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Article #12192Re: Wanted: Advice on appealing traffic ticket
From: Tom Balon
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:00
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In article <3pgkln$rid@gw.pacbell.com>, Mike Vandeman <mjvande@pbhye.pacbell.com> wrote: > >--Some three weeks ago I got a ticket for taking a right turn at a stop >--light with a "no turn on red" sign. I don't deny that I made the turn on >--right, but I believe that, given my income of below $10,000 per year, the >--$104 is excessive. > >I thought my $100 ticket for rolling through a stop sign on my $25 bicycle >was excessive, but the judge didn't. At that rate, car drivers should pay >4 times the value of their vehicle for running a stop sign. I think they should start issuing parking fines to bikes that are locked to meters that have expired or parked illegally. Now wouldn't that be swell to get a $150.00 blocking/parking on the sidewalk fine on your bike ! Maybe they could tow it and put it in city tow and charge you $50/day storage ? Talk about revenue :-) Tom
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,2bcfac516f43ebd6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,2bcfac516f43ebd6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 102fd5,2bcfac516f43ebd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid102fd5,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,2bcfac516f43ebd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public From: balon@cup.hp.com (Tom Balon) Subject: Re: Wanted: Advice on appealing traffic ticket Date: 1995/05/23 Message-ID: <D91LBw.8yB@cup.hp.com> X-Deja-AN: 103151416 sender: news@hpax (News Admin) references: <dangD8Dty3.FDB@netcom.com> <3p9ruq$ehj@news.informix.com> <3pgkln$rid@gw.pacbell.com> organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA newsgroups: ba.consumers,ba.general,ba.politics,ba.transportation