OT: Beating speeding tickets
Interesting information, this guy beat a ticket on Nixon in Ann Arbor by using this defense. I wonder if this defense will start being used much more frequently, and how quickly the powers that be will respond.
http://detnews.com/article/20100427/METRO05/4270380/Many-speed-limits-s…
On my bicycle!
True story.
that sounds interesting.
I believe you mean...
When I was stationed in Japan we could get arrested for DUI for riding a bike after drinking.
I believe you can technically get one in the US as well. That might be just an urban legend, though.
It's a vehicle. In areas where there is no bike lane, you're supposed to take it on the road, because the sidewalk is for pedestrians. DUI is driving a vehicle under the influence. Any vehicle.
I'm pretty sure the statute on DUIs is limited to "motorized vehicles." If your bike isn't motorized, I don't think you can get a DUI.
You can get a BUI or CUI (cycling under influence), but I think that the enforcement and punishment varies widely by area. For one thing, in California a bike might even be considered a vehicle like any other, but I don't know the exact details.
Michigan may or may not have a BUI/CUI-type law, I have no clue, but the DUI statute, by its plain terms, only applies to motorized vehicles (moped, riding lawnmower, etc). That being said a cop can always cite you for public intoxication or something along those lines.
de Franzia anyone?
I have only been "caught" twice for speeding in my life both times on I80 W in PA going back to UM. First time I was let go by the State Trooper because he knew my grandfather( who is a Judge).
Second time I got nailed for doing 90MPH and another car was in front of me and the Trooper pulled us both over. He walked up to the ladie's car and she took off. And yelled to me to stay there and I did. It was like out of a movie and he came back and let me go for waiting. I should have drove off since my friends told me to but I waited and got off.
I'm not sure how anyone gets pulled over in Michigan on 94 since it is so flat? Also I'm not sure how you even go fast on that road since it has so many potholes on it. Just drive 10 miles over the limit when you see the cop and you will be fine...lol
Drive down the hill on Geddes going towards Huron Parkway from the Arb when they have a speed trap set up. Guaranteed ticket! I've been pulled over in Ann Arbor going 5 over.
Oh man, I hate that drive. I've never been pulled over but I'm always going like 40 down that hill. How can they expect us to go 25?
this is a football post
Four Easy Steps to Getting Out of a Speeding Ticket:
1. Grab bottle of water/soda from cup holder and dump in lap
2. Explain to officer that you have a bladder problem and were rushing to get to the nearest rest room
3. Accept officer's pity
4. PROFIT!!!
I usually do the same, but tell the cop I'm going into labor. So far I'm 0/7 with it.
Keep trying that one. I have a feeling you're due.
psh!
For years I carried a Get Out Of Jail free card from Monopoly. Most Cops laughed and let me proceed but I eventually found an Illinois State Trooper that found it insulting and tore it up.
I thought this was how you get out of speeding tickets.That button is about to become a projectile.
This fact pleases me.
slow down.
is for pussies. You didn't know this?
Hey look! It's that guy who goes exactly 70 in the left lane and won't move over when you ride his ass! Douche.
I'm mostly complaining about the a-holes in my 20 mph neighborhood. They fly by the house at 40-50 mph like nothing sometimes. There are lots of kids around playing yanno? It's like "frogger" sometimes just backing out of the driveway or getting the mail.
Aqua, I keep with the flow on the highway and stay out of the way.
Stay safe guys..
It worked for Chris Farley.
I just start sobbing uncontrollably and ranting about how getting this ticket will dishonor my family. 60% of the time it works every time.
Yeah, but I think you have to say "famiry".
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and act like they're the jerks for blowing your cover. I'm sure they'll buy that.
but I have only received one speeding ticket.
Keys to not getting a ticket: Don't have any others on your record. They'll let you go if it's your first.
It's no longer my first, but I haven't been pulled over since the last one. And I didn't try to fight that one, because I seriously, really, REALLY deserved it. All I could do was laugh and agree with the officer.
I think those days are over though, they either get paid OT or are compelled to be there.
before I got my 1st ticket as well. I once was pulled over for going 66 in a 50 and got off with a warning. Another time I was pulled over I was only going about 6-7 mph over and recieved only a warning, though my friend, who forgot about their seatbelt, wasn't so lucky.
