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I've gotten plenty of tickets, but I did get one that really pissed me off...the cop said I was going 75 in a 55 and I know very well that I was going about 63. I had a friend who was a state cop & he sent me the pages from THEIR manual regarding having to go in for a ticket hearing. There was a lot of good stuff in it, like calibrating the radar, and all of the types of errors they can encounter in different settings (billboards, sine & cosine errors, there are about 7 different kinds). I started grilling the cop on the different errors & if he was aware of them & what they meant. He was amazed that I knew the stuff I did, I could see it in his face, as was the magistrate.
Regardless, he answered all my questions, said he had "never encountered those errors in that stretch of highway" and I paid my ticket. He actually came up & shook my hand & commended me on being well prepared, as most people go in looking for a technicality or hoping the cop doesn't show up, or simply saying "I didn't do it".
Anyway, been there, done that, got the t-shirt & bought myself a ticket for the policeman's ball.
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