I got ticketed for something I did not do.

[harmonica]

I was pulled out over and the cop said it was because I made an illegal u-turn at an traffic light. He said I made this u-turn on a street, which I was never on in a part of town, that I never happened to be in. I politely told him that I wasn't in that area at all that night or haven't been for a few months. He disagreed, and told me to wait for my ticket. He then came back and after reading the ticket, he wrote down I made an illegal u-turn.

But instead of writing down the street he said I did, he wrote down the streets at the intersection, that was nearest me, when he pulled me over. He probably just looked at the street sign and decided to use that street. So, if I fight this and bring it to a judge, how would a judge most likely look at it? I have no evidence, accept the cops word against mine. Is that probably not enough, and I'll probably loose and have to pay court costs as well?

[deputywave]

This sounds like an interesting plot for a screenplay.

[Legoate]

He most likely wrote down the nearest intersection where he stopped you- not where the infraction occurred. So, to get this straight, he stopped you in a totally different part of town for an earlier offense? Sounds a bit strange.

[harmonica]

Yes, very strange, but I never committed the earlier offense since I was never in that part of town.

[Citicop]

When did he allege that you made this turn? What time did he put down on the ticket (was it the time he stopped you, or some earlier time)?

[harmonica]

The time he stopped me, is when he wrote down. He didn't tell me when I made the turn, he just said I did it.

[Citicop]

How far away was it? How long would it have taken you to get from there to where he stopped you?

If you can show where you had been, then that could help...

[harmonica]

I looked it up on a map and it's a few blocks down. It's on the other side of a main street, which is another section of town, at least map wise. So apparently it's not as far as I thought. You still can't even see a person from that far away and you have to make a turn in order to. Even so he is still blaming me for being somewhere I wasn't and doing something I could have not. So now what?

The ticket is filled pretty sloppy actually. The writing is hard to make out in a lot of parts and the cop only signed his name with a squiggling line. Did he not wanna sign his name and is hiding something or what? The whole thing seems strange.

[harmonica]

I thought I'd just pay the ticket since I can't prove otherwise in court, and I don't wanna lose and pay court costs too. But in order to have to pay the ticket I have to write down the court date on part of the form of the envelope. But the court date that was given to me, on the ticket, is a date from last year. How do I pay a ticket if the court date is from another year? Do I write down last years date since that's what the ticket says or do I assume it is for next year and write that year down? Which one will cause a computer glitch, and it might not get paid?

[harmonica]

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[Kimble]

But the court date that was given to me, on the ticket, is a date from last year. How do I pay a ticket if the court date is from another year? Do I write down last years date since that's what the ticket says or do I assume it is for next year and write that year down? Which one will cause a computer glitch, and it might not get paid?

If you know the court where the hearing would be held (if you attended) why not call them directly and get the answer from the horse's mouth? If the number isn't on the ticket itself, look it up in the yellow pages, it would be the traffic court for whatever jurisdiction you were cited in. That would pretty easily take all the guess work out of all this.