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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: lopakman on September 09, 2013, 05:17:45 PM
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So I left work early today to pick up my daughter at school and just as I was leaving the school I got pulled over for going 41 (allegedly) in a 25 mph school zone and have a $380 ticket now. I really don't think I was going that fast. I had just turned out of the school parking lot and I drive a Lexus hybrid, it's not a fast car. I didn't check my spedometer immediately tho because I didn't notice him until I had stopped a couple hundred feet later at a red light.
Since 50% of the moderators and posters here are lawyers or law students this should be a relatively simple task. Court date is 10/23.
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So I left work early today to pick up my daughter at school and just as I was leaving the school I got pulled over for going 41 (allegedly) in a 25 mph school zone and have a $380 ticket now. I really don't think I was going that fast. I had just turned out of the school parking lot and I drive a Lexus hybrid, it's not a fast car. I didn't check my spedometer immediately tho because I didn't notice him until I had stopped a couple hundred feet later at a red light.
Since 50% of the moderators and posters here are lawyers or law students this should be a relatively simple task. Court date is 10/23.
Just hope the lazy prick doesn't show up for court.
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Call the officer and tell him in your haste you forgot to introduce him to your good friends lincoln and washington and tell him you will introduce them at a bar of his choosing
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Not that kind of lawyer.
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best way to get out of it is to just pay double. also, quit speeding in school zones, the future of our world is at stake, dumbass.
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Teach your daughter a valuable lesson about making mistakes and taking responsibility for them
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best way to get out of it is to just pay double. also, quit speeding in school zones, the future of our world is at stake, dumbass.
You can't pay double to get out of a ticket if it's in a school zone. I thought we'd be further along than this by now.
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Teach your daughter a valuable lesson about making mistakes and taking responsibility for them
I guess you missed this part.
I really don't think I was going that fast.
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best way to get out of it is to just pay double. also, quit speeding in school zones, the future of our world is at stake, dumbass.
You can't pay double to get out of a ticket if it's in a school zone. I thought we'd be further along than this by now.
Like we woule know, we're not the dumbass doing 41 in a school zone :ROFL:
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Why do you think you weren't going 41? Make sure to pull your best fanning and include details about your lexus in your response.
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Why do you think you weren't going 41? Make sure to pull your best fanning and include details about your lexus in your response.
I had just turned out of the parking lot, made a legal u-turn and hit a red light about a quarter mile down the road. That means my slow but luxurious car had to go from 0 to 41 mph and back down to 0 in a quarter mile. I just don't think it is possible.
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Why do you think you weren't going 41? Make sure to pull your best fanning and include details about your lexus in your response.
I had just turned out of the parking lot, made a legal u-turn and hit a red light about a quarter mile down the road. That means my slow but luxurious car had to go from 0 to 41 mph and back down to 0 in a quarter mile. I just don't think it is possible.
Smells like a trial to me. Have someone videotape you doing exactly that on a closed course. Play it, then rest your case. Make sure you don't go over the speed limit when you make your video though. Very important. Also gonna need a radar gun and maybe a second camera to get that too. Maybe get a camera in the car with you too to record the ol' speedo, and for eff's sake tank up, video and court. Case closed, verdict not guilty.
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ianal
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not that kind of law student
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pissclams seems to have the most prudent advice so far.
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Why do you think you weren't going 41? Make sure to pull your best fanning and include details about your lexus in your response.
I had just turned out of the parking lot, made a legal u-turn and hit a red light about a quarter mile down the road. That means my slow but luxurious car had to go from 0 to 41 mph and back down to 0 in a quarter mile. I just don't think it is possible.
Maybe you're on to something if you've gotten your stats, straight.
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rick daris is a cop, you should ask him.
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Why do you think you weren't going 41? Make sure to pull your best fanning and include details about your lexus in your response.
I had just turned out of the parking lot, made a legal u-turn and hit a red light about a quarter mile down the road. That means my slow but luxurious car had to go from 0 to 41 mph and back down to 0 in a quarter mile. I just don't think it is possible.
Smells like a trial to me. Have someone videotape you doing exactly that on a closed course. Play it, then rest your case. Make sure you don't go over the speed limit when you make your video though. Very important. Also gonna need a radar gun and maybe a second camera to get that too. Maybe get a camera in the car with you too to record the ol' speedo, and for eff's sake tank up, video and court. Case closed, verdict not guilty.
Good idea. We're all going to need to get on this. Who's got a radar gun? Time is of the essence.
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Lot of trouble to go to just to tell us you have a lexus hybrid.
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My personal cellular phone has a built in camera. Not sure if vid or just still shots though....
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did this happen near City Market lopak? if so, i might have seen you! (late lunch with the bossman)
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did this happen near City Market lopak? if so, i might have seen you! (late lunch with the bossman)
Happened in Olathe.
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My personal cellular phone has a built in camera. Not sure if vid or just still shots though....
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Check and get back to me. If it doesn't you can man the radar gun.
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pissclams seems to have the most prudent advice so far.
some people call me the advice master 2014
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That one guy calls you pisspants all the time. Never the advice master 2014 yet.
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I'll write you in prison
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Go out and measure the height of the speed limit signs to make sure they are legal per MUTCD.
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I'll write you in prison
I appreciate that because I just found their twitter handle. I'll probably be there soon.
