I Got A Ticket

[JoeRoss]

You can negotiate with the court and they will likely make you a deal of a ‘defective vehicle’, zero points.

It has been YEARS ago, but that is what they did when I went to court over a ticket.

[wctriumph]

You admitted it. Be a man (or a woman if you choose) and pay it. Take responsibility and move on, do the honorable thing! It is called integrity.

[battlemidget]

As someone who has spent a lot of time in traffic court, it?s most definitely worth going in and ?fighting.? You can negotiate with the court and they will likely make you a deal of a ?defective vehicle?, zero points, with the agreement you don?t get another ticket for a year. With a clean driving record, they may even make you a better deal. Since you won?t be out anything for work/personal time, you don?t have anything to lose.

This

[TEAMRICO]

I think the one thing we can all agree on is Fountain sucks.

Hey now!!!!

[buffalobo]

If you decide to go court route don't be the guy who inputs the court date into the wrong day or month in your electronic calendar. At best you look like a bonehead when you show up a month early and cannot be found on the docket, at worst a very embarrassing and expensive arrest for when you stand up the judge.

Going to court with a long time clean record can often result in suspended ticket with promise of no future tickets.

[FoxtArt]

Got one in Florida from a "revenue generating camera" that claimed I ran a red.

I was turning right on red, which Florida statutes permit. 3rd party company that then converts to a citation, they bank on 50% of citations being cost prohibitive to appear in person to fight.

The video they present shows a string of about 6 vehicles all turning right on red, which you can see it flash on all of them.

I hate corruption. But that's a bit off topic.

[Eric P]

If traffic enforcement was about safety, there would be zero fine. Just points towards a suspended license.

But we all know traffic cops are revenue generation bots. Nothing more.

[Bailey Guns]

And yet there's no shortage of people willing to keep the "revenue generation bots" in business. Maybe some of the public are just really slow learners.

I got my first ticket in about 30 years at a "slow down" spot on the highway between Altus, OK and Vernon, TX. It was for 72 in a 55. I thought I was going closer to 79. I was quite guilty. I didn't argue with the deputy. I was polite and so was he. I paid that rather exorbitant fine to the county/state and moved along with my life. I also slowed down from then on when I drove that 1 mile stretch of highway.

Safety is only one component of traffic enforcement. Fines are a way of changing behavior and a punishment for violating the law. The speed limits are, generally speaking, in place for safety. Cops don't regulate speed limits. They regulate speeders. I can absolutely 100% guarantee that probably 2 or 3 out of every 5 people who are stopped for speeding actually get a ticket for speeding. It's usually for some other minor issue that can be easily fixed by paying a much smaller fine.

So many people bitch and moan about cops writing speeding tickets...yet they continue to speed and get tickets.

[00tec]

The problem with traffic tickets is that the profit goes directly into the department's coffers. I get that it can change behavior, but with how it is currently ran, policing for profit has become a regular thing (I'm looking at you Campo). When half of your town's budget is fed by 1 asshole, it's hard to ignore.

[crays]

The problem with traffic tickets is that the profit goes directly into the department's coffers. I get that it can change behavior, but with how it is currently ran, policing for profit has become a regular thing (I'm looking at you Campo). When half of your town's budget is fed by 1 asshole, it's hard to ignore.

Sherriff's deputy? I can't imagine Campo having it's own police force (even a force of one). But I do know that big trucks barely even slow down on that stretch of 287 through Campo and Springfield, even though it is right through the middle of town...