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- Jough, on 01/19/2009, -4/+300Guilty until proven innocent?
- mrebay007, on 01/19/2009, -3/+287NEWS FLASH: We have speeding cameras in America.
- uptwolait, on 01/19/2009, -2/+277Good thing he removed the nitrous system before he sold it.
- spruzz, on 01/19/2009, -4/+233I saw this on the news this morning, what a brilliant story! If only we could all prove our cars can't actually reach the speed we got a ticket for!
- Snokage, on 01/19/2009, -2/+210Great story of how this kid proved his case. Nice to see he came out on top. Hope he gets his money back after spending so much just to prove his innocence.
- inactive, on 01/19/2009, -25/+205I would be so totally ***** if we had speeding cameras in America. Also dugg for describing a civic as a glorified Japanese shopping trolley.
- chieflbm, on 01/19/2009, -2/+172Cheers to you for fighting the man !!! WTG !!!
- Maddoktor2, on 01/19/2009, -5/+134"It makes you wonder how many people say "fine, give me the points" when they are not guilty."
perhaps because:
"The whole thing has been a complete shambles and waste of money." - SeaweedWater, on 01/19/2009, -3/+128Micheal Scott's top speed is 31.
Beat that, Oscar! - JackSchittt, on 01/19/2009, -0/+118I had a similar issue happen to me once. Was busted for supposedly going 91 in a 55 zone. The thing was......I was driving my grandfather's 85 buick. This was 2000. The car had about 140k miles on it and was in rough shape. There's no possible way that thing could do 80, much less 90.
I had a letter from my mechanic stating that the car could not possibly do 90 due to the condition it was in. Unfortunately, the judge saw "$350 speeding ticket" on one side, and "no money for us" on the other. The letter didn't matter. I lost.
It was all about the money. I could have probably kept fighting it, but between lost work, time invested, etc. I determined it just wasn't worth it to keep fighting.
Always makes me wonder how many innocent people are busted for speeding just so they can keep the money rolling in. "Innocent until proven guilty" my ass. You have to stand there and basically try to prove a negative. - aletoledo, on 01/19/2009, -1/+112I think this is a great example of how the rich can only get justice in todays world. Obviously he wasn't rich, but that is 1,200 pounds he will never be seeing again. Of course without spending that money he was guilty until proven innocent.
- RoroCo, on 01/19/2009, -2/+112Or prove that it is incapable of running red lights... or working while we are slightly inebriated... or running over your bitch ass ex-girlfriend's whorish right foot...
Speeding is a good one though. - LJSeinfeld, on 01/19/2009, -0/+82lol... Rule #1 cops _love_ snappy answers.
You could have gone "Stephen Wright" on him:
Why were you going so fast? Because my foot was all the way to the floor -- sends more gas through the carburetor. The whole thing just takes off like this.
OR
Don't you realize the speed limit is 55 miles per hour? Yes -but I wasn't going to be out that long. - merreborn, on 01/19/2009, -0/+79Yeah, it's a bit of a shame though, isn't it?
If you're accused, you lose whether you're guilty or not. What kind of "justice" is that? - thesparrowband, on 01/19/2009, -0/+74semi's can do 128??
- jeffiek, on 01/19/2009, -5/+73This guy deserves a medal.
"It's shocking how hard it has been for me to prove my innocence."
Remember that. The state (British, American, whatever) is NOT there to protect you. That's just an excuse it uses to protect itself (and collect money). - Naruto28, on 01/19/2009, -1/+63Texas has mountains?
- guybrushThreep, on 01/19/2009, -9/+65It's the Mail so it is probably not true.
***** Daily Mail. - venuspcs, on 01/19/2009, -1/+56I got pulled over in Texas in a semi a few years ago for doing 98 in a 55 construction zone. When they cop came up and ask me what my hurry was I started laughing and told him I was glad he didn't catch me a few seconds earlier or I would have been doing 128. I was getting a running start up a mountain.
- directoryweb, on 01/19/2009, -11/+64Great job! Speeding tickets are nothing more then a tool to shakedown taxpayers.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/19/2009, -0/+53You'll never be able to travel through time now...
- JoeMerchant, on 01/19/2009, -1/+46Bet its engine was a little larger than 1.3 liters.
- dgcarbs, on 01/19/2009, -1/+44unfortunately innocent until proven guilty has become the exception and guilty until proven innocent has become the norm when enforcing traffic laws
- firesphotons, on 01/19/2009, -0/+43I heard of some HS kids duplicating license plates of the teachers on laser printers, taping them over the real plates then speeding through a known camera point, camera speed detection is just another tax.
