Well today I beat my 4th radar ticket in court............Judge suspended the case..........didn't even pay court costs.....

The Cocky SOB claimed I was doing 77 in a 55 zone......a reckless driving charge here in VA.
Sometimes the idiot with the badge isn't automaticly believed to be above reproach.

And for the record.........I really wasn't speeding at that time.

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1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

What's your secret?

First was an engineering degree in electronics......

the other was a lot of years in Satellite communications......

THe third was having the ability to explain complex things in simple terms the layman can understand.....

This one was simply that traffic was so heavy it was impossible to do that speed on that road......

That and the cops version was so far from mine............

Cops said his story, and when it was my turn I flat out told the judge that my recolection of the events didn't even remotely resemble what the cop said and went on to explain.

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

It cost you time, maybe off work, to appear in court because some revenue generator decided to run you through the ticket mill. It's costs him nothing, either way.

You are lucky he didn't treat you like a king. Rodney King.

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1985 300CD
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1993 SL500

I think cops go into court on their days off - so it's a pain for him also.

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85 Jeep CJ7
86 Chevy 6.2l diesel PU

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

Tirebiter and crash9,

I just noticed the quotes below your signatures, and I love them both!

Mike

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I have been to Kangaroo court....................those were in western MD.........

But a sick day I wasn't going to use anyway to fight a reckless driving charge I was innocent of..........................good use of a sick day in my mind.

Oh...this was one Cocky young cop......little chubby kid walking around like he was something special...........should have seen his face when the judge said she had reason to doubt the actual events as he described them...

It was worth the day off just for that..........I was the only one to contest a ticket he wrote that day.............and there were a lot of people there. AStarted at 9:30 am and I won my case at 1pm.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a court date coming up for a VERY bad speeding ticket. I swear I was not traveling nearly as quick as this young buck said I was (ticket for 110 in a 55). 3 am, the morning of Christmas eve, no cars on the road on a 6 lane highway. Bastard. I'll definately cop to going 80. No problem there. But I could be facing criminal charges because some 25 year old cop needed to keep his quota up at my expense. I've called in my "narwhal" to take care of this one, but hopefully my case goes as well as BHD's. This is not the first instance I've heard of recently of traffic cops out and out lying about the rate of speed some one was alledgedly travelling. Damn the man.