sometimes it’s just the principle. the person who wrote out the ticket surely had a smile... no more.
At least he was the owner of the car.
Take a look at this NYC parking atrocity.
http://give-n-go.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-kind-of-loser-would-want-my.html
I don’t know - I took the advice of a lawyer once regarding a ticket. I was 19 years old and driving home from visiting my girlfriend. My car has been having some mechanical problems and literally was not capable of doing the speed I was pulled over for doing, under the circumstances.
But it was a training stop - the State Trooper had a young trainee with him. He wrote me a ticket for 10 MPH over the posted speed limit. My car was literally unable to attain the speed I was accused of - verified by 2 mechanics.
Spoke to family lawyer and was advised that I would probably win, but the cost of winning would be higher than the cost of the ticket.
Of course, he didn’t factor in the increase in auto insurance.... nor the fact that I was letting yet another “generation” of state police officers be trained to write fraudulent tickets.