Preserved Topic: Everytime I get on the up I manage to stumble down hard (Page 1 of 1)

Three Weeks Ago...
Things have been going great for me lately. School is starting back up and I think I am actually ready for it this time. I started dating a girl that I really like and who really likes me.

I get a speeding ticket going 83 in a 60($162USD)... Alright big deal, I've been driving like that for an entire year now it was bound to catch up with me.

Last Week...
Still dating this girl, the first is stoked and we are doing great together. Im still pumped for school. I land a job as a web developer after being out of work all summer (thats alright I am only in high school).

I get a speeding ticket for going 30 in a 20($80USD)... Wow, second one in two weeks this is bullshit. Go to an amazing, exclusive, party. Have a great time, forget about bullshit of the ticket It will set me back but big deal.

This Weekend...
Go to Seattle for the weekend to be a groomsman in my cousin's wedding. The bridesmaid I escort is amazingly hot and reminds me alot of my new girlfriend. Have a great time partying and such before, during, and after the wedding.

Start driving home and get another fucking speeding ticket... 91 in a 70($162USD)... I'm fucked. Say goodbye to my drivers license, I need to figure a way to get to work. I don't even know if I want to try to continue my relationship with my new girlfriend. Im so very confused right now it is not even funny.

I have been driving for a year now, and I have been driving fast from day one. One ticket was just it all catching up with me, Two tickets was a weird coincidence, Three tickets is just bullshit. I am now down $400 USD.

I try very hard to see the good in all situations, but right now I dont know anything.

Here's a good tip: Try slowing down when you drive. It's amazing. It takes you longer to get to places, but the cops don't stop you and slap you with a fine.

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ya know, I thought you were going someplace with this post... and everyone here knows you won't find a more sympathetic ear than me--

but, dude, you're mad because you got a ticket...

you pissed because you were wronged, or because you were caught?

...if I gave you 2 tickets in 2 weeks, I'da been watching your ass, too...


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Couldn't agree with you more Skaarjj. Let up on the pedal man! Doesn't really matter now because you are what, 16-17 and you already have your license taken away. Man that does suck, but . . . at least your not dead. Which is what would probably have happened if you still have your license today.

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Tip:

Find lawyer, pay double the ticket value, ticket not go on record...

krets- buh? I dont see how that would work at all


I know it is my fault, but what the hell!? Why now? now of all times, It is just time for me to bitch, and I am glad someone actually read it. I really am sorry if you think it is a waste of time, but to me your constructive opinions and advice really do help.

I have a story too:

over 7 years ago (statute of limitations has run out, thank goodness) I received a ticket with 5 citations on it. Expired tags (TX), Expired license plates, 62 in a 45, improper lane change, ran a red light.

my excuse? My wife was preggo at the time and had to urinate immediately and I was rushing her to the nearest restroom. The cop didn't give a $%#* whether she had to pee or not. I told him after he issued me my ticket to prepare to lose in court.

I showed up for my initial court hearing to file a motion of contest. From that day on I've never heard a word from that police precinct. I've called to inquire about the case and the paper work cannot be found anywhere....hmmmm that's strange don't ya think?

B: that's them admitting that they were wrong without having the balls to say it in plain language to your face

The lawyer can plead your ticket down to a non-moving violation which won't go on your insurance. Most of the time all it takes is a simple call to the prosecutor and if your lawyer as a good rapport with him they'll take it down to a simple parking ticket.

All they want is the moolah anyway. Usually the lawyer's fees are the price of the ticket.

krets, I hadnt even thought of talking to a lawyer, thank you. I have a friend that has a father who is a pretty good lawyer.

What you are saying basically is that the lawyer will probably charge me the price of the ticket, negotiate it to just a non-moving violation ( I dont understand how that would work, I was moving very very fast) and I would pay just the price of the ticket or double to the state? So eventually I would end up paying triple the ticket?

My car has a plate from the State I'm from and not from the State I live in currently.
In my country, the system is not fully integrated so all the fines I may have will never get to my mother's house (my car is my mother's).
So, I can run at will, cross red signs, do whatever I want and the cops cannot fine me.
I live in this city for seven years now and this has been this way since the first day.
I'm a lucky guy, I know, but let me tell you what I keep telling my wife (she gets a ticket every now and then because our city if full of electronic cameras watching the traffic)
- I defy these cameras and I defy the cops because I know they can't fine me. But the first time this situation change and I find out that the integration between the States are working (they always advertise that it's about to work) I'll stop defying them at the very first moment.

I really don't like getting tickets.
So, the best advice is already given: slow down and you won't get any more tickets.

Jesus Christ, you'd figure you would SLOW THE HELL DOWN after the first ticket... Then a second and you still continue to speed? I'm sorry to hear that you got jones'd, but damnit man! Next time get a clue!

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Slowing down is for chumps

My only advice would be to go to court for every ticket you get, the 30 in a 20 should have been a breeze to get out of, I have argued +10 mph on the grade of a hill, traffic conditions, passing another vehicle, hell a strong tail-wind could account for 10 mph A judge will likely be understanding on the minor infractions.

Everybody has driven fast and got caught once or twice, tickets are meant to be a method of preventing that from happening, you seem to have missed the point. I realize that its frustrating when you can trace all your problems back to your behavior and the choice you have made to drive fast but its easy to remedy...slow down. Just think of the -$400 as less weight in your pocket that will hopefully lighten the load on the foot pressing down that pedal. That being said I still love to drive very, very fast when I feel its appropriate.

