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Ugh! First Speeding Ticket
- Thread starter BigAnt75
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I've never been pulled over in this ST over past 3 years. I did get one speed camera ticket which carries no points, but it was a trick by a new camera on a street with varying speed limits over a 2 mile stretch, literally from 25 to 35 to 50 down to 30, etc. I'm annoyed with people in the fast lane slowing down when I pull up behind them even though no state troopers have red cruisers. If it were gray, black, silver or blue I could understand people being paranoid.
Welcome to Texas…where cops usually aren’t dicks and a CHL gets you a discount 99% of the time. Up to 24 over you just take defensive driving to make it go away…combine that with some of our 85mph limits and you can make 109mph go away like it never happened. Above that deferred adjudication usually does the trick. I’ve only paid 1 ticket in my whole life but that was for 173/45…now that one I went to jail for and there were lawyers involved but it still went away under deferred adjudication after a year. All that said…in Texas you cannot be arrested for the single charge of speeding. I was arrested for reckless driving on the 173/45.
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Can you fight the ticket thru mail?
I got a speeding ticket years ago and my buddy said fight it thru the mail. you dont have to goto the court room but the LEO has to do the paper work and not get a paid day off togo goto court.
So I sent in some BS about the road needs to be re-evaluated the limit was to low and when was the last radar calibration. The office did not do the paper work needed and the courts wrote me and said he was on vacation we are postponing the date. Stupid me didnt know I had to tell the courts NO he missed the date (like not showing up to court) dismiss. I like a dummy thought they would just do it. lol wrong lesson learned but now I know if it happens again I wont miss that key part. I ended up doing online traffic school.
Worth a try and if you loose do the traffic school or what ever its called in your state.
I got a speeding ticket years ago and my buddy said fight it thru the mail. you dont have to goto the court room but the LEO has to do the paper work and not get a paid day off togo goto court.
So I sent in some BS about the road needs to be re-evaluated the limit was to low and when was the last radar calibration. The office did not do the paper work needed and the courts wrote me and said he was on vacation we are postponing the date. Stupid me didnt know I had to tell the courts NO he missed the date (like not showing up to court) dismiss. I like a dummy thought they would just do it. lol wrong lesson learned but now I know if it happens again I wont miss that key part. I ended up doing online traffic school.
Worth a try and if you loose do the traffic school or what ever its called in your state.
I don't want to comment on this thread and jinx myself. I haven't had a ticket in years. But back in the day I had my share when I was driving a lot of Mustangs. Lost my license twice. I once got a 102/55. Since the speed limit used to be 70 I had to pay $1 for every mile over that plus the fine. All I know is it was about $145 and I made that much in a week at that time. When I paid she said "Here's your change, maybe enough to go to lunch at McDonalds".
If we're going to trade stories, here's my first speeding ticket story. I was 17 years old, and had been laid off from my job.
While looking for another job, I found a part-time job with a farmer with an apple orchard who was very particular about his apples and I was the only employee. Every apple had to be carefully placed into a bag so it wouldn't be bruised and he would look them over as I was paid the princely sum of 6 cents a pound. Any apples that hit the ground had to be turned into cider in an ancient manual cider press and helping him with that would earn me a "bonus". I worked for him for two weeks before finding another job. On the evening that I picked my last apple and pressed my last gallons of cider he gave me $80 cash.
I left his place and was pulled over for 65 in a 55. The fine was 80 bucks. I stopped believing in Karma after that.
While looking for another job, I found a part-time job with a farmer with an apple orchard who was very particular about his apples and I was the only employee. Every apple had to be carefully placed into a bag so it wouldn't be bruised and he would look them over as I was paid the princely sum of 6 cents a pound. Any apples that hit the ground had to be turned into cider in an ancient manual cider press and helping him with that would earn me a "bonus". I worked for him for two weeks before finding another job. On the evening that I picked my last apple and pressed my last gallons of cider he gave me $80 cash.
I left his place and was pulled over for 65 in a 55. The fine was 80 bucks. I stopped believing in Karma after that.
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