like_that;1865226 wrote:I have received about 10 tickets in DC, and I have only had to pay for one of them for having my car parked on the street sweeping side, because I forgot to move it. Most of my tickets came from bullshit camera tickets, which I contested and won every time.

A year ago I received a ticket for not "properly affixing" my registration sticker tags onto my window. That one probably pissed me off the most, because the sticker was on my dash board and they clearly could see my car was registered. Seriously, how petty can you be? My car was registered, and I had the tags clearly visible to demonstrate I was registered, yet this dumb fuck still gave my a ticket, because he wasn't happy with how I was displaying my registration. There was no photo evidence (DC always provides photo evidence to all of their parking tickets) and thus I asked them to provide evidence. They responded 6 months later and said I was found liable, yet they still didn't provide any evidence or an explanation as to why I was wrong. I asked for reconsideration and once again told them to provide evidence. This time 6 months later they determined I was not liable (also provided no explanation). It took them an entire year to determine I was not liable for a fucking egregious ticket.

The lesson in all of this is to fight every ticket you get, unless you know you are clearly in the wrong. If they are going to try and take away your money, then you might as well put them to work. Most of the time it is not worth the man hours for these tickets.

BR1986FB;1865227 wrote:I remember reading a previous thread about this topic and your comments about fighting the camera ticket, and winning. When I got these camera tickets, they pretty much had me dead to rights. Had a photo of the front/back of my car and the license plate. I thought you had previously mentioned that you said "I wasn't the one driving the vehicle" or "prove it was me driving" and they had that base covered with the ticket too. There was verbiage that said "if you weren't the one driving the vehicle....blah, blah, blah." Well I wasn't going to report the vehicle stolen and I wasn't throwing my girlfriend under the bus and saying it was her, so I was pretty much stuck.

It sucks how these guys are sneaky about that shit though. They set up these cameras right in the areas that drop down from the speed limit you are (legally) driving in to a much lower speed limit and put the officer right after the area where the speed drops down and, in many cases, he's concealed and you don't see him until after the fact.

like_that;1865229 wrote:
Camera tickets are just a bullshit way for cities to generate revenue, because they are inefficient at spending tax payer money. If everyone contested their tickets, they probably would start to reconsider their use of the cameras.

SportsAndLady;1865231 wrote:Got pulled over in April for running a red light. I was in the intersection turning left when the light was green. When it went yellow/red I yielded to oncoming traffic and turned when it was safe to do so. Cop pulled me over saying I ran the red.

Showed up to court, judge said plead guilty and he'll give me a $0 fine, just pay court fees and I'll be put on 4 mo supervision. Fine, whatever. Problem is court costs were $213. Two hundred and thirteen fucking dollars.

The alternative was to plead not guilty, have a trial, risk the judge finding me guilty, and still having to pay court costs.

Pissed me off.

That was my first ticket in 10 years, too.

Bio-Hazzzzard;1865374 wrote:Three tickets for speeding. One of them was in Iredell county NC busted in a speed trap doing 90 in a 70. I pulled over long before he got to me waiting and he reduced the speed to 78mph. One week later I get a letter in the mail stating that they (an Iredell county local attorney) can get me off the hook. I accepted, didn't have to appear and got off with inoperative equipment, no points against my license.