got cited tonight for rolling through a stop sign. cop said he wrote it up as a city code violation instead of a ticket so no insurance points. there's no fine listed on the back, just court costs. any long-term repercussions to just paying the 110 bucks and being done with it?

2/27/2006 11:28:50 PM

PJC or Lawyer






































Sike, Just stop next time!

2/27/2006 11:31:39 PM

well, i did stop. it was just dark and no one was at the intersection, so i didn't stop the car to 0 mph, just 2 or so. what pisses me off is that the car in front of me barely stopped when he made a right hand turn.

2/27/2006 11:33:28 PM

means stop

2/27/2006 11:36:34 PM

cause you come to full and complete stop every time

2/27/2006 11:37:32 PM

don't get mad because you fucked up.

none of us are perfect, doesn't justify the fact that you fucked up.

2/27/2006 11:53:13 PM

I tried that.


People drive really agressively behind you when you do silly things like obey traffic laws.

2/27/2006 11:54:09 PM

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"don't get mad"

not mad. just need to know what the effects of are paying the fine. way the cop said it made it seem like no big deal. just need verification.

2/28/2006 12:36:54 AM

city code violation is the rough equivalent of really expensive parking ticket.

just give them the money and everyone will call it a day.

2/28/2006 12:55:13 AM

if there are no insurance points added, you are fine. just pay it.

2/28/2006 12:55:25 AM

or plead not guilty. youre gonna have to pay court costs, why not get your moneys worth?

2/28/2006 12:59:23 AM

hey jackleg, pm sent.

2/28/2006 1:00:52 AM

i dont have a pm

LIAR

2/28/2006 1:01:38 AM

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"city code violation is the rough equivalent of really expensive parking ticket. just give them the money and everyone will call it a day."

Sounds right.

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"or plead not guilty. youre gonna have to pay court costs, why not get your moneys worth?"

You've got a point, except that in this case, he can just mail in the fine and get completely out of going downtown to deal with it.

2/28/2006 1:04:56 AM

yeah but hes still paying the court costs.

i would go down there and waste every bit of their time that i could. tie up the officer for an afternoon, tie up an ADA for an afternoon, use their jury time. but i guess im the only one that does that

2/28/2006 1:08:16 AM

or the only one who has time for it.


I'd love to give them a hard time, but it isn't worth my time, imo

2/28/2006 1:19:24 AM

yeah ive been known to do dumb shit like stand up for what i believe in

2/28/2006 1:32:43 AM

Way to lay on the civic guilt.

2/28/2006 11:23:02 AM

hah. I always use 1...2...3...GO when I come up to a stop sign and no one is there.

2/28/2006 11:26:07 AM

when a woman says stop, she means roll through (slowly)

2/28/2006 11:56:09 AM

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"yeah but hes still paying the court costs. i would go down there and waste every bit of their time that i could. tie up the officer for an afternoon, tie up an ADA for an afternoon, use their jury time. but i guess im the only one that does that"

But are you really wasting their time if they get paid for it? It isn't like you are showing up 15 minutes before quitting time and making them stay an hour over.

2/28/2006 12:00:59 PM

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"yeah ive been known to do dumb shit like stand up for what i believe in"

Like not getting tickets for violating a law? I mean he admitted that he didn't stop all the way, and that's what he's supposed to do. Sure the cop might have been an asshole to write him the ticket but he was still wrong one way or the other.

2/28/2006 1:54:09 PM

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"well, i did stop. it was just dark and no one was at the intersection, so i didn't stop the car to 0 mph, just 2 or so."

Do you know what the definition of STOPPING is? B/c clearly from that statement you don't.

2/28/2006 1:55:57 PM

I got a ticket a few weeks ago for the exact same thing. You can just get a certified check and send it in with the ticket, and thats the end of it.

I was annoyed that I got a ticket for something that really didn't harm anything, but I can't really argue anything since I didn't completely stop, just close to it.

2/28/2006 1:59:33 PM

The way police judge if you have stopped or not is if the back of your vehicle drops down from the action of having stopped. So I go as soon as i feel the car settle back, and never gotten any tickets.

2/28/2006 2:16:17 PM

^yeah that's typically what i do...just this time not really because no one was around.





















cept for the cop

2/28/2006 2:43:05 PM

2/28/2006 3:04:35 PM

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"But are you really wasting their time if they get paid for it? It isn't like you are showing up 15 minutes before quitting time and making them stay an hour over."

yes, if everyone contested their tickets in court, the system would shit itself

2/28/2006 3:16:11 PM

my friend got a city code violation for a 41 in a 25 on dixie. but school was on a teacher workday, and was not in session so it was a 35. but apparently the cop didn't realize school wasn't in session and neither did she at the time. so effectively, she got a ticket for a 41 in a 35, any suggestion on what she should do?

2/28/2006 3:25:28 PM

go plead her case, duh

2/28/2006 3:33:53 PM