Not in the economic climate. They don't really "do" warnings anymore. Used to be you could if you weren't really speeding that much. But now it's an automatic ticket. Last two times I've been pulled over, they didn't even talk to me. Just take the info, come back with a ticket. I beat the first one because it was BS (had a truck tailgating me already speeding, so I sped up to pull over past car on right, then slow down, truck proceeds to blow by cop way fast, but he pulls me over because I was closer), but I didn't even bother the second time...out in the middle of nowhere south of Lansing. Only thing I could have hit going 5 over was a cow. Would have cost more to go back and fight it. But they're hiding in all the usual spots now because they're out there to write tickets. They want the money now. Not traffic safety.
"Megge said he plans to carry out a speed study later this month on Eureka Road near Interstate 275 in Romulus, where the posted speed limit is 45 mph. Megge said police have written a rash of tickets there."
I received my only speeding ticket (56 in a 45) on Eureka Road near 275 after leaving the airport a couple years ago. The limit seemed low to me when I got the ticket -- most divided four-lane roads are 55 mph, even when they're more developed like Michigan Ave east of Ypsi -- so it's nice to see they're going to take a look at it.
Since Michigan has no shortage of smart alumni...
Get the model of the radar gun and perform a technical analysis of the error in the radar gun, using what you can of where and how the officer used it. I did this for a traffic camera speeding ticket my dad got in D.C. by mail and beat it.
Moral of the story, placing a fixed radar gun five feet under power lines isn't very bright.
I grew up in Ann Arbor and not getting tickets is difficult if you drive at all. Other than a simple revenue grab I don't understand why the Ann Arbor Police are such parking and driving Nazi's. My 6 years driving in Ann Arbor yielded three times more moving violations than the next 30 years combined. I love Ann Arbor but hate the parking and traffic police with a passion.
There are the Parking Nazis in Ann Arbor.
Here's a couple tricks for avoiding a DUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z24v0awoQhc
http://www.hulu.com/watch/63896/family-guy-driver-license-trick
Someone knows Denise well.
Streets with unlawfully determined speed limits? That would describe just about every road in the Boston and the surrounding areas. Seriously, the scumbags in charge of traffic in this godforsaken city probably didn't even think of the word "analysis" when setting speed limits.
It's actually pretty interesting. Apparently, the people in charge determine the proper speed that 85% of people would be likely to follow; an expected 85th percentile of drivers will not observe the speed limit. When there was a nationally mandated speed limit of 55, the rate of compliance actually reversed--there was rate of almost 85% noncompliance instead of just 15%. There really is a lot of interesting info on wikipedia!
I'm from Ferndale, and I know exactly what officer Kitchen is talking about. Once you get south of 9 Mile on Woodward, between the low speed limit and traffic density, I could probably run faster than traffic at certain points of the day. It's ridiculous and speeding tickets are given out when you're the only car on the road at night and hit every light. Meanwhile, not a mile north where the limit picks up to 45, I can go 60 through Royal Oak at dusk and not stick out. (Caveat: Royal Oak officers are generally assholes with limited attention spans and knowledge of the law. I once had a friend get a ticket for biking across a street legally and GETTING HIT BY A CAR).
But was the bike ok?
(ie. I agree with your assessment of Royal Oaks finest)
...is that you have to fight the first one. There's actually quite a few technicalities that might get you off the hook, but only if you make the effort to fight it. Unfortunately, once you've got ticket on your record, you now have a history as a "speeder" and you're probably screwed in future efforts at arguing your way out.
Cobb County, GA doesn't let anyone go!
Georgia had the first, legit speed trap I ever encountered. My then-girlfriend and I were driving to Florida (out of state plates, naturally) down I-75. Just north of Atlanta, we got to the top of a hill and saw that the speed limit went from 65 to 55 mph with no prior warning. Immediately, we slowed down (I smelled a rat). Nearly every other car blew by us going at least 75 to 80 mpg.
Less than a mile past the hill was an overpass that had no fewer than 12 GA state police cars lined up underneath. On the bridge was a trooper with a laser speed gun and another with a walkie-talkie. The trooper with the speed gun was checking the speed of every car going past (it was Friday and rush hour) while the other trooper radioed down the speeds of the cars.
Dozens of cars were pulled over on both sides of the roads just past the bridge. One cop was literally pointing to the drivers of cars and motioning them off to the side of the road. Another was telling the drivers to wait to be ticketed.
Fortunately, we were not speeding, and were not told to pull over, (thank God, being a Yankee in Georgia with out of state plates, and all). Within a mile, traffic returned to its pre-trap speeds. Five miles ahead, another trap. I can imagine more than a few cars were ticketed twice that day.