One more thing (I would love to say finally but I don’t think there is finally in this thread yet): this thread was drifting slowly to the bottom of the page and into obscurity. When I got home last night I saw it had bumped back up and I thought “I guess somebody just stumbled onto this lets see what they had to add - Holy Fuck it’s the OP!”
Honestly this whole thing had run it’s course, unless we get some final information from the op exactly what happened in the end. Beyond that positions have been stated and feelings hurt.
What I don’t understand is when someone is upset about something that is already dying down and going away, they come back to reopen the issue themselves, expecting somehow they are going to get more favorable results over time.
Up until now had this thread died it’s natural death I likely would have forgotten about it, and the op could have come back in six months, started an “adopt a puppy” thread and I would not make a connection between that poster and this one. Now that is less likely.
Certain threads gain a poster notoriety, and this is starting to get there.
Honestly man, this was over. Was getting in the last word that important?
I can concede to that. Not that I’m reading them through a second time, but there is probably a holier-than-thou or two hidden among a throng of man-ups.
TriPolar, give it the fuck up. We know the OP was speeding at least +14mph. Maybe it was +16 and the PO was feeling mangnanimous. We have no way of knowing. If you want to hang him, hang him by what we know from the OP and subsequent posts. He’s certainly given enough rope. You don’t need to reach up your ass to add more rope.
Well, I roundly ignored everyone’s advice, and did exactly what I was planning to do in the first place.
The only thing I was trying to avoid doing was getting my VA license, but I couldn’t figure a way to avoid it without possibly pissing off the judge, so…had to get it.
I got the “driving w/license revoked” charge dismissed, and the judge let me take a 1-day Driving School class in lieu of a conviction on the 49/55 charge.
So no points, no convictions.
And just to clarify, i really was doing EXACTLY 49/55. My speedometer usually reads about 1-2 MPH over, and i looked down at it as soon as I saw the trooper. It was reading dead on 50 MPH.
I’m not a bad habitual speeder, nor am I a reckless driver. I really haven’t had a speeding ticket in NC since 1998. VA troopers are a lot more stringent about speeding than NC troopers, though, as I’ve had to finally recognize.
Do people really assume that “no speeding tickets since 1998 in NC” is a lie, or what? Yes, I’ve had 3 tickets in VA since then, but two of those were speed traps on steep downhill slopes, on roads that I didn’t drive regularly. when I say I’m not reckless, I really mean it. I often get passed on the Interstate, by people who want to do 15 MPH over the speed limit. I take my time these days. I’m no speed demon.
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Sounds like the $45 was a restoration fee. It has nothing to do with the ticket just the administrative suspension. I’ll be curious to see how the court handles it. IMHO you are doing exactly right. Clearing up your license problem does not automatically excuse your original problem. But my court usually looks favorably on the defendant when he comes in with the problem already cleared up on the DMV side. Often they will merge the remaining tickets and you only have to pay the one fine. But every court/judge does things different.
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Hmmm. So you ignored the advice? So I guess that means that you were correct about the statute of limitations. You were correct that the ticket for driving while suspended was bogus. You were right that having a NC drivers license was all you need even though you are now a Virginia resident. So what I said above did did not happen instead you were right all along.
Your driving privledges were revoked due to a ticket you skipped out on.
The ticket was not bogus because your privledges were revoked for good cause.
You needed to get a Virginia license because you are now a resident.
Since you were proactive about getting your new license the judge merged and dismissed your driving while revoked ticket with the speeding ticket.
The ticket was not ruled Bogus by the judge.
The conviction for the speeding ticket was conditionally dismissed. Meaning you were found guilty but it will be put aside if you complete the course.
So it sounds to me that just about everybody was correct in this thread. You were 100% wrong in the OP. You thought having a valid NC drivers license was going to get your ticket dismissed. It would not. You were told to get a Virginia license and clear up the old problem. I’m glad you took everyone’s advice and got it cleared up.
I was very pleasantly surprised. According to google, court costs in my home state of NC are up to $130 for a speeding ticket.
I’m paying about $75 for driving school.
It really all boils down to one thing, though…in my part of NC, if you speed in the mountains, you die. I’m from the mountains, but we have no interstates or really major highways in my county, so all the mountain roads are BADLY curvy. As in, the speed limit is 55, but nobody can go that fast, (unless they’re in a high performance supercar, MAYBE) ever. They’ll just go flying off the side of the mountain, and that will be that.
OTOH, I drive regularly on roads in the Virginia mountains that, while not interstates, are pretty straight for good portions of their length.
This causes problems for me. I am used to letting curves slow me down in mountainous areas. I’m not used to having to use my brakes on a straight road with no stoplights, etc. I am forced to learn now, though.
I posted the next morning after you posted that bullshit I quoted. I posted a half hour after the last person posted in the thread so it was at the top of the page.
You posted a week later and bumped a dead thread that everyone had forgotten about.
I don’t think it is me that needs to let this go.
I don’t remember if I referenced this thread in particular as the most recent “what should I do about this ticket thread” or just acknowledged that it has been done before. Because it has been done before. Each time I say the same thing because it is how things work around here. With the disclaimer that things work different in different courts.
I’m glad you took the advice in the thread and it worked out OK for you. I think you should probably move on unless you want to be known as “inappropriately angry speeding ticket guy.” Although that would be more memorable than your current name.
OK, I still don’t understand the rage over all this. I wish I did, I feel like I’m missing something about human nature, perhaps, but whatever.
What was the need for the insults, smearing, etc.? I had a problem, and needed useful, concrete advice. I’m not a chronic speeder, just got caught in a speed trap. That’s it. No need for the usual internet disrespect. I’m honestly flummoxed.
And as far as letting it go…dude, I lived it. You’re just commenting on it. Who should be more able to let it go? You don’t know me, haven’t dealt with me in other threads, and are not really in a position to judge me.
For that matter, nobody in this thread is in a position to judge. You people just don’t know me.
And for the record, I didn’t take the advice in the thread. I did what I was already going to do. I was vacillating on the issue of getting my VDL, but otherwise, did everything as I was already planning to do. In general, I’m loath to take advice from people if I already have some experience in a particular area, and, since I’ve been to court back in the 90s 3 or 4 times for other tickets, I felt pretty confident, relatively.
I don’t know, it’s just kind of that people tend to get annoyed when someone opens a thread to ask for advice and then bitches because said advice isn’t what they want to hear. It’s like, why bother?
“Go to hell, formerly-irresponsible person!” is advice?
There was a whole lot more “go to hell” than useful advice, if you’ll notice.
Or you won’t notice, either way, don’t care, done with the thread now. If this keeps up, I’m going to ask to have it locked or deleted. I’m really bored with it.
When one person gets annoyed at you, it might be them. But when a dozen people all get annoyed at you, you need to take a step back and consider maybe you’re being annoying.
Four speeding tickets in ten years is not a chronic speeder? I got one (1) speeding ticket in twenty years of driving, and TBH I deserved it. I suspect most people who get speeding tickets do deserve them, and the more they protest it, the more likely we would be to think they did deserve it.
So in truth, if this thread was full of “rage” and “hate”, it seems pretty clear where it originated. This board has a good helping of very smart people who do not care for the idea of being played.