Perfect way to ruin a good day...
 

Coming home from Edmonton, roll through a stop sign, BAM, $287 ticket. :evil: There goes my fish budget for the next month.

Re: Perfect way to ruin a good day...
 

Cr*p, Quinn :eek: We all had such a wonderful visit, too. Hope the crab's okay, though. Thanks for picking him up. I really appreciate you coming all that way for the little guy :smile:

I set the crab trap in a different location tonight. Hope I get some action. If I do, I'll keep at it until I catch all the beasts in the 42. I can set up the 2 gal hospital tank for them until the next time you come in. That is, if I actually catch any more :evil:

While I do agree that you should be ticked for failing to stop at a stop sign.. I have to question the amount of the ticket.. $287.00 for failing to stop at a stop sign.. thats harsh.

Steve

I think they just increased the amount. I was expecting maybe $100. I am going to call a lawyer, possibly plead not guilty and see if the cop even shows up at court. My dad says he sees cops roll through that intersection all the time, I'm almost tempted to go sit there for a day and watch with a video camera.

We got some new harsh rules here. Most accidents happen with "failing to stop" - this translates to running red lights mostly here in Calgary.
However, they included stop signs. Three second stop... :biggrin:

Next time wear a low cut shirt and see if that helps any :wink: :razz:

That's a stiff penalty though!! Was it a roll threw or a complete blow by?

Up here in dem der comox we just have them 4 way whacha macallits and we all roll threw dem :rolleyes:

I had this happen once when I was going camping. It was about 2am and I had my nieces and GF in my car and I guess I didn't come to a "full and complete" stop. As I got about 10 meters after turning the cop turns on his lights.. I knew exactly why. but he was great and just let me go and told me to be careful.

Chad

Definitely go to court teevee, I've beaten a few tickets, even when the cop showed up. I would play more of the sympathy route before you say they do it too. That will just pi$$ them off. Unless of course your translation of "rolling" was a little faster. :rolleyes:
Not to mention, in addition to the ticket I think they give you points on your license. Then they nail you again when you renew your license.
Another option is say you can't afford the ticket but would do community service. Pick a charity or non profit group you would support anyway. They may go for it. This way you keep your money get no points, benefit the community, and may even get to do something you enjoy. Just a thought. :smile:

Neat idea, the community service thing. I think I might try that as well as the "I'm a poor student" thing. I really don't know how fast I was going anymore, but if I say it was a rolling stop and force myself to believe it... plus the ticket was in Lacombe (Lacombe town police), and the court is in Red Deer (which has RCMP), and they have serious personel conflicts (I know this from when I got in an accident and the Lacombe and Red Deer cops were duking it out over who got to do the paperwork). Maybe I can play off that. We'll see.

You also have gold fire hydrants :cool: :mrgreen:

Van the points work different in Alberta than they do here.. you can's simpaly buy a clean lisence in Alberta like you can here.

If it is still the same the points disapear 2 years from the date of the ticket in Alta. (is it still the same?)

Steve

We have a demerit system, if that's what you guys are talking about. The cop didn't say I got any so I think I'm ok.

You will most certainly get demerit points. Only photo radar and red light cameras are registered owner. All others get demerits, which come off after two years, but stay on insurance for three years. :cry:

[quote="teevee"]That won't hold any water in court. You got a ticket for committing an offence. It has nothing to do with what someone else did. :rolleyes:

The only other time I've ever been ticketed, I didn't get any demerits, as far as I know. Wouldn't that cause my insurance to go up?

You would have to go to a registry office to look that up. Insurance going up depends on the insurance company.

now you know why I drive like a grandpa :lol:

bummer, but you sure do drive fast :razz:

Agreed, I'm a nutter on the road. Problem is, this wasn't even a speeding ticket. Those I can live with, but it's really annoying to get slapped this hard for a relatively minor offense.

A few years ago, a guy in a pick up failed to stop while crossing HWY 16 West. He just kept going across the four lane divided highway. We were on our way west and for whatever reason, he just kept driving through all the stop signs. We slammed on our brakes when we realized that this guy either did not see us, or was thinking he'd cross the four lanes before we got there. But, dang, we hit him on the side of his behind the back tires despite braking hard. A nano-second difference would have been the difference between life and death in our situation.

Our car was totalled. When the towtruck driver arrived at the scene, he thought he'd be seeing dead bodies. Chris was driving and had an airbag to cushion his impact, but I didn't and had to deal with whiplash for the next eight freaking months because of that idiot.

That collision was preventable. We had a hard look at our own driving methods and decided to drive the speed limit and stop at ALL stop signs and even most of the yield signs too.

Not to slam you, Quinn, but road safety laws are there for a good reason. I hope you learn something from that big fat ticket.

True Bev, I have been being far more careful about it now.

I used to drive stupid and reckless in my younger days. The week I came back from the Bahama's in 99 I got into an accident. Turned left on a yellow/red and this car smashed into me. It was deemed my fault "failing to make a left turn in saftey" Ever since then I drive quite cautious. It's was a great learning experience but unfortunatley I have to pay WAY more in insurance still because of the accident. This summer it goes down as I go back to a class 4 driver and then next summer I will be a class 5 again and the accident will be gone and I finially pay reasonable insurance rates again.

Just my little blurb.