Speeding Ticket

[champ]

Gents,

I know that this thread has been done before but I wanted to see what my chances are on this.

I was cruising along Lakeshore right by the CNE Friday afternoon. I was finishing my day and a very long week. I had two more calls to make and was kind of daydreaming. I was not going fast in my mind.

Ahead a police officer stepped out and waved me over. I pulled in and a female police officer walked up. She was very attractive. She was a dead ringer for Jada Pinkett-Smith. Had her hair pulled back, those new clear shades on. Really quite nice looking. As well she is a cop and I dig female cops! It's a power thing that cranks my caboose.

She informed me that I was going 74 in a 60. Ooops!?

I played the innocent, aww shucks , decent guy.

She walked behind my vehicle and wrote me up. She came back and had a very calm and nice demeanour. She explained that she gave me a break and brought the ticket down to a 70 in a 60. No demerits and only 40 bucks. She was tired and wanted to go home. She had plans for the weekend. Blahh blah blah.

It felt almost noraml as opposed to a "Police Officer" talking to me.

She paused and said that I had the right to challenge it and plead Not Guilty. If I was to do this I had a 50-50 chance of her showing up in court. "You never know she said". She lingered for a second. In no way am I saying she was hitting on me. It just seemed like a normal conversation with a decent , good looking woman. If I was single I might have asked her out for coffee.

Anyway ... I'm digressing.

My question is:

What is everyone's experience with pleading Not Guilty and going to court?

Do you think she was "tipping" me off? I have never had a police officer say "you never know" to me before!

I would appreciate your feedback.

Regards,

Champ

 

[papasmerf]

pay the 40 bucks
how much will be lost in time, fighting it.

 

[Esco!]

Damn, I was reading this thing halfway through hoping it was a review

 

[RogerRabbit]

if you have the time, plead not guilty...

 

[champ]

Papasmerf,

You're right. It would be a waste for 40 bucks.

I'm doing it to avoid the Insurance implications.

 

[Svend]

Go to court.
If the cop doesn't show up, you've won.
If she does, ask her out for dinner. You may still win dessert.

 

[feminista]

Toronto cops usually don't show. Perhaps she is hinting that she won't....or even better -that she will.

 

[xix]

pay her instead

Insurance companies now hold all speeding tickets against you. Even the ones that don't cost you any demerit points. If you go to court and the cop shows..you'll lose 95% of the time.

Usually you plea bargain with the Crown at your pre-trial, but you're already at the minimum for a ticket anyways.

Well I paid my tickets without hassle a: 40 and a 350.
But if you go as mention from above, plea with the crown in exhange for volunteering at the womens detention center. 40 hours only. Geroge Kantasa did it.

If you are smooth like Jabba the Hut. Seek the cop out before trial starts, ask her out for dinner in exchange if she is willing to disappear. Tell her along these lines:
"This is my first time being fined by a beautiful blue suit woman and I wasn't thinking straight that day. I had a long week and your aurora captured me at weak moment".

What is the worst she can do then? slap you hard?
hopefully on the ass.

 

[xarir]

If you have the time, request trial. Chances are the cop won't show up.

Best bet - request trial in French court. Cop won't show up and most of them don't speak French well enough to defend an action.

 

[Esco!]

If you have the time, request trial. Chances are the cop won't show up.

Best bet - request trial in French court. Cop won't show up and most of them don't speak French well enough to defend an action.

Que'sqe tu says???
Tu en une problem avec le Francais?????

Tu est un mogul!!!

 

[slowandeasy]

If you have the time, request trial. Chances are the cop won't show up.

Best bet - request trial in French court. Cop won't show up and most of them don't speak French well enough to defend an action.

How come I always hear this, and it never happens to me. I have been to court a number times, and each time the cop has showed up.

I have a $311 speeding ticket that I have to take to court. Can anyone recommend one of those ticket fighting companies? I had called a few the last time I was going to court in an effort to get out of the ticket... However, they were going to charge me about the same thing as the ticket (about $250) and I figured that it was worth my time to go to court. I ended up saving $210 bucks and no ticket. That was worth three hours of my time as I don't make $70/hour.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

I got caught last Thursday on Bathurst at the straightaway - the bridge south of Eglinton. 71 in a 50. Same shpeil from the cop. I may not show etc... They want you to fight it. They get paid overtime for going to court. Lighter duty than patrol with higher pay.

 

[champ]

You've got to be kidding me!!!

Here I am thinking she's a decent egg and she is looking for "soft duty"?!

If that is the case I'll be pissed and will hIt on her for spite!

What's the worst that can happen ... she says no?

The best that could happen is she says yes and I roll around with a smoking hot LE!

 

[bigpackage]

If you go to trial ask the cop a lot of questions, usually they take crappy notes. Ask them what lane was I in?, traffic volume?, and so on. If you have many questions that the cop can not answer the Judge could throw it out. Just make sure the questions are relevent?

GL

 

[K Douglas]

Toronto cops usually don't show. Perhaps she is hinting that she won't....or even better -that she will.

Most cops have to show up in traffic court as part of their job duty. All the tickets they've written up and are challenged are given the same trial date so the cop, instead of doing patrol, goes to court for a day (or two,or three). Its changed from the past where many a time they didn't show up. Bastards!

 

[djk]

She paused and said that I had the right to challenge it and plead Not Guilty. If I was to do this I had a 50-50 chance of her showing up in court. "You never know she said". She lingered for a second. In no way am I saying she was hitting on me. It just seemed like a normal conversation with a decent , good looking woman. If I was single I might have asked her out for coffee.

Heh, I had an experience with a female cop pulling me over for speeding too. I played a similar routine and she was constantly giggling and being bubbly when we first talked and after she gave the ticket.

I might have gotten her number if I asked but who knows, who cares now.

 

[booboobear]

EXACTLY!

I would pay the fine you got likely , she may be under pressure to show.
Actuallly you should have mentione dthat you were a terb member then she would have said what's that , then you could have said you wanted to do a review of female cops .

 

[oral.com]

14 over is actually a joke, you do not get any points for speeding
under 15 k/ph. Your female friend deliberatly cut the real speed to get you off a more serious offence.

 

[strange1]

This is the advice I was given.

Inform that that you will go to court. After they set the date, come up with an urgent reason that you need to reschedule. The theory is that the cops get apid to go to court and to make it easier, they try to schedule all their cases during the same court session. By changing the date, it likely means that the cop will be less available.

I've never had the opportunity/need to try this so I have no idea how effective it would be.

 

[thenameless]

it's very effective, and pretty much what points will do for you... I got a 15 over on a residential street... was going to be $100 plus another 10% to my insurance renewal, paid the $350ish to pointts, got 4 different trial dates, and in the last one the ticket got dumped.... thus no fine and no insurance increase...

xcopper on the other hand, got one date, pleaded out for a lower fine, and never lived up to their guarentee of we win or your money back (well, by money back, we mean we'll pay the fine of any charges you get stuck with, rather than giving you any of our fee back, which means that since you paid us $300 for the ticket to get you out of it, and we pleaded out at a lower rate, we'll pay your fine and keep the rest)

and the didn't even bother paying the ticket afterwards...