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05-07-2014, 04:00 PM
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El Presidente
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He didn't radar me. Was just behind me and pulled me over. I doubt it was really a 100
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05-07-2014, 04:13 PM
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I> /\/\
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: A fender ahead of BlownAltered
Posts: 7,562
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Originally Posted by Midnight11
He didn't radar me. Was just behind me and pulled me over. I doubt it was really a 100
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So why not fight it?
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05-07-2014, 04:39 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT
So why not fight it?
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Almost not worth the hassle nowadays.
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05-07-2014, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by DirtyD
Almost not worth the hassle nowadays.
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BS! Just an excuse for the insurance to jack up your rates. That's always worth the fight.
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05-07-2014, 05:24 PM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 5,594
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I said almost. Some cities and municipalities make you jump through some stupid hoops to try and fight it. I just did DD and deffered on my tickets and know not to get caught anymore. My insurance never went up.
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05-07-2014, 05:35 PM
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#21
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Age: 45
Posts: 127
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Your average ticket cost doesn't seem to cost much more than they did 10 years ago. I think the main reason for it is that for say $400 you might be willing to go waste a day trying get a BS ticket dismissed but for 200 it's not worth the hassle. I was going to fight the last ticket I got in Richardson, cop said she paced me from the feeder on 75 doing 90 in a 60. Got really pissed when I question how she was doing 90 on the feeder at 9am on a weekday. She dropped it to 80mph so I just took defensive instead of jumping through all the hoops.
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05-07-2014, 05:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
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Meh. I think tickets are part of the hobby in my opinion. There is ways to minimize is by using common sense like the proper time and place but it's still going to happen. I'm good usually for one ticket a year.
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05-07-2014, 07:36 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Irving / Oklahoma City
Age: 41
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Originally Posted by SlowGreyGT
Meh. I think tickets are part of the hobby in my opinion. There is ways to minimize is by using common sense like the proper time and place but it's still going to happen. I'm good usually for one ticket a year.
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Agreed. And I haven't had a ticket in years.
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05-07-2014, 11:41 PM
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El Presidente
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Always ahead of Steve
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It was he said stuff and had to pay a lawyer and it was gonna be at leAst 3 court dates. Not worth it to me
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05-08-2014, 12:04 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Commerce
Age: 51
Posts: 257
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I got a ticket about a year ago crossing the bridge coming from Rockwall. All I had to do was go online and pay a fraction of the cost and be on probation for 90 days and it drops off my record. Kind of like deferred judification Most traffic tickets in Dallas are handled that way now so that they don't tie up the courts.
I was going with the flow of traffic and my V1 started going ape shit. I turned and saw a cop leaning out of his window with a lazer. I noticed that he didn't shoot for the old piece of shit pickup with the truck nuts hanging from the bumper that was passing me at the time...Sport car discrimination.
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05-08-2014, 12:25 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Harker Heights, TX
Age: 30
Posts: 377
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Originally Posted by NAVAG
I got a ticket about a year ago crossing the bridge coming from Rockwall. All I had to do was go online and pay a fraction of the cost and be on probation for 90 days and it drops off my record. Kind of like deferred judification Most traffic tickets in Dallas are handled that way now so that they don't tie up the courts.
I was going with the flow of traffic and my V1 started going ape shit. I turned and saw a cop leaning out of his window with a lazer. I noticed that he didn't shoot for the old piece of shit pickup with the truck nuts hanging from the bumper that was passing me at the time...Sport car discrimination.
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Wish it was that way down here. Here it's court cost plus a special dismissal fee(both together conveniently equal cost of ticket) plus cost of defensive driving
It sucks that we have a new wannabe hard ass prosecutor too. She tried giving me 180 day probation for like 25 over, that got dropped to 90 very quickly
Last edited by garner; 05-08-2014 at 12:31 AM.
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05-08-2014, 07:50 AM
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: PLANO, TX
Age: 56
Posts: 72
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Get a Valentine1. Blendmount has a great mount for them.
Never just pay the ticket.
Save the defensive driving for when you really need it, as in the 2nd ticket you get this year.
Ask for deferred adjudication. You pay the fine, but if you don't get another ticket in the probation period it'll go away.
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05-08-2014, 10:37 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: CENTEX
Age: 36
Posts: 378
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Originally Posted by garner
It sucks that we have a new wannabe hard ass prosecutor too. She tried giving me 180 day probation for like 25 over, that got dropped to 90 very quickly
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She could have thrown you in jail. Sounds like she was being nice to me.
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05-08-2014, 12:33 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Harker Heights, TX
Age: 30
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Originally Posted by Crimson600+HP
She could have thrown you in jail. Sounds like she was being nice to me.
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She would've had to change the charge to reckless driving in order to do that. But if you want to get technical, you can get arrested for doing 1 mph over if the cop thinks it is reckless driving. So actually everybody in this thread could have been arrested.
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05-08-2014, 06:54 PM
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: PLANO, TX
Age: 56
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Originally Posted by garner
She would've had to change the charge to reckless driving in order to do that. But if you want to get technical, you can get arrested for doing 1 mph over if the cop thinks it is reckless driving. So actually everybody in this thread could have been arrested.
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A reckless driving charge blows! I got arrested and slapped with one in Snyder, TX. Judge was a total dick. Had to hire an atty. Did 12 months probation with a large fine and it was still on my record as "reckless conduct." Somehow they entered it that way instead of reckless driving. I didn't know it was showing on my record and it came up in a background search which prevented me from getting the position. Later I figured it out and had to hire another atty to "suppress" the information. It couldn't be removed entirely. Definitely not worth the hassles for the way I was driving.
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