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January 12, 2006
Speeding ticket
So, I got a speeding ticket in Owen Sound on the weekend ... we had just left Tim Horton's and I was distracted by the caffeinated goodness, or something. The cop was really pleasant and even though I was going 73 in a 50 zone he wrote the ticket out for 60kph so I wouldn't get hit with the large fine. But, he wrote completely the wrong date on the ticket. He has the offence as occurring on November 26, 2005 rather than January 7, 2006. I was at a hockey game with my brother on that date in November and have the pictures to prove it. I'm thinking I could beat this rap because of the date mix up but do I really want to go to court in Owen Sound to get out of a $40 fine? Not to mention that I did commit the crime and the cop was very good about it. Dilemma.
Posted by John at January 12, 2006 10:09 AM
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no doubt in my mind. pay it. there's so no excuse for risking people's lives by speeding, the least you can do is face this very minor consequence for having done it.
Posted by: Elise at January 12, 2006 10:34 AM
You'd spend more then $40 to spend the day out in Owen Sound, I say you should just pay the ticket and think long and hard about what you've done young man!
Posted by: Kerry at January 12, 2006 10:35 AM
and as additional penance perhaps you should fork out 40 more bucks to take us out for a treat (for providing such sound advice) and read chapter 4 ("Dead Man Driving") of Stiff, by Mary Roach, to see what bodies in car crashes look like.
No more yurt for you. From now on it's strictly yogurt.
Posted by: Elise at January 12, 2006 11:20 AM
Wow. I can only imagine how much worse my punishment would be if I'd actually *hit* that old lady with the seeing-eye dog rather than just grazing her as I spun out of control in front of the school bus full of children before coming to rest in the middle of the watermelon stand conveniently located right next to the road.
Posted by: John at January 12, 2006 11:37 AM
And I was drunk. AND talking on my cell phone.
Posted by: John at January 12, 2006 12:43 PM
uh-uh... very naughty. i'm gonna need a minute to devise an appropriate punishment for all this, perhaps involving certain dress and veeery special implements...
or else this may just mean no creme brulee for you tomorrow. whichever comes first i guess.
Posted by: Elise at January 12, 2006 02:02 PM
>> perhaps involving certain dress and veeery special implements...
I know I should be frightened but ...
Posted by: John at January 12, 2006 02:14 PM
and well you should be!
there's nothing worst than being faced with a Ceasar salad when all you feel like doing is nonchalently tapping the top of your creme brulee with the back of your spoon.
but hey. you do the crime you do the time man.
Posted by: Elise at January 12, 2006 02:44 PM
Eeeeek! Too harsh! I beg for clemency!
Posted by: John at January 12, 2006 02:58 PM