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Old 01-06-2006, 10:16 AM   #23 (permalink)
NoSoup
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I got pulled over a while back for going 50 mph in a 35 mph school zone. This is, in fact, what I was doing. Because it was in a school zone, and because I had a probationary licence (In Wisconsin, the first two years you have your license it is considered "probationary" my points were doubled, and the doubled again. I was looking at 12 points for my first offence - enough to make me lose my license in one fell swoop.

I went to court and admitted that I had in fact broken the law, but explained that I had never had any prior tickets. I also explained that where I was pulled over was just after a highway became city streets, the speed limit dropping from 65 mph to 35 mph - and although it may be classified as a school zone, I was at least a mile away from the school and it was a Sunday.

Fortunately, either because I plead my case so well or the judge took pity on me, he decided to not to double my points twice, and I only got stuck with the original 3 points it would have been had it not been a school zone and I not had a probationary license. He did, however, increase the fine - I believe instead of paying $270.00 he bumped it up to $350.00, plus court costs.
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