So Im driving home from work today and im doing about 60 in a 45mph, yes I admit I was speeding. Well I see two cop cars lined up near the underpass turn around and as I see that, I see a cop running across the feeder while I"m trying to take the right hand curve around and he stops me. You know how they have their new thing of sitting under or near underpasses because I guess they need more money for the city or whatever. He asks for my drivers license so I give him that and my insurance card. He doesnt even look at my insurance card, just hands it back to me. He gave me a ticket for 3 violations:

#1 Speeding
72 in a 45, note he didnt have any source of radar with him, just his little hand held ticket writing machine. Honestly I think he heard how loud my truck was and wanted to bust me for that. He told me, I got you at 72 in a 45, and I said, damn I didnt know my speedometer was that off.

#2 Fail to Est. Financial Resp. (this better not be insurance cuz I gave that ******* my insurance card and he didnt even look at it)

#3 Fail to Wear a Seatbelt (I wasnt wearing it when he ran across the street, but as soon as I saw him I popped it on and when he asked for my license I said, "I'm going to take off my seatbelt ok?")

 

#2 is an insurance violation. It can be dropped if you show the judge proof of insurance at the time. They will more than likely try and hit you with some fees though.

#3 is not a moving violation and only 25 for the first offense I think.

#1 .... sux dood. I'm going down to Austin to fight a speeding ticket on the 27th.

I was hit by a sorry bastard standing on an overpass radioing to his bitches to pull me over from the frontage road. I passed 4 on the side of the road before I got stopped and 2 more after I left. I got a ticket for 81 in a 70, I told him I wasn't going that fast and he said he would drop it to 80 (this was the one who pulled me over, not the one that clocked me).

 

So the ticket said no insurance. Here in Cali we have to sign the ticket which says we agree to show up in court on the date set by the police officer. Did you sign the ticket? Why did you sign it if it said no insurance when you in fact did show him proof of insurance?

Oh yea...

 

all he said was I got you at 72 in a 45 and that was it
he didnt tell me about anything else so I didnt look at the ticket till I got home

 

..... heheheh....

 

Thats bullshit. I know how you feel sort of. I got a parking ticket 53 miles from work on the same day about 10 minutes after I got to work. "Well someone must have been driving the car other than you" says the lady at the courthouse. "oh ya, I must have forgot that I walked to work so that the kid next door could drive my supercharged Tahoe to school in Tampa". Many are just pieces of **** collecting there 30K a year. I made sure to state that with as much enthusiasm as I could safely muster. ********.

 

That sucks dood.... I recently got one for speeding. They gave 2 months to pay for and its not going in my record. Good luck.

 

nono,

I dispise traffic enforcement.

 

Holy **** ... you didn't mention 72 when you were going 60.

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Was that in Pasadena? Those cops suck! Along with JC cops! That sucks that they gave you a ticket for no insurance when you did show him proof. Cops over here off of West Rd & I45 sit underneath the turn-around and pull people over for having expired tags & inspection. They usually do that during lunch hour, too.