Re: Fighting The Law

[Jason Brunberg <stoopid@idirect.com>]

shannon fenton wrote:
> 
> I dont mean to add any more fuel to the fire but I seem to remember
> reading in  Consumer Reports article that the Scirocco 16V reached max HP at
> 4250. In a personal matter I usually shift at 5200 or 5600 when running it
> hard so the tach never drops below 3000, when my car feels like its really
> making power. On a related matter I recently got a speeding ticket this
> weekend and will lose my license for 3 years, but my friends are advising me
> to fight it. Although I was clearly in the wrong, 60 in a 25 coming into
> one of those Iowa towns that by the time you downshift youre already
> through it. But my father and girlfriends father both beat speeding tickets
> that I think they were in the wrong. I dont want to clog up the courts with
> more frivolus cases but three years is a long time. What do you guys think.

	3 years???  Fight it for sure!  I was involved in an accident in 92 and
was partly at fault cuz I was doing twice the speed limit (ooops), but
the goob that I hit (a teacher at my school) turned left in front of
me.  So even though I was in the wrong for speeding, I still had the
right of way.

	My point is, there is always some way of explaining your actions and
coming up with some plausible reason for speeding like that.  Look for
any kind of loopholes that might be available to you.  Did the cop clock
you or was he trying to match your speed?  By the looks of it, he
clocked you.  Did he reset the radar gun according to specs?  If so,
when in court, would he please be so kind as to describe how the gun is
reset?  If he can't, then there is a good chance that he didn't know
when he clocked you, and there's a good chance that he didn't measure
your speed accurately.  I don't know what kind of radar is in use in
Iowa, or even in Toronto where I am, so whether or not such an argument
will work is up to you to find out.  

	Look for precedents in a case similar to yours.  Do you know any
lawyers?  If so, see if it's possible to gain access to prior court
proceedings of this nature.  Are you in school?  Do you _need_ the car
to properly operate in society?  Are you a law-abiding citizen?  Lots of
tickets?  Take all of this into account, and make sure that when you do
eventually go to court, you remove any kind of earrings and facial
jewellery and shave off your goatee if it's scruffy....Basically, look
like the kid that everyone wishes was there own.  
	If you do it right, you can get away with murder...check out my buddy
Orenthal.  He had money, but if you got the smarts and the desire, the
case is yours.  Best of luck to ya.

jason
the mad bastard

(just waiting for the day that I gets busted racing on the street...you
can just imagine the fight I'll be putting up)
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