My silver tongue just got me out of a $250 speeding ticket

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After getting a $250 speeding ticket for doing a mere 12 over in Connecticut, I decided to fight the law (read: beg for mercy). So I wrote a persuasive letter based on the arguments that 1) I am a nice person and 2) I am very poor. I just received notification in the mail that the prosecutor totally nolled the ticket after reading it.

And man do I feel self-satisfied! Anyone else have any good stories about fighting the law and winning (or not)?

― Laura E (laurae55), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i've gone to court before to get a ticket reduced so that i wouldn't loose any points. i'm probably going to have to go do the same again (yes, i'm a lead foot) - maybe i'll try this letter idea of yours.

― dyson (dyson), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.state.ct.us/dps/images/pg1961.jpg http://www.state.ct.us/dps/images/palmer.jpg

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

when you said "silver tongue," i thought that maybe you blew the cop or gave the prosecutor a rimjob.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

though "rimjob" would be "golden tongue," i think.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

NEWSFLASH: JUDGE SUSPECTED OF MASTURBATING IN COURT
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEW20040626022444&Page=W&Title=World&Topic=0&

quoted:
"OKLAHOMA CITY: An Oklahoma state judge frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections while his court was in session, charges a petition by the state's attorney general seeking his removal."
...
(and also)
...
"On one occasion, Ms. (Lisa) Foster (Thompson's court reporter for 15 years), saw Judge Thompson holding his penis up and shaving underneath it with a disposable razor while on the bench," the petition reads.

Several witnesses, including jurors in Thompson's court and police officers called to testify in trials, said in the petition they heard the "swooshing" sound of a penis pump during trials and saw the judge slumped in his chair, with his elbows on his knees, working the device. The witnesses said the pump sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up."

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, CT cops ARE assh0les, but there's no way I'd get near theirs.

― Laura E (laurae55), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, CT cops ARE assh0les, but there's no way I'd get near theirs.

but prosecutors aren't cops, they're lawyers!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually don't get tickets, I have a PBA card and that usually works

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The prosecutor seems like a compassionate human being, as he cut me some slack when I really needed it. The cop who screwed me when I was going with traffic and threw the ticket at me was *totally* an assh0le.

― Laura E (laurae55), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck I wish I would have tried this. I have 5 spedding tickets now and am going to be looking for some new and even more expensive car insurance soon.

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 27 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this thread just Tad angling for a hummer?

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 27 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought you meant this TAD:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp000/p065/p06585lj8c8.jpg

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love not driving. the more I hear about driving, the more I love not doing it.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

driving is FUN FUN FUN until the cops take my license away.

actually, the cops have never taken my license, despite my speeding ticket, two parking tickets and one terrible accident. all of that is long in the past, though; i've been good for over a year!

dum dum dum dum, dee dum dum dum dum, she's gonna have a baaaaby.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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