dude bro…
they dont send you anything in the mail anymore until after you are convicted… you cannot fight it at that point.
it used to be the case where they would send your court date in the mail… no longer.
select option three you faggot… holy fuck shits how many times i gotta tell a nigga?
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jesus shit, i’m the only Canadian in this thread and i have 17 tickets under my belt… many of which were quite serious.
in other words, i knows what i be’s talkins’bout
I would take your advice if I was in this situation :gotme:
damn, layzie
if it’s so obvious you know the answer
then why’d you make a thread about it
wanted more imput.
kev, i’m going to address your concerns here rather than through pm.
i;m not an expert but i do advise people on this stuff alot. for reference, i do have 17 tickets and my record is clean and my insurance is cheap… fight them fight them fight them and be creative with it.
from your explanation i take it you got the ticket on the highway. if you got it on the 401, which it sounds like you did, you likely got a ticket from the OPP… kind of like the State troopers vs. regional police.
OPP are much less likely to show up in court for various reasons. there are rumours that they dont get paid to be in court, some say that the courts now assign all offenses for a particular officer to the same court date so that he fights them all on one day… i know that that is at least partcially true… however, whatever the case is, OPP officers are still less likely to show in court.
if an officer does not show in court, your ticket is thrown out, as long as you are there.
if you do not send the ticket back in you will be assigned a court date, but because you didnt send in your ticket you will not be told of when this court date is… it will be assigned and if you do not show up then you are convicted whether the officer shows up or not.
i am not suggesting that you fight the ticket and then go to court.
i am suggestiing that you get the court date so that at least you know when it is. That way you have the option of going and fighting it if you decide it makes sense to do so. the only costs involved are a $0.50 stamp and an envelope.
after you get your court date you can send various requests to stick it to the system. You can file for relocation of trial due to your distance… you can also file for disclosure (officer’s notes)…
i do this, not because i want the officer’s note, but becuase it takes 5 minutes to do and wastes like a half hour of clerical time on their part… fuck them, if they dont like it dont write bad tickets you cock sucking faggot faces.
anyways… if you dont get disclosure, or even if you do, you call or write in a few weeks in advance of yor court date and say… “bitch, i didnt get disclosure, i cannot fight this ticket… plus i have some money on an illegal dog-fight on the court date so i cant make it”
with a valid reason like that the court date gets pushed out again. In toronto it is approximately 13 months each time, in Niagara about 6 months, in St. thomas, probably only 4 months or so… fact is… it costs them money so do it.
every region handles the proceedings differently in Ontario… all of them are more fair than buffalo… i know this because i once tried to fight a ticket in bufffalo, you guys might as well live in a communist society holy fuck…
anyways, in Niagara when you fight you meet before hand with the prosecutor. he/she (either or both who knows) pleas it down… eg. i had a speeding ticket of 25 over, she offered me 15 over if i just left… i told her to fuck her hat and fought it anyways…
chances are if you were nice to the officer or if you are polite when you go to fight it that you will at least get it reduced.
all this 6 month suspension mumbo-jumbo sounds like bullshit to me… if you dont have an Ontario license how the hell can they suspend it? and why for only 6 months? the ticket doesnt expire after 6 months.
i;ve never heard of that BS and i wouldnt live by it.
just mail in the shit, get the court date, mess with them and see what happens.
maybe it makes sense to drive out there for the court date if you can tie it into a few other things.
the worst that happens is that you learn about the system.
I had a 50+ year old woman in my office get a basic traffic ticket, she was crying over it… i told her to STFU and do what i just told you to do… she did, reluctantly, had the ticket thrown out and learned a ton in the process… win win.
besides, i know you don’t exactly have a full schedule…burn
just to go over something i just mentioned…
i got a dangerous driving and no insurance ticket in toronto a few years back, doing 160kph is a white-out snow storm (most other people were doing 60kph on the QEW)
i schmoozed the officer a bit, was polite and casual… thanked him for the ticket because i didnt care anyways.
selected option 3… trial scheduled 13 months out.
deferred again, trial pushed out like another 8-10 months…
by the time i go to court the ticket was already almost 2 years old… and since they only stay on your record for 2 years… guess what affect is has on insurance? dick. fuck. all.
plus, i called the officer and he remembered me right off the bat, more than a year later too. i presented a valid insurance slip covering the time period of the ticket, that ticket for tossed out…
he reduced the dangerous driving to a 20 over… i walked up to the prosecutor, she advised me of the reduction, i told her to reduce it to 19 over so that it was 1 less point and $40 less… she said she couldnt do that, i said “nigga i got kids to feed”, she said okay… dangerous driving and no insurance become a 19 over speeding, $120, 1 point, and the conviction took affect about 2 years after the actual incident so insurance didnt care and my record has since purged it…
that is how ou take control of your driving record in ontario… either that or run from the police… because they dont catch you that often if you have a fast car…
:lol: at your attempt at fighting a ticket in Buffalo. One more reason I avoid the city like the plague. Next time come speed in Amherst where we’ll gladly knock it down to a parking ticket, no BS stories needed. Simply walk in, confirm your name with the DA when he calls you, and he tells you it’s being reduced to parking and to wait for the judge. 
seriously…
the judge called like 5 people up at a time… “ok you’re all paying” he says… “but you get $20 off if you spend 4 hours in a driver’s training course… the course costs $30…”
i was like… fuck i dont even know what i was like but it was awesome
well im not traveling to st thomas its like 3 hours from me. i guess ill send in the ticket. theres a box for the officers paper work should i click it then? when they send me the court date should i call them and have them change it again or ask them to move it? what if they wont move it? im not driving 6 hours for a fucking canadian ticket
it was the 401. my problem with the court date is i dont want to go to canada at all and i do have a busy schedule i work 40 hours and go to school full time i dont just have a day during the week to take off for a faggot ticket. in buffalo you can only reschedule once.
I would pay the ticket…
I would also give the court an extra $300 for their inconvenience…
I would finally, as a gesture of kindness, offer to anally pleasure the officer with your well lubricated finger…
I would then demand you recieve a reach around for your own inconvenience…
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lol its your fault i got it. if you would have foundled the cop like i told you i wouldnt have got the ticket.
I would have fondled him but, I was too busy thinking about Steve Erkle vouge-ing…
yeah do that…
do whatever you want after that, but at least buy yourself a few months.
i received a notice in the mail about the ticket and the payment has to be sent in by 5/4/08. so i am going to send the ticket in and fight it.
bing,
should i wait to receive a court date, then ask for the cops paper work? then after i get that have it rescheduled? if they reschedule then request to have it moved closer? how are they with having dates changed and court moved? i know here they only allow 1 reschedule. i don’t want to travel 3 hours to and from court.
Its a law in most states besides NYS
hit the fast lanes for any emergency vehicles, theres normally mad signs about it too saying move over for stopped emergency vehicles.
i didnt see 1 sign for that the whole way there and back. i never knew about it because its not a nys law.
I would just pay it, generally cops will tell you ignorance dosent make you exempt from the law.
It sucks but I’d just bite the bullet, it’s not like you didn’t do it and are being shafted.