Re: [AMC-list] Return of the seat belt saga

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I hope to have comparable results when I fight an 'abandoned vehicle' ticket.
They didn't chalk the tires or leave a phone message this time. I moved all
three vehicles anyway. It seems they made note of the valve stem positions to
see if I moved them or not. It appears when I moved the truck, I moved it 5
turns of the tires so the stems were in the same position, just 35 feet away.
Bylaw person wouldn't take my word for it. Sneaky blighters came at 11:30 at
night in an extra quiet Prius and called the tow truck too, trying to steal it
away in the darkness. Luckily I had been out to darts and came home to find them
at it. Moved the truck again and he sent the tow truck on its way. If I'd been
20 minutes earlier or later or taken a different route to get the lady friend
home, I would have had the truck gone and impounded. I wonder if they even
knocked on the door to see if I was home.

 
Ken

Quoting Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> A few months ago ya'll remember I got a ticket in a Houston Police 'seat belt
> detail' 
> sting. The ticckets were for no insurance and failure to wear seat belt. A
> number of 
> people weighed in for and against seat belts and I promised to let everyone
> know how it 
> turned out.
> 
> I asked for a judge trial, not jury, just judge. I had to go to Municipal
> Court (Harris 
> County, Houston, Texas) March 28th. I was loaded for bear on this one. Rather
> pissed off 
> about whole deal as while Houston Police were standing around giving out
> pre-filled-out 
> seat belt tickets....two blocks away the Randall's store's Wells Fargo bank
> was being held 
> up.....and the guys got away, they dropped a bag of cash in parking lot (of
> all days for 
> me not to be shopping there darn it) but here is 10-20 cops standing under
> I-10 bridge 
> giving out tickets to policeman's ball. I'm a big fan of police and have done
> many, many, 
> benefits for cops thru the years at clubs I have managed or worked at. But
> what a waste of 
> time with seat belts.
> 
> If you want to do some detail, stop the carnage in Harris County...we are #1
> in the United 
> States in DWIs and DWI deaths due to drunken driving. I see it live going
> home from work, 
> people weaving, lanes blocked due to rollover, you name it, have seen it in
> 28 years, a 
> detail getting drunks off road would be more useful and bring in tons of
> money into city, 
> and county coffers in time when some precincts are laying off cops due to
> budget 
> shortfalls, go figure. Side note a Conroe cop just was shot in face by guy
> the other day, 
> here is video, :
>  http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8057862
> they killed the SOB, but the cop, who at least is out of hospital and has
> sense of humor, 
> is going to be ok, but they had to remove his right eye.
> 
> So back to seat belts. I came home that day after getting donuts for Noah &
> Jacob who were 
> watching Spongebob, Patrick, Mr Crabs, and Squidward on the tv. The cop
> walked up to me, 
> asked for license and insurance, I had license but not insurance card with
> me, hell I 
> didn't even have underwear on and as many of you know, rarely wear shoes.
> 
> So came home, had Noah take photos of me sitting in car, with 'lap' belt
> attached (cop 
> never looked down, he was going only by shoulder harness, I don't wear it)
> and took photos 
> of the seat belt superimposed on top of that morning's Houston Chronicle
> showing date (old 
> insurance dating trick).
> I took photos of the car also. And went inside, got my policy, and hung in
> office, later 
> that night got photos developed online at Walgreens, and tossed them in same
> envelope. And 
> forgot about it.
> 
> Onto March 28th court date. I put on my best pair of underwear that didn't
> have go pack 
> racing stripes (eh, you didn't need to know that but hope you already had
> supper) and 
> elastic and no holes. Big decision was to wear shoes, Paige said 'treat it
> like wedding or 
> parole hearing or church, sort of important' so put on nice shoes and socks.
> No AMC racing 
> Team shirt, used shirt with collar, Paige said I looked ready for a date.
> Driving down 
> I-10 I passed by the closed down Scoreboard Sports Bar near Silber, that made
> me sad, as 
> lots of great memories in the almost 11 years worked there. On the side of me
> is a big 18 
> wheeler with nothing on the side except "AMX" same font as the cars we love.
> That's a good 
> sign, it's gonna be a good night as Black Eye Peas say. Got down to
> courthouse there is no 
> more manned house, you just drive in, park, look at number on ground and pay
> $5 to mailbox 
> type thing punching in your number. Walked thru the metal detectors on first
> floor and cop 
> asked me about a 38 caliber bullet on my key chain, which has 31 keys. Can't
> carry keys in 
> pocket would tear hole in pocket, over pound of keys. I told them that would
> not pop if I 
> tossed it in bonfire so she laughed and let me go. I also told here good eyes
> as they 
> didn't catch that at Bush when I flew out 2 months earlier.
> 
> All rise for judge, oh sh*t she looks just like my ex girlfriend Tammy, I'm
> sunk. Lucky 
> for me she is leaving at 6:00pm, and I'm seeing judge at 6:30pm. So while I
> wait I look 
> around and count spit on floor. Someone carved in a pen*s into the wood pews
> in front of 
> me, how can they do that with all the cops, judge and presecutor in room,
> man, that takes 
> balls. But old courtroom, hell, even clock on wall missing hands, nice touch!
> Prosecutor's 
> name was Isaha, that is good bibical name, so things looking up..called my
> name and walked 
> up, sat down, and he said if I had insurance, yup, didn't even get to pull
> out policy and 
> he said 'I'm dismissing your case' and I said, 'aw, but I have photos' he
> said 'no that's 
> fine don't need them' and I said 'but my wife tired of looking at them' and
> he laughed and 
> told me to go sit to the left, many what a motley crew of people, one guy
> should have been 
> tossed in jail for his colonge I have smelled prettier urinal cakes. So
> walked up, bailiff 
> gave me two certifications of dismissal and I was gone, drove home and was
> only out $5 for 
> parking (I was there in court 22 minutes) and gas, about $5 more to drive
> there from west 
> Houston. Got to see beautiful sunset and was surprising not a lot of traffic
> on Interstate 
> 10 westbound on a Friday about 7pm, got home, kids and Paige were sure I
> would spend the 
> night, but simply was a quick road trip over something stupid. I may add in
> the time I was 
> in courtroom, out of the 18 people there, 10 of them the charges were
> dismissed. One guy 
> got a lashing from judge while there, as he had 5 tickets and spent 12 hours
> in jail, but 
> didn't bring anything to court showing he had been in jail so she would not
> dismiss or 
> give him credit for time served. I never even got to face judge, just got to
> look at spit, 
> broken clock and someone's elaborate carving into the bench.
> Eddie Stakes
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.planethoustonamx.com
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