Completely OT, but heartwarming response

musicvid10 wrote on 6/22/2010, 8:48 PM
Background:
I was headed for a local weekend event, and pulled around several cars on the shoulder to make an "otherwise" legal right turn. One of those cars was the deputy.
The fine he wrote on the ticket for such an egregious violation was a jaw-dropper, but I sent in a check before the deadline.

What happened today was a bigger jaw-dropper. It's encouraging to see that at least sometimes, the truth trumps mediocrity. Or at least, that I'm living right after all this time.

Comments

Editguy43 wrote on 6/22/2010, 9:34 PM
Very nice indeed..
Rob Franks wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:07 AM
It's happened on 2 occasions with me now. A ticket is a legal document that must stand up in court if challenged, and therefore is completely and totally void if ANY PART of it is filled out incorrectly. I no longer mail any tickets in but rather march them right down to the magistrate for this very reason.... they check the tickets before they take the money.
PeterWright wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:19 AM
Hell must be getting close to freezing over.
farss wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:31 AM
Given some of your recent rather vocal posts about obeying the rules you might want to delete that post.

Bob.

Rob Franks wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:47 AM
EVERYBODY breaks rules now and then Bob... either by accident or on purpose. What's rather silly is crying 'foul play' when you get caught..... but more to the point... a police officer also breaks the rules when a ticket is incorrectly filled out.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/23/2010, 5:19 AM
I could of sworn that it's legal to go around parked cars on a street to make a turn.

If was it a no-right-turn area at that moment? IE closed street, etc.
Jay_Mitchell wrote on 6/23/2010, 7:09 PM
A few years back I was riding my motorcycle through a canyon road when I passed a cop issuing another driver a citation on the side of the road. The cop waived me over and issued me a citation for driving over a double yellow line. After driving away I realized that the double yellow line had stopped long before I got to where to cop first saw me. So, I went back another day and took pictures and decided to fight it in court.

When I got to court the same cop was on the stand testifying to the judge about a speeding ticket that he had issued to another driver in the same spot as my own ticket was issued. The cop stated that from his standing position the car was traveling 60mph in a 40mph zone. The driver testified that he was going 40mph. The cop argued to the judge that he had been a traffic cop for 15 years and was an excellent judge of speed even if standing by the side of the road and not using radar. The judge then picked up his pencil and threw it across the courtroom and asked the cop how fast the pencil was traveling. Case dismissed.

I was next up and the cop could not refute the photographs that there was no double yellow line for me to have crossed. Case dismissed.

-Jay Mitchell