Fuck you for pulling me over for a god damn rolling stop. Fuck you for giving me a $170 ticket for this. Fuck you for giving me a $1300 ticket for driving without insurance which I do have and showed you; it doesn’t expire until April 2012. Fuck you for yelling at me and changing the subject and threatening me when I tried to explain this to you. So fuck you for being an asshole who can’t read. Can’t wait to see you in court jerk. —Pissed Off
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.
Keep us posted OP. Really curious to see how this all plays out in court.
I do wonder… if you have insurance… as this person claims… but haven’t replaced the old card with the new one… but all other info is the same and still accurate…
isn’t there a way for them to look that shit up?
or do you need your day in court to get that charge overturned?
i do have insurance – i gave him the old card and then i realized this and found the new card while he was in his car writing me a ticket. i tried to show him the new one one but he said he had already issued the ticket and he changed the subject and yelled at me and threatened me and said he didnt want to stand in the rain.
this happened to me before that the offficer read my insurance card wrong and i was actually able to straighten it out at the police station. hopefully i can do this again and not have to go to court. i dont care about the rolling stop charge, ill pay that online but there is no way im paying a $1300 fine when i have insurance and i was flustered and gave him the wrong card.
did he throw your id back threw the window? mine did
OP a non insurance ticket also carries a 2 year licence suspension as my friend found out, so make sure when you get it all cleared up that you will not have the suspension, get it in writing if you have to just make sure, its not fun to be pulled over and told you licence is suspended and you had no idea because someone couldn’t get their head out of their ass long enough to actually do their job.
Look you are an IDIOT if you don’t go to court.
The police will ‘help’ you, because they don’t want to be seen as an action by their member being a mistake & wasting the courts time (Judges really get fucking pissed when the police or crown do that !)
So go to court.
You may get lucky & manage to get it all thrown out … & even if all the judge does is cancel the fine for no insurance & installs the fine for the rolling stop, you were going to pay that anyway…good luck
I have had a one of those insurance fines overturned. You won’t have to clog up the courts with that. Just go to the police station and clear that up with proof of insurance and pay your fine for the ticket you deserve. You do need to stop at a stop sign, but you seem to be on the up and up on that now.
Seriously don’t waste my tax money on fighting this in court please.
lol no he yelled at me for not notifying the DMV that my address is not the same as the one on my ID. the address on my ID is my dad’s house, has been for years and will likely eventually be my house. i’ve always just left it like this because ive moved around the city so much these past 5 years for school and work. i didnt think it was a big deal but he yelled at me and threatened to write me another ticket for this.
Without the correct address your license is invalid. Read the fine print, idiot.
The insurance thing can be cleared up the following day.
Sounds like you should get your shit together.
i know that now cranky, but thanks.
and yea i am working on getting my shit together, but again thanks for the advice.
As long as your address is correct in the RMV database, you’re fine. (This is directly from a lady I spoke with at the Dartmouth RMV) I had recently moved and went online to have my address updated on my RMV records. They mailed me my new updated address stickers for my registration papers but mentioned that placing the address sticker on the back of your license, (like you used to do), is no longer acceptable. My license is not due to expire until next year so I spoke to this lady to ask her if I am required to have a new license done up. She said no, that I could wait until my license is expired and have it done at that time as per normal, as long as the RMV had my correct and current address, there would be no issue.
i will tell youse guys my encounter at the next summit
When it rains really hard, I like to run stop signs just to make cops get out of the car. Make ’em stand there in the rain, in that big puddle…
‘Alright, you. Do you know why I stopped you?’ ‘Yeah… Do you know why I ran the sign?’ – Drew Carey
If you go show proof of insurance that charge’ll get dropped, OP.
As for the other one — it’s a stop sign, not a ROLLING stop sign.
Ah, yes, the ‘California Roll’…
If you are of college age, I think you are OK with your dad’s address. That is your ‘permanent address’ and the other is the temp one…
Survivor goes driving? You seem to have multiple fuck ups and should not be driving as you don’t seem capable of getting your shit together.
Yeah and fuck them for expecting you to follow the rules like the rest of the mere mortals around you!!!
… asswipe..
Rolling stop tickets are garbage. Especially when the cop does one right after issuing you a ticket for doing the same thing. Happens all the time.
Nothing wrong with getting in the habit of coming to a full stop.
The majority of stop signs are useless. What should be put in place is a small roundabout. That way no need to stop , just slow down, and go. If nobody is there and you’re the only one, why the need to stop? This seems way more logical & safer since it eliminates any chances of a t-bone collision or people turning left on motorcyclists & pedestrians. But logic & sense don’t always prevail with politicians.
So what if the cop had to stand out in the rain? That doesn’t give him the right to be rude to you and to threaten you. He’s being paid to do a job which involves interacting with the general public. Not some office job where he never sees bad weather and never deals with anyone else. With his attitude, you should have took as long as you wanted, fiddled around and made them stand there for at least 5 minutes.
