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Traffic ticket trauma THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday Februarys Page Isn t it awful to be stopped on the side of the road embarrassed as all get out while a police of f gives you a speeding ticket was informed I was being charged to wit ex ceding the speed limit by not more than 20 and not less than miles per hour in excess of the limit of miles per hour Your heart sinks when you realize you ve run afoul of the law Anger begins to seethe deep down in your chest as what seems thousands upon thousands of er rant drivers speed by at super sonic speed undetected un challenged Scott free The officer asked me politely to step out of the car to look at the reading on the radar clock I ve always had difficulty telling time ever since grade one or two in school but I gently nodded to him as much as to say I understand I really didn While writing out the ticket he mentioned He just didn t know what the Inspector was going to sa about this 1 opened my trap before I put my brain In gear Surely now you don have to go up all the way to an Inspector over being 12 miles per hour over the limit was my retort He didn take kindly to my words He took an extra few minutes to check my car out and I was suspicious he was hoping to nick me again for some infraction Instead of shutting up and get ting on with my business I dead to explain to the Inspector if the officer would kindly tell me where he was He didn take kindly to my sug of a tnoka meeting of himself me and the Inspector I was told to get going and if I wanted to talk so much tell it to the judge By George good advice arose out of a ticklish situation That exactly what 1 11 do Tell it to the judge I should have saved the time and money The judge was a rapid fire no nonsense get through the list then go home type He didn suffer fools glad OSBORNE DECOR Custom Mode Verticals Drapes And Bedspreads FREE SHOP AT HOME SERVICE I NORVAL WERE YOUR INSURANCE BROKERS WE UNDERSTAND PAULC ARMSTRONG INSURANCE BROKERS LTD 143 MILL ST Haltnn lis Georgetown Ontario 877 ESTHETICS TANNING Stones by W Steamer In that crowded courtroom all I heard was him loudly exclaim Guilty pay the clerk Somehow I naively felt the would certainly pay attention to me when I wanted to call the tor to the stand so I could cross examine him like the TV lawyers Surely he would size up in a mo ment that I was really a babe in arms and those thousands of speedsters that went uncaught should be the ones in his troom Not I If you think I ruffled the feathers of the police officer the day I was clocked and charged you should have been there to see the fur fly when the judge and I got going No one told me you were to stand up when he came in No one told me how cases were con ducted I had no idea of cross examination Goodness I was a novice at trial proceedings My ignorance soon came to the fore Good gracious I was over my head After the officer gave his brief concise testimony I had to be told by the judge I could cross ex amine the officer before he left the stand By this time I m will ing to change my plea to guilty just to get out of there I know what to do or say so I decided to wade in and hope for the best I asked the officer if the Inspec tor was in the courtroom No sir he is not Why not I ask ed in my best voice The judge in terrupted and asked If the tor was to be called as a witness Dumb me said Yes I would like to ask the Inspector what he had to say when the officer discussed my case with him Heavens to Betsy everyone in the judicial system that cour troom including the judge knew I was an imcompetent and 111 prepared The Inspector was not the courtroom had not been poened as a witness by me and the judge had run out of patience over a traffic ticket My case fell apart I threw myself on the mercy of the court The judge gave me a sharp lee ture that driving was a privilege not to be abused Why on earth I gave hima shot that driving was an ordeal I don t know I t believe my own ears when I heard my own voice offering up a 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