[Nobbc] California ticketing

[wendell bain]

As you say, you play, you pay. I was caught driving a friends 72 Alfa  
GTV on
Bodega Hwy last April. Three cars came around a blind turn and the  
third one
was CHP. He got me with radar using instant on. I was probably doing  
90 plus
but managed to slow down to the cited speed of 82. Not fun and now  
I'm stuck
with it. I think I will save this stuff for Sears Pt.

Cheers,

Wendell
59 Morgan

On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Clif & Deborah Williamson wrote:

> There seem to be plenty of offers of help on Google:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=speeding+ticket+by 
> +air&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en- 
> US:official&client=firefox-a Unfortunately you will have to pay for  
> this advice.
> Most of you have probably noticed the diagonal lines on the  
> shoulder of the road within an "air trap".  So you probably also  
> know they use a time and distance method for determining your  
> speed.  But if the plane is going faster or slower than you, his  
> line of sight to the lines will change.  This combined with two  
> random clicks of his stop watch could also cause some error.  And  
> who knows how if the distance between lines is accurate.
> Of course, if this method has become computerized, then these  
> errors are taken out of the formula.  Or it could be that they use  
> a radar gun to determine speed differential.  I think that would be  
> a really tuff one to beat.
> On the other hand, you were probably speeding, correct?  If you  
> want to dance, you have to pay the piper, I always say.  I hate  
> getting tickets...they suck, but I can only think of two times in  
> my 50 year driving career when I got a ticket, I didn't deserve.  I  
> went to court to fight that ticket, insulted the judge, and ended  
> up in Santa Rita for a night for contempt of court.  I was only 25  
> at the time and it was during a time when "questioning authority"  
> was in vogue.  He was a jerk of a judge, finding everybody in his  
> court room guilty of their violation.  The other was in SF. I was  
> driving a borrowed 54 Rambler.  This pile of crap couldn't go over  
> 50 mph, but I was sited for 70.  I went to court and explained this  
> to the judge and he let be off.  Of course it helped that the  
> officer didn't show up.
> Good luck
> Clif  74 "very red" Jensen Healey.  Owned since new, and not one  
> ticket.
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Roland Quintero
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:09 PM
> To: North Bay British Car Club
> Subject: [Nobbc] California ticketing
>
> So now that we are talking about tickets.... Michael or  
> anyone.....Any suggestions on appealing speeding ticket done by air  
> on Hwy 80 from truckee to sacto.?????  Help!!!!!!!  and thanks....
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