Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5d.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!hou5h!hou5a!hou5d!mat From: mat@hou5d.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re:Radar Report - (ENOUGH ALREADY!) Message-ID: <869@hou5d.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 16:46:43 EST Article-I.D.: hou5d.869 Posted: Mon Mar 19 16:46:43 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 01:36:49 EST References: <353@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 31 > It is MUCH easier for a policeman to write a ticket than it is for > the hapless motorist to go to court to defend himself, and the > police seem to be EXTREMELY well aware of that. They KNOW that the > typical motorist will just curse a lot and send in his money, EVEN > if he has a chance at a good day in court. Why? Because the poor > bastard ain't got the time, knowledge, or money to make a court > appearance! How many of you would take a day off, at say $100 a > day, to go to court and fight an $40 ticket? How many traffic > violation cases actually go to court? Damned few, I'm sure! A story here: everyone knows that New York City is murder on the person who does not move his car in time. The car can be towed, damaging the car, to the pound where you must pay upwards of $100 to get it out. The pound is in one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in the city, and ... Of course, they never tow the bastid who is double parked and causing a jam, but every day, at every alternate-side-of-the-street-parking time switch, about twenty seconds after the last tick of the clock, hoards of brown-suited traffic control officers pour forth to ticket and tow cars. If you got a phone call, if you were in bed with someone, if you had a sudden attack of diarrhea, it doesn't matter. Tow We Must, For a Better New York. Well, I knew a fellow whose car was ticketed (but not towed) by a cop who used the clock visible in the window of a bank. He was ticketed at one minute after the hour. The bank clock was two minutes ahead, and the fellow took a letter (statement, affidavit?) from the branch manager to night court to fight the ticket. And he won. Since it was night court, he didn't have to take time out from work, either! Mark Terribile hou5d!mat