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For doing 45 in a 30 apparently.

Anybody have any good ideas how to get out of it? ;)

The worst part is that the two 'officers' were having a right laugh.. The driver kept trying to squirt the other dude and moving the car about while he was writing the ticket...

Ah well.. £60 and 3 points. It could be worse.

For doing 45 in a 30 apparently.

Anybody have any good ideas how to get out of it? ;)

The worst part is that the two 'officers' were having a right laugh.. The driver kept trying to squirt the other dude and moving the car about while he was writing the ticket...

Ah well.. £60 and 3 points. It could be worse.

What... the driver could have tried to squirt _you_? :p And is 'squirt' like a gay code for something?

What... the driver could have tried to squirt _you_? :p And is 'squirt' like a gay code for something?
I'm guessing he means with the windscreeen wiper fluid :D

Unless you were following some other people doing the same speed, you're stuck my friend. :(

I'm guessing he means with the windscreeen wiper fluid :D

Unless you were following some other people doing the same speed, you're stuck my friend. :(

I'm pretty much resigned to my fate now.

I had the whole 'We don't go around persecuting innocent drivers or anything' speech...

I'm pretty much resigned to my fate now.

I had the whole 'We don't go around persecuting innocent drivers or anything' speech...
I know that one. It really means 'give me any more lip and you're in for a kicking back at the station, mate'.

If you speed then you accept the fact that you're likely to get caught. And you know that you'll get points if you get caught.

Accept the punishment, you agreed to it the second you went over the limit.

I speed quite a bit, and I know that I'll be in no position to complain if I get caught; i did it in the full knowledge that I run the risk of a fine and some points.

If you don't want them then don't speed.

If you speed then you accept the fact that you're likely to get caught. And you know that you'll get points if you get caught.

Accept the punishment, you agreed to it the second you went over the limit.

I speed quite a bit, and I know that I'll be in no position to complain if I get caught; i did it in the full knowledge that I run the risk of a fine and some points.

If you don't want them then don't speed.

I suppose you're right. Still, this ain't a great time for a £60 fine.

Yesterday I was just driving along, minding my own business when 3 cars went racing past me at like 160 in a 100 zone.. But they had just gone past a speeding camera so I hope they got snapped. Yeah, random story.

get a motorbike (one with those 'technically' illegal number plates to stop speed cameras)

trust me the police won't even bother trying to catch you speeding (though your kind of fucked if you crash)

The best way out of a speeding ticket;

Hack the system and erase all records of your existence. :)

Usually, people settle for something less than the optimum, however. :p

They were obviously drunk, say they couldn't possibly get you for speeding because they were wasted on the job, in cars.

Not a speeding ticket, but the GPS told mommy to keep left, therefore mommy went through an EZpass, therefore mommy might be getting a fine.

I remember hearing about something you could paint on the license plate of your car, it was clear, but when speed cameras try to take a picture of it all that comes up is glare, totally obscuring your license number. Though I dare say this thing is illegal.

you cant ussually get out of it when you already have the ticket. you can try to get out of it before they write the ticket (pleading, ass kissing, etc...) but once you have the ticket in your possesion it is much harder to try and get out of it.

I'm just gobsmacked that the police actually solved a crime for a change! :eek:

I suggest fleeing the country.

It's funny because you drive on the wrong side and your steering wheel is on the wrong side!

hehe

I'm just gobsmacked that the police actually solved a crime for a change! :eek:

pulling someone over is not really solving a crime, it more of catching in the act.

It's funny because you drive on the wrong side and your steering wheel is on the wrong side!

hehe

no kidding, why didnt you get a ticket for this;) the entire country ought to be ticketed

Maybe you'll learn not to speed next time? ;)

I remember hearing about something you could paint on the license plate of your car, it was clear, but when speed cameras try to take a picture of it all that comes up is glare, totally obscuring your license number. Though I dare say this thing is illegal.

you see them on all the boy racer cars they will have a weird purply colour and make you look like a twat (basically look for 17 year old plus cap with the pregnant 15 year old in the back)

For doing 45 in a 30 apparently.

Anybody have any good ideas how to get out of it? ;)

The worst part is that the two 'officers' were having a right laugh.. The driver kept trying to squirt the other dude and moving the car about while he was writing the ticket...

