elderlycoffee
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- 2007 Sunlight Silver mazdaspeed 3
Earlier today I was driving to meet my girlfriend at lunch, I was way early so I was taking my time and enjoying the sun, Most definitely not speeding.
I come up on a group of cars going about 50 in a 65 and then I notice there is a cop next to them driving the same speed and it's clearly obvious none of the cars wanted to pass the cop in fear that if they do they might get a ticket.
So I am forced to become one of these cars driving 50.
The cop speeds up and resumes normal speed and the other cars follow, Then he slows down and gets behind me and puts his lights on. I'm thinking to myself WTF is the ticket for, I must have a flat or something, Maybe not all cops are douches. So I pull over and he tells me I was following too closely and that I will receive a citation.
I was most definitely not following too closely and about 3 seconds after he said it to me I realized that since no one was going to speed he was determined to write a ticket and because I was forced to crawl forward at 50 because of the cars in front of me he decided to be a prick.
I was not breaking any law in anyway.
I plan on fighting this because I just finished defensive driving for another ticket I actually did deserve, My question is should I get an attorney, And do I need to call before I show upto the court. I've been told that if the deputy that wrote the ticket doesn't show up then it will be dismissed, So I don't want to show up on the deadline since the ticket says on or before I want to go to court in the next couple of days.
Advice, Thanks.
I come up on a group of cars going about 50 in a 65 and then I notice there is a cop next to them driving the same speed and it's clearly obvious none of the cars wanted to pass the cop in fear that if they do they might get a ticket.
So I am forced to become one of these cars driving 50.
The cop speeds up and resumes normal speed and the other cars follow, Then he slows down and gets behind me and puts his lights on. I'm thinking to myself WTF is the ticket for, I must have a flat or something, Maybe not all cops are douches. So I pull over and he tells me I was following too closely and that I will receive a citation.
I was most definitely not following too closely and about 3 seconds after he said it to me I realized that since no one was going to speed he was determined to write a ticket and because I was forced to crawl forward at 50 because of the cars in front of me he decided to be a prick.
I was not breaking any law in anyway.
I plan on fighting this because I just finished defensive driving for another ticket I actually did deserve, My question is should I get an attorney, And do I need to call before I show upto the court. I've been told that if the deputy that wrote the ticket doesn't show up then it will be dismissed, So I don't want to show up on the deadline since the ticket says on or before I want to go to court in the next couple of days.
Advice, Thanks.
