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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Help me fight unfair speeding ticket
Message-ID: <475@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 13:16:38 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.475
Posted: Fri Feb  7 13:16:38 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 08:02:46 EST
References: <13200031@hpfcla.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
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Summary: 

In article <13200031@hpfcla.UUCP> ajs@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>In the past I've read with detached amusement various postings about
>speeding tickets.  Now, after being branded a criminal on the way in to
>work, it's suddenly all very real to me.  :-)
>
>Help!  I need information or pointers which might help me win in court
>(in Colorado).  The circumstances are:  county road, a 1/2 mile section
>with fields on both sides, no side roads at all, caught by radar doing
>57 in a 45 zone.  Conditions clear, dry, with little traffic.  Previous
>speed limit sign (45) was 3/4 mile back, before a housing area; the road
>"opens up" after leaving that section, but there is a 45 limit on all
>county roads unless otherwise posted.  Cop admitted to catching seven
>people before me.
>

So you knowingly and willingly violated the law and got caught.

>Do you have any sure-fire means to obviate the use of radar?  Or to
>argue that I was doing a safe and reasonable speed for the time and
>conditions?  How about the capricious nature of the speed trap?  And
>if I lose in court, need I fear worse results than just paying the
>ticket by mail?
>

And now you want to weasel out of it.

>This really has my dander up.  I have a clean record (8+ years), a well
>maintained vehicle, and am not a wild driver.  I even wear seat belts.  :-)
>

Your poor dander! You must try and get it back down! Let's see - you are 
indignant that you were accused of doing something that you did indeed
do. Hmmm. I'd be pissed, too.

>Thanks in advance for any advice you can mail (or post if of general use).
>
>Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
>{ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"

Jeeze! You WERE speeding. You KNEW you could get a ticket for it, but you
did it anyway. Now perhaps it's time to grow up and accept responsibility
for your actions. PAY UP! I am amazed by the number of people in America
who just refuse to accept the consequences of their actions.

	--MKR