If he wanted to be treated nicely, and with respect, he should do the same to the general public that he comes into contact with.
Being gay doesn’t excuse you from having to pay for insurance, sebastian. Be more reponsible; therefore, for once in your life, be a man!
OP you are great at taking advise, at first I thought you were in your teens, but now, I can see that you are a trophy husband.
“i know that now cranky, but thanks.
and yea i am working on getting my shit together, but again thanks for the advice.”
lol, nice one.
Oh that sucks OP. Being on the receiving end of a 2000$ ticket (which was later reversed) I know how this feels.
OB, he was doing his job. You should not have rolled through that stop sign. You should have given him the correct insurance card. It’s not his fault you fucked up. HRM thanks you for the $1470 you will pay, after you lose in Court.
Lickspittle! That’s the word I was looking for!^
getting a ticket for a rolling stop really sucks because most of us do it most of the time.
OB won’t lose in court because she simply has to bring her insurance card in and they’ll drop that $1300 ticket.
Also: rolling stop tickets ARE dumb when you get right down to it, BUT these are hard times for HRM, (*eyeroll*) and as such the cops are out to raise funds through ticketing, and a rolling stop through a stop sign is still failing to fully stop which is the law.
So it’s best these days to be on your best driving behaviour, because you’ll get nailed for anything they can nail you for. One place their presence is particularly strong (with their radar gun) is where the 102 merges into Bayers Road. NO ONE follows the speed limit there, so they know it’s shooting fish in a barrel. So, watch yo’ selves.
you’d think so wouldn’t you ms kittty
Gotta love how people blame others for doing their jobs. Here’s an idea: stop at the fucking stop sign.
I mentioned this bitch to my dad because it sounded familiar (the insurance ticket) and he said you have so many days to present your insurance card to have the charge dropped — he said the same thing happened to him last year when he was, coincidently caught going 5k over the speed limit in the place I told y’all about. He had just switched agencies and didn’t have his new card on him in the car. The charge was dropped when he presented his valid insurance card the next day.
He also suggested reporting the cop. Not that that’ll actually accomplish anything.
Rolling stops aren’t legal; get out of that habit before you hurt someone. If you can’t follow the rules of the road then please stay off it.
And taking a snotty attitude with the cops doesn’t give them any reason to give you a break. You gave the cop an expired insurance certificate; apparently your license has the wrong address on it, you didn’t stop at the stop sign… that’s a whole lot of problems all at once, NO cop is going to give you a break.
You’re lucky they let you continue to drive your vehicle, they actually could have made you get out of the vehicle and leave it there.
from the info you just gave, if that cop reads this, he already knows your name, and from now on, your life is hell. bite your tongue o.p., suck it up, and chalk it up to another part of your life lesson. i did a long time ago, and never had a problem since. some shit, you just gotta let go.
Rolling stop tickets are BS.
I got one and fought it, didn’t want the points and increased insurance problem so I entered the ‘Not guilty’ plea one day and went back 5 months later longing to prove the cop was a liar. I had all the evidence to prove the cop did not see what i was charged with. When my case was called the HRM lawyer whispered with the cop and then told the judge they would not be producing any evidence. Case dismissed.
For the insurance issue HRM will charge you $30 or more if you show up at the station with valid documents. ‘Admin fee’ they call it.
Write a letter to the Chief explaining how the officer refused to look at your valid insurance document and also consider laying a complaint. Being a jerk doesn’t give him the excuse to be a jerk; he/she is very well paid and having to scrub a ticket is just a minor inconvenience that his supervisor would have noticed and advised patience when dealing with a driver sitting in a car and not a threat.
I think I’m the only person that comes to a complete stop at a stop sign. It pisses off people behind me and if it’s a four-way stop, people think you’re letting them go. It’s probably the easiest ticket to avoid, why not just take an extra SECOND and actually stop?
“Gotta love how people blame others for doing their jobs. Here’s an idea: stop at the fucking stop sign.”
Donarious, that is a pretty high horse you are on. Let us remind you that you are free to turn yourself into the police for every time that you have failed to stop in your lifetime.
. and if the police don’t accept the thousands of dollars of fines you should get, you can always donate the money to charity.
I find the halifax police to be absolutely ridiculous!! Another story along the same lines. And the tickets here are so expensive. I love living here but this BS does not happen in Alberta!!
grrr…. I hate hellberta.
They’re expensive because they’re intended to be a deterrent that ACTUALLY deters people.
Feel free to ‘deter’ yourself the next time you roll through a stop.
“grrr…. I hate hellberta”
I’ve met some of the nicest Nova Scotians in Alberta.
“And the tickets here are so expensive. I love living here but this BS does not happen in Alberta!!”
Bullshit. My buddy was in Edmonton and flicked a cigarette butt out the window. Cop pulled him over and was gonna write him a ticket but instead made my buddy pick up a couple random dirty cigarette butts off the road. There are dickhead cops EVERYWHERE.