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thunder

07-23-2010, 02:05 PM

Frosty

07-23-2010, 02:07 PM

Shouldn't the moral of the story be don't drive without inspection or don't speed? ;)

Sucks dude.

How did he write you for a tinted hatch...that's legal isn't it? What repairs needed to be made that weren't done?

thunder

07-23-2010, 02:10 PM

i was in a line of cars and i dont actually think i was speeding. I seriously think he made up the number

Green_Phoenix_LT1

07-23-2010, 02:15 PM

How did you get a ticket for tinted hatch? Rear windows have no tint restrictions as long as you have both side mirrors.

thunder

07-23-2010, 02:18 PM

How did you get a ticket for tinted hatch? Rear windows have no tint restrictions as long as you have both side mirrors.

My side windows were down. so he didnt see those but i have a ticket for tints so thats the only thing i could figure it being for

BonzoHansen

07-23-2010, 02:25 PM

1.No inspection <--you're beat
2.obstructed view <--??????
3.failure to make repairs <--you're beat, but isn't this the same as #1?
4.36 in a 30 <--really? come on, that is just nutty. plea it away
5.unclear plates <--why? you're probably beat.
6.Tinted hatch <-- WTF??

Us old guys always get told we suck and we don't know what we're talking about when we say tinting is a cop magnet. Damn kids never listen! :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/SIBLY/Emos/DamnKids.png

thunder

07-23-2010, 02:30 PM

Knipps

07-23-2010, 02:30 PM

Scott #2 could be anything on the windshield or hanging from the rearview mirror

edit: damn, thunder beat me to it. Sounds like he had it out for you dude...

Green_Phoenix_LT1

07-23-2010, 02:32 PM

Yeah my rear hatch is tinted 5% and I have never been questioned about it. Went through inspection with it everything was fine. Also just look at 95% of SUVs and other newer cars have "Privacy Glass" as a factory standard/option. So yeah I would plea that as well as the 6 over the speed limit. As far as the other things your gonna be stuck with them. Obstruction of view no matter what it is/was will hold up and the inspection as well. The repair thing has me a little confused as to it being along the same lines as inspection.

r0nin89

07-23-2010, 02:36 PM

so i was driving home and when i was 2 blocks from home a cop passes going the other direction and turns around so i already know were about to have chat.Before he even gets out of his car 2 other squad cars show up and a third later on. turns out i was doing 35 in a 30 and thats why he stopped me. I was polite as usual and didnt argue. He comes back a half hour later holding six tickets... Thats not a typo he gave me the following six tickets

1.No inspection
2.obstructed view
3.failure to make repairs
4.36 in a 30
5.unclear plates
6.Tinted hatch

Moral of the story. Stay the **** out of Metuchen.

**** the cop deal with the court.

Get inspection, most judges will throw it out.

Then ask how/why a failure to repair is justified if you didnt have a failure sticker from the DMV or a previous warning

Obstructed view your kinda beat, its $55 bucks... Could always plead that the cop unfairly threw the book at you even after being polite etc but that a stretch

Plead down the 36 in a 30. Make sure you tell the prosecutor your were following traffic and honestly didnt even realize it.

Unclear plates you should be able to have thrown out. Go get it inspected and then tell him the inspection station had no problem with the border so hows it and issue. And pretty much ditto on the tint.

I bet if you show up with proof of inspection and honestly plead your case to the prosecutor (if hes a normal person and not a power trip **** ass) he'll drop everything but the speeding and plead it down.

Green_Phoenix_LT1

07-23-2010, 02:38 PM

**** the cop deal with the court.

Get inspection, most judges will throw it out.

Then ask how/why a failure to repair is justified if you didnt have a failure sticker from the DMV or a previous warning

Obstructed view your kinda beat, its $55 bucks... Could always plead that the cop unfairly threw the book at you even after being polite etc but that a stretch

Plead down the 36 in a 30. Make sure you tell the prosecutor your were following traffic and honestly didnt even realize it.

Unclear plates you should be able to have thrown out. Go get it inspected and then tell him the inspection station had no problem with the border so hows it and issue. And pretty much ditto on the tint.

I bet if you show up with proof of inspection and honestly plead your case to the prosecutor (if hes a normal person and not a power trip **** ass) he'll drop everything but the speeding and plead it down.

