offences work in CA, but take the ticket to court! The cops up here get overtime for showing up in court but you could get him on a day he can't make it in and have the charges dropped. Take it to court!! Talk to your prosecutor before the trial and ask him to kindly reduce the fine(give him a load of shit how you're a student and have education debts - they love that) - find the cop before trial and ask him to kindly reduce the fine. You'd be surprised, cops actually respect it(at least up here) when you take a ticket to court because A: they're getting paid extra, and B: you're showing that you are responsible and mature enough to actually take the time to do something about this ticket.
But don' t even think of fighting him in court cause you don't have a chance. If the prosecutor or cop won't do anything for you, you still will (or at least should I hope) get a chance to ask the judge for mercy - maybe you will get 90 extra days to pay the fine, maybe he will reduce just the fine or better yet the charge. Worst case senario even if nothing gets reduced - at least you've now tied that ticket up in court for several months! The minute you pay your ticket you are convicted. If its tied up in the courts its not on your record - this saved me several years ago when I had two tickets tied up in court and my insurance came up for renewal - my record was not the greatest but these tickets were not on - and I got a good rate for another year! By the time the next renewal came up and these 2 newest tickets were on, but one or two previous charges came off.
Take everything to court. For me it helped to get to know the local prosecutor by name.
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05-24-2003, 05:10 AM
