Showing posts with label Traffic Ticket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traffic Ticket. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2010

A Great Way to Ruin The Day

Joe and I were running errands yesterday. I was driving. We were going down a pretty steep hill and Joe says, "there's a speed trap"...but by then it was too late. Officer Friendly is at the bottom of the hill flagging the car in front of me and myself over to the side of the road. He comes up to my car first and says, "Ma'am do you know what the speed limit is?".....I said, "Its 30 isn't it?"....."No Ma'am...its 25 and you were going 42...I'll need your license and registration...hang on a second Ma'am"....Office Friendly then goes up to the car in front of me..has a short conversation with the blonde haired woman and off she goes! Hmmmm...
 
So Office Friendly comes back to my car and says, "Sorry about that...I had to tell her that I was pulling you over and not her!"....I said, "Well how can that be? She is in front of me and I wasn't going any faster then her...she has a 4 door black car like me, we both have blonde hair so how do you know for sure which one of us it is?" 

Well he never did give me an answer and I got a ticket for $109.00! Said that he wasn't giving me any points and that today is more of a warning but yet I have to pay $109.00! He said he was not giving me a speeding ticket...so what do you call this?
On the ticket, the charge says:
Other: Obedience to traffic control device.  
What is that?  I never heard of that before!

He said that he was only pulling cars over that were going 15 miles over the speed limit.   I just happened to be going 17 over....or so he says.

I have only ever had one other ticket before and that was over 10 years ago.  I am always the one to tell Joe or the boys to watch their speed and then here I am the one getting a ticket!
I am going to plead not guilty on this and take my day in court.
What I have to loose?  I don't see how he can know for sure that it was me speeding and not the girl in front of me.

Sign...what a way to ruin a good day...:(