I Just Got 6 Tickets AT ONCE by seven COPS. SHEESH

In My Humble Opinion
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Bill, the reason I’m so concerned is that hot rodders annoy the hell out of me. You wouldn’t believe how I dread walking across campus because of the way people drive and no one lets anyone go by the crosswalk. I almost was hit by a school bus. Thank god I have a caring professor who’ll give me a ride there, and a friend in class to drive me back.

This isn’t really a flame, just my observation. As one of those pedestrians, people who drive like hooligans scare the shit out of me because I don’t want to get killed because someone is just having fun.

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Is it possible that you did “rolling stops” without being aware of it? I used to stop like this, and my ex-husband, who was a deputy sheriff, told me that I could get picked up for that. But don’t admit to anything.

It does sound like a low-speed chase, and cops are very careful when they pull people over. A young cop in our area foolishly tried to pull a truck over without backup, and his widow will never forget that. They were fleeing a robbery they had just committed.

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Originally posted by Spider Woman

First “Hi” back at first I was wondering if I did that the rolling stop thing because I was kinda freak’in out. Then I realized that I had to wait for traffic before I could enter the intersection. So I am sure I stopped. So I went back and found somebody at the bus stop that saw me stop.

You are probably right. But like I said soon as I saw them I pulled over FAST.

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Well, the charge says “Exibition of acceleration”…I would think that the fact that your car starts moving is an “Exibition of acceleration”. You could always take that route with the judge “Well, the car exhibited it’s acceleration by beginning to move through the stop sign…which, by the way, I had stopped for (see witness). Was I supposed to remain stopped? The sign never changed from “Stop” to “Go”. At what point can I “go” through a “stop” sign?”

The judge and cops will get a kick out of your unique defense and they’ll be glad that you took the time to brighten up their day in the middle of the 3000 other traffic citations they’ll be dealing with that day. My guess is they’ll let you off with a few laughs and a warning. Just like it happens on TV.

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You what???

Ok. the scene you’ve described is : you were driving around. some car nearly ran you off the road, you look up, see cop lights, pull over, 6 cop cars are around you, they all wait (for IIRC 10 minutes) while they wait for cop #1 who saw this to come to the scene, then we have the discussion and the writing of the tickets etc. and some time after all this has happened, you go back to the bus stop near where the stop sign is and find some one who is * still there* from when you went through that intersection???

I’m sorry - I find that very difficult to believe. I’ve been stopped (by one cop) before, and just the process of checking my license out took several minutes. Now, add to it the ten minutes you mention that it took for the original cop to get there, all of the various discussions, searches, checking out your record etc, just how long did all that take??? had to be more than the 10 you already stated you waited. and some one who was at a bus stop several blocks away is still there waiting for the bus??? AND remembers your car? What the heck are you driving? the General Lee[sup]TM[/sup]???

Clarification please, before you go into court with a witness that will be blown out of the water.

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Wring,

I thought it was a lost cause too(due to the amount of time). I asked about 30 or 40 people if they saw my car. You see it is old style hot rod that is painted canary yellow. So yea it is very noticeable. That is probably why those cops noticed me too.

After I almost gave up, I found this guy that did if fact see me. So I took his name and number. A typical witness though didn’t want to get involved in all. But after 10 minutes of begging and the importance of truth and justice he finally went for it.

Hey, do you think a sworn affidavit would be sufficient from him? Even after my speech he just didn’t look like the type of guy that would show up at court for a traffic violation.

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an excellent question for your attorney.

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Seven cops?

Did you speed by a Dunkin Donuts?

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He already answered that-he was nowhere near a donut shop.

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I think that this is totally possible. Where I am from the buses come once ever, oh, hour and a half. Before i got a license I used to sit at bus stops for 45 min to an hour.

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The bus you need to take isn’t going to be there for 45 minutes and you still show up to the bus stop???

I have no problem understanding busses running every x amount of time. But I think it is rare that some one shows up at a bus stop for an extended amount of time before the bus is due. I mean it’s not like the airport where you have to find your gate, check your baggage etc. Bus pulls up, people get off, people get on, buy bye.

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A woman I know is awaiting trial for killing someone with her car. She was so wrong there isn’t much any of us could say to comfort her. She didn’t mean to, she just lost control of the car. She had a rep as being “wild,” too.

A very good friend of mine lost his four-year old girl when she ended up wrapped around the rear tire of some jerk showing off–just a little–behind the wheel.

When I had been driving less than two years, a car driving too fast crashed into my front quarter-panel. When I got to the passenger side window an looked inside, I saw a teenage girl in the passenger seat dazed and ashen with a gaping gash across her forehead and the baby she was holding was c-o-v-e-r-e-d with blood.

Sure glad it wasn’t my fault.

I don’t know you, Bill, and I don’t know what you did; but I can say this about excessive speed, “stunt driving,” flaunting the law and total disregard for the safety of others: it’s stupid. It’s dangerous. It should not be tolerated for one tiny second.

I’ve had my share of bogus tickets and I’m no advocate of jack-boot law enforcement but I have been helped by the cops in life-threatening situations a time or two over 50 years so I figure, on the whole, they get it right. Personally I’d rather they spend their time on more serious, less obvious crime, but there’s no shortage of morons behind the wheel, so they don’t have much choice.

I am disgusted at those “good citizens” who immediately side against the cops and think of a situation like this as just a game of “Beat the Ticket.”

Do you know where your children are?

You can argue with me, you can argue with the judge, but you can’t argue with the laws of physics.

There isn’t much anyone can say to the parents of a kid who was just shredded by a random act of stupidity. And it’s the innocent who usually pay the biggest price, isn’t it?
Myself
“You can see the dawn, a still not see the light.”

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Okay, but say that you are taking the bus back from a job or something and the next bus doesn’t come for forty five minutes. What are you going to do? Personally, I grab a book and wait.

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well, for me personally, I’d probably stop at various places on the way each day, rather than sitting by the curb smelling traffic, but that’s just me. I see your point, tho, thanks.

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You of course are assuming that buses are actually on time.

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No, actually I don’t. I work in an urban area. Some of the buses run every 10 minutes, others run every hour. And yes, for the ones that don’t run very often, you’d get there sooner. But it still seemed to me that it wasn’t very likely that folks would still be at the bus stop after Bills escapade. I know for a routine stop where I didn’t get a ticket and there was only 1 officer, I was still detained 10 minutes. His was much more elaborate, included a 10 minute wait for the original cop, which implied to me also that where he was detained was a ways away from the bus stop etc. I was figuring that he was stopped some minutes away from the bus stop, the number of cop cars there etc, 10 minutes waiting for the other cop, etc etc, I asked how much time had elapsed, he never answered, I was figuring at least 30 - 45 minutes and I found it odd that people would still be at the bus stop after that much time.

I don’t deny that it’s possible, just thought it wasn’t the average time folks spend at an outdoor bus stop. that’s all.