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Astroboy

By Astroboy,
in New South Wales

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d0p3y Grand Master

d0p3y

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Just keep your cool and speak nicely to the officer, chances are they will return the favour.

"Good Evening Officer"

"Are you aware you were doing 11km/h over the speed limit back there sir"

"I was unaware I was speeding officer, to my knowledge i was abiding by the law travelling at the speed limit. Do you have a radar reading I could see?"

..... and take it from there I guess.

benm Grand Master

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Actually a police officer no longer has to "show you" his radar speed reading, that law changed end of 2003. Basically the whole law works on a trust thing, they pin you but dont have to back up anything with evidence, basically what they say goes and you can't fight it (speeding, defects, blah, etc)

Revhead Grand Master

Revhead

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"Just don't speed" :D Geez fellas, a bit above that aren't we?

Basically, if you get pulled over, be polite, but don't admit to anything. If you're asked "do you know why I pulled you over", you can either say "no, sorry" or "RBT?" or something like that, but don't say "yeah, it was for ten over... oh, and the donuts I did on Smith St" :D If they do decide to give you a ticket and you were in the wrong, deal with it and remain polite. If you did nothing wrong, take the ticket, mention that you will be contesting it for x reasons, eg if you sped up to avoid a truck, make SURE you mention the truck to the officer. If it goes to court and you suddenly come up with these reasons that weren't mentioned at the scene, you're much less likely to be let off.

The guys here are correct when they say the police don't have to prove you did anything wrong. Gone are the days of "innocent until proven guilty", these days if the police SUSPECT you of breaking the law, they can book you and then the onus is on you to prove that you didn't, or in the case of a defect, to show them your car after you have "fixed" the non-existent defect.

JimX Grand Master

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Yuu can get done for speeding by any cop with or without a radar. If you take it to court, you have a chance of getting off. But it will be your word against his. If you know you were speeding and the cop knows it, then I would say forget about fighting it in court unless you can pull some really dodgy shit (fake witnesses, a $1000/hour lawyer, etc). Because if the cop is honest and has a good record of winning traffic violation cases, then you will most likely lose and get stuck with a bigger fine/court costs. But if the cop is a dodgy pr*ck and has pulled fake tickets before, then the judge will see that he's lost a lot of these before and give your story more credibility. But don't count on this.

GTR-80Y Mentor

GTR-80Y

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Got caught having a run with a commondoor the other week.

Cop: "Can u explain why that was neccessary back on ultimo rd?"

me: "Why wat do u mean officer?"

Cop: "How fast do u think u were goin back there?"

me: "About 60 officer i think"

Cop: "Bullshit son u were going like a bat out of hell!"

me: "No way officer, i was only in 2nd gear"

hahaha Only got a lecture that time.

and when i got caught doing 120 or so in a 60 zone

Cop: "wat do u think the speed limit is here?"

me: "60 i think officer"

Cop: "and how fast were u going?"

me: "about 60 officer"

lolol He only got me for 15 and under.

Speeding is bad people! mmmmkay!

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