Quote (turtol @ 1 Aug 2014 15:36)
mph? i live in canada, and a 20km/h over is like $180 tops lol i don't even think that's excessive speeding if it's on a highway
but if you're talking mph, 20mph over is quite a bit...
Key words here is km/h thats like 2 mph you foreigners always trying to trick us sayin you did 180 km/h like its fast when I get my speedo to 140 MPH it's way faster than most of you could dream of doing in a car you built yourself.
21 over is wreckless operation of a motor vehicle. As a guy who has had several dozen citations (most of which when underage) I can tell you that the cop even being a prick was probably doing you a favor. Lets be honest, we know what he "clocked you at" but how fast were you really going? He probably didn't want to fuck you as hard as you could have been.
ABSOLUTE BEST outcome is to go in there dressed like a man, acting like a man, and plead guilty SINCERELY like a man. Pay the damn ticket and be done. It gets worse if you waste more of their time and yours. I had a lawyer drag out my 2nd offense OVI for damn near 2 years, and they threw the book at me. Literally maxed out everything but the fine, which was still 1,500 after the lawyer took 2,500. I didn't hurt anybody in the accident luckily.
If its your first or second offense, a seatbelt ticket or another minor offense, yea sure "fight it" plead not guilty and chances are good the cop won't show up. Why would he go to court to push a ticket for a couple hundred bucks on a guy when he could be out trying to write a $1,000++ ticket? On the off chance he has another case to see to the same day your scheduled, or a day off work, your screwed lol..
This post was edited by mykromisfit on Aug 2 2014 08:19am