Well, I went to take care of my ticket today.
Although I still have respect for the courts and what they do, I still had to chuckle about how this particular one was ran. Very informal, to say the least. I was the only one in there. (one hot girl was just walking out when i walked in). My total words were, "yes", "yes", "guilty", and "today". took a total of less than 2 minutes. all in all, 120 fine turned into 277.50 :banghead:
The most ammusing part of it, and I may just have a false image in my head b/c of tv, was the bailiff. In the clerks office, they said to take some papers up to the baliff, and i was expecting a uniformed officer/guard there. nope, a 5' tall, 90 lb, 80 year old lady.
OUCH that hurts!!! When I went to traffic court 2x it was different:
1: 18yr old just got car, missed stop sign. Judge let me off w/ $15 fine for court fees, saying my reason for being distracted was not good but cop should have stopped the snowmobiler for riding in the city streets (not allowed where I grew up). County deputy was baliff.
2: brakes went out on car. Had problems brought to dealer and they insisted they were good. 2 days later went out and failed, rearending a truck at stopsign. Highschool buddy was the State Trooper who came
he just drove me to my moms house a few miles away. County then mailed me a ticket and a traffic court summons 3 months later. Reluctantly had to plead guilty to driving defective vehicle but with the work order from the dealer, I got it dropped from over $300 down to I think it was about $120. County Deputy again.