rec.sport.football.college

On Mar 4, 1:19=A0am, Bill Lang wrote:
> On Tue 04 Mar 2008 12:53:49a, OrangeDood
> (no_this_isnt@) wrote
>
>
>
> > Who lives in a pineapple under the sea, Bill Lang
> > ?
>
> >>>>> > Anyone ever beat one of these things?
>
> >>>>> Always, always, always fight the ticket. Nine times out of
> >>>>> ten the cop won't even show up, and it'll get tossed for
> >>>>> failure to prosecute.
>
> >>>> I've never fought a ticket, cuz I've always been guilty.
>
> >>> What's that got to do with it? This is America, son. You're
> >>> innocent until proven guilty.
>
> >> I figured someone would say that.
>
> >> I ain't lying to a judge to save a hundred bucks. =A0And I ain't
> >> smart enough or paying a lawyer who's smart enough to get me
> >> out of it without lying.
>
> > I've beaten no less than three traffic tickets in Cincinnati
> > courts in the last ten years or so. Never had to lie at any of
> > them. And I was guilty as fuck every time.
>
> > Remember, it ain't on you to prove your innocence. It's on
> > *them* to prove your *guilt*. And they do an astonishingly bad
> > job of it.
>
> I look at it like this, I live clean. =A0I don't cheat on my taxes,
> don't DUI, and wouldn't knowingly defraud someone else. =A0My one
> vice is I like driving fast and I'm careful about that. =A0If I get
> busted, I pay the piper. =A0Only once have I been charged with a
> traffic violation that I wasn't 100% guilty of, but since I was in
> a truck in GA I knew fighting it was a waste of time.
>
> Nah, if they catch me there's a reason for it.
>
> --
> wjlmuttatyeahwhodotcom
>
> "I before E except after C, and E before N in chicken"

No harm in telling the judge you did it and are sorry, but could he
knock the fine down a couple bucks?

Most do.