So what are the penalties for driving on a suspended license in your neck of the woods?

at least you didn't get a 120$ ticket for running red lights on your bike, ahem.

and you're still a million times betters off than those fucks that get dui's. and and and.. it's only money and technicalities, there's still an amazing girl in your life and.. yeah, you've got life too. don't sweat it, crikies!

Yeah, I'm with the slow down school, too, but I won't harp on that (since it's been harped on already). But I will second what mikey just said. Yeah, things may look like crap now, but think about what you haven't lost. The closing scene from "Life of Brian"--where all the guys are hanging on the crosses and singing "Always look on the bright side of life"--comes to mind...

Just think, ten years from now you will look back on this as one of those "learning experiences"--I hope.



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I was too tired to tell my story last night but I'll tell it this morning. This has to do with my finacee (Kell) not me.

Kell was having some stomache problems, vomiting and that sort of thing. She was in a lot of pain one day at work and was on her way to the doctor. she was really sick so she was driving 70 in a 55 (or was it 60?) . A cop pulled her over and of course she didn't have her seatbelt on (state law).

The cop would not listen to her that she was sick and took his good 'ol time. He was lecturing her on the side of the expressway and she kindly asked him to move so she could vomit. He didn't, she did ( all over his shoes!)

The company that she works for has a killer lawyer. He represented her in court, got the charges taken off, no points on her license either. We did have to pay the lawyer fee though ($150).

Later,
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Adrock: I think the main question is have you learned your lesson? Clearly getting speeding tickets wasn't getting the message through to you ('Speed Kills') has loosing your license driven the point home? If you have been driving fast from day one then you have probably been lucky to not get caught sooner.

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I was expecting an actual sob-story here.

Jesus christ man, get over it.



If these are the 'bad' things in your life, consider yourself pretty fucking lucky.

Agree completely with what DL said.

My first ticket was for 46 in a 30 (stupid unmarked residential area that only had one house at the far end of the road..., but that still counts).

Then what's too fucking funny is I was pulled over for doing 51 in a 50. It was sooooo damn hard not to just start laughing uncontrollably when he said that and I realized he was serious.

Hmm, other amusing police stories...
Oh yea, haha, this is good. Around here, there are two cops that happen to be twin brothers. One works in Gaines county, and the other in Upton county. Well, this guy (name omitted for security, or something like that) was headed south from Lubbock and was pulled over in Gaines county for speeding, something like 90 in a 70. So after this, he decides to make up a bit of time, and gets as far as Upton county, and gets pulled over by the brother of the one that pulled him just before, this time like 95 in a 70.
I would have loved to see the look on his face the second time, lol.

quote:

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If these are the 'bad' things in your life, consider yourself pretty fucking lucky.

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As only DL could put it

I think that DL-44 is starting to move up in my list of "Most respected Asylumites"

Later,
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~Binary is best~

Sorry Adrock,
whilst I have a great deal of sympathy for your confusion recently re: work/girls etc, I feel no, zero, nietski - sympathy for the speeding tickets.

I've been driving 14yrs and never picked up a ticket yet (not even for parking).

Every day on my way to work I get overtaken by arseholes tanking down the street (usually in Vauxhall Cavaliers), and every other day, there's a police car waiting for them.

Picture this:

2 people leave the house @ 8:00
Both travel 12 miles to work.
Person A does 61mph
Person B does 50mph (the speed limit for the duration)

Person B gets to work 1hr+30 mins before person A
(Because person A got caught by the police and they fucked him with a fine. It was his 3rd so he lost his license a week later).

Is it really worth the shit?

Damn - suddenly I feel old.

As far as learning my lesson, I have. Yesterday I was physically sick from the situation so I was really confused. Now I'm doing a little better.

Each of my tickets is in another court which really isnt going to make this any easier. Spokane County, Spokane Municipal, and Grant County. I am trying to get some legal consultation just to see what I am facing exactly. Hopefully this will get better, but as for now I see it as $400 in fines, no license until im 18, and sky high insurance rates for the next 3 years.

Believe me dude, if you don't get a lawyer you're just plain stupid!

Im going for consultation, I cant afford to have representation at three different courts. Im 17 years old, I really cant afford to pay the 400 to start with.

For me, it was my first speeding ticket after I got married that got me to stop speeding. It wasn't that it was for all that much, but my wife and I were just starting out and didn't have much money, and here I was, blowing a fair chunk of that money we didn't have on a stupid, preventable speeding ticket.

Back when I was single, a speeding ticket was an annoyance. Now, it was hurting someone else, and I would not have that. (Of course, one could argue that speeding in the first place was a reckless act that endangered others...) I haven't received a ticket since, and that was eight years ago.

The small amount of time you save simply isn't worth the risks involved (ticket, increased chance of accident, more severe injuries in case of accident). You're young; if anything, you have time.



Odd behavior; even temperament...

You also have ways of beating these on your own possibly The trick that worked for me once is that (At least here in CA) there's actually a field on the ticket where the officer puts when he is on vacation. I have no idea why but I got a court date set on one of the days he was off and he didn't show up and off I went.

Check the web for speeding ticket defenses they are all over the place.



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