First Ticket Ever! =(
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From: Round Rock, TX
Originally Posted by F250onfire
Oh come on now, don't be such a mommies baby.....You got the ticket, suck it up and pay it.
Your a big boy now, don't go having your mommy call the big bad cops and have them fix your ticket..
Unreal!!!!!!!!!
Your a big boy now, don't go having your mommy call the big bad cops and have them fix your ticket..
Unreal!!!!!!!!!
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From: Chino, Calif.
I had a similar thing happen when I was 18. I was in my 55' Ford Wagon with a warmed over 292". I was going out to dairy land where I live to run my friend in his 63' Fairlane. Well I had dual 2 chamber Flowmaster's, so it made alot of noise. I jumped on it for fun and woke up a bear. It was night and I saw the siloette of the light bar, so I pulled over before he even turned on his lights .Well he said he had to get up to 70 to catch me and the speed limit was 45, and he caught me quick, wrote me up for 70 in a 45. Being young and my first ticket I opted to just pay and go to traffic school. I also didn't have my current proof of insurance, so when I got the ticket in the mail it was $1,200+ , I had current insurance so when I went to court they just took that part off. Good times! 
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Ok, there is one way to get it dropped... but it will cost you about $400-500. I had a D.U.I. my freshman year at Alabama... Cop wrote me a D.U.I. ticket AND a wreckless driving for "naked eye detection" of me going 70 mph in a 35 mph zone. Well... this upped my fines from the D.U.I. by itself at about $2400 --- to $3600. Well, my brother (who is NOT a D.U.I. attorney) represented me in court. He got the fines reduced to $2000, the wreckless driving ticket was wiped clean because of it being "naked eye detection" instead of clocked with a radar. I got youthful offender, and even with a D.U.I. I only pay $116 insurance a month for my two trucks. A lawyer will dominate a claim like that and get the points off your record... but it will cost you more than the ticket more than likely anyways...
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From: Colorado
Here in colorado springs just by appearing in court they automatically dropped my speeding to broken headlight. This kept it off my insurance record but I still got fined $210 (10 per mile over). BTW, that brings me up to 31 moving violations in 30 years of driving...
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From: Southern California
I say, fight the ticket. Get a lawyer (usually around $750 or so) and fight the damned thing.
If you do get points on your license, the increase from insurance will be way over the $750 you paid for the lawyer. Some lawyers even fight it for way less.
I just did a quick search on Google, Waco traffic attorney and found this:
http://www.jackbynoattorney.com/?gcl...FSAMIgodJA9PWQ
My point is, there are lots of guys out there that are well aquainted with traffic law. And most tickets are B.S. and easy to fight. However, most people don't fight them, it costs less to pay the ticket, so the police keep writing the tickets..
I make it a point to fight traffic tickets.. Damn the man.. lol..
--- one last thing.. The last ticket I fought was in Los Angeles, California (gotta love the LAPD..) - I got an attorney to fight my 47 in a 35 ticket and won.
Yes, you can lose the case, but the feeling is oh so sweet when the attorney calls and tells you your acquited and will get your money back from the state.
If you do get points on your license, the increase from insurance will be way over the $750 you paid for the lawyer. Some lawyers even fight it for way less.
I just did a quick search on Google, Waco traffic attorney and found this:
http://www.jackbynoattorney.com/?gcl...FSAMIgodJA9PWQ
My point is, there are lots of guys out there that are well aquainted with traffic law. And most tickets are B.S. and easy to fight. However, most people don't fight them, it costs less to pay the ticket, so the police keep writing the tickets..
I make it a point to fight traffic tickets.. Damn the man.. lol..
--- one last thing.. The last ticket I fought was in Los Angeles, California (gotta love the LAPD..) - I got an attorney to fight my 47 in a 35 ticket and won.
Yes, you can lose the case, but the feeling is oh so sweet when the attorney calls and tells you your acquited and will get your money back from the state.
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From: Southern California
I guess I should add a few more things..
A lot of roads need to have certain engineering criteria for a speed limit to be reduced. Hidden driveways, engineering reports, etc.
A lot of roads have falsely reduced speed limits and in fact, are SPEED TRAPS.. Most states have laws against speed traps that if you reseach, (like in Texas), they are in fact illegal.
Texas Cities Profit Despite Speed Trap Law
Texas law against speed traps has failed to prevent small towns from funding operations from speeding tickets.
The 1975 Texas statute meant to ban small jurisdictions from funding city operations from speeding tickets has failed to curb the practice. Estelline, a tiny town of 194 in the Panhandle, is almost entirely funded by citations issued to outsiders passing through on US 287. Where the speed limit suddenly drops from 70 MPH to 50, the town's lone police officer is ready to pounce.
Texas law mandates that a small city or town may only generate speeding ticket revenue equal to 30 percent of the previous year's total budget. After that, the city keeps just $1 from every $170-280 ticket it can issue. It must then send the rest to the state. In 1999, a state audit caught the town illegally withholding $15,025 in fine revenue.
