posted May 01, 2004 12:36 PM
It wasn't me officer! Geez...after finishing my victory lap with getting that last outlandish speeding ticket dismissed, well another incident happens..but this time I was not at fault.
I was out riding yesterday through Lewiston, ID with six other sport riders. We came around this blind turning frontage road, I see a group of Idaho state troopers on the side of the road and continue on, going about 30 or so through a 25 zone...bike was overheating at that point because we were stuck in stop and go contsruction traffic for nearly 20 mintues, and I was running on just fumes, needed gas bad!
I pulled off to the gas station, while my friends continued on (I was going to catch up with them in a few)...pulled behind the gas station in the shade, got off the bike, degeared, and I sat.
Ten minutes later...
4 state troopers with lights flashing surround the back of the gas station and was OVERLY AGGRESSIVE towards me...I didnt admit to anything cause I didnt do anything wrong, and they said I was "racing a motor vehicle on a public highway" and wanted to know where my friends went. They said were letting me off with a wreckles driving citation and they gave me a pending no insurance ticket.
Wreckless is a required court date in Idaho, and a gross misdermeanor with 5 days of jail on top of that. Lawyer is going to be 950 buckaroos, not good! I did nothing wrong, victim of circumstance, there were SOOOO many bikes out that day.
I dont think they have a case on me, since they never actually pursued, kept line of sight on me, flashed lights to pull me over. They thought I was "hiding" from them behind the gas station. Geez...this sucks! Speeding would be a worse off infraction to fight in court because the system only needs "preponderance of evidence" whereas a wreckless is the ole innocent until proven guilty, err at least thats what we were taught in grade school...
Screw Idaho and driving in it ever again...aaah the summer has just begun too, and I'm averaging a ticket per month already...
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Miles to go before I sleep....
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posted May 01, 2004 12:50 PM
Edited By: worm~hole on 1 May 2004 13:50
get a honda rebel , you rebel you
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posted May 02, 2004 03:27 PM
i had a similar (tho less serious) thing happen to me beans. i disputed the ticket and they dropped it before it even went to court. course, that's a whole different legal system so i doubt it has much bearing on ur situation. but i cant imagine they can enforce that if they didnt even have line of sight fer goodness sake. u know what the shitty part is, is even if u win ur case in court, ur still out $950. they should award u expenses in such cases. woudl help keep overzealous cops in line perhaps. i'v met too many of those myself it's a good thing i know good cops like our very own wormy to keep my image of the police positive
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posted May 02, 2004 03:35 PM
gee...thanks, freekdude...sign here, press hard, three copies ____________ “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men
stand ready in the night to visit violence on those
who would do us harm.”
-George Orwell
posted May 03, 2004 08:50 PM
Edited By: Scooter on 3 May 2004 21:56
Beans, Last summer I got a improper passing from an off duty deputy, no "line of sight", out of state, written 10 DAYS after the incident, waited 4 more days and mailed it 6 days before the court date, come home from Sturgis to find myself in contempt for not showing. And I didn't even hafta sign shit. Even my local cop friends and neighbors, I have both, thought it was extreem.
Good luck. Mine was $175 and 3 points.
EDIT: FWIW dont pass any 25 in a 45 zone slow movin kickin up shoulder gravel station wagons with a boat on the roof in rural Wisconsin if there's a double yellow.
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posted May 05, 2004 02:30 AM
Edited By: LRG on 5 May 2004 04:03
That's a rough one. Better stay off your bike for a while until you get it cleared up. Do you have a bicycle?
Oh yea and that rock you threw up from that 200 meatstick you call a tire put a quarter sized bruise on my bicep. Now I know why the call them B-stones.
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posted May 05, 2004 04:34 AM
lol@ LRG...what were you doing riding behind him???? you mean to tell me you couldnt pass tha tslow ass blue smurfette looking bike of Daniels there LRG????? lmfao
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posted May 05, 2004 10:17 AM
Edited By: beansbaxter on 5 May 2004 11:19
LRG...haha...yep he was behind me alright....glad to see you figured out how to post for a second time there lol...
as for you HDL...(and all you people with 3 consant nicknames)...watch my smurfette put somethin up on that should our bikes ever cross paths...but if it makes you feel any better, when I get the new 10, its gonna be in black...shhh dont tell anyone
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posted May 05, 2004 12:26 PM
hahahaha, der ya go.....see you know where the real speed lies.....lol
as far as Smurfette goes, bring that biatch on, I will treat her like the silly little ho she is.......lmfao
All I have to say to you Daniel, is this....Gap is from the 15th -23rd, if ya leave now Smurfette may get you here before we get started....and then I can spank he skanky little ass .....lol
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posted May 09, 2004 10:53 AM
I let him ride out front. He likes to be the first one to speak with the police. He is pretty smooth that way. Just kidding bro. He's a mad man on the big blue monster.
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posted May 01, 2004 12:36 PM
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it's a good thing i know good cops like our very own wormy to keep my image of the police positive 
