Comment preview: Not only are you leaving out the time factor, you're grossly underestimating the difference... which is closer to 3 minutes. Commuting both to and from your destination... (*2) Five times a week... (*5) 52 weeks per year (*52) 1560 minutes per year -or- 26 ....

Comment preview: > but a hidden cop ticketing violators would encourage complete compliance from the users who are caught/who understand the risk of non-compliance. The thing is, it doesn't work very well: - One study [concluded that drivers who received a speeding cit ....

Comment preview: I successfully defended a speeding ticket in court with math, but not using this flimsy incorrect method. Basically, I accelerated very quickly out of a light (no tires screeching, however) and got up to the speed limit. A officer who was two cars behind ....

Comment preview: About a year ago the local tv station did a report on the speed traps in around the city. They made a list of cops who gave out the most speeding tickets. They profiled both and gave their stats. State Trooper guy gave out around 2,000 speeding tickets in ....

Comment preview: I grew up in Shelburne, VT, and lived there until my 20's. Officer Lawson's supervisor, Allen Fortin (thought it was Alan?) pulled over LOADS of students of Champlain Valley Union HS on Hinesburg road, en route to school. The speed trap was in an unmarked ....

Comment preview: Mine's pretty tame really, and not super obscure I guess. I remember getting bitched out for not writing enough tickets...because I wrote exactly zero speeding tickets my entire time as a Military Policeman lol. If I saw someone speeding, as long as it w ....

Comment preview: 1) A card thingy? What we have is a badge. I don't show it if I get stopped by another police officer, though. I don't tell him I'm a cop, either. I think it's crass, and I don't appreciate when other cops do it to me. I appreciate even less when someone e ....

Comment preview: Traffic tickets and petty crime charges can ruin a poor person's life. Having a volunteer judge rubber stamping everything the cops give him with no oversight has the potential to be pretty brutal, even if it's "just traffic tickets and small theft". A $4 ....

Comment preview: FUUUUCCCKKKK Virginia. I got ticketed for doing 71 in a 60, and it was a $170 ticket. The best part is, it wasn't a fucking 60. I was doing 71 in a 70 and got tagged and ticketed for 11 over because the shitbag cop parked on the other side of a speed limi ....

Comment preview: Not long ago I was pulled over for no reason. I recorded the traffic stop without the officer's knowledge. This is in California and I'm not sure about the laws. Anyways, he tells me I was speeding but I knew I wasn't and had proof so I argued with him a b ....

Comment preview: I would like to use this opportunity to say FFFFUUUUCCCCKKKK Boutetourt County, VA. Fucking crooked, worthless, shady-ass state trooper ticketed me for 71 in a 60, despite the fact that the speed limit was fucking 70. Asshole was parked right on the other ....

Comment preview: Let's take a look at this comment. >This cop demanded that you give him respect because he wielded power over you; the power to assess a speeding ticket or not. You might have gotten a citation regardless, but you guaranteed yourself a ticket because yo ....

Comment preview: Reminds me of a time I got a ticket from a state trooper. I was lazy and missed the date to pay the fine so I had to go to court to pay it. I decided since I was there to see if there were any loop holes I could use to get out of it. A bit of googling and ....

Comment preview: I once got an automated speeding ticket. Spent several hours looking at statutes and laws trying to find a way around it. Looked up the city ordinance referencing temporary automated speeding traps which stated that the machine had to be within 100 yards o ....

Comment preview: I was pulled over for speeding. I decided to be nice because I was actually speeding. The officer walked up and asked me if I knew why I was pulled over and I answered with a smile" I was speeding and I agree that I deserve the ticket that you are about ....

Comment preview: I know she can't change what's done and gone, but in the case of a speeding ticket, you can challenge the ticket when you go into court for it. The best course of action when getting a speeding ticket you know is bunk is to just take the ticket and then fi ....

Comment preview: This is something most people don't know but if a cop asks you the question "Do you know how fast you were going?" always say that you don't. Many times, they don't actually catch you on the gun but can just tell you are speeding and will stop you and when ....

Comment preview: A community in my area recently put in speed cameras. It is a "town" of 10 people, and so far they have pulled in a half million dollars. I successfully started a "Honk for the Cameras" campaign on Facebook. It's one of those areas where the speed limit ....

Comment preview: This is why non-lawyers shouldn't post on Reddit about laws. Texas defines speeding thusly: "An operator may not drive at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances then existing." This has several implications. First, you can b ....

Comment preview: I've gotten about 8 tickets in my life, i consider 2 of them legitimate. One ticket, I was at a stoplight about to get onto the on-ramp of a freeway. There were two turn lanes, i was in the far left, about 3 cars back. Light turns green, 8 of us get onto t ....

Comment preview: A tip to get out of any speeding ticket: if an officer pulls you over and says something like "do you have any idea how fast you were going?", you respond with "no, officer, how fast was I going?" In most cases the cop will have already deleted (or not sav ....

Comment preview: Charlie Lombardo, SUPERCOP, Once started a forest fire by shooting a flare gun at a bear. Charlie Lombardo, SUPERCOP, Once wrote his own mother a speeding ticket. She was going less than five miles over the speed limit. Charlie Lombardo, SUPERCOP, Often ex ....

Comment preview: I have a good cop story that happened to my friend; I hope he doesn't mind me telling it. He was pulled over for going 70 in a 55 (right after the speed limit decreased). He was courteous and respectful to the officer as well as honest when asked about s ....

Comment preview: In my state I don't have a quota, but we have a policy to issue tickets over 6 MPH (strict enforcement). So if someone is going over that threshold, I issue a ticket; if you are polite, and honest, I can drop the speed which is usually a 15.00 fine. I neve ....

Comment preview: Not me, but my brother was driving while I'm in the passenger seat. We go through a green light that turns yellow half way through the intersection so we drive another couple hundred feet and we see lights. Now we stop and this woman gets out of the cop ca ....