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Just got a voicemail from a police officer warning me about my driving
- Thread starter Buddhacide
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Maybe it was the Military Police who he "thinks" help civilian Police as the civilian Police can't catch speeding or running motorcycles, but the Military Police drive around in black suburbans just for this very reason...LOL Whoops wait a suburban s sitting outside my shop perhaps they intercepted this as I am typing...LMAO
Police cannot charge you by phone, nor can they give you a ticket for something they didn't witness.. They have to catch you doing it. I had a woman cut me off so I flipped the high beams and honked the horn at her.. Cop calls me and says he could charge me with dangerous driving.. Really. Dangerous driving for brights and horn.. I guess car manufacturers are gonna have to stop installing high beams and horns.. They can call, threaten, etc etc but if they didn't see you doing it, they wont have a prayer in court if it even got that far..
This is not true, how do drivers involved in collisions receive tickets? Surely the officer who wrote the ticket did not see it. Are they writing/printing toilet-paper?
ddusseld
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This post epitomizes why taking advice about the law on a generic internet forum is a giant crap shoot......
I think airwolf came before blue thunder..
But regardless both cool.
And yes, LOTS of misinformation being thrown around in this thread. Keep it up, getting a good laugh!
2500Express
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What a crock of ****. This Road Watch program is just begging to be abused by ****** drivers who think they own the road and can flag down any drivers at their whim. Being anonymous means they can call in multiple times in the span of a couple months if they're feeling especially vindictive.
Let the police do their own damned job and leave the people to their own devices.
Let the police do their own damned job and leave the people to their own devices.
Getting a ticket from a crash is different from someone calling in and saying you did something. Someone who calls in a complaint is capable of saying whatever they want no matter how true it is or not. They can make it up if they want to, unless there happens to be a go-pro around taping it.. Same thing if you call the police to report a drunk, the police don't just ask you for the plate and mail the person a ticket. They actually have to come and catch them they cant take your word for it. If cops were able to charge you from someones phone call, imagine the **** people would be charged with..
He is not completely wrong, this is cops cannot lose sight of a runner.
Accidents are a little different but if the ticket is bogus, do you think it will stick in court? No.
油井緋色;2129011 said:
This is only the case in a very narrow set of circumstances, and then only used to try and create reasonable doubt. It doesn't always work. Remember that independent witnesses can easily close the gap, where doubt is concerned.
In other words yes, ninjaboy is wrong.
Jason416
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My only experience was being really upset when my grandfather received a letter from Halton Police. He had a bad heart condition and couldn't walk too far or long so he had a permit to park in wheel chair parking spots from the ministry. Someone called him in and reported him as abusing wheel chair spots since he wasn't on crutches or in a wheel chair.
I called the police back and they said that there is nothing to do for follow up. It was a follow up response to a complaint that has absolutely no impact on the driver/ owner. I think the program is ridiculous. There should be a way for the reported party to address the issue with whoever reported it through the same system--keeping it anonymous if necessary, just being able to send a letter back.
I called the police back and they said that there is nothing to do for follow up. It was a follow up response to a complaint that has absolutely no impact on the driver/ owner. I think the program is ridiculous. There should be a way for the reported party to address the issue with whoever reported it through the same system--keeping it anonymous if necessary, just being able to send a letter back.
If anything was to come of such a complaint, with respect to a charge, then the complainant would no longer be able to maintain anonymity. He or she would have to act as a witness in order for the charges to go forward. Other than that all that you receive is a phone call, or letter, so why is there any need for rebuttal?
While complaints don't go on official pilice records. it looks like complaints can stay on your "file" within a police department.
When I lived in Mount Albert I had someone cut me off severly when I was driving my car. They had a red light and came off the end of hwy 404 and made a right turn in front of me onto Green Lane. If I hadn't have had my bike sense and moved the right way I would have hit him. When I went beside him I put my hands in the air with "what was that" look. He gave me the finger. I got home about 10 minutes later and shortly after that a York Regional was at my door saying they had a complaint about a possible drunk driver.
Several months later I had a "chat" with a York Regional and that event was in my "file" and the officer mentioned it to me. (Thankfully he was a fellow rider and after a good talk about riding he sent me on my way.)
My point is that these things seem to hang around and may efect how officers perceive you later.
..Tom
Which means that if they catch you doing something else, later, you might not get a warning instead of a ticket when you might not have gotten away with it anyway. And that's IF it's actually recorded in some sort of database that can be searched at the time of the subsequent stop.
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