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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,237 US Gender:	I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Jul 11^th, 2008 at 5:52am I got my first speeding ticky by speed camera. I wasn't speeding Ronnie! My options are-----> 1. Pay it. 2. Contest it & go to court. 3. Contest it, go to court & request that a speed monitoring system operator be present in court. Vote for the best choice. TIA!
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Edith Grove Rocks Off Regular Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #1 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 6:11am Pay it. Probably no chance of successfully contesting it.
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Steel Wheels Rocks Off Regular Offline Much love and support to my dear friend Mary! Posts: 2,686 2,000 Light Years From Home Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #2 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 6:17am Pay up, lawbreaker! What kind of car do you have?
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,237 US Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #3 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 6:46am Steel Wheels wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 6:17am: Pay up, lawbreaker! What kind of car do you have? LOL, I'm such an oulaw. I've a "square" car.
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Nellcote Rocks Off Regular Offline So, what's your point? Posts: 2,922 Funifuti	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #4 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 7:13am TTM is the resident pollster, please consult him for his Obi Wan knowledge. Thank you for your continued support & cooperation. Oh, and fight the sum a bitch ticket!
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gimmekeef Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 5,759 Ontario Canada Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #5 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:36am Contest it.The requied police officer never shows in court and the judge generally tosses the case.Laws are meant to be challenged.Are we not Stones fans?
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MaineMotels Ex Member Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #6 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:37am LOL I know what I like when I hear it.....the rest is bullshit. I'd just pay it like an honest, conscientious and upright citizen and then tell the judge or court clerk to go F--- him/herself.
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Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content)
Reply #7 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:43am

I got pulled over and got my first ticket early this year, for the first time ever in my life. Cop said I cut them off on Market St. in SF. The cop car was going 5 mph, and I went around them, having to make a right turn a bit ahead of where they were. I was going to fight it, I didn't have the time. I took the $ hit and the point on my DL. I even asked the cop for a first time ever pull over and over 40 break and a warning. I assume the bad economy and city budget problems weren't helping my case...
FG, is the cost worth the time and hassle. It's so lame, sorry they got you too...

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Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content)
Reply #8 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:49am

gimmekeef wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:36am:

Contest it.The requied police officer never shows in court and the judge generally tosses the case.Laws are meant to be challenged.Are we not Stones fans?

Gimmekeef, it was a speed camera ticky. No police officer. The camera claims I was doing 42 in a 30 mile zone. Huh

Its a revenue raising tool.

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Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content)
Reply #9 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:53am

Factory Girl wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:49am:

gimmekeef wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:36am:

Contest it.The requied police officer never shows in court and the judge generally tosses the case.Laws are meant to be challenged.Are we not Stones fans?

Gimmekeef, it was a speed camera ticky. No police officer. The camera claims I was doing 42 in a 30 mile zone. Huh

Its a revenue raising tool.

Don't let 'em push you around....sue. Raise HELL....grab the clerk right by the necktie, tell him where to go. Stand up for your rights....don't be a wus. Fight Fight City Hall.

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Nellcote Rocks Off Regular Offline So, what's your point? Posts: 2,922 Funifuti	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #10 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:54am FG, is there a surcharge attached to your insurance for such an infraction? Here in the PROM (Peoples Republic of Massachusetts) it's a three year hitch for higher insurance. That alone would be my MO for contestation....
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Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content)
Reply #11 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 9:03am

Factory Girl wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:49am:

gimmekeef wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:36am:

Contest it.The requied police officer never shows in court and the judge generally tosses the case.Laws are meant to be challenged.Are we not Stones fans?

Gimmekeef, it was a speed camera ticky. No police officer. The camera claims I was doing 42 in a 30 mile zone. Huh

Its a revenue raising tool.

Well then see what the Camera has to say for itself in court.It's also a good idea to use black tape on your license plates to change numbers.Like a 3 can be made into an 8 etc.

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Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content)
Reply #12 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 9:06am

Factory Girl wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:49am:

gimmekeef wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 8:36am:

Contest it.The requied police officer never shows in court and the judge generally tosses the case.Laws are meant to be challenged.Are we not Stones fans?

Gimmekeef, it was a speed camera ticky. No police officer. The camera claims I was doing 42 in a 30 mile zone. Huh

Its a revenue raising tool.

Ask yourself if you could possibly have been speeding 12 mph faster than allowed.
If your answer is: NO WAY man, then the camera might have been set up faulty.
In that case a lot of other folks would've gotten trapped also. Some of 'em will step up in protest and back your theorie.

otherwise - I'd just faggit about it.
it's always the same song in these instances:
I faught the law but the law won

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Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content)
Reply #13 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 9:08am

Nellcote, no this ticky won't affect ins. premiums.

Besides, I wasn't speeding. The camera tagged me at 9:50am, and I was going to my nearby 10:30am dr. appt. I had PLENTY of time, and had absolutely no reason to speed.

Besides the street in question is a major city road where the speed limits vary from 35mph to 45 mph.

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sweetcharmedlife Rocks Off Regular Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,943 San Mateo Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #14 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:08pm Speed camera. I thought red light cameras sucked....Damn,what an evil world we live in. Pay the ticket FG.
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sirmoonie Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 3,479 Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #15 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:09pm Plead intoxication as a defense.
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MaineMotels Ex Member Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #16 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:15pm sirmoonie wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:09pm: Plead intoxication as a defense. I always do. Because that absolves me of responiibility. Woody.
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Reply #17 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:20pm

Ten Thousand Motels wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:15pm:

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:09pm:

Plead intoxication as a defense.

I always do.
Let's go get drunk

Because that absolves me of responiibility. Woody.

Its an English common law defense, absolving boozers from liability since the goddamn Magna fucking Carta, man!

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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,237 US Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #18 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:23pm Brilliant!! I'll plead a Ronnie!!
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open-g Rocks Off Regular Offline Silence is golden, Duct tape is silver Posts: 619 Berlin Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #19 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:31pm Say you were listening to Far away Eyes...... uh, wait - that might set you back on running over 20 red lights
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MaineMotels Ex Member Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #20 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:42pm What? Am I supposed to feels sorry for him because he's being a drunk an an asshole? And again what about the girl?
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Reply #21 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:42pm

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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,237 US Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #22 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:45pm Motsie!! I'll plead a Ronnie!! I won't plead the girl! No, you should not feel sorry for Ronnie. Is he seeking your personal sympathy for his antics???
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,237 US Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #23 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 1:07pm LOL, Starbucky.
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Throwaway Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 826 MD Gender:	Re: I can't drive 55 (Speeding Ticky Content) Reply #24 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 1:18pm Try to have the court date moved, thus increasing the likelyhood that the officer will not be present (if there is an officer who gave you the ticket, not a machine or camera). Good luck anywho!
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