I have to pay $675 for my speeding ticket...

boyRacer

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:( So much for saving up for an FW900...

90 on a 65... was following a couple of other cars going more or less the same speed in the fast lane but i was at the tail end... oh well :(
 

notfred

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I bet if you show up in court, you don't pay more than $250.

Anyway, I got a ticket for 69 in a 50 (in california, too) and only ended up paying about $90.
 

boyRacer

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Originally posted by: notfred
I bet if you show up in court, you don't pay more than $250.

Anyway, I got a ticket for 69 in a 50 (in california, too) and only ended up paying about $90.

You think so? I just pay off the bail amount before... :eek:
 

aphex

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someone needs a radar detector...
 

notfred

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Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Originally posted by: notfred
I bet if you show up in court, you don't pay more than $250.

Anyway, I got a ticket for 69 in a 50 (in california, too) and only ended up paying about $90.

You think so? I just pay off the bail amount before... :eek:

The bail that they sent me in the mail for the 69 in a 50 zone was abotu $200, and I olny paid about $90. I've gotten several speeding tickets and never paid more than half of what was shown as bail simply by showing up in court. The judge would rather lower the fine to the minimum amount rather than risk having to have you come back, having to call in the officer that ticketed you, etc.
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: Muadib
Originally posted by: aphexII
someone needs a radar detector...

No, someone needs to learn you never follow. You always always stay in the middle, or lead if you have to.
 

Amused

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Do you have any other tickets in the past three years?

If not, go find out if traffic school is an option. That $675 ain't have your trouble. You'll pay much more than that in insurance increases if that ticket goes on your record.
 

kyutip

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I actually think you deserve this ticket for speeding like this.
But I will still tell you this.
If this is your first offense (doubt it), you can ask if you can take defensive driving school instead.
It will cost you around $150 (or less) and no points added to your record.
You do need to go to class for 8 hours.
Hopefully after that you will grow up to MaTuReDrIvEr :)

Good Luck !
 

IGBT

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Wait till you get your insurance bill...for the next three years.
 

aphex

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Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Muadib
Originally posted by: aphexII
someone needs a radar detector...

No, someone needs to learn you never follow. You always always stay in the middle, or lead if you have to.

I got pulled out of the middle of a pack once, so that didnt work for me.
 

kyutip

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well, it is not about arrogance or to offend him.
I just need to look at myself or my friend for example.
I was young once too and here are what I got for it.
8 tickets in the 1st 2 years, 1st one is for speeding 85 at 55 zone (that's 30 over, 5 more than boyracer)
and the officer suspend my licence for it. I never learn my lesson after that, hence the next 7 times.
I even have to get high risk insurance (SR-22).
But I do learn my lesson after I need to hire a lawyer after the 8th ticket.

Now I'm really laid back when I'm driving, only 1 ticket (I missed the red light by 1 sec and got snapped) for the last 4 years (knock on wood) and I settle that by going to driving school. I learn even more after that.

I just hope that he learn faster than I am.
 

geno

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boyracer in a 1990 4 door domestic sedan that day..
Damn, if Taurus SHO's came in auto in that year, I'd put you on the spot :D


Go to court and plead your case man, it's your best shot
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: ScottyB
$675 for 25 over, that's like a $120 ticket here.

That's a warning on any expressway here in Chicago, but still :p
 

MrPhelps

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Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
:( So much for saving up for an FW900...

90 on a 65... was following a couple of other cars going more or less the same speed in the fast lane but i was at the tail end... oh well :(

My daddy always said, When you break into a junkyard you don't have to be the fastest one of the bunch just faster than the slowests.

You know DOGS!!!!!
 

thawolfman

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I tagged doin 80 in a 55...gonna run me $239 and some Driver Retraining since I just got one for the same thing in July :eek:

Can you even fight a ticket for being caught w/ laser? :confused:

Edit: I got caught in a bad little speed trap...as soon as I got pulled over, 3 more people got pulled over ahead of me while I was sitting there...I saw all the cops fly by...It was almost funny but then I realized I just got hit for the same thing hehe :eek:
 

boyRacer

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i admit i was speeding and i wouldn't mind going to traffic school at all or paying $250 or so... but damn $700 bucks is a lot more than i expected... my friend got caught in the same freeway at roughly around the same section at 85 on a 65 and he only paid $120... i forgot what time he was tagged but mine was around 1 pm... but it wasn't busy it all... i guess it was the 20mph over the speed limit thing and they start jacking it up to $25/mph over... :( guess i have to go to court then...
 

AmazonRasta

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Originally posted by: thawolfman
I tagged doin 80 in a 55...gonna run me $239 and some Driver Retraining since I just got one for the same thing in July :eek:

Can you even fight a ticket for being caught w/ laser? :confused:

Edit: I got caught in a bad little speed trap...as soon as I got pulled over, 3 more people got pulled over ahead of me while I was sitting there...I saw all the cops fly by...It was almost funny but then I realized I just got hit for the same thing hehe :eek:

I think you can fight a ticket for being caught speeding with a laser. I got pulled over by OPP one day and the officer claimed that I was doing 140 km/h on the on-ramp! I told her that she must've gotten another car on the radar because (1) the shitbox I was driving ('94 Hyundai Excel) at the time couldn't even do 140 km/h and (2) that if I was doing 140 km/h on the on ramp, I'd have flipped over onto the highway itself. She let me go with a warning though, so it's all good.