BC Court Traffic Tickets in limbo

[geForce]

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/St ... story.html

Probably a combination of staff shortages and every single ticket being disputed.

[Duncan]

quick, somebody get a ticket and dispute it just to see how long it takes to get into court...

[nature boy]

they've had this problem before. but apparently, it's a myth that your ticket gets thrown out if you don't get your court date within a year of disputing. ask me how i know.

a lot of drivers out there don't dispute their tickets anyway. they're too lazy and it's just easier to pay it.

[Duncan]

i don't believe you... please disprove me and get a ticket then try to dispute it...



i dare you

[jeSteR]

[geForce]

I've been screwed over by cops ticketing me for stuff that I didn't do more than for stuff that I deserved. Like, at a 2 way stop where I did a bit of a rolling stop even though I had ample time to look the one single direction that really mattered in that intersection. Or another time when I made a decision that going through the yellow light was safer than doing a screaching stop in the rain and possibly being stuck in the intersection. And yet another time where they gave me an excessive speeding ticket for $325 and the cop said I was doing over 100kmh when I was actually just a bit over 70km/h (which also is impossible because I was driving a crappy old Nissan Altima that couldn't even go that fast).

Anyway... I do agree that there are way too many people who dispute tickets for the chance of the cop not showing.

[nature boy]

yeah that happened to me a few times, that's why i always argue the heart of the law over the letter of the law.

but i'll be honest, i used to dispute in hopes that the cop didn't show. but now i don't even bother. but then i hardly get any tickets now.

[Duncan]

did you ever go into court and have the cop show up? just curious as to what you'd say to the judge when the cop shows.

"umm, i didn't do it?"

[nature boy]

yeah, the cop showed up maybe half the time.
i just said that i'm a student and can't afford to pay the ticket (which was true). and they would either reduce the fine or push the deadline back a few months.

[Keiho]

[joel]

i've never disputed a ticket. but it's hard to get a ticket when my primary mode of transportation is public transit.

I do wish that there would be more money from tax dollars funneled to getting me a timely mri though. lol.

[nature boy]

[nature boy]

i purposely was redundant on purpose for purposeful reasons.

[Keiho]

I never had illegal headlights. Maybe someone else?

And I've never been to Langley.

[nature boy]

no, i'm sure i drove you out somewhere in the boondocks for court.
and hid bulbs in stock housings are illegal.