Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
This is why people are so fed up with the revenue generators.
This morning the guys are trying to merge left on a frontage road to get on the interstate.
They have to first merge with the lane on their left, then get onto the interstate.
At a minimum of 45 mph to merge with interstate traffic they have 1293 feet to do it "legally" (about 19 seconds)
Keep in mind they are also driving about 50 ft of truck and trailer.
As they pass the "gore" (if you don't know what that is I'd suggest you learn it so you can try to avoid paying your road tax too) and are in a position to merge with their blinker on a little 4 cyl car speeds up to try to get in front of them (as they always do).
Chris slows down and tries to let him pass.
Seconds pass by.
4 cyl slowly moves ahead, no hurry now because he knows he is eventually going to get in front of us.
Chris slows more, blinker still on.
Rearview mirror shows a highway patrol way back, coming much faster than the 4cyl, no lights on.
Just at the beginning of the "gore" 4 cyl passes, Chris moves over to get on the interstate.
Highway patrol is still 100 yards behind but barreling up fast.
He pulls Chris over and gives him a ticket for "Crossed the painted gore restricted area"
Chris asked him if he saw that car pull up from behind and block him as soon as he saw Chris turn his turn signal on. He says he doesn't care what any other car did, the other car isn't getting a ticket for crossing the gore.
Shelly got a ticket for this years ago in a similar situation and the ticket was $350.
And, of course he had to add another ticket for "No proof of insurance" in the truck. The one in there was expired, the new one was sitting in a pile of mail on one of our desks. Nevermind the fact that Nevada has instant reporting from insurance companies that revokes your tags if you are even a day late on your insurance and nevermind the fact that he has access to current proof of insurance on his screen at the touch of a finger.
Chris told him I was 10 blocks away and on my way with the insurance card, but he said he didn't have time to wait and the ticket was for not having it in the truck...........hmmm. I wonder if that was the state legislature's concern when they passed the insurance law?
Now if we don't physically take the proof of insurance to the court that will be another $737 tax.
$1087.00
So, what is going to happen? I'll tell you. Been there, done that. We are going to hire the same attorney we've used for traffic for 10 years. It will cost us $100.
We will plead not guilty and demand a hearing.
The highway patrol officer will be required to appear. Hopefully after a long night of work before long night of work after his appearance.
Our attorney will make him look like an idiot to everyone in the court except the judge who will hang on his every word.
We will eventually lose, as always.
The ticket will be reduced to a parking ticket that will never show up on Chris' record and will not report to the insurance company in exchange for paying $60 in court costs on the spot. The attorney will provide proof of insurance and that will be dropped per statute.
So, here's the final assessment.
Since I live here and an educated on how the system works and I have an attorney for that I will pay $160.
$60 road tax and $100 for the bloodsucking attorney.
If I didn't know the system or didn't live here I'd pay between $350 and $1087 depending on if I had the ability to travel back to Las Vegas to show my proof of insurance on a court date that they purposefully put out for weeks before you are allowed to pay the ticket or see the judge to trap the most tourists.
Plus, if that is the second ticket in three years my insurance might go up and cost me thousands more.
Welcome to America. Where the uneducated and poor are raped for the most minor of incidents where there IS NO VICTIM.
This morning the guys are trying to merge left on a frontage road to get on the interstate.
They have to first merge with the lane on their left, then get onto the interstate.
At a minimum of 45 mph to merge with interstate traffic they have 1293 feet to do it "legally" (about 19 seconds)
Keep in mind they are also driving about 50 ft of truck and trailer.
As they pass the "gore" (if you don't know what that is I'd suggest you learn it so you can try to avoid paying your road tax too) and are in a position to merge with their blinker on a little 4 cyl car speeds up to try to get in front of them (as they always do).
Chris slows down and tries to let him pass.
Seconds pass by.
4 cyl slowly moves ahead, no hurry now because he knows he is eventually going to get in front of us.
Chris slows more, blinker still on.
Rearview mirror shows a highway patrol way back, coming much faster than the 4cyl, no lights on.
Just at the beginning of the "gore" 4 cyl passes, Chris moves over to get on the interstate.
Highway patrol is still 100 yards behind but barreling up fast.
He pulls Chris over and gives him a ticket for "Crossed the painted gore restricted area"
Chris asked him if he saw that car pull up from behind and block him as soon as he saw Chris turn his turn signal on. He says he doesn't care what any other car did, the other car isn't getting a ticket for crossing the gore.
Shelly got a ticket for this years ago in a similar situation and the ticket was $350.
And, of course he had to add another ticket for "No proof of insurance" in the truck. The one in there was expired, the new one was sitting in a pile of mail on one of our desks. Nevermind the fact that Nevada has instant reporting from insurance companies that revokes your tags if you are even a day late on your insurance and nevermind the fact that he has access to current proof of insurance on his screen at the touch of a finger.
Chris told him I was 10 blocks away and on my way with the insurance card, but he said he didn't have time to wait and the ticket was for not having it in the truck...........hmmm. I wonder if that was the state legislature's concern when they passed the insurance law?
Now if we don't physically take the proof of insurance to the court that will be another $737 tax.
$1087.00
So, what is going to happen? I'll tell you. Been there, done that. We are going to hire the same attorney we've used for traffic for 10 years. It will cost us $100.
We will plead not guilty and demand a hearing.
The highway patrol officer will be required to appear. Hopefully after a long night of work before long night of work after his appearance.
Our attorney will make him look like an idiot to everyone in the court except the judge who will hang on his every word.
We will eventually lose, as always.
The ticket will be reduced to a parking ticket that will never show up on Chris' record and will not report to the insurance company in exchange for paying $60 in court costs on the spot. The attorney will provide proof of insurance and that will be dropped per statute.
So, here's the final assessment.
Since I live here and an educated on how the system works and I have an attorney for that I will pay $160.
$60 road tax and $100 for the bloodsucking attorney.
If I didn't know the system or didn't live here I'd pay between $350 and $1087 depending on if I had the ability to travel back to Las Vegas to show my proof of insurance on a court date that they purposefully put out for weeks before you are allowed to pay the ticket or see the judge to trap the most tourists.
Plus, if that is the second ticket in three years my insurance might go up and cost me thousands more.
Welcome to America. Where the uneducated and poor are raped for the most minor of incidents where there IS NO VICTIM.
