<sigh> Not my month...

[Airhead]

Texace, I'll trade months with you dude- a 130.00 ticket in exchange for a two week visit from my reptilian mother in law is a fair exchange, IMO. Hell, the energy savings alone are worth it. We have to keep the house heated to 88 degrees Farenheit or she gets lethargic and can't catch her live mice.

I don't mind the house having to be at 88 degrees but she has to have the hot tub at 88 degrees also or she'll overheat and secrete this foul smelling stuff that causes the Hazardous Waste Disposal Team to show up. About the only good thing that happens when she visits is the neighborhood cat population takes a nose dive. I don't know if she eats them or if they realize the danger and migrate elsewhere, but personally I believe the old squeak is running at night and eating them. Whatever, after her visit I will have the hot tub sandblasted, sanitized and refinished.

She never bathes, preferring instead to scrape her old skin off every three months or so on a handy tree branch or a sharp rock. This is when she is at her most dangerous because her shedding skin will blind her so she strikes out at anything, and she has struck at and swallowed several of my slippers in the mistaken belief they were cats. We all tread lightly around her when she's shedding.

She smells like the dirt in a vampire's coffin- not to be insulting to dirt, mind you, or even vampires, but man o man she stinks like death warmed over and hisses whenever you get close to her when she's feeding so yeah, I'd trade months with just about anyone here. A 130.00 ticket pales in comparison to MY burden. Cry on, Texace- your whine falls on deaf ears over here.

[takeda]

I hope your wife resembles more your father in law.

[Monk]

are you a Marine Tex?

[Mighty1]

Not sure fighting the ticket will be worth it. Most judges I talk to will side with the officer everytime unless you have solid proof in your favor. And if your state is like Indiana you will have to pay court cost on top of your ticket.

Here is what happened to me:

I was on my way to Bloomington down 446 with my wife and son to see a movie when we pass 4 County cops setting up a radar trap. We see the movie and on the way back I made sure I was below the speed limit when we got close to where the trap was.

There was a truck in front of me that obviously didn't know they were there cause he was flying down the road towards them. He finally saw them about 1/2 way across the bridge and slammed on his brakes but of course it was to late for him. My wife and I both said out loud that he was busted and I commented that I was glad I remembered they were there.

Well the truck in front of us was going so slow that we caught up to it right before he got to the police. The first cop was on the left side of the road and he was clocking cars while the others were on the right side ready to pull over whom ever he said was speeding.

Well this is were the story gets toejamty!

When the truck in front of me got past the car with the radar he turned left and sped away while we kept going straight. Next thing you know WE get pulled over for speeding!!! The cop said I was doing 59 in a 45! I asked him if he was sure it was me that was clocked and not the truck that turned off and he said he was sure. I asked him if HE clocked me and he said NO but it didn't matter their system is flawless! I tried to explain to him how his system was NOT flawless because they let the truck that WAS speeding get away.  

Needless to say I got the ticket anyway!

I decided to fight the ticket since I knew I was right but when I was at my friends house a few days later his neighbor who is a judge came by and I asked him what I could do to get out of it and his response was "Nothing". He said unless I had witnesses other than the people in the car then he would always side with the cop. Also if I fight the ticket and lost I would be charged an extra $500 in court cost!!!!

I did manage to get into the Prosecutor's little extortion plan that allows you to pay more money to keep the ticket off your record as long as you don't get another ticket within 6 months.

Basically I was screwed!!

[Ripsnort]

Should have told him about your Grand dad being a real life VMF-323 Rattler and warned him to keep an eye open in his rear view mirror for any Corsairs!

[boxboy28]

Goto your secritary of states office or DMV PASS there eye test then take that to court with you.

[GtoRA2]

Go to court, cause if it is like california, if the cop does not show you are home free.

I feel for you texace.

My first car was a junker 68 GTO that you had to stick a pencil in the carb to get it to start, and it ran so rarely I drove it about 5 days a month.


I owed my parents 600 bucks for months paying a little at a time, to pay off the brake Job.   I was making 4.25 an hour, and paying 193$ a month in insurance.  

Things will get better.

[johnathanh18]

I know this has nothing to do with a ticket, but this month has been a  bad month.   First i was in a reck in my freinds truck. when he hit a tree at 50 mpr.  Then two days later i blew the motor up in my 85 ford Bronco, on the way home form school.  Now i am trying to fix a truck with a headache and no money.

Regards ComradII