X2:nod:

BonzoHansen

07-23-2010, 02:40 PM

I agree with that too

thunder

07-23-2010, 02:58 PM

Oh ya im gonna fight every single ticket. No doubt

Blacdout96

07-23-2010, 03:02 PM

gotta fill that quota somehow. what's his reason for failure to make repair?

Frosty

07-23-2010, 03:07 PM

2. Had a whistle on a chain hanging from the rearview mirror
5. had one of those brackets around my plate. The thing a dealerships gives you but mine sais SHU on it

Damn, that's nit picking there. While you were in the wrong for the other stuff that's just BS there.

NJ Torque

07-23-2010, 03:08 PM

Did he ask you to roll up your front windows? If not he cannot write you for a tinted hatch.

The speeding is well... speeding.

**** hanging from the mirror, well I would have written/told you a warning...

Failure to repair? Have a dead inspection sticker?

98CamaroSS

07-23-2010, 03:49 PM

Us old guys always get told we suck and we don't know what we're talking about when we say tinting is a cop magnet. Damn kids never listen! :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/SIBLY/Emos/DamnKids.png

I agree :nod: nothing attracts the cops more then tints. :-x

_87TA_

07-23-2010, 03:54 PM

Wow...
I am so glad I'm registering through FL

Anti_Rice_Guy

07-23-2010, 04:00 PM

I agree with everyone here, like I texted you before. I still don't see how he can possibly give you a tinted hatch ticket. Hell, my Exploder has 20% tint on the two back doors, the side windows, and back window from the FACTORY, so I don't see how that's possible. Rack bodies don't even HAVE back windows.

You can read everything except the "garden state" part of the plate with those frames can't you? Mine corroded so I have a different one on but I'm trying to remember.

Knipps

07-23-2010, 04:04 PM

Nick that may be true but they're still technically illegal

Mike

07-23-2010, 04:17 PM

he may have been nitpicking, but you did do everything he wrote...

Tsar

07-23-2010, 05:10 PM

he may have been nitpicking, but you did do everything he wrote...
Precisely.

And I call BS on the "tinted hatch" thing. You either rolled up your windows for him and he gave you a ticket for tinted windows, or he saw that your windows were tinted and gave you a ticket for ... tinted windows. Does your ticket say "tinted hatch"? I doubt it.

LTb1ow

07-23-2010, 05:20 PM

Obstruction of view = silly ginormous padded roll bar?

nj85z28

07-23-2010, 05:47 PM

Maybe he's a mustang guy

madness410

07-23-2010, 05:58 PM

Maybe he's a mustang guy

that or maybe its a guy he used to beat up in high school.

sucks about the tickets man but im sure you can fight them. im suprised he gave u a speeding ticket for that even if you were following traffic...i hear most cops are lenient up to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit but like cbrmike said you were doing it..

79T/A

07-23-2010, 06:18 PM

It definitely sucks that the cop dropped the hammer so hard on you, but I think something else is going on here. Ordinarily, that large number of tickets equals the driver being a total D bag, but the large amount of police cars leads me to believe that a car similar to yours was seen leaving a street race, recently evaded the police, or may have been involved in a crime and they didn't have any way to prove it wasn't you; therefore, they wrote a bunch of tickets after a computer check of you didn't yield any useful information. Whatever it was, and whatever you do courtwise, I'd stay out of Metuchen.

I once got pulled over in Highland Park. Similar circumstances. Cop saw me, turned around followed me until he had a back up unit behind him, lit me up. Then I saw at least three more cars join them. Guy took one look at me (Without asking for ID), asked where I was coming from, where I was going, and where I was the night before. When I told him work, and who I worked for, he actually asked me if anyone else had been driving my Jeep at the time. If I wasn't on the job, I wouldn't have been surprised if I hadn't gotten tickets for my lack of inspection, mud flaps, or any other violation he could find.

lordsnoopalot

07-23-2010, 06:33 PM

DAm i just got 2 tickets on my ride to florida in virgina and i thought that was bad. i got stopped for speeding and he also gave me a ticket for my rear windows being tinted. buts its the stock privacy glass in virgina its 35% is legal and my stock back window tint is 20% so its a $96 ticket for something the car came with brand new out of the box

Brendan713

07-23-2010, 07:00 PM

well i am so sorry for you bro its total BS. Some cops are total Dbags i on the other hand thankfully have never had one like your situation. Own up to the two and say the other four a BS i dont see a way of wiggling yourself out of all six

thunder

07-23-2010, 08:51 PM

It definitely sucks that the cop dropped the hammer so hard on you, but I think something else is going on here.

