Hello, I'm in a bit of a bind and need some advice, I've never gotten a ticket before and am a little overwhelmed. I recieved two tickets this evening "Driver fail to surrender licence" -sect 33(1) "Speeding 140km/hr in a 100 km/hr zone" -sect 128 The tickets come up to $405.00 (#1 $110.00, #2 $295.00), Now, I'm unemployed at the momment and litterally have no way to legaly come up with the money to pay these tickets, so I'd really like to fight them and hope he screwed up or doesn't show up to court, or at the very least push back the date at which I need to pay until I have a job. Some context I was driving along the QEW between Niagara and Fort Erie, my exit was coming up so I sped up a little to get ahead of the line of cars in the right lane. Behind that line of cars was a cop on the side of the road, he pulled me over. The thing is, the officer was really railing into me for stunt driving. He said he had radar evidence that I was going over 150 km/hr, while I wasn't staring at the odometre the whole time, I never saw it higher than ~140, and I do keep an eye on it very regularily when passing people, and especially when there is a suspiscous black vehicle on the side of the highway. I was only going about 10 km/h faster than everyone else whom I was trying to pass, and these people were in almost a solid line between me and the shoulder for the whole stretch he could have clocked me. He threatened me with roadside seizure, licence revocation, $2500+ fine, and a whole bunch of other stuff, he even made my mother cry when he called her to varify my identity. He was kind of... unpleasant, really milking the whole thing, I felt like i'd killed someone the way he was giving it to me, he had me scared half to death. Looking back on it I wonder if he wasn't just messing with me in some attempt to scare me straight or something, because I'm really about as certain as I could reasonably be I wasn't going that fast, nor was I driving unsafely under the circumstances. Or perhaps he was just attempting to scare me into accepting the ticket and not fighting it? I really don't have any experience with police, so I don't know but the reason I bring that up is... If I do try and do anything other than plea guilty, can they try and throw any of this back at me? I'm afraid that if I do try and delay or fight it they might pin the stunt driving thing on me. Paying them right now is litterally not an option for me, for at least 3 weeks assuming I miraculously land a job tomorrow. I'm not even sure how I would fight it, since I certainly did not have my liscence on me, and was certainly going 135-140, I'd be lieing if I said that wasn't true. I checked everything on the tickets and they seem to be filled out correctly. Am I just totally screwed here or what? Anyone have any advice?

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2 Tickets, 140 in 100 and failure to surrender liscence

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viper1
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Re: 2 Tickets, 140 in 100 and failure to surrender liscence

Maybe you should add: " Now, if only I could merge the 2 lobes of my brain to work together! " to your sig lol. Look at mine for a laugh. Cheers Viper1

Maybe you should add:

" Now, if only I could merge the 2 lobes of my brain to work together! " to your sig lol.

Look at mine for a laugh.

Cheers

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Re: 2 Tickets, 140 in 100 and failure to surrender liscence

That's a good idea. I just did it. Cheers!

viper1 wrote:

Maybe you should add:

" Now, if only I could merge the 2 lobes of my brain to work together! " to your sig lol.

Look at mine for a laugh.

Cheers

Viper1

That's a good idea. I just did it. Cheers!

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