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Gotten a few tickets over the years but the only one I fought was for not wearing a seatbelt. The law in my neck of the woods states everybody must wear a seatbelt (strapped into a booster aka car seat counts for the young ones) UNLESS they are "driving" a Emergency vehicle (there is actually list and I can't remember them all) or a Postal truck or have a medical exemption certificate. At the time the truck I was driving was covered under the emergency vehicle clause but the officer that pulled me over disagreed (he couldn't be bothered to listen to me). On the other hand the judge the was presiding over the case did agree ,almost had to considering that tow trucks on route to a highway police call are considered an emergency vehicle under another law and I was on route to a highway police call (multi vehicle accident blocking all 3 lanes).
The judge was very nice about it to me but got very rude about it to the officer, certainly I expected the officer in question to have been asked to use better personal judgement in the future and maybe a bit more in private (judge's chambers), I don't remember the exact wording the judge used (wish I could) but it basically told the officer that if a case like this ever came up before him again the officer would really regret it. About halfway through the judge's speach I vowed to myself to never ever be before him again for any reason.
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