UPDATE: Got my first ticket in my stang
01-26-2012, 06:29 PM
#12
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: WA
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oh please. speed limits are archaic in a lot of places. I think we all enjoy our mustangs beyond speed limits at times.
I don't think he is complaining that it's unfair he got caught and has to pay - just venting about how much time he invested for so little return.
I don't think he is complaining that it's unfair he got caught and has to pay - just venting about how much time he invested for so little return.
01-26-2012, 06:43 PM
#14
6th Gear Member
Speed when the time is right, when you need to release and when it buys you somethin. The cops are notorious where I'm currently living and speeding anything over the PSL for the 25 mile to and from work buys me maybe 2 minutes, what with the few lights not including the wall-to-wall cops. When I drive Florida to Chicago or some other long trip, that 5-10 MPH or more over the PSL can gain you a couple hours. But near home? Don't bother. I've done the math. Besides, the morons that blow by me without getting caught are pissed off as I roll past them in the opposite lane at each light they raced to.
01-26-2012, 08:05 PM
#15
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Location: NW AR
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But the cops can't be expected to appear at every court date prior to a trial for a speeding ticket, how are all those other speeding tickets going to be written if all the cops are in the courtroom. Those tickets don't write themselves.
01-26-2012, 08:55 PM
#16
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Location: California
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Yeah, for now. With red light cameras in use, can unattended radar guns be far behind?
01-27-2012, 04:40 AM
#19
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Location: New Jersey
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This is an update to the post about me speeding ticket:
https://mustangforums.com/forum/2005...-my-stang.html
(Since I last posted about my ticket the speed limit was raised on that road to 70... 2 weeks after I was pulled over.)
Went to court today about my ticket to see if the court would cut me any slack and send to me to drivers school to save on my insurance.
To make a long story short, they reduced the fine by, get this, 15 dollars and said I did not qualify for drivers school.
When i asked why the DA told me that it is the judges policy that if you ever had a ticket before in your life that he will not allow drivers school.
I told them that the last ticket I had was when I was 19 (I am now 33) and I didn't even know drivers school existed then. They said that it doesn't matter what happened in the past, his policy is his policy..
grrrr....
so I took my 15 dollar break and went down to the clerks office where she took my money and when I looked at the reciept I saw they charged me a 7 dollar 'conveniece fee.
So I went to court, sat there for 3 hours just to save 8 dollars....
So I got in my 'stang drove to work in the rain and while in the part of the construction zone that is still 55. I had 3 18 wheelers blow by me at 70+ blinding me with the water coming off their trucks....
Talk about feeling like s*&^
https://mustangforums.com/forum/2005...-my-stang.html
(Since I last posted about my ticket the speed limit was raised on that road to 70... 2 weeks after I was pulled over.)
Went to court today about my ticket to see if the court would cut me any slack and send to me to drivers school to save on my insurance.
To make a long story short, they reduced the fine by, get this, 15 dollars and said I did not qualify for drivers school.
When i asked why the DA told me that it is the judges policy that if you ever had a ticket before in your life that he will not allow drivers school.
I told them that the last ticket I had was when I was 19 (I am now 33) and I didn't even know drivers school existed then. They said that it doesn't matter what happened in the past, his policy is his policy..
grrrr....
so I took my 15 dollar break and went down to the clerks office where she took my money and when I looked at the reciept I saw they charged me a 7 dollar 'conveniece fee.
So I went to court, sat there for 3 hours just to save 8 dollars....
So I got in my 'stang drove to work in the rain and while in the part of the construction zone that is still 55. I had 3 18 wheelers blow by me at 70+ blinding me with the water coming off their trucks....
Talk about feeling like s*&^
Also i feel like when you have to set up an operation of 3/4 cops pulling over every other car making the same mistake, you may wanna re-look your signs...
01-27-2012, 09:41 AM
#20
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Maine
Posts: 116
Ugh, that was a lot of effort for so little gain. But, at least you tried. Still a bummer.
I do feel that sports/muscle cars seem to get singled out more so than other vehicles. Is it fair? No. But it's the label we get just for owning such a car.
I had my Mustang for only 2 weeks before I got pulled over, IN traffic, IN town. I couldn't believe it, since I was clearly profiled. The cop didn't even tell me why he pulled me over. He just checked my record, saw it was clean, and let me go. It was still very annoying. If I get pulled over for a legit reason, then I have no problem with it, but stuff like that makes me want to file a complaint with the officer.
Sorry it didn't work out for you so well, bro.
I do feel that sports/muscle cars seem to get singled out more so than other vehicles. Is it fair? No. But it's the label we get just for owning such a car.
I had my Mustang for only 2 weeks before I got pulled over, IN traffic, IN town. I couldn't believe it, since I was clearly profiled. The cop didn't even tell me why he pulled me over. He just checked my record, saw it was clean, and let me go. It was still very annoying. If I get pulled over for a legit reason, then I have no problem with it, but stuff like that makes me want to file a complaint with the officer.
Sorry it didn't work out for you so well, bro.
