I once got a ticket from a cop with no radar because he said he had been to classes to train for speed judgement. He told me that I made it up to 45 mph in less than 200 ft. with 1000 lbs in the back of my 02 ext cab with a 4.6L and 285s. I was young and didnt want to argue so I paid the fine and took the points. I honestly couldnt believe that truck could do that so I went back to the same spot when no one was around and even unloaded I couldnt reach the speed he "clocked" me at. I went to talk to the clerk and they said there was nothing I could do. I regret not challenging him to this day.

 

I hope to at the very least receive no points on my record for this. I have never had points on my record.... ever.

 

I always wondered what "fusible links" were made from, and now I know. (Didn't know it was "wire.")
Hope that fixes the issue. Dare I ask *how* the problem came to be in the first place?
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I think he just has a short in the FL ?!?!?!?

I was thinking that he wiggled it, and the truck started?

 

I'll be interested to learn how the appeal procedure works being not "in person."
I'd like to see an overhead of his placement and your path, too. RADAR doesn't work too well at angles. That's a tested and proven fact.

Yep, after you paid, you'd already admitted guilt. I had a similar incident, but the cop and I were still on-scene. When I showed him I had a four-cylinder, he let me off, figuring maybe I was right. It was a 2.6L 4-banger in a Plymouth Arrow, though, and those were faster than the same-year Trans-Ams.
In another case, I was on my bike (Nighthawk 650), and got tagged. When I want to court, and mentioned surrounding traffic, and a large truck I may (or may not) have noticed behind me, they dismissed the ticket.
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I was just working on an overhead view. I was in the middle lane, where the green path is laid out. I was at the light circled in red.... and there was a car next to me (black line). She took off ahead of me, and maintained about a 1/2 car length in front of me which was also blocking the path of my sight of the officer. I did not pass her until she applied the brakes around the purple circle, as she was turning at the next street - as I marked. The officer did not have me in his sight until the purple circle, and when I saw him, he was about to get on his bike. I looked down at that point, and my speedometer was a needle width above 40, so 41 mph approximately. I even told the cop that I looked at it, and it was at 40 when I saw him. He asked for my license, and came back with a ticket. I had no opportunity to converse with him about it.



Also.... this is where he was sitting.... not sure how much weight the "private property" things holds, but he was on private property. I know that technically you are supposed to have consent from the land owner.

 

Ain't Google Maps/Earth wonderful?
If he was peeking around the corner of that building, he could've tagged you and her (I don't think he could discern which) with RADAR just about anywhere along that path. With LiDAR, though, it's probable he could've picked either one of you off individually at any point. Maybe you were at 45 prior to passing him? Hard to call. Oh, and if he was just getting on his bike as you passed, he had likely already tagged you, and was preparing to move out, so you wouldn't have seen the device.

You could have (politely) asked to see the reading. If he couldn't/wouldn't show it to you, that could have been one more point in your appeal.
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Yeah, well then I was singled out by him. We were going the same speed until she hit the brakes.

If I gotta pay a fine, that's OK with me.... but I want the points absolved.

 

When I first got the truck, the negative battery clamp was cracked and meant the truck wouldn't start one day, I fixed that bit nice & easy

When it did similar the other day, that was the 1st place I looked and when I was checking the wires, I saw the under hood light come back on so I knew I was in the right area

Next time it did it, I was more careful on what I was moving and how, watching for the light to come on again, as soon as I moved the fusible link box, it lit straight up

Going on the video I watched on replacing them on YouTube, it's more likely to be corrosion of the connections rather than a break in the wire and I have been using the truck with no problems since (Oops, that's just jinxed it... Doh...).

But I'm not cutting into anything until the replacement wire arrives just in case... lol

 

That was my first ticket and I was honestly pretty confused about the whole deal, a freshman at college, and it occurred on campus. I later learned that the some of the campus cops were caught up in manufacturing situations and more than a few were let go by my sophomore year. The campus had it's own court and jail so it was all in house. They even called me 10 years after I left to tell me that they had issued a warrant for my arrest for failing to show up to contest parking tickets that were issued while I was there.

I asked to have them mail me copies of said tickets and was told i was more than welcome to make the 5 hour drive to come to the jail to view them in person. Hahahaha yeh no. My cousin is a sheriff so I asked him to check my for any thing out of place on my record when he ran my name and nothing was there at all.