Traffic tickets

[snochuk]

Yeah just be happy it is only 400$. IMO they should send you to the gulag for 20 years if caught rolling a stop sign.

Exactly.
Deterrents that have weight.

Oh was that sarcasm ld.

 

[fj40]

So the rules are for everyone but me, because I'm not the lowest common denominator.
Sounds good.

 

[rodney1960]

Well dang it anyway. My bad for not knowing when it is OK to break the law (or by how much) and the getting caught part was the part that is wrong.
Never said I don't speed or roll a stop sign......just suck it up when caught. I know the top speed of my supercharged Challenger (and it is waaay waaay closer to 300 than 200) it's just the pouting when some one gets caught.
Oh woe is me, those mean coppers. I was only breaking the law a little........

I robbed him with a baseball bat instead of a gun.......you mean that is not OK?
It was a friendly robbery.......sombody help me.
lol

There is a reason the general public is not allowed to make the rules.
Sometimes the lowest common denominator thinks it is the top of the food chain.
Except the NDP.....that bunch is really f'd up.
lol

if you got caught top speed testing your challenger would have been a lot more than a ticket. Would have impounded your car and took your license. Guess you were ok with that though? Sounds like you don't belong on a public highway anyways.

 

[Cyle]

I support any tax base in which I contribute little to nothing

I've got one ticket in about the last 8 years, thrown out because the appearance date was a sunday. Having said that, I was doing 38 over so i'm glad I got rid of it! It's pretty dahm easy to avoid tickets. If i'm in my pickup not pulling a trailer, 95% of the time i'm speeding and yet i've went that long without a ticket. I've passed laser radar places doing 10 over and not bothered. Most of the time you need to be speeding by a lot to have an issue, and they are so predictable about what they are.

Actually I got 3 parking tickets in 2 days on my trailer, I consider those tickets BS when it's parked in front of my house. And the fact that two were written the same day, one was backdated. But good luck fighting them.

 

[snochuk]

if you got caught top speed testing your challenger would have been a lot more than a ticket. Would have impounded your car and took your license. Guess you were ok with that though? Sounds like you don't belong on a public highway anyways.

Had two spotters.
One one each end of the strip that us local old farm boys use.
Was not Jasper Av or the Henday.......we control our play zones.
Nice flat 2 mile strip on secondary road with no farm yards and open fields to see critters coming.
Pick our play spots carefully.

 

[collin]

When we get "caught" we look for a way out of our responsibility to be held accountable.
It has become the norm to go 10 to 15 kph over posted limits or not stop fully.
As we erode these guidelines what else do we cheat at???
Just a part of the erosion of "what was."

You are willing to stretch the rules them suck it up when caught and pay up. Don't waste the time of others or tie up cops in court trying to weasel out of what has been done. Cops are busy enough without junk duty.
Sucks when caught when distracted by life but to bad.
I average a written ticket about every 5 years and have never fought one.
I take them as a personnel smarten up to pay attention and focus when driving.

I agree with your comments for the most part.


However.... the reality is that we all try to save a buck. Not just on fines, (which of late have become nothing more than additional taxation and very little to do with traffic safety) but on the cost of insurance coverage. Even the judicial system is aware of the need to control costs as in lowering the amount of time officers have to appear in Court or the amount of time spent off the street.

If you committed a serious offense (criminal or traffic), you will have your day in court. Minor offenses can often be dealt with summarily, involving a fine and sometimes a break on points (often the deciding factor is your own driving record. Bad driver-probably no breaks A relatively good driver may score a break).
I wrote thousands of tickets, none could ever be classified as chicken-sh!t as in a "rolling stop sign violation" . Now, blow a stop sign doing 50+kph and you are getting a ticket. Most officers have a common sense approach to enforcement. But like any profession, you will have some of those that hold a different point of view/belief in what constitutes a writable violation.

Hope this puts this post into a little different perspective.

 

[Cyle]

There is certainly cops who are d-bags and just want to write tickets and those times piss me off, but plenty of times i've got off not getting pulled over, or no ticket. Your attitude plays a factor to.

One time I remember pulling out from scales, dot turning in i'm in a rush and blow the stop sign doing probably 20, they slow down probably wondering why someone who blow through a stop sign right in front of him, but never did anything. Another time I got pulled over cop accused me of running red light, I pointed out to him it was a really big intersection and I was going somewhat slow, but I absolutely did not run the red, and he was in the turning lane, i'm not dumb enough to run a red in front of a cop. Pulled my record and let me go because he said my record was clean.

But there was a time on deerfoot in a group of like 5 cars doing about 20 over into a lazer trap, i'm the ONLY one tagged. I asked them why I was the only one pulled over the excuse I got was he seen my tint with his gun? While I was speeding and wouldn't have complained if they got everyone, I was annoyed I got a ticket for driving a lifted truck that stands out.

