damn state trooper pulled me over just to give me a ticket for not wearing my seat belt....

[trytrytry]

man that is funny...i actually got the first ticket for no seat belt in my entire state back in 1989..unreal...

 

[DrunkenHorseplayer]

It is just ridiculous to get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.
In Pennsylvania I can ride a motorcycle without a helmet and its legal, but if I am driving a car without a seatbelt I can be given a ticket. What kind of reasoning is this? In either case its my business and mine alone if I want to bust my head open. I am so tired of the government getting into all of our business

If you bust your head open, run up huge medical bills and can't pay guess who picks up the tab? The taxpayers; that's why you should wear your seatbelt.

 

[mrcrash]

A bunch of losers if they cry about a ticket that was their fault.

 

[EveryGamblersDream]

This is what happens when we live in a society controlled by the safety nazis. What can you do? Some states will let you take seat belt school. You go to a class where some trauma nurse yells at you for two hours and shows you slides of broken people. In turn, you pay $20 and get the ticket tossed. If you only make $10 an hour or less, this is a good alternative. Otherwise, you only have one slight chance to get out of it. Plead not guilty and have a trial date set. When you get the date request a set over, or different date. With this you at the very least get to slow pay the SOB's. Show up at court and hope the cop doesn't make it. If he does you can change your plea to no contest and pay what you would have paid if you had plead guilt at the onset.

Safety nazis? You might not care but seatbelts do save lives & this has been proven year after year. Do you not value your life?

 

[treece]

Seatbelts are not cool.

 

[ZJP6050]

Police officers in the state of Florida cannot legally pull a driver over solely on a charge of not wearing your seat belt.

They have to have other cause for making the stop at which time if they believe you weren't belted they can cite you.

Did you confess to the accusation at the scene?

considered a secondary offense. wonder if it's the same here, in PA?

 

[onemwtheone]

Safety nazis? You might not care but seatbelts do save lives & this has been proven year after year. Do you not value your life?

Ugh. Please don't tell me, on a gambling forum no less, that you think it's the govt's job to make your life safe.

 

[HacheMan]

Twice in the past officers have tried giving me a ticket for not wearing my seat belt after pulling me over, but I simply told them I did have it on but took it off after he pulled me over to the side. They couldn't prove otherwise so I didn't get them....

 

[TomGshotput]

I fully support any government revenue that is completely optional

Best way I can think of to get out of it is to challenge the ticket, show up and say you were wearing your seat belt and hope they rule in your favor

 

[whalewager]

when I'm stopped I put it on. How hard is that?

 

[noPunter]

it happened in north carolina today while visiting family. so if anybody in the tarheel state can offer any advice regarding a class or something to get out of it that would be great.

I got a speeding ticket last year from a state trooper doing 85 in a 70. About a week later I got a slew of letters from ambulance chaser-type laywers who said they could get it reduced. I took one up on it and for 50 bucks more than the ticket cost the lawyer got it reduced to "improper equipment" no points on license no increase in insurance and I never had to show up for court. Best 50 i ever spent. Never even talked to lawyer just emailed him and sent a check. You need a lawyer that handles traffic cases in the county that you got the ticket in and see what they can do for you. State troopers dont fuck around if they pull you over you are getting a ticket for sure.

 

[XXXylic]

You broke the law, you pay the fine. Quit crying cuz you got caught. I hope they make you pay the full fine, you broke the law and got caught simple as that.

 

[sean1]

Ask for a trial by jury. They will almost certainly drop it.

Sean

 

[cut-paste-hero]

You broke the law, you pay the fine. Quit crying cuz you got caught. I hope they make you pay the full fine, you broke the law and got caught simple as that.

You should get all of your ghosts to agree with you.

Clearly 1968, 411sports, halexander would agree right? How many more ghosts are you going to use to bash posters?

Nice to see you giving advice on life, you pathetic pos.

@)

 

[Haystacks]

Police officers in the state of Florida cannot legally pull a driver over solely on a charge of not wearing your seat belt.

They have to have other cause for making the stop at which time if they believe you weren't belted they can cite you.

Did you confess to the accusation at the scene?

from what I've seen, Florida cops can do whatever they please, especially the sherrifs from Broward county. Heck they just murdured some tourist in cold blood, saying he pulled a knife on him (yeah right, some kid with his 26 year old girlfriend who was looking for his sunglasses and never carried a knife in his life or was evr arrested in his life) they are out of control.

 

[buddym]

Got one last year 50 yards from my house. See him sitting there in the alley at least three days a wee. had had shoulder surgery and told him i saw him and was in the proess of putting it on but it took some time because i had a shouder sling. Didn't care a shit, I went to my Dr and got a letter and went to court with it. Got it thrown out and then later told him i would call in on him if he parked in my alley. he said he could park anywhere he wanted so i called the city and they said he was in the right. I don't see him out there for almost a year now , so someone said something.

 

[Objection]

On the main road through my suburb, the cops were funneling 2 lanes of traffic into one approaching a stoplight. When the light was red they had cops walking along the cars checking for people wearing seatbelts. If you weren't wearing one they directed you to turn into a shopping center and you were ticketed. This was on a weekday about 10:30 am.

 

[ZJP6050]

I got a speeding ticket last year from a state trooper doing 85 in a 70. About a week later I got a slew of letters from ambulance chaser-type laywers who said they could get it reduced. I took one up on it and for 50 bucks more than the ticket cost the lawyer got it reduced to "improper equipment" no points on license no increase in insurance and I never had to show up for court. Best 50 i ever spent. Never even talked to lawyer just emailed him and sent a check. You need a lawyer that handles traffic cases in the county that you got the ticket in and see what they can do for you. State troopers dont fuck around if they pull you over you are getting a ticket for sure.

lol same thing happened to me. fucking state cops in NC are gay. they see a northerner especially, and that's all she wrote. i was 76 in a 35 and got 600 letters in the mail from those same lawyers. paid $450 to get it reduced to 9mph over the speed limit...and got $25 back in the mail<<

 

[gtc08]

there trying to meet monthly quotas. they stake out 94 near the interchange every month to meet there numbers here.

 

[Uno]

dumbest law out there. NOT DRINKING AND NOT SMOKING saves lives as well, but they are not illegal.