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Pay the ticket or fight it in court?

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little_ey
Posts: 609 - Karma: 392
Boyfriend got a $110 ticket for longboarding today.

Yes, it is illegal here to longboard in the streets.  But here would be the arguments I think he could use to get out of the ticket.

1. officer spelled it "scakeboarding" you could argue that he wasn't doing as this citation states.

2. there are no signs posted in the town about it being illegal to skate in the streets.  It should be marked just as no parking zones are marked.

3. in the high tourist area that we live in, it is probably safer for all of our pedestrians on the sidewalks if a longboarder was not sharing the path with them.

4. he was skateboarding in the open parking spaces, not in the middle of the road... although this one might be considered irrelevant by a judge because of its difficulty in proving.
Jul 22 2009 4:54PM
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HR8938Cephei
Posts: 1411 - Karma: 46
2 is the only hope still small chance though

Jul 24 2009 12:25AM
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DrStrangelove
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I guess what I meant is that it would only work if you had a lawyer who had a relationship with the DA, but not if you were just some random 17 year old kid representing yourself...unless you were really good, really well prepared, and didn't act like an asshole when you were talking to the judge, which would be hard since most judges automatically assume that any high-school kid who tries to represent himself is an idiot.

And I won't end up with any debt because I got a good scholarship, and being in law school these days is better than being unemployed like all my friends from undergrad who signed first-year contracts with investment banks and then got laid off. Only a couple of them made it, the rest are trying to work for their dads or go back to school.
Jul 24 2009 1:07AM
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fujarome
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the fact remains that......it is illegal in that area though. Whether you think it's illegal or not doesn't matter. In fact, if you bring that up in court, the judge will probably laugh at you.

i'm all for fighting tickets and shit because it keeps people in check, but you honestly do not have a single valid argument. He was skateboarding where he shouldn't have been...he got a ticket...end of story.
Jul 24 2009 1:23AM
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