Andy_Copland 0 #26 November 10, 2009 Quote Quote Quote Depends and not likely. Cops are paid overtime to show up if its on a day they're not working. If they don't show up, its a big deal and they get in trouble. So sure, you can hope the cop doesn't show up and be proven wrong or you can just see what options the court has for you. Maybe there's a deferred option or the chance to take a driver's safety course? Unless you are in Chicago. Fought a ticket there. The judge called my name, I stood and said here. Then he said case dismissed and said have a nice day. Same goes for Houston, I got a ticket for running a stop sign in a mall parking lot of all places!!! I plead not guilty and showed up to trial along with at least 100 others on the same docket. Not only did the cop not show up for my case, but NONE of them showed up for other cases either. Cost to me, $0! I got off easy with a 400 fine. Speeding, no license, no insurance and thank fuck they didnt find my beer. I wasn't even about to argue the case. Show up, pay and take it on the chin 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #27 November 10, 2009 I'm telling you, its rare. I bet that it was the court's fault in scheduling and notices OR if it was the cop's fault, he/she will be there next time after the discipline they received for blowing off court.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dzdaveu47 0 #28 November 10, 2009 Oh that's phucking great! I wana go comit a crime just so I can do that! Read icculus, the helping freindly book. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jasonRose 0 #29 November 11, 2009 All the local shysters only handle DUI and criminal traffic infractions. I did find someone on the west side that does a $300 flat fee and guarantee results or they pay the fine. Sounds legit after talking to them so what heck I'll try it. Random thought: Pay a tax collector with a gun or a blood sucking ambulance chaser..... I would rather buy a few skydives instead. Some day I will have the best staff in the world!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbag 0 #30 November 11, 2009 QuoteIn the Netherlands, you're actually settling if you pay the fine. So there's no conviction. We seem to have a point system, but it's only for new drivers, and I have no idea how it really works. If it really works. Get into felony driving convictions, and your premiums do go up, but you have to seriously speed for that. Up to at least 30 kmph, it's an administrative misdemeanor, charged to your registration, not to you, and there is nothing for the insurer to even know. I'm no saint, but the cruise control gets set 5kmph below the speed limit. And I don't drink when I know I'm driving. It's not worth it - my time is not that expensive. i NEVER want to be stuck behind you!IHYD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jasonRose 0 #31 November 11, 2009 Ditto, otherwise I will get another speeding ticket when I pass you... Some day I will have the best staff in the world!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #32 November 11, 2009 Quote I did find someone on the west side that does a $300 flat fee and guarantee results or they pay the fine. In most states that would be unlawful, or a violation of the attorneys' disciplinary code, or both. I'm not sure what the rules are in WA state w/o taking the time to look them up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #33 November 12, 2009 This depends entirely on how much money the juristiction has for overtime and how much overtime the individual already has in the pay period...what is 'rare' in some locales is rather common in others....but you'd have to be inside to know for sure....I've fought several tickets that were clearly (in my mind) the officer abusing the system and the measurement tool(radar) in the enviroment (raining) All told it cost me more in immedate money to travel back and show up...but I've yet to have the ticketing officer show up for any of the tickets I challenged.....probabbly because they knew they were pushing the envelope to increase county revenue and were going to get called out on it....ofc per my LEO relatives it could just have easily been a supervisor worried about his overtime budget____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jumpervint 0 #34 November 12, 2009 I knew a skydiver once named Jason Rose. Funny guy who swore a lot. You any relation? . . . . . "Make it hard again." Doc Ed “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kj126 0 #35 November 12, 2009 Just dont even show up and im sure it will blow over, and the next time push that little pedal on the right to the floor.Problem solved I Am Sofa King We Todd Did!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohanW 0 #36 November 12, 2009 Quote Quote I'm no saint, but the cruise control gets set 5kmph below the speed limit. And I don't drink when I know I'm driving. It's not worth it - my time is not that expensive. I NEVER want to be stuck behind you! You won't be. I know to keep right. I'm not even forcing you to break the speed limit to overtake me - not that you won't anyway. You would be amazed how often I still have to overtake people going even slower. And I don't mean trucks.Johan. I am. I think. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drdive 0 #37 November 13, 2009 Quote I knew a skydiver once named Jason Rose. Funny guy who swore a lot. You any relation? He used to do tandems and skydived sometimesJason, my son knows an attorney in spokane that he swears by. call me doc"We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub" " Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jasonRose 0 #38 February 2, 2010 Holly smokes it worked!! My attorney earned their money for sure. The judge said no way to about three of the items they suggested to dismiss the ticket but they didn't give up and kept pounding away with technicalities until the Judge dismissed the ticket. Best $300 I have spent when it comes to tickets!!! Some day I will have the best staff in the world!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iluvtofly 0 #39 February 2, 2010 I'm still not entirely sure how I pulled it off but just this morning I managed to get off with a verbal warning after getting clocked going 52 in a 35. