Did anyone else watch that show on TLC ? It was an interesting documentary about speeding, avoiding tickets etc.

It named the following cities as speed traps: Waldo, FL; Lawtey, FL and some town in Ohio I cant remember.

It also talked about cars that are least likely to be pulled over. No. 1 was Volvo. Followed by Suburbans, Ford Taurus's, BMWs and MBs. It claimed that red cars were most likely to be pulled over.

It gave an interesting piece of advice on fighting a ticket. It suggested that you make a "request for discovery" at the court for certain documents - officer's speed-detection device training certificate; calibration documents; tuning documents etc. If they are unable to produce any of these, the ticket is dismissed.

 

It comes on again at 3pm CST today.

 

You are absolutely correct. I've successfully beaten tickets in court. Here is a good on-line tutorial on <a href="http://www.magma.ca/~fyst/">beating a ticket.</a> It's written by a canadian, but the principles of a prima fascia case are essentially the same. It also references US cases.

If you are really serious about going to court, I have some questions and info that might help, especially in Ohio courts.


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Here's a site that's quite useful. Thought you would enjoy it.
http://beartraps.com/

 

Yea watchout for Waldo, Florida. The cops were cacking me up when they were lasering cars. lol

 

Pretty interesting show, you might want to see it depending on how you feel about speeding or cops.

I think the part in the begin about the laser jamming was kinda silly and misinformative. But that's just my opinion.

Plus the piece about the FLHP using radar from construction equipment. They showed a "construction worker" wielding a radar gun sitting on his construction equipment. The problem with this was that he was at least 100 feet off the roadway, he was clocking cars at >60 degree angle, and he was moving the gun while following traffic. I used a radar gun and unless this is something new, that huge angle won't even produce a reading and you have to hold the gun steady and not pan across traffic to get an accurate reading. Plus, to decrease the angle, you need to be up on the roadway. You could have place 5-10 more lanes of traffic between him and the cars he clocked. And it wasn't for demo purposes, they zoomed in on the "working" gun pulling down readings. Of what? I don't know....

I have TiVo so I could watch it over and over to really see it clearly.

 

I watched it at midnight this morning, it was great

 

NO SHIT.....I never heard that !!!

Shawn S

 

Does the term "Arrest me Red" come to mind ?

 

I live pretty close to Waldo Florida and the show is dead on. Everytime i drive thru there, I see a car pulled over and another cop waiting for someone else. Bastards