Another ticket

[Adam in CO]

Not paying attention, doing the Blackberry thing, school zone, fines doubled, damn. Almost 300 bucks, too. That's the second speeding ticket in the Hummer recently and I managed to go like 15 years without any ticket of any kind. So mad at myself.

[CO Hummer]

Not paying attention, doing the Blackberry thing, school zone, fines doubled, damn. Almost 300 bucks, too. That's the second speeding ticket in the Hummer recently and I managed to go like 15 years without any ticket of any kind. So mad at myself.

I'm sure you can get out of it with all of your connections in the crimestopper/neighborhood watch circles.

[Adam in CO]

Doubt it. Got the ticket in Denver.

[CO Hummer]

Doubt it. Got the ticket in Denver.

Adam,
You underestimate yourself. I hear people talking about you all the way over in Golden and Evergreen. You're a legend.

[Steve - SanJose]

Legend or not, tickets tend to come in bunches. Bummer.

[Adam in CO]

Adam,
You underestimate yourself. I hear people talking about you all the way over in Golden and Evergreen. You're a legend.

Thanks.

[BlueTJCO]

Good job dip ****...:beerchug:

[BlueTJCO]

Dry Creek?

[Adam in CO]

Like Hampden and Monaco. Outside of Southmoor Elem.

[joe70]

same thing happened to me 10 years with no tickets got clocked going 80 in a 55 in new hampshire with the h2 $200.00 tried to have it fixed trooper said NO so i have to pay

[frenzy1]

Wow ! that's alot of cash ! Sorry bro !

[mdoyle]

You might ask when you pay it, some jurisdictions allow you to double the fine and it will stay off your record.
I got a speeding ticket a couple of years back around Christmas for 15 over, forgot to pay it, then got pulled over for speeding again (out in the middle of nowhere) and found out my license was suspended.

That's nothing to mess around with in Missouri, driving with a suspended license = mandatory jail time and you have to either have your vehicle towed or a friend pick it up for you on the spot.

I ended up paying over $1,200.00 for 6 months of basic vehicle insurance, had to hire a lawyer to go to court and paid a hell of a fine to stay out of jail.

Thank God all the meth labs, gang bangers, and thieves had already been rounded up so the police had time to arrest a threat like me.

Lesson learned, next time I won't stop :D

[CO Hummer]

You might ask when you pay it, some jurisdictions allow you to double the fine and it will stay off your record.

Are you serious? Where? Man, how corrupt is that. :mad:

[DennisAJC]

Doesn't going to the ATM for money already waste just piss you off?:jump:


POWN3D!!!!!

[CO Hummer]

All I know is that if you try to hard to get out of a ticket.........

[Adam in CO]

It's half the points and fifty bucks off if you pay it inside of 20 days.

[mdoyle]

Are you serious? Where? Man, how corrupt is that. :mad:

Kansas City, Missouri allows you to double the fine payment for no points on your record. For many years attorneys did the same thing in their deal making, now it's common practice for those not represented.

I wouldn't call it corrupt, convenient is the first word that came to mind....

I hadn't had a ticket in years, then bam in the space of three months I get two. I found out later the suspension from the first ticket had just hit my driving record two days before I was pulled over. F*ck me.:rant:

[devilsfan]

You need to get a supercharger. At least that way you can outrun the cops.

Stacy

[MarineHawk]

Are you serious? Where? Man, how corrupt is that. :mad:

In some venues, if you are not a multiple repeat offender and the violation is not serious, you can ask the prosecutor for a deferred adjudication whereby (1) you agreee to plead guilty and pay more and (2) in return, the state agrees to defer its adjudication of your guilt until a (usually six-month to one-year) period ends. If you get no further tickets during that period, the violation never goes on your record and never goes to your insurance company. If you do get a ticket during the period, you get charged with both. That way you have an extra incentive to drive lawfully: if you get caught, you get two tickets instead of one. Some jurisdictions also reduce the fine/points if you agree to do some driver safety training thingy.

[CO Hummer]

In some venues, if you are not a multiple repeat offender and the violation is not serious, you can ask the prosecutor for a deferred adjudication whereby (1) you agreee to plead guilty and pay more and (2) in return, the state agrees to defer its adjudication of your guilt until a (usually six-month to one-year) period ends. If you get no further tickets during that period, the violation never goes on your record and never goes to your insurance company. If you do get a ticket during the period, you get charged with both. That way you have an extra incentive to drive lawfully: if you get caught, you get two tickets instead of one. Some jurisdictions also reduce the fine/points if you agree to do some driver safety training thingy.

Don't get me wrong - I'd take full advantage of a 'no points' offer. It's just disgusting that the government uses the threat of tattling to your insurance agent as a means to procure more revenue.

[DennisAJC]

Don't get me wrong - I'd take full advantage of a 'no points' offer. It's just disgusting that the government uses the threat of tattling to your insurance agent as a means to procure more revenue.


And the fact that there were no WMDs in Iraq.

[MarineHawk]

Don't get me wrong - I'd take full advantage of a 'no points' offer. It's just disgusting that the government uses the threat of tattling to your insurance agent as a means to procure more revenue.

I used to be on the other side when, to get trial experience just out of law shcool (in Corpus Christi and then Dallas), I used to work as the night-court prosecutor for local municipalities. I never considered myself disgusting. Was I in denial?

[CO Hummer]

I used to be on the other side when, to get trial experience just out of law shcool (in Corpus Christi and then Dallas), I used to work as the night-court prosecutor for local municipalities. I never considered myself disgusting. Was I in denial?

yes.

[MarineHawk]

yes.

I had that nagging feeling.

[wpage]

Lesson learned next time. Make the immediate $100.00 cash donation to the vest fund.

[MarineHawk]

yes.

It was actually really humiliating. The junior-most litigator at my Corpus firm would always have to do this night-court thing for training until someone more junior would come in and replace them. The Portland, Texas judge (can?t recall his name) handling traffic cases and Class-C misdemeanors (simple assaults, etc.) was known as the ?hanging judge? for years before I came in because he virtually never sided with the defense on these minor cases. Thus, all my predecessors won virtually every case they tried before this guy. However, just before I went there out of law school, the judge?s teenage son was convicted for getting stoned and driving into (literally) a convenience store in Portland. So, the pissed-off judge did a philosophical 180 and became decidedly pro-defense just as I was coming in. When I was losing about half of my cases, the senior associates and partners were thinking ?WTF! Did we just hire the dumbest lawyer in the world? I tried three years of cases before this guy and never lost one!?

[CO Hummer]

When I had to go to dumb-dumb night court for a speeding ticket the idiots lost my paperwork. They knew I was supposed to be there, but they could find any documentation of my speeding ticket. So, I spent the entire evening there, listening to the cases while they looked for my paperwork. They couldn't find it and it was time to close shop. I asked the judge to throw out the case and she said "no". So, they made me come back another evening. nice. :mad:

[timgco]

Good job dip ****...:beerchug:

:jump: ...in a school zone even. :OWNED: :giggling:

[DRTYFN]

When I had to go to dumb-dumb night court for a speeding ticket the idiots lost my paperwork. They knew I was supposed to be there, but they could find any documentation of my speeding ticket. So, I spent the entire evening there, listening to the cases while they looked for my paperwork. They couldn't find it and it was time to close shop. I asked the judge to throw out the case and she said "no". So, they made me come back another evening. nice. :mad:
You should have filed a formal complaint and had it thrown out.