Good point. Enforcing speed laws where pedestrians are likely to be intermingled with motor traffic has nothing to do with safety.
The whole system is BS. It has nothing to do with safety it's all about revenue generation now. It's your duty as an american to fight all tickets, to throw a wrench into their corrupt system. Otherwise just bend over and take it like a man.
And try and delay everything for as long as possible-a lawyer told me that.
Good point. Enforcing speed laws where pedestrians are likely to be intermingled with motor traffic has nothing to do with safety.
I meant in general. It's very possible the op was driving at an unsafe speed for conditons.
I'm just saying to exercise your constitutional rights and fight every ticket. The fact that he was stopped and ticketed addressed the safety issue.
This sounds like the Oceano dunes.. if it is, it's a 15mph speed limit because there are no lanes (duh, it's the beach) so you might have cars/trucks going past you on either side, and there are often people walking around on the beach side and ocean side. Map for reference assuming it is Oceano - the skinny part of sand is the "sand highway", then it expands into the dunes as you move South.
Yes, most people go faster than 15mph there, but that doesn't make it less dangerous especially since many of the people are drinking before/while they drive. Look at how many people die at the dunes each year.
I meant in general. It's very possible the op was driving at an unsafe speed for conditons.
I'm just saying to exercise your constitutional rights and fight every ticket. The fact that he was stopped and ticketed addressed the safety issue.
You could say that
Speeding ticket check.
Stoner surfer check.
Case closed.
no..short and round. After some thought, she was the same woman hassled me the other day for trying to hitch a ride on the beach. I wonder if she made the connection.
Pretty easy to beat a pacing ticket if you get the right lawyer. I don't think a vehicle's speedo calibration combined with the obvious human error involved in pacing would be very hard to beat.
So you're saying a 100% differential is plausible? I could see if the speed limit was 25 and he was clocked doing 30, okay. But he was clocked over double the limit, even if you added in a 50% margin of error. He'd still be speeding. And by OP's own admittance he was going at least 30. Which is 2x, you know something I never ever speed. And thusly have never been pulled over because of it, crazy how that works huh??
Police in California(and most states) don't have to pace you or use a gun estimate speed. They're trained and tested on estimating speed with their eyes. She can say she saw you speeding and visually estimated it at 35 and her word is as good as a radar. She can say she was "pacing you" you to travel behind you with intent to stop at a safer speed than a full out chase. You have nothing to fall on and you're better off not trying to fight it.
Which I'm sure she'd do, but there's almost no way she could have actually paced me for the quoted quarter mile. I know exactly where I stopped, and the distance from the entrance I belive she started pacing me at, to where I stopped was literally .26 miles (google earth). So assuming that I came to an instant stop, she accelerated from the legal 15mph to my 35 mph in 60 feet, giving her an acceleration of over 10 m/s^s... means a 0-60mph time in about 3 seconds. I doubt her truck is capable of that.
I did read up that not having your lights or sirien on while speeding is illegal, and thus they illegally obtained the evidence proving you at fault, and thus it would be thrown out.
you happen to know the guy with the bug with the wind-up spinning thing up top?
So you're saying a 100% differential is plausible? I could see if the speed limit was 25 and he was clocked doing 30, okay. But he was clocked over double the limit, even if you added in a 50% margin of error. He'd still be speeding. And by OP's own admittance he was going at least 30. Which is 2x, you know something I never ever speed. And thusly have never been pulled over because of it, crazy how that works huh??
I think the Op should STFU and pay his ticket but you would be the first person I have ever heard of who "never speed". How is that possible, you're 90 years old, your nagging wife drives with you everywhere you go, you're a pedestrian?
OP - how big are the tires on your buddy's jeep?