Ya man i lived around here for a long time so i know better than to speed in this town and im trying to figure out what caused him to drop the hammer. I was very polite as usual since i know your getting nowhere startin **** with the cop. I think it might be cause my one neighbor keeps calling the police to complain about my car, so maybe there being pressured to do something?

madness410

07-23-2010, 10:01 PM

i hear usually when cops see kids with riced out hondas or souped up cars or cars they know will go fast...its not a matter of IF they will be speeding or racing, but WHEN they will...maybe they are having a street racing problem im metuchen and want things like this post to happen to deter people from speeding / racing in metuchen

redsoxsstink

07-23-2010, 11:27 PM

maybe the gutted cats tipped em off. local law endorsement sucks.... all they are out to do is make money not make the streets safer:-x

NastyEllEssWon

07-23-2010, 11:57 PM

sucks but you legitimately have all those things wrong with your car. gotta pay to play man.

the inspection ticket wont go away even if you get it inspected...ive tried it before... doesnt fly. the only one youll probably be able to talk down is the unclear plates.

Frosty

07-24-2010, 08:23 AM

maybe the gutted cats tipped em off. local law endorsement sucks.... all they are out to do is make money not make the streets safer:-x

Remember that last phrase the next time you're in a bad situation and need their help...

WildBillyT

07-24-2010, 09:54 AM

I think something else is going on here. Ordinarily, that large number of tickets equals the driver being a total D bag, but the large amount of police cars leads me to believe that a car similar to yours was seen leaving a street race, recently evaded the police, or may have been involved in a crime and they didn't have any way to prove it wasn't you

Exactly what I was thinking. Just about every cop I've ever met has been pretty fair with what they write. Getting a long list like that is kind of odd.

NastyEllEssWon

07-24-2010, 11:22 AM

Exactly what I was thinking. Just about every cop I've ever met has been pretty fair with what they write. Getting a long list like that is kind of odd.

i usually get laundry lists of tickets when i get pulled over and a search to boot, but to be fair i usually keep a few things ''ticketable'' on my car to get out of the bigger tickets :nod:

WayFast84

07-24-2010, 11:24 AM

Metuchen is the worst town to ever drive in. I am not surprised by this. Good luck fighting the tickets.

Jersey Mike

07-24-2010, 12:20 PM

How much was the inspection ticket

sweetbmxrider

07-24-2010, 12:41 PM

sucks man, i'm sure a few tickets will get dropped in court but it really depends on your record. if its real bad, that could be why you got slammed. it also could be tied into the recent !safety inspections.

the inspection ticket wont go away even if you get it inspected...ive tried it before... doesnt fly. the only one youll probably be able to talk down is the unclear plates.

i can't speak for the town in question but any municipal court i have been in, the prosecutor tells the offender to get the car inspected/registered/insured and they will drop that ticket.

NastyEllEssWon

07-24-2010, 12:45 PM

failure to inspect is 180 bucks iirc

thunder

07-24-2010, 01:06 PM

failure to inspect is 180 bucks iirc

that varies from township to township some are 130

thunder

07-24-2010, 01:09 PM

Exactly what I was thinking. Just about every cop I've ever met has been pretty fair with what they write. Getting a long list like that is kind of odd.

Exactly. Usually when i get a ticket it sucks but im not mad a the cop cause there doing there job but this extremely nitpicky. Its one thing if he pulled me over and i gave him a hard time but i was polite and even told him i would take of the Shu bracket(unclear plates) and the whistle(obstruction of vision) on the spot if he would like.

thunder

07-24-2010, 01:10 PM

Metuchen is the worst town to ever drive in. I am not surprised by this. Good luck fighting the tickets.

