A couple of months back I posted my story about getting what I thought was a bit of a bs ticket.
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123769569
Go there and to read my rants and bitching if you feel so inclined.
Anyhow, today I had my hearing and they waved the ticket.
There were two interesting bits though that I thought I would share with you. I had 3 letters I rbought with me. Two from my passengers who retold their account of what happened, and one from a friend whom I carpool with several times a week stating that I am a careful and safe driver etc etc. At first the magistrate told me the letters could hold no bearing due to the fact that they could not question the people who wrote them. But then he let me read them anyway and they definately seemed to play into his descision a bit. The officer definately got a kick out of them and even chuckled about one.
The other interesting thing I thought I would bring up to you all you fellow MS3 drivers out there is this. The officer who showed was not the one who pulled me over. As he was reading the account of what happened back to the magistrate he got hung up on the part where it mentions all the details like time, place, road, and VEHICLE. He read off the time, place, road etc but then there was "... the opperator was driving a red.... hold on I cant quite read what he wrote here". After he looked at it for a second he said "Red Mazda". I don't know for sure, and I didn't volenteer this info, but it seems to me that the original officer tried to squeez the word MAZDASPEED3 into that tiny little box on the report where they record the vehicle type. I thought that was interesting that the officer knew enough to put mazdaspeed3 and not just mazda3, as many people do. I guess I thought the ms3 was a bit of a sleeper, but it seems the guy who pulled me over knew what he was looking at.
Maybe that's old news to you guys, but i thought it was an interesting.
Also wanted to mention the Gardner District Court is a inspiring example of our society and all the great advances we have made in culture and architecture.... in the late 60s/early 70s. But the people there, including the officers at the door, officer in the court, magistrate, town clerk etc were really really really really nice. No lie it was uncanny. I guess if you gotta go to court, better to go to one where everyone is polite, nice and in a good mood.
Lastly to all of you who told me to quit my crying and just pay up and that I got what was coming to me including one very grumpy cop in particular who wrote me a very long response I say....
(fu) ...then a little victory (breakn) ...more (321fu) ....then we (mj) and (moon) ...then back to(breakn) and finally (fu)
(ohsnap!)
....kidding.... ok ok Half kidding!
-Pete
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123769569
Go there and to read my rants and bitching if you feel so inclined.
Anyhow, today I had my hearing and they waved the ticket.
There were two interesting bits though that I thought I would share with you. I had 3 letters I rbought with me. Two from my passengers who retold their account of what happened, and one from a friend whom I carpool with several times a week stating that I am a careful and safe driver etc etc. At first the magistrate told me the letters could hold no bearing due to the fact that they could not question the people who wrote them. But then he let me read them anyway and they definately seemed to play into his descision a bit. The officer definately got a kick out of them and even chuckled about one. The other interesting thing I thought I would bring up to you all you fellow MS3 drivers out there is this. The officer who showed was not the one who pulled me over. As he was reading the account of what happened back to the magistrate he got hung up on the part where it mentions all the details like time, place, road, and VEHICLE. He read off the time, place, road etc but then there was "... the opperator was driving a red.... hold on I cant quite read what he wrote here". After he looked at it for a second he said "Red Mazda". I don't know for sure, and I didn't volenteer this info, but it seems to me that the original officer tried to squeez the word MAZDASPEED3 into that tiny little box on the report where they record the vehicle type. I thought that was interesting that the officer knew enough to put mazdaspeed3 and not just mazda3, as many people do. I guess I thought the ms3 was a bit of a sleeper, but it seems the guy who pulled me over knew what he was looking at.
Maybe that's old news to you guys, but i thought it was an interesting.
Also wanted to mention the Gardner District Court is a inspiring example of our society and all the great advances we have made in culture and architecture.... in the late 60s/early 70s. But the people there, including the officers at the door, officer in the court, magistrate, town clerk etc were really really really really nice. No lie it was uncanny. I guess if you gotta go to court, better to go to one where everyone is polite, nice and in a good mood.
Lastly to all of you who told me to quit my crying and just pay up and that I got what was coming to me including one very grumpy cop in particular who wrote me a very long response I say....
(fu) ...then a little victory (breakn) ...more (321fu) ....then we (mj) and (moon) ...then back to(breakn) and finally (fu)
(ohsnap!)
....kidding.... ok ok Half kidding!
-Pete
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That is hard to beat. 78 in a 25? How did you not get arrested?
