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Old 09-26-2006, 08:46 AM
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Default Got a Ticket.... BOOO...... In THE BOX!!!

Random ticket, all my fault... but, come on, at least I should have gotten it in the tC!... not the Box...

Coming out of the tunnel up 26 silvan hill.... (darn 50 MPH.... going 60ish like always with traffic)

Motorcycle Cop says he paced me at 68 (No radar or Laser)... on that hilll, in the XB????.... yeah right, but he's the man....

@#*$ Happens... Always wish it's when I deserve it more though (Which, at times, I certainly do)

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Until the next ticket

(And I've been clean for a while now... Sad...)

-WDS
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yes! boxes are fast!!!

sorry about the ticket, that blows donkey ****...
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Old 09-26-2006, 09:03 AM
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Yeah, boxes have a little getup... but my tC is a "Bit" faster now...

Ironic for me though, as I'd always figured my tC would be the downfall of my ticketless 2 years... not the xB...

Oh, and he asked that I get rid of my License plate cover.... Just noticing that is a good reason I didn't get pulled over in the tC, as it's not the most DOT legal ride in the world.
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Hmmm.... Licence plate cover probably interfered with his laser. I got a ticket on 26 coming home from exposed. He said I was doing 78 and the rest of traffic was only doing 70. And then he asked if I knew the speed limit on 26 was 55.
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The trick to not getting tickets is to not speed.
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Old 09-29-2006, 08:01 PM
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so you asked to see his radar gun and he said he didn't have one?

fight it. worse thing they'll drop it to < 10 over and the fine will go down. if the cop doesn't show up to court they might even drop it completely... keep ur record clean. and honestly, you get an okay lawyer and u can get ne thing off ur drive record. he'll charge a pretty penny but it won't affect ur insurance rates and u won't have to worry about getting ur license suspended for 12 tickets in 3 years!!

good luck
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Exactly how I felt when I got a ticket in my ex's xA. I was like wtf, a speeding tix in a xA n not my tC?!
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what a box doing 68 uphill??

lol WDS that sucks man..but its all good at least ur records clean unlike mine lol
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Originally Posted by andersg
Hmmm.... Licence plate cover probably interfered with his laser.
Was no laser. No radar. Nothing. Lame, huh!


I bet he just wanted to check inside your hot ride!

But 68 uphill in the box!?!? Haha. You should've let him test drive it.. hehe.
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Old 09-29-2006, 10:31 PM
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Tix suck. Had too many for my liking, but, one deserves it when doin 85+ in a 60.

Im thinking the tC might get me in trouble.
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Old 09-29-2006, 10:37 PM
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Default Re: Got a Ticket.... BOOO...... In THE BOX!!!

Originally Posted by WeDriveScions
Random ticket, all my fault... but, come on, at least I should have gotten it in the tC!... not the Box...

Coming out of the tunnel up 26 silvan hill.... (darn 50 MPH.... going 60ish like always with traffic)

Motorcycle Cop says he paced me at 68 (No radar or Laser)... on that hilll, in the XB????.... yeah right, but he's the man....

@#*$ Happens... Always wish it's when I deserve it more though (Which, at times, I certainly do)

LoL

Until the next ticket

(And I've been clean for a while now... Sad...)

-WDS

www.ticketassassin.com

no radar gun, no laser, you can fight that and win.
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Old 09-29-2006, 10:38 PM
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danm pigs. what did you expect it's the end of the month they gotta quota to fill.
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Old 09-29-2006, 10:38 PM
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I got two tickets in my tC, one was my fault the other was total BS. So far No tickets in my 350Z. LOL, I never got a ticket in my white 2000 Rav4 and I drove just like i do now... I guess it looks even slower than it is.
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Old 09-30-2006, 12:48 AM
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LOL. How long have you had the 350Z?
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Old 09-30-2006, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by DarkNinja
u won't have to worry about getting ur license suspended for 12 tickets in 3 years!!

good luck
12 in 3 years....wow!

with a cdl lic. you loose your license after 3 tickets in 2 years.. if 10mph over..
and if 15 mph over only takes 2 citations because that is a felony charge( for professional drivers)...altho some states will nego. down to a lessor charge..
but the Fed says that they can't.....it's called "masking a conviction record" or some such bs.

and don't get busted for DUI..even in your private veh...BAC is .04 for cdl holders as opposed to .08 for everybody else...

a 3.5+ million miler
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Old 09-30-2006, 02:46 PM
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I've had the Z for just under 2 months. It took me 8 months in the tC to get a ticket, 85 in a 40... You guys don't have to chew me out for cuz I've already learned my lesson.
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Old 09-30-2006, 05:15 PM
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Lol, yikes. I wasn't gonna chew you out, just say yikes! Deserved to get pulled over on that one, that's for sure.. but speed can be addicting!
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Old 09-30-2006, 05:25 PM
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yeah, see what I said ealier
"I got two tickets in my tC, one was my fault the other was total BS."

I know I deserved that first one...
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