Got I Weird Ticket...

[jlee]

Originally posted by: vital
that sucks for you. on a side note, my school's parking permit is required to be hanged on the rearview mirror, is that illegal?

Why would it be illegal if you're parked?

 

[Reckoner]

So hanging a car freshener on the rear view mirror can be considered illegal? :disgust:

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
So hanging a car freshener on the rear view mirror can be considered illegal? :disgust:

Technically? Yeah. An officer I rode with says they never really pull people over for it, though, unless they think something fishy is going on..

 

[Scarpozzi]

Sounds to me like the cop had a quota to fill or something. The economy is bad and they need the revenue. Blame Bush.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: CptFarlow
After leaving a friend's house the other night I got pulled over just as I was getting onto the highway. After they asked me the usual questions, they pointed out that it was illegal to have my graduation tassel hanging from my rear-wiew mirror.

First of all, I never knew that.
Second of all, everybody and their grandmother hangs something off of it.

It is for $75, which I don't mind paying...but for this? I really want to fight this. A lot of people have told me that I will win. Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

First of all, ignorance is not an excuse
Second of all, how does that make your infraction legal?

What's your excuse, then, considering we've pigeonholed ignorance as not being applicable. Just an asshole? Good, I like assholes, but I don't like illogica assholes. Guess which one you are.

He never claimed his infraction was legal -- he said it was absurd -- and it is absurd. Unless you're a government fellator you'll agree. No one is disputing the veracity of the law. We're disputing the law being reasonable (which is *one* of the litmus tests for legality), so if youi think the law is reasonable then state your case. I'll laugh, but state it. Humor me.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
how are you going to fight it if you had it hanging? you going to say the cop lied?

Jury nullification, or you boil the law down to the absurd and prove to the Judge that it is an entirely fallacious law -- solely existing for revenue or other asinine reason. If you lose, appeal to get a Jury trial, since I very much so doubt he can even get a Jury Trial in the orginal court of Jurisdiction. That's what I'd do, but I'm an asshole and would likely win.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
So hanging a car freshener on the rear view mirror can be considered illegal? :disgust:

Technically? Yeah. An officer I rode with says they never really pull people over for it, though, unless they think something fishy is going on..

I'm all for officers having discretion (especially when it benefits me), but such selective enforcement of the law -- epspecially over such a milquetoast offense -- just really rubs me raw.

 

[FleshLight]

Don't people usually hang that scented pine tree thing on their rear view mirror?

 

[vital]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: vital
that sucks for you. on a side note, my school's parking permit is required to be hanged on the rearview mirror, is that illegal?

Why would it be illegal if you're parked?

well, i guess it would be common sense to take it off before driving... but this is how many people i know that really does that: zero.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Mill
I'm all for officers having discretion (especially when it benefits me), but such selective enforcement of the law -- epspecially over such a milquetoast offense -- just really rubs me raw.

Laws like that basically give officers free reign to stop and search anyone they want. It's darn near impossible to drive without committing some offense. I was pulled over for driving too close to the yellow line! Absurd. The officers (two cars) came up and shined their lights in my back windows, but they didn't find anything obviously. To me, that's an unreasonable search and should be considered a violation of the fourth amendment.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: vital

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: vital
that sucks for you. on a side note, my school's parking permit is required to be hanged on the rearview mirror, is that illegal?

Why would it be illegal if you're parked?

well, i guess it would be common sense to take it off before driving... but this is how many people i know that really does that: zero.

This is Anandtech, everyone here does everything absolutely by the book. They're all perfect and incapable of forgetting to take it off.

 

[Hyudra]

that ticket is going to be nollied if you fight it.

 

[yourdeardaniel]

i don't like cops all that much.
i don't like being intimidated.