"We're able to increase our revenue a bit every year," Estelline Mayor Rick Manley told the Houston Chronicle.
Estelline will generate $320,000 in traffic tickets and pocket $110,000 in 2007.
Source: Small town relies on speeders to pay its bills (Houston Chronicle, 4/8/2007)
My point is, you can fight these tickets with the right knowledge and often win.
A lot of roads need to have certain engineering criteria for a speed limit to be reduced. Hidden driveways, engineering reports, etc.
A lot of roads have falsely reduced speed limits and in fact, are SPEED TRAPS.. Most states have laws against speed traps that if you reseach, (like in Texas), they are in fact illegal.
Texas Cities Profit Despite Speed Trap Law
Texas law against speed traps has failed to prevent small towns from funding operations from speeding tickets.
The 1975 Texas statute meant to ban small jurisdictions from funding city operations from speeding tickets has failed to curb the practice. Estelline, a tiny town of 194 in the Panhandle, is almost entirely funded by citations issued to outsiders passing through on US 287. Where the speed limit suddenly drops from 70 MPH to 50, the town's lone police officer is ready to pounce.
Texas law mandates that a small city or town may only generate speeding ticket revenue equal to 30 percent of the previous year's total budget. After that, the city keeps just $1 from every $170-280 ticket it can issue. It must then send the rest to the state. In 1999, a state audit caught the town illegally withholding $15,025 in fine revenue.
"We're able to increase our revenue a bit every year," Estelline Mayor Rick Manley told the Houston Chronicle.
Estelline will generate $320,000 in traffic tickets and pocket $110,000 in 2007.
Source: Small town relies on speeders to pay its bills (Houston Chronicle, 4/8/2007)
My point is, you can fight these tickets with the right knowledge and often win.
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From: Hooterville
Storm,
B-Line is correct, you should fight this. The trick in Texas is get a local attorney who specializes in traffic court, you pay him about $75.00 to appear in court to have defered adjudication applied to your ticket. Basically that means if you promise not to get another ticket in the town or county you were ticketed, then it goes away and never appears on your record. Good luck.
B-Line is correct, you should fight this. The trick in Texas is get a local attorney who specializes in traffic court, you pay him about $75.00 to appear in court to have defered adjudication applied to your ticket. Basically that means if you promise not to get another ticket in the town or county you were ticketed, then it goes away and never appears on your record. Good luck.
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OK, let's look at the other side of this.
We drive big trucks that command attention from others. You cannot miss seeing a Super Duty truck driving down the road. We like it that way. Extra attention from the police officers is one of the prices we are going to pay for driving a large imposing vehicle.
If you do not like it, go get yourself a Saturn sedan.
We drive big trucks that command attention from others. You cannot miss seeing a Super Duty truck driving down the road. We like it that way. Extra attention from the police officers is one of the prices we are going to pay for driving a large imposing vehicle.
If you do not like it, go get yourself a Saturn sedan.
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From: Dinwiddie, Virginia
Sorry bout your luck Storm. Here in VA the 15 mph over is reckless driving and you must appear in court. It would also count as four speeding tickets to the insurance company, ouch! That why I am only 7 mph over most of the time, but never more than 14 mph over. Unless a Chevy is trying to pass me, a red head girl is in front of me, you dare me, you give me a funny look, I just fell like cutting loss...........Oh hell, forget it, I drive like a mad man.
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Originally Posted by redford
OK, let's look at the other side of this.
We drive big trucks that command attention from others. You cannot miss seeing a Super Duty truck driving down the road. We like it that way. Extra attention from the police officers is one of the prices we are going to pay for driving a large imposing vehicle.
If you do not like it, go get yourself a Saturn sedan.
We drive big trucks that command attention from others. You cannot miss seeing a Super Duty truck driving down the road. We like it that way. Extra attention from the police officers is one of the prices we are going to pay for driving a large imposing vehicle.
If you do not like it, go get yourself a Saturn sedan.
) cops will ride the a$$ of a young kid in a honda but wont even look twice at me....so i think we got the better end of the deal on that one redford!!
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From: Charlotte, NC
Originally Posted by CounterMaker
see i dont agree with you....cops stereo type...
I've written plenty of "pace" speeding tickets....Primarily on the interstates....And what catches my eye (from behind) are the vehicles that appear to be passing everyone and going much faster than the rest of traffic........Come up from behind, get a good pace....then voila'.....speeding ticket......
The fast vehicles catch my eye......
And the race and gender of the driver is unknown until I walk up to the window and ask for license and registration........
And "pacing" speeding tickets are harder to beat than you might believe.....Especially if the speed disparity is great........It's not like the ticket was for 55 in a 45.....
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From: Charlotte, NC
Originally Posted by CounterMaker
yeah thats total crap...pacing???? haha...from what i heard the traffic school things works real well...but doesnt the officer have to be present during the little court hearing... and i heard the more times you call and rescedule your court date the better the chance the officer wont show and they will dismiss the case...o well maybe this is a urban legend also