maplelakeduckslayer wrote:
Honestly have a plethora of excuses to use. My speedometer legitimately doesn't work and I use a speedometer app on my phone, satellite signal was blipping not giving me an accurate reading. Brain was fried from near death experience Fri at the ER lol, spent lot of time looking for a bird and it got late and don't like driving in the dark on back roads with my bad eyes...I got a lot I could claim but really just think the clean record and honest mistake is maybe best bet I dunno.
I feel like this is a really bad start. You might walk away with another ticket or a driving restriction on your drivers license.
A stay of dismissal was called expungement when I did it. If it’s the same as it used to be, you can only use it once fwiw. Hindsight I should have saved it for round 2 of my legal troubles haha. I’ve never heard it for a petty traffic violation but it’s worth a ask if you go.
Anyone know if asking to see the radar gun is a thing? Heard they have to show you if you ask and they can’t ticket you if they don’t but not sure if that’s real. I have been pulled over twice when the cop said I was going way faster than I was. I politely told the cop there was no way I was going that fast and both times got off without even a written warning. I was going to ask to see the radar gun if they tried to ticket me. I did have to remove an air freshener from the mirror and the cop made sure to let me know he could ticket me for that if wanted to. And I got the dad lecture both times too.
My favorite encounter was getting pulled over in minneapolis and getting my car searched and the cop trying to accuse me of being a meth cook when he found my buddy heater and propane tanks in the trunk. I gave him some chit about that. That earned me some tight cuffs and a seat in his squad car for awhile. I guess they don’t appreciate being laughed at and asking if it’s their first rodeo.