Computerpro3
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I highly doubt that. I live in Ohio for half the year so am pretty familiar with all of their traffic laws and regulations.
Especially for a first time offender, there is no way you're going to "real" court. Yes, you have to show up at a real courthouse, but it will be like sheep and cattle, with maybe a hundred people lined up ahead of you waiting for the prosecutor to call your name and try to dismiss you so they don't have to waste everyone's time going to trial over a stupid traffic ticket.
If you want to be sure, scan your ticket and we can tell you, but I'd 99.999% guarantee you that the worst thing that can happen is that you plead guilty and have to pay the fine in full and points go on your drivers liscence.
BTW I agree that cops target kids (I'm 19), and especially kids in nice cars (when I'm driving my father's A8L it's ridiculous how many hard stares I get from cops), you're not exactly making yourself a difficult target. You have no police countermeasures, drive a hotrod car aggressively, and have no knowledge of local traffic laws. I got issued one ticket over a year ago before I knew anything, and after I got the ticket, I started to research. Now I have my car outfitted with the best radar detector out there, the best laser jammer out there, and a peaked and tuned CB radio setup. Now I know where 90% of the cops are on the road, and the 10% I don't, I can jam all the way to the gun (yes, I tested the jamming setup myself with a Laser Atlanta Pro Custom III police LIDAR gun).
I don't drive like an idiot, nor do I condone street racing or anything of the sort. But the fact is that most traffic tickets are for revenue generation (when was the last time you saw traffic flow in a 55mph highway at under 75?). Note that this time, you may have deserved a ticket, but I am speaking in general terms.
With your ticket, download a free form online for requesting a continuance, and mail it in to your courthouse with the request to postpone until a point several months in the future. Do this multiple times, as many times as you can until they deny the ticket (for me, I pushed back the court date over a year). When you do have to go to court, odds are your cop won't show and you get off without paying anything. If he does show, the prosecutor will still give you a great deal to get off with a reduced fine.
There are plenty of ways to both get out of your "bs" ticket as well as avoid getting them in the future. Simply complaining about it isn't a very effective one.
| Originally Posted by Snicewicz /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not here, I go to Juvenile court and all... |
I highly doubt that. I live in Ohio for half the year so am pretty familiar with all of their traffic laws and regulations.
Especially for a first time offender, there is no way you're going to "real" court. Yes, you have to show up at a real courthouse, but it will be like sheep and cattle, with maybe a hundred people lined up ahead of you waiting for the prosecutor to call your name and try to dismiss you so they don't have to waste everyone's time going to trial over a stupid traffic ticket.
If you want to be sure, scan your ticket and we can tell you, but I'd 99.999% guarantee you that the worst thing that can happen is that you plead guilty and have to pay the fine in full and points go on your drivers liscence.
BTW I agree that cops target kids (I'm 19), and especially kids in nice cars (when I'm driving my father's A8L it's ridiculous how many hard stares I get from cops), you're not exactly making yourself a difficult target. You have no police countermeasures, drive a hotrod car aggressively, and have no knowledge of local traffic laws. I got issued one ticket over a year ago before I knew anything, and after I got the ticket, I started to research. Now I have my car outfitted with the best radar detector out there, the best laser jammer out there, and a peaked and tuned CB radio setup. Now I know where 90% of the cops are on the road, and the 10% I don't, I can jam all the way to the gun (yes, I tested the jamming setup myself with a Laser Atlanta Pro Custom III police LIDAR gun).
I don't drive like an idiot, nor do I condone street racing or anything of the sort. But the fact is that most traffic tickets are for revenue generation (when was the last time you saw traffic flow in a 55mph highway at under 75?). Note that this time, you may have deserved a ticket, but I am speaking in general terms.
With your ticket, download a free form online for requesting a continuance, and mail it in to your courthouse with the request to postpone until a point several months in the future. Do this multiple times, as many times as you can until they deny the ticket (for me, I pushed back the court date over a year). When you do have to go to court, odds are your cop won't show and you get off without paying anything. If he does show, the prosecutor will still give you a great deal to get off with a reduced fine.
There are plenty of ways to both get out of your "bs" ticket as well as avoid getting them in the future. Simply complaining about it isn't a very effective one.