Ya i see ur from edison. Alot of my friends from edison refuse to visit me cause of the cops. Usually Metuchen cops stick to ticketing out of town folk but still i drive slow around town

BurninrubberGT

07-24-2010, 11:35 PM

police are going crazy with unclear plates, your the 6th person i have heard get a ticket for it in the last month in nj

ryanfx

07-25-2010, 10:25 AM

police are going crazy with unclear plates, your the 6th person i have heard get a ticket for it in the last month in nj

I heard there's an NJ ticket blitz going into effect! Every 3 minutes they want to writ......

wait nvm :P

Frosty

07-25-2010, 10:27 AM

:rofl:

WayFast84

07-25-2010, 12:32 PM

Ya i see ur from edison. Alot of my friends from edison refuse to visit me cause of the cops. Usually Metuchen cops stick to ticketing out of town folk but still i drive slow around town

I have to go into Metuchen all the time. I pretty much know where all the cops hide out but you still don't screw around. I'm gonna go take the license plate bracket off my DD later just so I don't get messed with when school starts.

thor117

07-25-2010, 12:42 PM

the plate bracket is really a gamble. you can take it off to avoid the ticket, or you can leave it on cause if the cops in a good mood and your respectful he can knock a ticket down to plate bracket. i personally leave mine on. it gives the officer the opportunity to not give you a more expensive ticket or one with points

BurninrubberGT

07-25-2010, 01:56 PM

^well the problem with that is they will just pull you over for that..

thor117

07-25-2010, 04:48 PM

they don't really just write tickets for the plate bracket. and they don't pull you over for it unless they think they'll find something else wrong with it. but even then. there are always other things they can pull you over for. in my opinion taking it off won't stop much.

Chad

07-25-2010, 05:08 PM

sucks =(

fmybody

07-25-2010, 06:30 PM

its basically EFF metuchen.. i straight up got arrested there one time.. it all started with getting pulled over for tints..

TINTS FTL

NastyEllEssWon

07-25-2010, 08:21 PM

its basically EFF metuchen.. i straight up got arrested there one time.. it all started with getting pulled over for tints..

TINTS FTL

you realize that routine traffic stops are a cops best weapon for preventing crime right?

sweetbmxrider

07-25-2010, 09:31 PM

no, i believe its police presence buddy. that, then guns :nod:

LTb1ow

07-25-2010, 09:32 PM

Don't tase me bro!

stoney2677

07-26-2010, 03:07 PM

was it the female cop with long brown hair? i always see her pullin people over. you should be careful anyway, i know neighbors are talkin. maybe someone put a call in to the cops.

oh one ls1 SS

07-26-2010, 11:16 PM

what was the cops badge number or name?

DaSkinnyGuy

07-27-2010, 01:59 AM

1.No inspection ( not hard to give someone some cash to pass you )
2.obstructed view ( common sense **** dont belong there )
3.failure to make repairs ( could have been fixed prior if you found someone to pass you
4.36 in a 30 ( technically speeding, maybe could have asked to see his wonderful radar )
5.unclear plates ( thats a cop being a jack )
6.Tinted hatch ( Bull he didnt verify your side windows so tell him to scratch )

07-27-2010, 07:34 AM

i got pulled over years back for loud exhaust(no catback on the car-no cats either) and he let me go(dating a cops daughter at the time and had PBA card) but not after mentioning that my tinted rear hatch was illegal. I had rolled up my sides to show him they weren't tinted. As he was walking away, i leaned out the window and called him back to my car and asked " how long has the statue been around that you cant tint the rear window?" he told me it always has been on the books. I knew better, plus i had 2 beers earlier in the night, so i left it at that and wished him a good night. The next day i told my GF's dad that he said my tint was illegal. he replied with just almost exactly as " you should have said you'll "take the ticket and make him look like an 'A-hole' in court"....
I was positive about the rear window issue since in '97, i had a gold firebird decal i wanted to put on the rear hatch of my trans am but I was concerned about being legal to block any view so i went to the police station with the decal and asked them. They told me i can put whatever i want on the rear window, and i could even "paint it solid black" for all the law cared.

maroman88

07-27-2010, 02:27 PM

i got pulled over in park ridge my senior year of high school cuz i had white shoe polish on the back window with class of 2004, got a warning lol

BonzoHansen

07-27-2010, 03:13 PM

I once got pulled over for speeding in a 30 zone. How did he know I was speeding? He told me he had to do 50 to catch me. I'm not sure he likd my answer 'don't you have to go faster than me to catch me?'. However, I did not get a ticket.

