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bullshit speeding ticket
    #10651408 - 07/10/09 03:33 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

since i've been home from college i've been going out a lot at night. i'm not talking about drinking and partying, but running at biking. the past two nights, however, i've been pulled over by the local police.

last night i was out running at 1:30 am, and wasn't even 1 mile away from my house, when a pig put on his lights and flagged me down. he told me i was out past curfew. i told him i was 19 and i could be out as long as i wanted. he told me i didn't look 19 and told me to produce some ID. i was just out for a run in my neighborhood. why the hell would i have ID? i told him that, although more respectfully, and he told me to give him my social security number. i asked if there was an issue, and he told me to quit being smart and just give him my number. i've had issues with these cops before with weed, so i just gave in and told him my number. he ran it in the system, then asked me if i'd seen anything strange tonight. i asked him what he meant by "strange" and he said "have you seen anyone toilet papering houses tonight?" i told him no, then he let me go on my way.

tonight i went out on my bike, just a few minutes ago, and not half a mile out was i pulled over by a different cop. i was flying, and because the roads were clear (it's 5am here) i went right through a stop sign. he pulled me over and asked me what i was doing. i told him i was just riding my bike. then he asked me if i'd seen that stop sign back there. i said no. then he informed me that i was speeding. he had clocked me going 30mph through the intersection where i skipped the stop sign. he told me that even though i was on a bicycle, i had to follow the road rules. i laughed, and he said "you may think it's funny, but i barely could see you when i was sitting back there." i told him maybe he should keep his lights on like a normal car, then i would have stopped.

he wrote me a speeding ticket for $112.

this is just absurd. is there anything i can do? i don't even have $50 and it's pretty obvious this guy is just on a power trip. ffs i was just over the hill near my house on a 1980's road bike.

i want to file a complaint, but i don't know what to do, or if i even have a case.

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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: JT]
    #10653303 - 07/10/09 02:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Contest it.  He didn't get you on radar, and was not riding behind you so he couldn't have paced you.

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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #10654135 - 07/10/09 05:32 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Though he might have clocked the angular velocity of your spokes near the hub of your wheels.


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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: Seuss]
    #10654212 - 07/10/09 05:47 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

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Though he might have clocked the angular velocity of your spokes near the hub of your wheels.




lol

sorry, it's actually for running a stop sign and speeding. he did pull out behind me as i went through the intersection and i guess that's how he got my speed.

how do i contest it? just go to traffic court or whatever? i've usually just paid my tickets and not even bothered.

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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: JT]
    #10654253 - 07/10/09 05:55 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Start out and plead not guilty.  You will probably have a difficult time getting out of the stop sign bit, assuming that traffic laws apply to bicyclists, but he is going to have a difficult time proving the speeding bit.


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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: Seuss]
    #10657008 - 07/11/09 09:04 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

You have curfews for minors? :s

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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: Jako]
    #10657091 - 07/11/09 09:26 AM (14 years, 10 months ago)

yeah, under 18 and you're not allowed to be outside past 11. fucked up, i know.

thanks for the advice. i guess i don't really have a case. just gonna have to bite it.

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    #10658521 - 07/11/09 02:25 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: xbrandnewxsnowx]
    #10660848 - 07/11/09 10:11 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

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I've always said that I'd be proud of a speeding ticket on a bicycle... that's pretty damn cool.




For sure.  Frame it.  You could laminate it and display it like a license plate.


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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #10700039 - 07/18/09 03:37 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

plead not guilty to the speeding ticket, ask for a jury trial.

no 12 people on earth are going to convict you, also it is VERY difficult to get your standard mountain bike up to, and to maintain 30 mph.


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Re: bullshit speeding ticket [Re: ZippoZ]
    #10701231 - 07/18/09 08:34 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)

it was an old schwinn road bike. i'll try that on tuesday.

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