[Nobbc] California ticketing

Mike Gianandrea mvg1 at att.net
Fri Jan 14 19:30:51 MST 2011 

Well hell, I''l chime in here. I got ticketed once in Petaluma for no seat 
belt. I had just stopped to get a burger, took my belt off to get some money 
out of my pocket, paid the bill and off I went, without even thinking about 
the belt. I passed a CHP cruiser heading up the street, and he actually 
turned around and chased me down and pulled me over, because he didn't see a 
belt on my shoulder. He let me go with a warning, but there a lot older cars 
out there that only have lap belts. wonder what they do about that.

Then one race day many moons ago, I was headed out to Sears Point with two 
kids in the car going to the Craftsman Truck Race. We were real late, had to 
wait for one of the kids, headed down 116, doing 80 in my Camaro, when I 
passed a slowpoke at a T intersection, and of course, there was a CHP 
cruiser parked right there. I saw him pull out in the rear view mirror, I 
knew I was toast so I pulled over and waited for him. License and 
registration please, and do you know how fast you were going? Do you know 
that you passed a car at a T intersection?, somewhat agitated. Then he asked 
where I was headed at that speed. Well, actually, we're going to the races. 
He was actually pretty decent about the whole thing, handed me the ticket 
$250.00, and said well, slow down, enjoy the races and this. My bad, a 
stupid thing to do, but I still seem to find myself doing 80 or 90 down that 
road all the time, must be something in the air down there.

Michael
64 TR4
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clif & Deborah Williamson" <hawkview at sonic.net>
To: "North Bay British Car Club" <nobbc at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Nobbc] California ticketing


> What did you have to pay for the 82 mph?
> I got nailed once at the end of a line of about 20 cars out in the valley 
> around Merced.  I was probably doing 70 in a 55, just going with the 
> traffic.  He was in a Mustang with Radar, had just turned around and was 
> coming toward me.  When I asked why he picked me out of the group, he said 
> I would probably have been going faster if there hadn't been cars in front 
> of me.  Real jerk.  That was my last violation back in 1997.  Boy did I 
> get a razz from the three guys with me.
> Sears Point?
> Clif  74 Jensen Healey
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: wendell bain
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:06 PM
> To: North Bay British Car Club
> Subject: Re: [Nobbc] California ticketing
>
> As you say, you play, you pay. I was caught driving a friends 72 Alfa
> GTV on
> Bodega Hwy last April. Three cars came around a blind turn and the
> third one
> was CHP. He got me with radar using instant on. I was probably doing
> 90 plus
> but managed to slow down to the cited speed of 82. Not fun and now
> I'm stuck
> with it. I think I will save this stuff for Sears Pt.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wendell
> 59 Morgan
>
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Clif & Deborah Williamson wrote:
>
>> There seem to be plenty of offers of help on Google:
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=speeding+ticket+by 
>> +air&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en- 
>> US:official&client=firefox-a Unfortunately you will have to pay for  this 
>> advice.
>> Most of you have probably noticed the diagonal lines on the  shoulder of 
>> the road within an "air trap".  So you probably also  know they use a 
>> time and distance method for determining your  speed.  But if the plane 
>> is going faster or slower than you, his  line of sight to the lines will 
>> change.  This combined with two  random clicks of his stop watch could 
>> also cause some error.  And  who knows how if the distance between lines 
>> is accurate.
>> Of course, if this method has become computerized, then these  errors are 
>> taken out of the formula.  Or it could be that they use  a radar gun to 
>> determine speed differential.  I think that would be  a really tuff one 
>> to beat.
>> On the other hand, you were probably speeding, correct?  If you  want to 
>> dance, you have to pay the piper, I always say.  I hate  getting 
>> tickets...they suck, but I can only think of two times in  my 50 year 
>> driving career when I got a ticket, I didn't deserve.  I  went to court 
>> to fight that ticket, insulted the judge, and ended  up in Santa Rita for 
>> a night for contempt of court.  I was only 25  at the time and it was 
>> during a time when "questioning authority"  was in vogue.  He was a jerk 
>> of a judge, finding everybody in his  court room guilty of their 
>> violation. The other was in SF. I was  driving a borrowed 54 Rambler. 
>> This pile of crap couldn't go over  50 mph, but I was sited for 70.  I 
>> went to court and explained this  to the judge and he let be off.  Of 
>> course it helped that the  officer didn't show up.
>> Good luck
>> Clif  74 "very red" Jensen Healey.  Owned since new, and not one  ticket.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Roland Quintero
>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:09 PM
>> To: North Bay British Car Club
>> Subject: [Nobbc] California ticketing
>>
>> So now that we are talking about tickets.... Michael or  anyone.....Any 
>> suggestions on appealing speeding ticket done by air  on Hwy 80 from 
>> truckee to sacto.?????  Help!!!!!!!  and thanks....
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