25...years old? Yeah I've heard that's supposed to happen here as well. I'm already well past 25.

As per citric's comment - I figured as much. Was thinking that after a year I would just reapply and see what happens.

In my driving career I've had one speeding ticket, one accident (I rear ended someone at a red light, 100% my fault - but the other driver wanted to settle it privately and never contacted me, lol), and one license suspension (blood alcohol content when my license was under zero tolerance). Thank god all that shit happened before I got my full license, lol. It was years ago anyway, none of it would show up on my record now regardless.

it also depends a lot on where you live, ottawa is cheap for some reason...

but since i started driving in '98 i have had 18 moving violations (mainly speeding) and one accident. of the 18 moving violations, i have only been successfully convicted of about 9 of them. I fight everything and i am very good at it. It also helps that most cops are idiots and make obviously biased (and sometimes flat out wrong) statements in their field notes....

I had one cop in particular put down in his field report that my vehicles color was yellow........... yet on the actual ticket it had my vehicles color as red (which was true at the time)

conflicting statement = dismissal

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

Hahaha, yeah. I know people who have gotten out of tickets because of incorrect information on the ticket. Wrong dates/times/etc.

Aside from those rookie mistakes way back, I've never had any issues. And I mean, those were really fucking stupid things that I did, that I knew I shouldn't have done at the time, that I haven't done since/would never do now.


edit: I got lucky, if that's what you want to call it, with that license suspension. Really, any other person would have been charged with DUI - but all they did was suspend my license for 30 days. I think because I was honest with them and recognized that I knew I wasn't supposed to be driving with any booze in me at that point. Whatever it was, I'm glad all I got was a suspension. I didn't even get fined.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie Hahaha, yeah. I know people who have gotten out of tickets because of incorrect information on the ticket. Wrong dates/times/etc. Aside from those rookie mistakes way back, I've never had any issues. And I mean, those were really fucking stupid things that I did, that I knew I shouldn't have done at the time, that I haven't done since/would never do now. edit: I got lucky, if that's what you want to call it, with that license suspension. Really, any other person would have been charged with DUI - but all they did was suspend my license for 30 days. I think because I was honest with them and recognized that I knew I wasn't supposed to be driving with any booze in me at that point. Whatever it was, I'm glad all I got was a suspension. I didn't even get fined.

Luckily for me most of my more boneheaded moments fall under the officer was an idiot and filled out paperwork wrong....


however i have successfully gotten myself out of a 40 over ticket on the 401 by showing that it was in fact safe to be driving that fast. sometimes being a engineer has its benefits......

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Originally posted by Miss Pie I didn't even get fined.

Tits, imo.

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Originally posted by colonelcrisp however i have successfully gotten myself out of a 40 over ticket on the 401 by showing that it was in fact safe to be driving that fast. sometimes being a engineer has its benefits......

Or that cop was just the biggest idiot in the country?

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Originally posted by colonelcrisp Luckily for me most of my more boneheaded moments fall under the officer was an idiot and filled out paperwork wrong.... however i have successfully gotten myself out of a 40 over ticket on the 401 by showing that it was in fact safe to be driving that fast. sometimes being a engineer has its benefits......

Yeah. My speeding ticket was for 277 bucks, for going almost 140 on the 400. :/

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Originally posted by Frenkieee Or that cop was just the biggest idiot in the country?

if you look at the superelevation rate and horizontal and vertical alignment characteristics of a 400 series highway, its designed for an operational speed of between 180 and 200 km/h..... they post it at 100.....

that coupled with recent mechanical inspection records for the vehicle i was driving that showed it to be in tip top mechanical condition, i was not driving recklessly...


but back to the cops being idiots part...... it is a fact that most police officers have below average to average IQ's..... they are not hired for their intelligence.... they are hired for their ability to follow orders and do challenging tasks like direct traffic and make sure you are wearing a seatbelt.....

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Ahahahahahaha.

All this sounded fast till I realized it was in km/h.

Yeah it's not like I think driving that much over the limit is cool or badass or some lame shit. The speed limit on our big highways is 100km/h - I usually drive between 110-120, about as fast as one can drive without getting nailed with a ticket. Honestly there's no need to go any faster than that anyway. When nobody else is driving that fast it isn't even safe.

People drive like fucking morons here though. They don't use the lanes correctly - and you can tell who doesn't fucking use their mirrors or pay attention to their surroundings.