Another time just prior to getting my class 1 when I only had my 3 I was pulling a tag trailer on air, cop pulled me over and knew I didn't have proper licence but let me go with a warning.

The funny thing is having a clean record gets you off so well. Kind of like the need experience to get the job. I find having no demerits in close to 10 years helps so much when I do get pulled over.

 

[LUCKY 7]

I was sitting out front of my house last night( I live on a corner that has a stop sign) and saw a neighbor kid pull up while talking on her cell phone and blow right through the stop sign, music blaring too. When i saw this I laughed about this thread. I don't think that girl has ever fully stopped at that sign.

 

[Ballzdeep]

Rolled through the stony trail in cow town yesterday with a few boys and we were clipping. Came up to the over pass to hwy 2 and blue berrys n cherrys came on. The 3 of us pulled over, cop walked up to us and we all had our reg an license ready to hand over and my buddy says even before the cop spoke "sorry officer, we were having a lil too much fun" The cop says ya boys you guys were clocked at 142km We were sorry and were caught up in the moment of a group ride. We admitted we were speeding and we were pleasant with the officer. Even had a lil chat about our bikes. Cop let us off with a shake of his finger. don't be a know it all and admit when you fawk up and most cops can be pretty decent....most of the time. I've been pulled over before and handed a court issue ticket and bike impounded and had to walk home, real POS cop...but i fawked up and broke the rules. 6 demerits and $1,800 in fines, but i kept my license. When ya busted...pay the man and don't do it again or don't get caught.

 

[rodney1960]

Had two spotters.
One one each end of the strip that us local old farm boys use.
Was not Jasper Av or the Henday.......we control our play zones.
Nice flat 2 mile strip on secondary road with no farm yards and open fields to see critters coming.
Pick our play spots carefully.

Oh so it is ok to break the law as long as it is in the country.
Gotcha. Next time I rob a rural property I'll have spotters

 

[Ballzdeep]

Oh so it is ok to break the law as long as it is in the country.
Gotcha. Next time I rob a rural property I'll have spotters

Congratulations on the stupidest comment in this thread.

All you old boys are gonna pretend like you didn't ride mach chicken down the hwy passing a bottle of jack through the window to your buddys in your novas a chargers with big blocks....come on meow. Less people on the roads back then i understand but don't pretend like you aint never raced your car or broke the law "back in the day".

 

[rodney1960]

Congratulations on the stupidest comment in this thread.

All you old boys are gonna pretend like you didn't ride mach chicken down the hwy passing a bottle of jack through the window to your buddys in your novas a chargers with big blocks....come on meow. Less people on the roads back then i understand but don't pretend like you aint never raced your car or broke the law "back in the day".

You sound like a genius "ballzdeep"

 

[Ballzdeep]

You sound like a genius "ballzdeep"

Ahhhh shucks. Thanks
man

 

[LennyR]

Oh so it is ok to break the law as long as it is in the country.
Gotcha. Next time I rob a rural property I'll have spotters

Jeez some of you guys should give your head a shake if you see robbing someone as the same situation as snochuk described. Full of yourself, holier than thou bull$hit.

 

[rodney1960]

Well dang it anyway. My bad for not knowing when it is OK to break the law (or by how much) and the getting caught part was the part that is wrong.
Never said I don't speed or roll a stop sign......just suck it up when caught. I know the top speed of my supercharged Challenger (and it is waaay waaay closer to 300 than 200) it's just the pouting when some one gets caught.
Oh woe is me, those mean coppers. I was only breaking the law a little........

I robbed him with a baseball bat instead of a gun.......you mean that is not OK?
It was a friendly robbery.......sombody help me.
lol

There is a reason the general public is not allowed to make the rules.
Sometimes the lowest common denominator thinks it is the top of the food chain.
Except the NDP.....that bunch is really f'd up.
lol

Jeez some of you guys should give your head a shake if you see robbing someone as the same situation as snochuk described. Full of yourself, holier than thou bull$hit.

If you did some reading you'd notice he was the one comparing the robbing with a baseball bat to rolling a stop sign then proceeded to brag about hitting 300km on the highway Mr Gump.

 

[FernieHawk]

Another S &M thread turning into a bitchfest...

 

[whoDEANie]

...I have a class 1 so cant afford to just pay the pig.

Wow, that's a little harsh.

 

[Mike270412]

Congratulations on the stupidest comment in this thread.

All you old boys are gonna pretend like you didn't ride mach chicken down the hwy passing a bottle of jack through the window to your buddys in your novas a chargers with big blocks....come on meow. Less people on the roads back then i understand but don't pretend like you aint never raced your car or broke the law "back in the day".

My Nova had a small block.

 

[freeflorider]

I just took down all the stop signs in my neighborhood. No more tickets.

 

[catalac]

Ha ha funny comments.

Congrats on only getting 1 ticket in 15 years! I seem to be a bit more frequent