Re: Speeding? -Reply-longish

[Derek Daily <ddaily@SMTPGW.MITSUICOMTEK.COM>]

<How to beat the laser gun
Guys, I was listening to the radio just the other day when an author
mentioned his book about beating traffic tickets.
Some of the ideas / explanations were absolutely great ( & legit!)
Some tricks...re: laser (1) calibration is extremely important,
therefore you can always beat a laser gun ticket if the officer
cannot produce documentation within the last ? months that the gun
has met standards. (2)  When the officer asks (and you know they
will...) "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?"  Never,
never, never say anything except something to the effect of " Yes and
to my knowledge I was obeying the basic speed law."  If you say
anything else, its basically an admission of some guilt.
I think the best advice was for court appearances.  (A) Check your
ticket  (B) On it you should find the officer's "unavailable dates"
or vacation schedule (C) If not, call the officer's dept and ask if
he/she is available, if yes hang up.  Continue until you know the
typical work schedule for the officer. (D)  Once you know this, you
should cancel your court appearance date (funeral, whatever...) and
re-schedule on one of the days the officer will have off (E) 90% of
the time the officer is not going to make it to court, i.e. who
really wants to change their schedule to go to court?
For those new "picture / camera tickets"-(A) A typical ticket
involves serving you with an official court summons and you are
"accepting" this summons. (B)  With the camera, you have never been
"handed" this summons, therefore...throw it away, do not respond,
play dumb > it is not a legally binding summons. I know it seems kind
of ballsy, but think about it.  PD's & HwyPtl aren't going to use
certified mail to ensure delivery of their lowly speeding
tickets...too costly over time.  Therefore, it's pretty unfortunate
that the Postal Service just happened to lose that piece ;-).
(Actually, I learned in a government class that the PS has a 99.9995%
accurate delivery system - but that 0.0005% sure adds up with the
multitude of mailings, eh?)
Sorry for BW, but definitely check out these books, they're great fun
even if you don't have a ticket
SquirleyD
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