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Replying to: ponderpoint (Mar 05, 2007 7:08 pm) hahahaha, Problem is, when you actually NEED the cops, they usually fail you. Either they are not around, are slow, don't do their job, pathetically incompetent, and worse! Most cops are incompetent at actually serving and protecting, but very good at nabbing very good drivers instead of the one's that actually cause accidents. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Mar 06, 2007 10:58 am) So maybe I was being presumptuous about fatigue.
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Just like the general population police officers are prone to all the dumb emotions as the rest of us(yea, yea, they aren't supposed to but this is the real world). A few years ago when I was traveling for business I was going down this nearly empty state 4 lane highway at about 5 mph over the 55 mph limit. I came up behind a group of cars in a cluster following a state police car. All the cars were afraid to pass this guy who was doing EXACTLY 54 mph. No one would pass the cop. Perhaps they were all locals who knew this guy or maybe they were all super careful drivers but we all moved as a group down the road at EXACTLY 54 mph. It must have been the rebel in me but I decided to pass him. Carefully, I eased over into the left lane and ever so slowly inched past the police car at EXACTLY 55 mph. As I pulled back into the right lane after taking about 10 minutes to creep past him, on come the red lights and he pulls me over. "What's the trouble officer?" I asked. "Son" he says "The speed limit out here is 55 mph. I clocked you at 56..." He let me go with a warning. I guess he had forgiven his wife for burning his toast by that time.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Mar 07, 2007 7:05 am) |
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Replying to: 210delray (Mar 06, 2007 6:59 pm) The event gets lots of coverage here because the college is north of this area and one of the dead is from this area. |
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I recently defeated a citation by using the trial by declaration (trial by mail) feature in California. The judge found me not guilty, which probably happens in less than 1% of these trials. What does this mean? To me... the officer who wrote the citation should be reprimanded for writing a ticket that was clearly unwarranted and wasted the court's and my time.
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Replying to: andres3 (Mar 07, 2007 10:19 am) I doubt you were going 1 mph over like oldfarmer in the earlier post!
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Replying to: 210delray (Mar 07, 2007 10:32 am) The officer and I disagreed on what the shoulder was (I said the asphalt portion next to the concrete right exit lane of the freeway. He said it was the solid white line that designated it. Second part of the dispute was the fact that I didn't pass anybody. I was exiting the freeway and slowing down in my opinion. Furthermore, you can't pass anyone when you are not going in the same direction; therefore, if your exiting the freeway, you can't pass people on the freeway, in my opinion. You can only pass someone you are going in the same direction as. Otherwise, they could ticket you for passing oncoming traffic???? Regardless, I was going very slowly, slow enough to exchange a few words with the officer who was on foot (he had already pulled someone else over before me) and then he decided to pull me over after he saw my radar detector through the passenger window. Why I ever rolled down my window and slowed down to talk to him; I'll never know. I should have floored it and flipped him the bird as I passed. He was a good 50' from his vehicle, he'd of never caught up or chased (since he has someone already pulled over). He's the idiot who double parked his vehicle and forced me to change lanes to the left and then back to the right again. |
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Recently I was in traffic court with my son who had gotten several tickets. This was all new to me because I always plead guilty by mail and never went to court. What I saw was very interesting... Every so often a trooper would come into the courtroom announce a few names and people would get up and leave with him. I finally asked what was happening and was told "Oh, if you go talk to the cop who wrote the ticket he'll let you plead guilty to a non-moving violation." Sure enough, when these folks came before the judge they were allowed to plead "speeding 60 in a 30 zone" down to "parking on the pavement" One guy came in who was charged with "aggravated unlicensed operation", "failure to appear" and a bunch of other offences. He said to the judge "I don't care what you do! It don't make no difference to me!" The judge looked around the court and then said "Well the officer who arrested you isn't here today so...CASE DISMISSED"
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Mar 07, 2007 10:45 am) The DA's don't prosecute, so the officer has to show to prove your guilty. Of course, if he does show, then the judge will automatically and arbitrarily believe the officer, so then you have to PROVE yourself innocent in that case (unfortunately). |
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