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Fighting a Traffic Ticket in Court - UPDATE: I WON!!!!!!!!!!!
protokatie:
I walk to work...
And I only have a car when I cant walk to work. I buy 300 dollar junkers I keep for a year until they are more worth as scrap metal than as a car. I think in the 12 years I have had my licence, I havent paid more than 2500 dollars for all of my cars (plus maintenance, but not including gas (of course)). That is, I have spent 2500 bucks in all of my driving years for a car, so dont wonder why I think it odd someone would buy a car for 30 thousand...
kkingsto:
Just watch out for these ticket writers in Manhattan!! Apparently they ticketed a car for parking 1 MINUTE past the no parking time limit. Got down the make (Honda) and somehow got MY plate, and said it was a Grey 2 door sedan. Never saw a ticket. The vehicle I have with that plate is a BLUE minivan and it was down in Alabama at the time of the incident.
So sometime in early February, I get this letter from the City of New York thanking me for sending in my ticket. And when I read that, I'm like "WHAT TICKET?!?!" Found a copy of the ticket online and saw the inaccuracies of it (as mentioned above).
So, after consulting a lawyer friend, we sent a copy of the registration and an explaination that 1) the car did NOT match the description and 2) the vehicle was no where near NYC at the time (It was in my in-laws garage!).
Couple days ago, I get a letter from the city and it says the ticket has been dismissed due to the fact the registration expiration date couldn't be read due to the rain. WTF! No mention of the letter I sent.
Dartful Dodger:
I got pulled over a week ago for speeding on a way to a job interview. 50 in a 35. When I stopped my car I was parked in front of a 45mph sign. The officer explained that it was 35 at the hill where he caught me.
He said he was going to take my license for bond. After a few minutes he came back to my car and said my plate was expired and he wasn't going to give me a ticket for that but he would need my signature for bond because I would need my license to get the new plate sticker.
At the DMV I gave them my license to read the address and that’s when they told me my license had expired over two months ago. Since I was there I got a new license too.
I was telling a friend about the whole thing and he thinks the officer was either at the end of his shift and didn’t want to deal with it, or he just didn’t want to arrest the guy on his way to a job interview. There’s no way he would have missed my license being expired. I don't think you need your license to get a plate sticker and when I got the new one, the whole design of the license was redone. Plus I think it’s got to come up on the computer.
Either way I don't feel as bad about the ticket now.
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