Not Guilty

[exskibum]

Three envelopes in the mail: two bills and something from the court. Oh Great!!! Nothing like getting two bills and a conviction for the sum total of the day's mail! Here comes the news from the performance award I got on August 26 (a claimed 69 in a 55 on a deserted, straight road out in range land) -- bend over and grab 'em.

But, . . . much to my surprise, I noted that the "NOT GUILTY" box was checked (without explanation), thus avoiding points, a traffic school session and worst of all: 18 months before I would be eligible for traffic school again if I got another performance award. Oh, and I get a refund of my check for the bail and of the check for traffic school, for about $160 in after Christmas cash. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

Thing is that the fine for a performance award isn't the major problem; it's the government bending you over so your insurance companies (car and motorcycle) can give it to you in the ass hard for three years. Nice to have the rectal prophylactic of traffic school eligibility remaining in its sheath.

So -- against the odds, I still have a clean driving record and my good driver discounts. Thank you, yeronner.

 

[evil_henchman]

More Christmas cheer :yahoo:

Lucky you and :****: The Man

 

[exskibum]

More Christmas cheer :yahoo:
Lucky you and :****: The Man

Yeah, I love that Christmas present!!! But you know, they have a job to do. I don't begrudge them that. I wouldn't have their job for three times what they're paid, either. As always, I was as courteous and polite as possible, but still, he wrote me for the whole thing, in a pretty chicken **** situation. Again -- he had a job to do and some discretion. I didn't agree with his exercise of it (or the fact that he wouldn't chat about bikes afterwards because he immediately took off after 5 cruiser bikes going the other direction for some violation: "gotta go, gotta write a couple more citations"), but hey -- not my call. I was still nice to him afterwards, because in the end, it isn't personal. It's just the way it is.

I had just gotten on Wentworth Springs road 0.5 miles earlier and was trying to get my bearings, having come off of Eleven Pines Road from Mosquito Ridge and French Meadows Reservoir (a route to Wentworth Springs Road that I had never been on before, so I was just getting my bearings and still trying to verify that I was indeed on Wentworth Springs). I was noticing the nearly new road surface, and looking out for range cattle and deer, but not for cops with radar. I hadn't checked my speedo from my standing start yet, and have no idea what I was really doing, but I wasn't blistering it. I had just moved back to Calif from Nevada 6 days earlier.

I was more than willing to pay my fine, take the verdict I expected and go to traffic school (which was the main reason I contested the citation, because until I got a Calif license again, apparently I wasn't eligible for traffic school, so I was mostly just buying time and doing that). I take no pride in winning this -- *I* probably didn't. Chances are that the officer never submitted a declaration to support a conviction in opposition to the one I submitted (which I didn't think was exculpatory enough to get me off if he recited the basics of what he read (if he did) on the radar display, so I got a free pass by default.

That doesn't reduce my elation by even a spec, though!!!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

[evil_henchman]

Well lets just hope the thread stays positive and doesn't degenerate into yet another love 'em or hate 'em diatribe. I for one am happy for your good fortune :good:

FWIW that was a generic reference to The Man meaning the system of [SIZE=18pt]revenue collection[/SIZE]. That wasn't a diatribe. Was it?

 

[exskibum]

Well lets just hope the thread stays positive and doesn't degenerate into yet another love 'em or hate 'em diatribe. I for one am happy for your good fortune :good:
FWIW that was a generic reference to The Man meaning the system of [SIZE=18pt]revenue collection[/SIZE]. That wasn't a diatribe. Was it?

You and I are cool, but I hear ya -- I'm sometimes amazed at what sets off a bomb in this place. Thinking about it for a second, and I suppose that revenue comment was not politically neutral. I'm certain there's far more in what I posted to condemn, though.

 

[Fencer]

I saw something amazing today, since you started the REVENUE COLLECTION bomb.

I was going N on the interstate with the flow, Came up on a Hoover PD in the median facing N to catch S traffic. After I passed Him (a few blocks) I looked in the mirror, He flipped his lights on for some S bound traffic, BUT DIDN'T MOVE. I guess The S bound guy slowed down and the LEO gave him a Merry X-mas B) .

Motoswatcop, whoever was on duty on 65/459 at 11:30 today, Good man ya got there.

On my return S, I dont know if it was the same Leo, but it looked like he had a semi pulled over for IMO possibly an unsafe load?

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Three envelopes in the mail: two bills and something from the court. Oh Great!!! Nothing like getting two bills and a conviction for the sum total of the day's mail! Here comes the news from the performance award I got on August 26 (a claimed 69 in a 55 on a deserted, straight road out in range land) -- bend over and grab 'em.
But, . . . much to my surprise, I noted that the "NOT GUILTY" box was checked (without explanation), thus avoiding points, a traffic school session and worst of all: 18 months before I would be eligible for traffic school again if I got another performance award. Oh, and I get a refund of my check for the bail and of the check for traffic school, for about $160 in after Christmas cash. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

Thing is that the fine for a performance award isn't the major problem; it's the government bending you over so your insurance companies (car and motorcycle) can give it to you in the ass hard for three years. Nice to have the rectal prophylactic of traffic school eligibility remaining in its sheath.

So -- against the odds, I still have a clean driving record and my good driver discounts. Thank you, yeronner.

Well done!

 

[tripletango]

My last two awards came over a year apart and were both in revenue enhancement zones. And neither on a bike. Internet DD is a godsend.

It does chap your ass when you realize that these guys are out there to boost revenue in small towns whose tax base is so small they have to resort to this kind of behavior.

Hey nothing ventured nothing gained. You ventured and you gained. Merry Christmas !

 

[Geezer]

Nice to see the holiday spirit is in full swing. Here's hoping that we all get through the season without any traffic related problems.