Can the popo mail you a speeding ticket??

[BobTheCow]

Well... uh... is it possible?? Cuz there was this really bizarre situation last night (FalconGuy will back me up on this one, it was weird) involving an undercover cop flashing his headlights, not blue lights, just headlights... and radioing something in, then all of a sudden swerving to a stop next to an exit ramp... the only idea we had was that he was calling in a license plate number, and that something's gonna show up in the mail in the next week or two, since I know they can do that with red-light-running. To end the rambling... should I be keeping a close watch on the mail??

[lord1234]

yes they CAN mail you a ticket...

an example: in MA, we have the speedpass things for tolls....they have a speedlimit requirement and if u go to fast they mail u a speeding ticket

--Lord

[personman]

Were you speeding?

[PyRo]

Yes they can.

[BobTheCow]

Were you speeding?

Apparently... "I swear officer, I was just passing!!" *gulp*

[PyRo]

Your not allowed to speed while passing.

[BobTheCow]

Well crap...

[Will Wood]

Why couldn't they?
My cousins got mailed a speeding ticket.
They got tagged from a aircraft speeding, and then had their lisence plate taken down by camera. They got a picture of their lisence plate send to them with the ticket and fine.

[cphilip]

Apparently... "I swear officer, I was just passing!!" *gulp*

Quickly forgotten or little known fact.... Its illegal to speed to pass. Supposed to pass only if you can do so while maintaining the speed limit. That one will not get you off.

Yes they can do it with film. Thats thier evidence. Hard to dispute that.

[BobTheCow]

Yes they can do it with film. Thats thier evidence. Hard to dispute that.

Unmarked cars have cameras? Learn something new every day, lol...

[BobTheCow]

Encouraging Update!!!!!

RalphKH99: well sometimes what they do is they try to get you to slow down by riding your tail and doing what he did, blinking his headlights and stuff, and then what they'll do is radio ahead to a unit somewhere further up the road, and tell him that you're coming. And he'll hit you with his radar gun so they have an exact speed of how fast you were going
RalphKH99: if you had kept speeding you probably would have gotten one
RalphKH99: I think you're ok though
BobTheCow63: OH!!!
BobTheCow63: YAY!!

Think there's any truth to this??

[FalconGuy016]

Yeah, watch me lose all your respect with everyone on AO ryan

We were going about 90, and I was solidly whoopin his butt. Im glad we got a nice cop (assuming what we just found out is true)

[PyRo]

A guy who works for my father got a ticket mailed to him for driving through a toll and not paying. Problem was he was 200 miles away from that toll, at work with my father at the time he did it, and the car was parked outside the house they were working on. He went to court, my father about 8 other people signed statements saying he wasn't anywhere near where he supposedly ran the toll, he had a copy of the whatever you would call the book used to keep hours people work in as well. The judge still gave him the ticket, they wouldn't show him the picture either because it was against there policy, they refused to check what kind of car it was that ran the toll as well.

[cphilip]

Unmarked cars have cameras? Learn something new every day, lol...

Easy to do... most cars got a video now a days. Easy to make em not noticable. Very easy.

How bought you just slow down and then don't have to worry about it anymore?

[thecavemankevin]

in cases where you get zapped by a speed camera and get a ticket in the mail, or where there are two cops used (one in the plane that radios down to the ground unit) you have the leagal right to cross examine your accusers. In the case where it is a camera, you have the right to question....the camera. If the prosecuter doesn't have the camera present for you to question....should be able to get the case tossed. Same thing for the plan trick, you have the right to question the pilot, but more often then not they are not at court....only the ground unit officer.