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mpohl 1 #40 February 2, 2010 Congrats! Though if you had killed my kid doing 50 mph in a 25 mph residential street, I'd be after you big time now. Think about it before getting all too happy about having beaten the system!!!! Quote Holly smokes it worked!! My attorney earned their money for sure. The judge said no way to about three of the items they suggested to dismiss the ticket but they didn't give up and kept pounding away with technicalities until the Judge dismissed the ticket. Best $300 I have spent when it comes to tickets!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbag 0 #41 February 2, 2010 Quote Congrats! Though if you had killed my kid doing 50 mph in a 25 mph residential street, I'd be after you big time now. Think about it before getting all too happy about having beaten the system!!!! Quote Holly smokes it worked!! My attorney earned their money for sure. The judge said no way to about three of the items they suggested to dismiss the ticket but they didn't give up and kept pounding away with technicalities until the Judge dismissed the ticket. Best $300 I have spent when it comes to tickets!!! i'd still be happy getting by the system if i didnt kill your kid. you must be the best citizen in the world that NEVER speeds or breaks any laws, there should be more of you out there.IHYD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #42 February 2, 2010 What I have found is that the people who speak the loudest about being "safe" drivers and would "never do that" while driving are many times the absolute worst offenders while driving.EDIT: Forgot something another thing. People who call in about people racing up and down their street in their neighborhood are typically caught (not on purpose) driving very fast in their neighborhood. Then they're mad because they want the cops to focus on people who don't live there...as if the cop knows who lives there or not when they see a speeding car. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #43 February 2, 2010 Life is funny . . . One night in 1976 I was riding my '69 Shovelhead through Cardiff, California when I got pulled over when my wiggly ass taillight wire started shorting out. It was all good until I came back on the radio with 15 failures to appear. In those days I was with Peter Fonda. All I wanted to do was to be free. You know, free to ride my machine - and not be hassled by the Man! On court day, the judge told me, "Mr. DiGiovanni, it appears you have a flagrant disregard for the law." And without much thought I told him to go fuck himself. And he hammered me with 60 days for contempt and no bail. I actually got out in 30 but it put the frigging brakes on me being a freedom fighter. Flash forward to Perris in 1995. The rich yuppie generation of AFF first jump students was being killed by the advent of one jump charlies doing tandems so the bike I had at the time needed to go so I could just eat and pay my Ghetto rent. So, with a buyer on the hook, I took one last ride. And no shit, going down a deserted Ethanac Road on the east side of the DZ, a CHP passed me in the opposite direction while I was going about 90. I hit Case Road and turned left up towards Quail Valley watching my mirrors and waiting for him to turn around and come after me. Just as I got to the first curve going up the hill I saw him hit the intersection behind me. But he just sat there as I went around the hill. I got about another half mile when I saw him pacing me. He wasn't trying to catch me (I was doing the speed limit now) but just hanging back. Then he pulled up and hit me with the lights. I pulled over and got off and removed my helmet and laid it down on the ground. I was 45 years old at this point and the officer I noticed couldn't have been more than 25 or so. "I thought you were going to run," is the first thing he said to me. And it dawned on me that's exactly what he was hoping I'd do. He was actually hanging back enough so I'd think I had a chance. So I told him, "Look, I don't have a son, but if I did, and you pulled that shit on him, you'd be hearing from me!" He got all defensive at that point and said he was going to write me for the full boat, and I told him he was a punk and he could go fuck himself. (Hey, the one thing you learn in life is you never learn!) So court day comes again and I was all ginned up to argue this asshole needs to be something else besides a cop. But he didn't show up and my case was dismissed. I found out the next day he got into an altercation with a gang banger later that day and was shot to death. So I took the last fifty dollars I had in the world and sent flowers to his funeral. Somewhere in there is a lesson, and I only pray I've learned what it is . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbag 0 #44 February 2, 2010 holy shit Nick, thats a pretty intense story, damn meth heads out there by perris!IHYD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ridestrong 1 #45 February 2, 2010 Whoa.... crazy.*I am not afraid of dying... I am afraid of missing life.* ----Disclaimer: I don't know shit about skydiving.---- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pontiacgtp00 0 #46 February 2, 2010 Note to self: Some parents allow their kids to play in the street. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ridestrong 1 #47 February 2, 2010 QuoteNote to self: Some parents allow their kids to play in the street. +1*I am not afraid of dying... I am afraid of missing life.* ----Disclaimer: I don't know shit about skydiving.---- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbag 0 #48 February 2, 2010 i thought when kids were in the street they were there for you to practice high speed obstacle avoidance...IHYD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #49 February 2, 2010 Quote Note to self: Some parents allow their kids to play in the street. Not my kids. They will catch hell from me if I ever catch them anywhere near the street. I live in a 40 mph zone, but cars scream by at 50 or so regularly. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hcsvader 1 #50 February 2, 2010 Quotei thought when kids were in the street they were there for you to practice high speed obstacle avoidance... Ya, as long as you avoid the kid, I took out a sing and a tree about 9 years ago avoiding a kid. damn gravel on the road...Have you seen my pants? it"s a rough life, Livin' the dream >:) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