WildBillyT

07-27-2010, 03:18 PM

oh one ls1 SS

08-02-2010, 11:34 PM

got a badge number or name?

thunder

08-03-2010, 12:34 AM

was it the female cop with long brown hair? i always see her pullin people over. you should be careful anyway, i know neighbors are talkin. maybe someone put a call in to the cops.

nah it was some young guy. And i figured neighbors were talking, most of them never liked me anyway. Even tho i drive around the neighbor hood nice and slow

got a badge number or name?

no name but 76 i think was the badge number

RU_Weskot

08-03-2010, 01:06 AM

nah it was some young guy. And i figured neighbors were talking, most of them never liked me anyway. Even tho i drive around the neighbor hood nice and slow

well you got the neighbors that complain about cars being parked the wrong way, right? ... they need to be frightened. just give em a ride to the post office ;) then they'll never dare to pick up the phone again.

Aka: DONT **** WITH THE GUNSHIP!

thunder

08-03-2010, 01:04 PM

well you got the neighbors that complain about cars being parked the wrong way, right? ... they need to be frightened. just give em a ride to the post office ;) then they'll never dare to pick up the phone again.

Aka: DONT **** WITH THE GUNSHIP!

oh god my neighbors complain about everything. the one to my left complained once cause we parked our minivan in front of his house and he was pissed because "it obstructed his view" another time he was mad because i parked my car facing the wrong way on the street and then he is mad when i have too many people over cause it crowds the street to much...

Oh and stoney Sorry if the car is a bit loud when i start it at night.. im still trying to get my cutout fixed

sweetbmxrider

08-03-2010, 01:15 PM

and you wanted to dig a pit in your driveway? you crazy! :lol:

your neighbors are ghey

Stupercharged

08-03-2010, 01:52 PM

Haha maybe we share the same neighbors because I get the cops called every once in a while about either working on the car in the street, car parked the wrong way on street, hell one even called about vehicle sitting in the driveway to long....

thunder

08-03-2010, 03:02 PM

and you wanted to dig a pit in your driveway? you crazy! :lol:

your neighbors are ghey

Having bad neighbors hasnt stopped me from having a bad time. And not ALL my neighbors are bad, theres just one flaming dickcheese in particular

Haha maybe we share the same neighbors because I get the cops called every once in a while about either working on the car in the street, car parked the wrong way on street, hell one even called about vehicle sitting in the driveway to long....

it would be wonderful to have neighbors that mind there own damn business wouldnt it. Btw i love the quote in your sig

madness410

08-03-2010, 09:58 PM

maybe the gutted cats tipped em off. local law endorsement sucks.... all they are out to do is make money not make the streets safer:-x

cops make the same salary regardless of how many tickets they write.

look on the ticket for the cops name and badge number.

Nitr0racing21

08-04-2010, 04:26 AM

for the inspection you can get a shop to date the inspection before the ticket then get a receipt for a replaced windshield so you didnt have it, argue that to the court

BonzoHansen

08-04-2010, 10:49 AM

for the inspection you can get a shop to date the inspection before the ticket then get a receipt for a replaced windshield so you didnt have it, argue that to the court
lmao

Tru2Chevy

08-04-2010, 01:57 PM

for the inspection you can get a shop to date the inspection before the ticket then get a receipt for a replaced windshield so you didnt have it, argue that to the court

lmao

Yea, seriously.....someone doesn't know jack about NJ inspections - or windshield replacement.

- Justin

IROCZman15

08-07-2010, 05:43 PM

wow, that cop went overboard big time with the tickets. not cool. tinted rear glass is legal. there are 3 windows on a nj registered car that can not have ANY tintintg on them.. the windshield, the front drivers and front pass window. the rest can be tinted

stoney2677

08-07-2010, 08:09 PM

oh god my neighbors complain about everything. the one to my left complained once cause we parked our minivan in front of his house and he was pissed because "it obstructed his view" another time he was mad because i parked my car facing the wrong way on the street and then he is mad when i have too many people over cause it crowds the street to much...

Oh and stoney Sorry if the car is a bit loud when i start it at night.. im still trying to get my cutout fixed

pft. i love the way that car sounds when it starts. and my kid sleeps through anything.