Ah well.. £60 and 3 points. It could be worse.

Get out of it? HA! Traffic violations give alot of money to cities.

Well, I don't suppose you have any cop friends? That always helps.

Maybe you'll learn not to speed next time? ;)

Mabye he'll learn to speed without getting caught next time.

Mabye he'll learn to speed without getting caught next time.

To be honest, they should be out solving crimes.

For instance, if they checked by boot (trunk for you Americans) they'd have found a dead prostitute (hooker for you Americans)


:p

you see them on all the boy racer cars they will have a weird purply colour and make you look like a twat (basically look for 17 year old plus cap with the pregnant 15 year old in the back)
Chavs in their chav-mobiles with their pregnant chavettes.

Same all over, just with different terms instead of chav.

To be honest, they should be out solving crimes.

For instance, if they checked by boot (trunk for you Americans) they'd have found a dead prostitute (hooker for you Americans)


:p

Only one? I have 3 hookers, 4 lynched negroes, and a gay bashed gay in my trunk. The gay is starting to smell, though.

Only one? I have 3 hookers, 4 lynched negroes, and a gay bashed gay in my trunk. The gay is starting to smell, though.

LMAO

that is in fact sig material

Only one? I have 3 hookers, 4 lynched negroes, and a gay bashed gay in my trunk. The gay is starting to smell, though.
You must have a huge trunk. Is there any car there at all?

You must have a huge trunk. Is there any car there at all?

It's an American car. It was designed to hide dead bodies.

It's an American car. It was designed to hide dead bodies.

Which is why cars now have that little handle to open the trunk from the inside. ;)

I suggest fleeing the country.

He could fake his own death.

Which is why cars now have that little handle to open the trunk from the inside. ;)

That's when you cut off their arms before you stuff them in the trunk. Prevents little "accidents" from happening at bad times. We wouldn't want Mr. Policeman to find some...contriband, now would we?

You could have gone through that whole routine that says you killed somebody and stuffed the body in the trunk and the gun in the glove compartment, where you think the car registration is adn you don't have a license and then the sheriff comes and you show everything he asks for and finally say to him "and i bet the guy told you I was speeding too."

I think speeding is a relative infraction hardly deserving of the word "crime".

I've never been ticketed for speeding in bad conditions, in cities or residential districts. I know that shit can pop out of nowhere in all those situations and cause a problem far worse than a ticket. All my tickets (three) have been donations to the police departments and county coffers of places in the middle of bleeding nowhere.

Eastern Oregon (Wasco County), on my way to console my father in Sacramento whose mother had just died.

North Cascades Highway (far eastern Skagit County, WA) just trying to go back to my college flat.

Kittitas County on a drive on a weekend, unaware that the limit had changed from 55 to 35 on an isolated county road.

And that's my only gripe -- I get passed in cities and residential neighborhoods by these assholes in 350Zs or insanely-lifted 70s trucks with no mufflers. Those fuckers could kill someone. Who are the State Patrol serving and protecting on a summer noon on US 97 some 50 miles from ANYwhere? When I sent the check for the fine in on that one, I wrote it to "The Wasco County Department of Revenue Enhancement". I thought they'd return it, but they owned up to their scam and cashed it. Fuckers.

I'm not sure if tickets work the same way in the UK as they do in the US so take my advice w/ a grain of salt.
Go to court, it rarely makes things worse.
When you get your court date request a postponment, do this as many times as you can. Find every excuse imaginable.
When you finally go to court profess innocence if the cop isn't there to testify against you. His word beats yours but only if he's there. If he is there come up w/ a good excuse as to why you were speeding and point out that you have a clean record.

It's funny because you drive on the wrong side and your steering wheel is on the wrong side!

hehe

HEY! I'm in the US, and in the vehicle I drive for work, the driving controls (steering wheel, gas pedal, brake pedal, etc) are all on the right side of the vehicle.

















Of course, the reason for that is I'm a postal carrier. :D

HEY! I'm in the US, and in the vehicle I drive for work, the driving controls (steering wheel, gas pedal, brake pedal, etc) are all on the right side of the vehicle.


Heretic!