Sir you need to stop interferring with police business. Speeding is a choice,if you speed then you should get a ticket. All you are doing is stopping people from getting what they deserve which is a speeding ticket.

I don't have a problem at all with what you are doing. But if you are going to talk about the Penal & Traffic code you better have a better understanding of what “defense to prosecution” means. Sure you may (and I say may b/c it depends where you are in the great state) be found not guilty but you may still be placed under arrest for a class B Misd.

Well YOU had better inform the general att. for the state and TCLEOSE that they are WRONG. Good luck to you in your attmept to slow the motoring public down. If you can get them to slow down with your little sign than my hats off to you. Speed kills …. oh ya and it waste a lot of gas so maybe you can kill two birds with one stone. Come on over to Montgomery County sometime the folks would love you. Be safe out there

I got way to many speeding ticket stories to post here.

I actually have two incidents. The first was where I was charged with doing 72 in a 55. After showing the officer my dash camera setup with imprinted GPS speed, he said “Damn, that's cool! Our cruisers don't even have that.” Of course, my GPS speed showed I was 4MPH slower than his laser gun. Long story short, it went to court, and I proved that his gun was off. Ticket was reduced to 13 over, vs. 17 over. A big break because of insurance. The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5se8n5XSuY

The second incident happend earlier this month (DEC). Cop accuses me
of flashing my high-beams, and issues a citation despite my claim that
I hadn't used them. This will go to court. He was clearly upset
and felt I was warning other motorists of his speed trap. He would not
give me a chance to explain that I turned my lights on and off – or why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7xiZeWrYk

I cannot underscore the importance of having both video and audio recording on your vehicle. I don't go out looking for trouble – in fact is was nearly 3 years between these two stops. And it was 8 years prior to the first video that I had my last stop. Still, I have been accused of things that I didn't do, and in FL, an officer's testimony in court is considered trustworthy and honest unless proven otherwise. Well, the camera is the “otherwise”.

Admin/Mod, feel free to move this post into a more relevent topic if necessary.

Thanks…

Guest said:

…has anyone gotten a ticket from those red-light cams, and if so what was the fine?

I see from your IP address that you live in Austin. Well, I don't do much driving in the areas where the few red light cameras are installed; so, I don't know personally. And, I haven't heard from others who have received tickets.

I DO know that the fines for 'automated' tickets are usually less than a ticket issued by an officer. And, I believe, that it DOES NOT count toward your 'points'.

You could probably just call the traffic court in Austin and ask. The fines should all be the same, unlike speeding tickets which has 'levels' of severity. Anybody else have an idea how much these tickets are?

is it illegal to post speed traps on this site?…i wouldn't want the cybercops to write me up a ticket……

I last received a speeding ticket early on the morning of February 13
of this year. I was driving northbound on Highway 190 in Covington,
LA, returning from a night out in New Orleans.

The cop caught me going 60 in a 45. There were no other cars on the road.

I had a radar detector, but it was not plugged in at the time.

My real complaint about the incident is this: I was stone-cold sober at
the time, despite being in New Orleans earlier in the evening. Well, the
STPSO officer didn't believe me. He forced me to perform gymnastics in the
parking lot of the Walgreens in Covington for about 30 minutes in
20-degree weather. I begged him to just let me take a breathalyzer and
be done with it. He refused, forcing me to leave my car at the Walgreens
all night and take a cab home.

In Louisiana, had he requested I
take the test and I refused, I'd lose my license for a year. He faces no
consequences for denying me the test when I requested it. This
illustrated quite the double-standard with Louisiana DWI laws.

Had I been drunk, he'd have been doing me a favor, but I was far from drunk and willing to prove it.

I blogged about the event, and if you'd like a more detailed account, one can be found at my personal blog: http://lamesubdomain.blogspot.com/