Thursday, September 30, 2004

I went to court today to fight my ticket for "Noise ordinance", I felt I did not deserve the ticket (Do we ever?) on the fact that I didnt have my windows down trying to blast my music for everyone to here. I also wasn't in the area where the cop said I was on the ticket... you see I was outside of the city limits but he put it upon himself to put an address on the ticket that was inside the city limits. So as I went into court today, feeling all sorts of butterflies and knots in my body from going over my whole story of what I wanted to say, I began to just daze off waiting for everything to get going. The prosecutor began calling off peoples' names and talking to them to see what she could do for them. So guess who shows up next to me, Mr. Officer in his sporty blue corduroy blazer, "Have you talked to the prosecutor yet?.....Well I'll talk to her and get a deal for you." I found that very suspicious given the fact that I knew he knew that I knew that he knew he didn't pull me over within the city limits. So the prosecutor calls me up and tells me the deal .... "The officer has agreed to drop your ticket, so all that leaves are the court costs". So hey why fight it, talked to the judge ...agreed...and paid my $65. I probably still should have fought it more though but I'll save that for next time. I would also like to say... NO THANKS!!! to my people at Pre-Paid Legal. They basically told me they couldn't help me with this ticket but I could pay a reduced rate for an attorney. Yea whatever!!!!

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