Advice on beating speeding ticket

well if they got to they got you and if 3 got you, your in a river with no paddle

Go to court. You'll probably lose, but you ought to go anyway, just on principle.

fk'em i have two tickets i haven't paid (i fought it cause i was right, but still lost. fk Olympia police!) and ain't going to. just go out and buy a better radar detector with that new POP sensor. POP is a new radar coming out.

Don't get caught ......j/k. Do you have aftermarket wheels/tires? If you do then you can claim faulty equipment if your sizes dont match up perfectly to factory specs. If not then you can do a deferred ticket. My cousin did this, they dropped his 40 in a 25, but if he gets another ticket in the next 3 years he gets the first one again plus the new one.

wazazzle said:

fk'em i have two tickets i haven't paid (i fought it cause i was right, but still lost. fk Olympia police!) and ain't going to..

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You do realize, don't you, that if you do this the last thing you're going to hear from the next cop to stop you is "watch your head"?


If you were doing 38 in a 25 and you got caught, just pay the damn ticket and take responsibility for your actions. Be a freakin' man about it. You did it, you got caught, take care of business, don't do it again. End of story.

Go to court to fight it.You have nothing to loose.Your insurance will go up.Ask for school or bring a lawyer.

Scooby5.0Doo said:

well if they got to they got you and if 3 got you, your in a river with no paddle

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Its your in a boat with no paddle bud.

wythors said:

You do realize, don't you, that if you do this the last thing you're going to hear from the next cop to stop you is "watch your head"?


If you were doing 38 in a 25 and you got caught, just pay the damn ticket and take responsibility for your actions. Be a freakin' man about it. You did it, you got caught, take care of business, don't do it again. End of story.

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i got pulled over for passing at 35 in a 30mph lane when the car in front was doing 25mph for over a mile. by law i am allowed to pass at a safe speed which allows me to move ahead of the other vehicle. i'm not a speed demon, but the law still stuck it to me. you should understand the whole story before you criticize someone. besides if cops are so good then why was it yesterday in the news it tells of two sheriff goofing off racing each other while getting off work??? read this story! http://www.kirotv.com/news/5086190/detail.html?rss=sea&psp=news

Spokane Deputies Face Discipline For Prank Car Chase

POSTED: 2:34 pm PDT October 11, 2005

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A red-faced sheriff has apologized to city police, who joined deputies in a phony car chase that a sheriff's spokesman called "horseplay that has gone seriously awry."

The Oct. 3 chase ended when police used a spike strip to disable the fleeing car and drew their weapons on the driver, who turned out to be an undercover deputy being chased by another deputy on the way to the Public Safety Building to end their shifts.

The incident involving three deputies is being investigated and will be turned over to the Office of Professional Standards, which will report to Spokane County Sheriff Mark Sterk, spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan said.

"The sheriff was very embarrassed to have to go to the chief of another agency and apologize," Reagan said. "Nobody has a very good explanation of what occurred other than it appears to be horseplay that has gone seriously awry."

The deputies involved in the unnecessary chase through city streets may have violated state law and department policy, Reagan said.

The deputies, who were hired in 2002, remain at work, said Reagan, who said he cannot release their names until an investigation is complete.

The chase started early on Oct. 3 when a deputy in a marked patrol car turned on its lights and chased two deputies in an unmarked Mustang, apparently as a gag, Reagan said.

The three had just completed a traffic stop east of downtown Spokane and were headed to the Public Safety Building near downtown to end their shifts.

When the deputy in the marked car turned on its lights, deputies in the unmarked Mustang accelerated, Reagan said.

After the cars entered the city, a city police officer saw the chase and joined in, thinking the deputy in the marked patrol car was trying to make a legitimate stop.

Officers heard radio calls about the chase and laid a spike strip across a street about three blocks from the Public Safety Building, flattening one of the Mustang's tires.

The undercover deputy who was driving got out of the car as police officers pointed guns at him, telling him to get on the ground, Reagan said.

Another Spokane police officer arriving at the scene quickly got out of his car to assist, but apparently failed to set his parking brake, Reagan said. That vehicle rolled through a cable fence and struck a pole, causing about $2,000 damage. The only damage to the unmarked Mustang was a flat tire.

State law says policing agencies must have reasonable and necessary reasons to break traffic laws, Reagan said.

"If it's not reasonable and it's not necessary, we're held to the same standards the general public is held to," Reagan said. "I want to assure the public that this is not business as usual."

Police appear to have reacted correctly to the deputies' chase, Deputy Police Chief Al Odenthal and Reagan said.

Spokane police aren't angry at the deputies, acting spokesman Lt. Dean Sprague said.

"They're the ones who have to answer for it," Sprague said. "They were goofing around. You just kind of go, 'Come on, guys."'

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Fall back ten and punt.

I would say fight it... I just got my ticket for 80+ in a 55 on SR500 dropped by using my parents attorney, pm if you want the info

wazazzle said:

you should understand the whole story before you criticize someone.

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I didn't criticize you, I just pointed out that if you don't pay a ticket, they issue a warrant. The next time you're stopped THEY WILL ARREST YOU AND TAKE YOU TO JAIL. Getting a speeding ticket is a misdemeanor punishible by a fine. Not paying the fine is a gross misdemeanor and they'll lock you up for it.

Further, I said nothing about cops being either good or bad. I said if you do the crime, accept responsibility for your actions instead of whining about how to get out of it.

wythors said:

I didn't criticize you, I just pointed out that if you don't pay a ticket, they issue a warrant. The next time you're stopped THEY WILL ARREST YOU AND TAKE YOU TO JAIL. Getting a speeding ticket is a misdemeanor punishible by a fine. Not paying the fine is a gross misdemeanor and they'll lock you up for it.

Further, I said nothing about cops being either good or bad. I said if you do the crime, accept responsibility for your actions instead of whining about how to get out of it.

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yeah i could pay for both tickets, it's only about $200. but it's the principle of being in the right. i'm going through my sister this time, who's an attorney and she's gonna get me out of them. so no charge for me i agree though if you're speeding like doing 75 in a 60 then fess up and pay the dang ticket.

JEAN said:

Ask for school or bring a lawyer.

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I'd recommend not bringing a lawyer in Oregon -- if you do, they'll reschedule the trial so the district attorney (or one of his minions) can do the prosecution, it's state law. If it's just you, the cop does the prosecution, and he's likely to be a less effective lawyer than the DA.

Dave

I'd get an attorney. Half the time, the police will not follow procedures in filing paperwork or calibrating their radars properly. Get one that is an expert in their field.

1_sikEvo said:

I'd get an attorney. Half the time, the police will not follow procedures in filing paperwork or calibrating their radars properly. Get one that is an expert in their field.

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This is Oregon, not Washington . That kind of tactic doesn't work very often down here. Even with a lawyer, your odds of beating a speeding ticket down here are under 50/50.

yup my bud got a ticket in eugene or and he was trying to source out a lawyer and no luck. they want about 500 and on top of that they say there is little chance they'll win

Got a ticket 92 in 55,the officer don't show up=no ticket

JEAN said:

Got a ticket 92 in 55,the officer don't show up=no ticket

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That is extremely rare. Down here, they group the sessions by officer -- he gets to spend the whole morning or perhaps the whole day prosecuting the tickets he wrote. Care to guess how often he skips out on that?

happen in Dallas ,oregon.