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Congratulations on the way you handled it, nexxen90. Glad it's worked out as it should. It would be even nicer if the problem had never arisen at all, of course, but we do live in the real world, and stuff happens.

Just a thought... have you considered sending a follow-up letter to the same exalted personages, noting what has transpired, and ...

All excellent choices. I picked one, but if it's either of the other two I'd also be entirely happy with that.

Well done, liveontheedge. Congratulations on sticking it through to the end.

Were there any markings on the pavement that would designate where you parked as being a crosswalk?

puzzled wrote:Friend of mine is a 911 operator. She said today that they're getting swamped with 911 calls of people telling on other drivers on their cell phones.

It's an informer's delight.

...they should have banned cellular phone use altogether.

I agree with that statement. But the problem is technology has created small businesses that can easily operate out of a simple pickup truck. Many self employed individuals don't even have an office or a shop. Their tools are in the truck and the cell phone is the critical link to the ...

OHTA store sounds like a good idea so, being a loyal member, I go there to buy a bluetooth headset. Plantronics Explorer 330. $18.54. They won't ship it to Canada. Next?

Greatest Canadian wrote:... judges are not "honourable, they are ... Scum of the Earth ... most JPs are ... Scum of the Earth ... most crowns are ... Scum of the Earth ... most cops are simply cement heads.

Well, I guess that about covers it. The police seem to get off lightly.

ice falling is treated much the same way as debris falling from the truck.
Been lurking on this thread with interest -- like most drivers I too have been hit by stuff flying off trucks (including an aerodynamic 4'x4' piece of corrugated sheet metal two or three years ago), but figured it wasn't worth making a fuss because trucking companies are ...

Well done, Dr. Squishy, PhD (Batt.Chem.)! Thanks. I'd happily go into Whatever Professor mode myself in return, if only I were an expert in anything in which anyone here (or, essentially, anywhere else) might have the slightest interest.

blackoffi wrote:I was sentenced to pay a fine and learnt that my driving licence will be suspended for 6 months...Should my lawyer have requested it before sentencing?

OTTLegal, that sounds like it's already a done deal. Blackoffi is asking whether an appeal would be advisable, and whether there is some way to get a "special licence."

Personally, I never slept better than a couple of times we took long bus trips to play tournaments (think New Orleans, at Mardi Gras) and I could get up into the open, un-compartmentalized overhead luggage rack. Remember those? Lovely motion, gently rocking. (Marred only, on the way to New Orleans, by the guy in the seat below softly and ...

Your hunch may be right, Bear, but about the best I've been able to find so far is the Canadian Press story from 30 September.

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090930/090930_cellphoneban/20090930/?hub=CP24Home

Details are hazy there, but CP seems to think that there will be fines "up to $500" and no points, which seems pretty light ...

Our friends in Queen's Park having passed Bill 118 2009 and its now having royal assent, the amended version of OHTA Section 78 is about to come into effect. The wording of Bill 118 is here:
http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&BillID=2099&detailPage=bills_detail_the_bill

I think the penalties will include 6 demerit points ...

"Published in Canada by [Carswell?]..." What does that mean?
It probably means they're trying to fool us. Carswell is a Canadian publisher that specializes in legal materials. By saying one of their titles is "Published in Canada" they're likely tippy-toeing around making it too clear that it was printed in another country: i.e., they saved fifty ...

Opens OK for me in Acrobat 8 Standard (8.1.6). Plain vanilla PDF, no restrictions as to editing. It was produced with Distiller 9.0.0 (Windows) as a PDF version 1.5, which means that it should open in Acrobat 6 or higher. I'd post my edited version, just for laughs, but Her Majesty the Queen might not be amused.

Why is it dodgy

I should have expressed myself more clearly. I meant only that it sounds dodgy to a layman -- until he thinks about it (which is often a good idea).

Machine-generated tickets are another matter, but when a (reasonably) live cop hands me a ticket, I know that I have been charged. I know that if I choose not to contest, I will be ...

You are issued one DL # in Ontario for ever. the number never goes away......The tickets were issued to your quebec lisc. when you did not pay they applied the suspension to your old Ontario DL...If you had never had an ontario DL they would have generated an Ontario DL#..

This is done because the province has no authority to suspend another ...

It's unfortunate that the first successful challenge of this repugnant law should be on a narrow quibble about speeding. We already have proven and reasonable laws against speeding (and careless driving). The sordid heart of 172 -- the summary judgment, conviction, and vicious penalty on the spot, without possibility of appeal or redress -- is not ...

liveontheedge wrote:... the United States of America, "The nation of laws."

"The United States is a nation of laws -- poorly written and randomly enforced." -- Frank Zappa

Even in Ontario I don't think we shoot people for having the nerve to challenge traffic tickets. Yet.

Hands-free is almost as unsafe.
Just a small but significant quibble, FiReSTaRT: hands-free is just as unsafe as hand-held, and is quite possibly more so.

There's a good roundup of the scientific studies on this in a New York lawyer's summary post from Feb. 09 at http://tiny.cc/8pZFY , and one of the recent studies (by psychologists at ...

A person using a bluetooth may have their eyes on the road, but is their mind on the road??
The scientific evidence to that one is clear, repeatable, and unequivocal: No. Google something like "hands-free vs hand-held" and you'll get references to study after study (National Safety Council, Journal of Safety Research, Dalhousie University ...

Wow. Should be included with every cellphone sold. (As if!)

Off_Camber wrote:I left before court session...was outta there like last period french class..

LOL! And yes, for sure please do keep us informed: a) because the case is interesting and b) because you may come out with another line like that!

my book, my notes, certainly do not have to make notes for anyone else but myself.
That's perfectly reasonable. How else could anybody, officer or accused, hope to remember all the significant details long after the fact? Making notes and then using them to refresh one's memory is normal and no different from, say, revisiting the scene a week ...

hwybear wrote:booo booo ... I liked the trail, seemed we were going at a nice even pace(maybe even a flow)....and BAM...someone tried to pass on a thread gotcha

Okay, hb, you got me! (Now I'll just sit quietly by the side of the road here and look stupid while you finish writing me up.)

That oversized dark-coloured sedan on a two-lane country road, that can't seem to maintain a consistent speed, and that pulls over to the right as if to let you pass, is probably being driven by somebody on a cell phone or an old guy trying to remember why he's out there, but be careful. Do look for antennas, but I'm not even certain that lack of ...

Actually, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary does allow the variant offense, though it indicates that offence is the most common form here.

And, since we're dealing with spelling, will somebody with God powers fix "Fill out this Form if You want to Contact a Professional Paralegel Service Today," please? (In blue, above the X-Copper ad.) It's driving ...

BR wrote:The mass generally does not stop at lights, but does when the cops are present and make us...

BR also wrote:@Proper1

I don't believe so, no.

No?

Is this "critical mass" not an event in which a large number of people on bicycles deliberately break traffic laws just to show other people that they can?