I got a ticket for running a stop sign...
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I got a ticket for running a stop sign...
Hello everybody, I'm a bicyclist from Brooklyn. What should I do? The ticket is $90. Should I pay it or should I go to court? FWIW the signs were obstucted by parked trucks on either side of the street, if that matters. Also the "stop" written on the ground before the intersection was pretty faded. I dont know if this matters to a judge.
If I contest and lose, how much extra will I have to pay?
If I do choose to contest, I will postpone once, I've heard that the officer is less likely to come to court if you postpone.
I'm unemployed and don't have money to pay this ticket!
If I contest and lose, how much extra will I have to pay?
If I do choose to contest, I will postpone once, I've heard that the officer is less likely to come to court if you postpone.
I'm unemployed and don't have money to pay this ticket!
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If you got the time fight it. Take a picture of the intersection with the trucks obstructing the view so you can't see the stop sign. Pretty ridiculous they pulled you over on a bike - was this last Friday?
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Fight it. You can probably get it thrown out or at least lessened. Follow Air's advice on taking a picture.
Did you get the ticket in Brooklyn? I can't imagine cops giving out tickets like that anywhere else? Was it a bike cop that gave it to you?
Did you get the ticket in Brooklyn? I can't imagine cops giving out tickets like that anywhere else? Was it a bike cop that gave it to you?
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I'd say you have a good argument with the sign being blocked, but not with the road sign being faded, unless it was faded enough that you truly couldn't read it. But honestly, if this were a driver getting pulle dover for a stop sign, would we even be having this discussion?
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Thanks for your replies. This happened in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) a couple weeks ago. It was a cop in one of those little motorized 3 wheel enclosed vehicles. I'm going to fight it. I'll let you know how it turns out.
True I wouldnt question the ticket if I were in a car. However, I've been biking in NYC for 20+ years, disobeyed pretty much every stop sign and run every red light in the city (in front of cops), this is the 1st ticket I've gotten.
Meanwhile a few days after I got the ticket my second bike got stolen from right in front of my building. Oh the irony...
True I wouldnt question the ticket if I were in a car. However, I've been biking in NYC for 20+ years, disobeyed pretty much every stop sign and run every red light in the city (in front of cops), this is the 1st ticket I've gotten.
Meanwhile a few days after I got the ticket my second bike got stolen from right in front of my building. Oh the irony...
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"stop means stop" in a vb stance (at least appear to be stopping by slowing down and respecting cops on scooters!) here in snj there is little amount of bicyclists present, period. wrong way (contra-traffic flow) is common, appears that cops have better things to do...., no tickets are given that i see.
i vb, so no issue here either!
good luck with your case and try vb (vehicular bicycling) stance, see how it pays to have the law on your side.
t
i vb, so no issue here either!
good luck with your case and try vb (vehicular bicycling) stance, see how it pays to have the law on your side.
t
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Originally Posted by tomg
good luck with your case and try vb (vehicular bicycling) stance, see how it pays to have the law on your side.
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So you approached an intersection on your bicycle and didn't stop because you didn't know you had to stop? Is that going to be your argument?
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Oh please, give the guy a break. There are plenty of intersections in Brooklyn that you would walk through after a quick glance and not worry about 'jay walking.' Those tickets are really rare - I live near a major intersection where cops are positioned every day to make sure people don't block the intersection and see something illegal every light change that they don't do anything about.
If you really want to debate it have one of those great circular discussions in A&S.
If you really want to debate it have one of those great circular discussions in A&S.
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Originally Posted by Air
If you really want to debate it have one of those great circular discussions in A&S.
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it seems we have a season for BS-tickets here in brooklyn. the new cops of the seasons are leaving the precincts for the first time writing tickets for the most redicolus things.
a visit at traffic court is a very new-yorky experience. chances are good your ticket will get thrown out. go for it.
a
a visit at traffic court is a very new-yorky experience. chances are good your ticket will get thrown out. go for it.
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Originally Posted by BrooklynNYCBike
Meanwhile a few days after I got the ticket my second bike got stolen from right in front of my building. Oh the irony...
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Originally Posted by Ziemas
Not to open up old wounds, but how did your bike get stolen? What kind of lock were you using? Thanks, and good luck fighting the ticket.
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Originally Posted by BrooklynNYCBike
Didn't lock the frame properly (meant to but my mistake) but did lock the front wheel, somehow the got the chain over the handlebars, probably removed them. Kryptonite ny chain remains. It was a really crappy bike so not a big loss but still a bummer. They'll probably get $10 if they try and sell it (missing 1 wheel). I'd like to ask them was it really worth it?
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Originally Posted by Johannes
it seems we have a season for BS-tickets here in brooklyn. the new cops of the seasons are leaving the precincts for the first time writing tickets for the most redicolus things.
a visit at traffic court is a very new-yorky experience. chances are good your ticket will get thrown out. go for it.
a
a visit at traffic court is a very new-yorky experience. chances are good your ticket will get thrown out. go for it.
a
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First of all I'd fight the ticket. Sounds like a traffic cop with nothing to do. Was it NYPD or a brownie traffic enforcement?
If he was in a 3 wheel Cushman type vehicle, how did they stop you let alone catch you? I don't believe those things have anything more than a red flashing light, they don't have a siren do they?
If he was in a 3 wheel Cushman type vehicle, how did they stop you let alone catch you? I don't believe those things have anything more than a red flashing light, they don't have a siren do they?
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Originally Posted by BrooklynNYCBike
Thanks for your replies. This happened in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) a couple weeks ago. It was a cop in one of those little motorized 3 wheel enclosed vehicles. I'm going to fight it. I'll let you know how it turns out.
True I wouldnt question the ticket if I were in a car. However, I've been biking in NYC for 20+ years, disobeyed pretty much every stop sign and run every red light in the city (in front of cops), this is the 1st ticket I've gotten.
Meanwhile a few days after I got the ticket my second bike got stolen from right in front of my building. Oh the irony...
True I wouldnt question the ticket if I were in a car. However, I've been biking in NYC for 20+ years, disobeyed pretty much every stop sign and run every red light in the city (in front of cops), this is the 1st ticket I've gotten.
Meanwhile a few days after I got the ticket my second bike got stolen from right in front of my building. Oh the irony...
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Go to court and ask why the cop doesn't have naything better to do
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NYPD. No sirens on his vehicle, he was honking at me from behind. I didn't even know it was a cop until I turned around. By then it was too late to jet.
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Originally Posted by StanSeven
Go to court and ask why the cop doesn't have naything better to do
Last edited by BrooklynNYCBike; 07-06-07 at 03:03 PM.
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Good Luck. This sort of insanity is why I moved out. A doctor threw some of his junk mail in a garbage can and a week later recieved a summons for using a public receptacle for private trash. It's on the books but you have got to be kidding me!
Spitting, jaywalking, and all sorts of other behaviors will get you a ticket but who really enforces all these inane rules! There is no "quota" it is called productivity. Read that as money maker for the city which tries to make life difficult for cyclists at every turn! Just my .02 cents!
Spitting, jaywalking, and all sorts of other behaviors will get you a ticket but who really enforces all these inane rules! There is no "quota" it is called productivity. Read that as money maker for the city which tries to make life difficult for cyclists at every turn! Just my .02 cents!
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Being a military policeman i would say fight it. If all the signs and street painting where either obstructed, missing, or faded you have the right to determine that the City was at fault for you by not properly marking the hazard.