- blqysmg, on 01/19/2009, -0/+43My wife got a ticket for "failure to yield" when a pair of cops came flying down the street where she was about to enter. She pulled up to the stop sign, stopped, then started to move forward. There is a bit of a restricted view at that intersection, and the road leading to the intersection is 25 mile speed limit. They were doing, oh, sixty. She started to pull out, but only moved about five feet when she saw them. She never entered the intersection. The cops swerved when they saw her forward motion, then slammed on their brakes, backed up to where she was still sitting behind the stop sign, and gave her a ticket. They said they were "on the way to a call," but were not using their blue lights or sirens. They also had 15 minutes to spend dealing with her. Some urgent call. She wanted to fight the ticket, but it would have been useless since there were two of them and one of her.
Cost me $150 bucks. Damn cops. I used to know an honest one once. - 1773nium, on 01/19/2009, -0/+42Man I hate whorish right foots almost as much as I hate left ones.
- RizzoFrank, on 01/19/2009, -1/+38VTEC just kicked in yo.
- YuleLogger, on 01/19/2009, -0/+34I was in traffic court once when I guy brought in charts demonstrating with physics how it was impossible for his car to have reached the speed the police said it was going, based on horsepower, acceleration rates, distances, etc. The judge set there looking bored. Finally the guy paused, the judge asked if he was finished, and said "$100 and cost!, next case?"
- gemlarin, on 01/19/2009, -1/+35He should be able to sue whom ever is responsible for the cameras for his money back.
In the US you can sue for legal fees as long as you are proven not guilty. Hell, it has even happened to the RIAA. - kiwininja, on 01/19/2009, -0/+34This reminds me of the motorcyclist that got a 205 mph speeding ticket a few years ago. The ticket got thrown out after he proved that the bike couldn't possibly go that fast.
- sanosuke001, on 01/19/2009, -0/+33Nah, 55mph is the standard construction zone speed. (Well, in NY is it.)
And you actually think Texas would use metric? hahaha - inactive, on 01/19/2009, -2/+34red light camera != to speeding camera
- cmccool, on 01/19/2009, -4/+34Virginia has incredibly strict speeding laws. Do not go over 80 mph for any reason in that state!
"Reckless driving conviction will result in being convicted of a class 1 misdemeanor pursuant to Virginia Code Section 18.2-11. The maximum statutory penalty for a class one misdemeanor is twelve (12) months in jail, six months suspension of your Virginia driver's license or six months plus a fine of $2,500."
http://www.srislawyer.com/PracticeAreas/Reckless-D ... - gyrfalcon, on 01/19/2009, -1/+31RTFA idiot
- inactive, on 01/19/2009, -5/+33I had a '71 hornet, that was rusted to *****, didn't need keys as they'd all broken off in the locks, and went through about 4 quarts of oil a month, and it could STILL do 100/Mph
- mauriceh, on 01/19/2009, -0/+28Minnesota: $2.6 Million in Red Light Camera Tickets Refunded
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/26/2659.asp - holyskeleton, on 01/19/2009, -6/+33Guilty until proven innocent.
There, fixed it for ya. - inactive, on 01/19/2009, -1/+26OK let me rephrase that - in Texas
- TCKC2C, on 01/19/2009, -0/+2331 is the new number. Beat it!
- YF19AVF, on 01/19/2009, -1/+24Well played
- gttim, on 01/19/2009, -0/+22I had a girl sue me for child support. I told the court "Impossible! I am impotent!" The judge said, "Prove it." I had to hire a professional.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/19/2009, -1/+23They don't make them like they used to.
- Zeldafreak104, on 01/19/2009, -0/+21That's impossible!
- Elliuotatar, on 01/19/2009, -0/+20I got a parking ticket in Boston recently. I was at a club, it was after 10pm, and I parked between two cars at a parking meter. I checked the meter and didn't feed it because it was outside the meter hours. Then I leave the club and on my way home I notice there's a parking ticket on my windshield for $50. Says I parked in a bus zone. Total *****, but I paid it because it would have cost me MORE in gas and parking fees to make the two hour drive down and back from Boston to contest it in court, and how was I going to prove where I parked? Video evidence? Plus the ticket didn't even specify the exact location of the supposed infraction, just a street name, so as far as the court would be concerned I could have been parked anywhere along there.
They should have to take a photo of the car in violation. There's no excuse for not doing so other than not wanting to be caught in a lie. - wastern, on 01/20/2009, -0/+20I'd be most embarrassed that I had such an awful friend. He needed the car for a couple hours to test the top speed and the friend wouldn't let him barrow it, he had to buy the car back from him? What an awful person.
- cutchyacokov, on 01/19/2009, -0/+19Sorry tehchicken, but I'd have to say the possibility of a year in prison easily trumps all of that.
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