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I don't think you're story is true. I bet you were speeding
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2012 Lexus LS 600hL 0-60 mph 5.7 Quarter Mile 14.0
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2012 Lexus LS 600hL 0-60 mph 5.7 Quarter Mile 14.0
Would take.
My car on the other hand 2010 Lexus HS 250h 0-60 8.7 Quarter mile 16.4
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I would wear one of your classier tanks just fyi.
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2012 Lexus LS 600hL 0-60 mph 5.7 Quarter Mile 14.0
Would take.
My car on the other hand 2010 Lexus HS 250h 0-60 8.7 Quarter mile 16.4
so you could have easily gotten to 41mph in less an eighth of a mile....
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Sell the Lexus and buy my 5 series (gently used, non-functioning back right window), then tell the judge that it isn't even your car listed on the ticket. Then party.
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Go out and measure the height of the speed limit signs to make sure they are legal per MUTCD.
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:thumbs:
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Go out to the speed limit sign with black spray paint and paint a 4 over the 2 so the sign says the speed limit is 40. Take a camera and set the date and time to right after you received the ticket, and then take a photo of the speed limit sign with a time stamp on the photo. Take it to court and say that you couldn't possibly have known you were speeding because some bad person vandalized the speed limit signs.
Just don't get caught. You will wish you had paid the money if you do.
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-Request video of the traffic stop
-Request calibration records for the radar gun if used
-change your court date to a different day of the week (preferably earlier)
-if all else fails try to play dumb to the prosecutor but obviously don't admit you did it
I have gotten out of 5 charges so far this year by doing this
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Better call Saul!
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2012 Lexus LS 600hL 0-60 mph 5.7 Quarter Mile 14.0
Would take.
My car on the other hand 2010 Lexus HS 250h 0-60 8.7 Quarter mile 16.4
so you could have easily gotten to 41mph in less an eighth of a mile....
Probably, but I couldn't have gotten back down to 0 for the stop light.
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Sell the Lexus and buy my 5 series (gently used, non-functioning back right window), then tell the judge that it isn't even your car listed on the ticket. Then party.
You still haven't fixed that window?
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I would wear one of your classier tanks just fyi.
Is the black too formal?
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I got a 33 in a 25 written 2 minutes after the school zone started once.
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Sell the Lexus and buy my 5 series (gently used, non-functioning back right window), then tell the judge that it isn't even your car listed on the ticket. Then party.
You still haven't fixed that window?
trying to sell the car. dont wanna fix it.
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I'd either go with obama can't ban these guns or I flexed and the sleeves fell off
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25 mph school zones? :dunno:
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I got a 33 in a 25 written 2 minutes after the school zone started once.
I had a Leawood cop pull me over for a school zone violation on December 27th. Luckily his superior officer saved me the time of explaining that in court and made the officer tear up my ticket a few days later.
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I got a 33 in a 25 written 2 minutes after the school zone started once.
Bastard. He/she should have given you a warning.
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Why were you going so fast in a school zone? Were you rushing home to watch an MMA fight or something?
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download a data logging car perfomance app like this one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torquefree&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torquefree&hl=en)
and do a few runs (durring non school hours!) and see if 41 mph is possible in your fancy boy camry
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Couple things:
One time my wife got a ticket and explained to me it wasn't possible she was going that fast because of the distance from her last spot. We went out there and it was like a half-mile. I just :ROFL:.
Do you have a GPS in your car? Was it on? You can pull the track history and verify your actual speed.
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Why were you going so fast in a school zone? Were you rushing home to watch an MMA fight or something?
No but that would have at least been a good excuse. Get the eff out of the way kids, there's a fight to be seen.
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Couple things:
One time my wife got a ticket and explained to me it wasn't possible she was going that fast because of the distance from her last spot. We went out there and it was like a half-mile. I just :ROFL:.
Do you have a GPS in your car? Was it on? You can pull the track history and verify your actual speed.
I'm going to go back tonight and attempt to recreate the crime scene. If I can get up to 41 and back down to 0 without having to floor it, then I"ll just the pay the damn ticket.
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Couple things:
One time my wife got a ticket and explained to me it wasn't possible she was going that fast because of the distance from her last spot. We went out there and it was like a half-mile. I just :ROFL:.
Do you have a GPS in your car? Was it on? You can pull the track history and verify your actual speed.
I'm going to go back tonight and attempt to recreate the crime scene. If I can get up to 41 and back down to 0 without having to floor it, then I"ll just the pay the damn ticket.
I'm PMing Daris so he can show up and give you a second ticket tonight.
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Couple things:
One time my wife got a ticket and explained to me it wasn't possible she was going that fast because of the distance from her last spot. We went out there and it was like a half-mile. I just :ROFL:.
Do you have a GPS in your car? Was it on? You can pull the track history and verify your actual speed.
I'm going to go back tonight and attempt to recreate the crime scene. If I can get up to 41 and back down to 0 without having to floor it, then I"ll just the pay the damn ticket.
I'm PMing Daris so he can show up and give you a second ticket tonight.
Won't matter, normal speed limit on that road is 40 mph. Besides I'd like to see RD try and give me a ticket for going one mile an hour over the speed limit. :comehere:
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Why were you going so fast in a school zone? Were you rushing home to watch an MMA fight or something?
Not sure if me but I wasn't paying attention to time.