Tickets, Citations, Police action, Automotive law, Speed limits and other things (1996, pump)

[iknowftbll]

Originally Posted by Freebird2007

going more than 10 under is against the law in some states

Minimum speed limits are still speed limits, and are thus public laws. Laws which I greatly appreciate, too. I wish more places had minimum speed limits.

[snofarmer]

You can be travailing at any speed and be reckless.

Mn has minimum posted speed limits on the freeways.
It must be revenue generating also, as would any monetary fine would be.

[sailordave]

I question the original link. First off, shining a flashlight at a car, either day or night is not enough to blind the driver to missing a stop sign. If it was night and the officer used the spotlight and you can't see, you hit the brakes until you can see or hold up your hand in front of the spot light. If this were the daytime, I'll assume what the driver saw was a reflection of the sun off the glass or chrome. Still no excuse. I once was nearly in an accident when the setting sun was in my eyes. I still admitted fault knowing the sun is not an absolution of fault in traffic accidents. Another point, if a flash light was enough for the driver to run a stop sign, then what about all the cars' headlights? I call total BS on the link. Next case.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

In some areas of California we can't drive the speedlimit. Too many cars to do that.

[Retriever]

As Manderly and a few others have surmised, our friend "Soviet", is the classic One Trick Pony.

Comrade--If you are so all-consumed with the issues of speeding tickets/unfair police officers/arbitrarily low speed limits/fines for driving infractions (did I leave anything out?) there certainly can't be very much of actual importance going on in your life.

Yes, you tell us that you enjoy life. However, I can guarantee you that you will enjoy life far more if you focus on topics beyond just speeding tickets/unfair police officers/arbitrarily low speed limits/fines for driving infractions. Personally, I think it is rather sad that a person could be so obsessed with these topics and that he conflates them into an importance far beyond the way that the vast majority of folks perceive them--as evidenced by the responses.

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by Soviet

Question: why is the revenue generator...I mean, police officer, shining a light in someone's eye from a distance of several feet away, where they cannot possibly see one's pupils?

as i and other have posted, this is exactly why you need to pay complete attention to your driving and what is going on around you. lets suppose that instead of a flashlight or spotlight, they were car headlights. does that mean then that the ticket would still be bad because the person still ran the stop sign? we have to be responsible for the things we do. if we dont know where the stop signs are, and if we dont pay attention to our driving, then we are going to get into trouble because of it.

I post things such as these so that you guys think about these situations and acknowledge that they do exist. All I want in this thread is to know what YOU would do if you were the individual who wrote that account.

no, you post this garbage because you have an axe to grind. perhaps you got a ticket that you feel you didnt deserve, and now you want to lambaste every cop you can find. you are loaded with bull sierra.

The truth is, this thread wouldn't exist if these things didn't happen. I wouldn't have an "axe to grind" if these things didn't happen.

yes you would.

Originally Posted by Bydand

He will sit behind his keyboard and smite them down with well chosen words and his own ideas through internet postings! He shall arise out of his Momma's basement and unlatch from the breast of anonymity provided by the internet... oh wait, that might be pushing it a little. Better to stay hidden in the basement behind that anonymity and just post thread after thread of how much he hates cops and all they stand for on C-D.

Oh yeah, and Soviet before you go off on the lame "stay on topic" BS you have been spewing so far in this thread. I HAVE had it happen to me, but with a cop in his car turning his spotlight on in my face coming up to a stop. What did I do? I stopped where I was supposed to because I was paying attention to begin with, then drove to the police station to ask the desk Sargent WTF was wrong with the officer. I got an apology, he later got fired. Case closed. Unless the Officer was standing directly in their lane, a flashlight turned on from the side shouldn't make that big of an impact on a persons vision and where they are in relation to their lane or the stop sign.

Originally Posted by sailordave

I question the original link. First off, shining a flashlight at a car, either day or night is not enough to blind the driver to missing a stop sign. If it was night and the officer used the spotlight and you can't see, you hit the brakes until you can see or hold up your hand in front of the spot light. If this were the daytime, I'll assume what the driver saw was a reflection of the sun off the glass or chrome. Still no excuse. I once was nearly in an accident when the setting sun was in my eyes. I still admitted fault knowing the sun is not an absolution of fault in traffic accidents. Another point, if a flash light was enough for the driver to run a stop sign, then what about all the cars' headlights? I call total BS on the link. Next case.

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by Retriever

As Manderly and a few others have surmised, our friend "Soviet", is the classic One Trick Pony.

Comrade--If you are so all-consumed with the issues of speeding tickets/unfair police officers/arbitrarily low speed limits/fines for driving infractions (did I leave anything out?) there certainly can't be very much of actual importance going on in your life.

Yes, you tell us that you enjoy life. However, I can guarantee you that you will enjoy life far more if you focus on topics beyond just speeding tickets/unfair police officers/arbitrarily low speed limits/fines for driving infractions. Personally, I think it is rather sad that a person could be so obsessed with these topics and that he conflates them into an importance far beyond the way that the vast majority of folks perceive them--as evidenced by the responses.

i may be wrong, but i am of the opinion that our friend soviet is a terrible driver and gets a lot of tickets, or has already had his license suspended for too many tickets, and now he is just lambasting the cops for doing their jobs.

[Soviet]

Originally Posted by rbohm

i may be wrong, but i am of the opinion that our friend soviet is a terrible driver and gets a lot of tickets, or has already had his license suspended for too many tickets, and now he is just lambasting the cops for doing their jobs.

I've already mentioned my driving record several times. I've also listed my reasons for my threads. Again, if the roads have proper regulations & honest enforcement.....well, that is all I ask for. For the good of everyone on the roads, yourself included.

[Soviet]

Originally Posted by Drover

Traffic laws single out whiners who are never at fault for traffic violations.

My 1st traffic violation, I was at fault. My 2nd one later that summer? I wqs driving at an appropriate rate on a road with an artificially low speed limit on a small podunk town woth a reputation for shenanigans. 'twas ignorance & laziness on my part to assume that they would adhere to logic & have appropriate speed limits with no regard for how much revenue it would bring in. In their "defense", though, their fines were comparatively low, which is a testament to their citation volume. Disgusting. My 3rd traffic violation......what 3rd traffic violation?

[Vinsanity]

Originally Posted by Freebird2007

you guys do realize its a felony offense to outrun or escape from the cops. Even if you do outrun them, you better hope they didn't get a look at your plate because they can track it down and still arrest you for felony evasion. Not worth the felony record if you ask me.

That's why the poster postulated if the only thing you would be charged with was the original charge and 2x the fine. We should all know that the consequences are much more grave than that, which is why more people don't try to run from the cops.