Thank you crappy sentence structure.

Should've been cited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire.

Probably was the lowest thing they could cite him for. Police often do that in accidents to help establish fault in the event of later questions/suits but when the driver didn't do anything really wrong (like DUI or something) and was cooperative.

Back in the day I got in a wreck, turned left in front of a car. Jacked up up both bad, disabled both cars, etc. I called it in, and told them it was my fault at the scene. There was really no disputing this, I turned left in to his path.

I was cited with "Failure to yield while making a left turn." A $90 ticket. Probably could have faced other infractions, however the cops realized it was an honest mistake. That ticket established that I was at fault, in their opinion. Didn't screw me over or anything, didn't cost a lot of money (easy to get a speeding ticket that costs more), etc.

That sounds like what is going on here. Guy lost control of his car and "fail(ed) to maintain a single lane". He wasn't drunk or anything and so didn't get arrested. Just gets a ticket for something simple.

cantsleep: Should've been cited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire and not being a fat chick.

FTFY

qrb912: cantsleep: Should've been cited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire and not being a fat chick.

FTFY

Should have been sited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire and not being a fat chick.

Fixed that for myself this time\
Not funny when you have to fix your own sh*t.\\

got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track

qrb912: qrb912: cantsleep: Should've been cited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire and not being a fat chick.

FTFY

Should have been sited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire and not being a fat chick.

Fixed that for myself this time\
Not funny when you have to fix your own sh*t.\\



/Tiger is disappoint, son.

subby has never dealt with police before - either we should respect him for always outrunning them or more likely his mother never lets him out of her basement.

If I were a cop I would cite subby for:

obstructing justice
resisting arrest without violence
resisting arrest with violence
possession of drug paraphernalia (I could make a bong out of his keyboard)
intent to corrupt the morals of a minor (hey, he had a computer)
failure to ever exit his mother's basement
elderly abuse of his mother for never leaving his basement

And that's only what I thought of before I needed to refill my beer.

Headline says "Car overturns on Second Avenue, hits power pole"

TFA says "A Rome man avoided injury late Saturday after his white Pontiac Sunfire hit a power pole and overturned"

The cops said "Rome Police Officer Alison Tiller said Clay will be charged with failure to maintain a single lane in the wreck."

So... let's just settle for bad journalism on this one.

Rolled his car over,lost control of his car---in a 25 MPH speed limit zone???Was he loping his mule or did a snake bite him in the A$$ ?

Did he have a pole permit?

qrb912: Should have been sited for driving a Pontiac Sunfire and not being a fat chick.

Maybe he thought it was a Cadillac.

sycraft: Probably was the lowest thing they could cite him for. Police often do that in accidents to help establish fault in the event of later questions/suits the insurance companies, but when the driver didn't do anything really wrong (like DUI or something) and was cooperative.


At least that's what one cop told me.

There is a fire route on the other side of the street from my home, so I always have my neighbor's Silverado in front of my house, and trees on either side of my driveway. We also have a lot of foot traffic since there is an ice cream parlor at the end of the street, so I am always extremely careful backing out of my driveway at all times.

Well, imagine my ire when one day I crawled out of my driveway and proceeded to back right into a little red Toyota that was completely and utterly in my blind spot. My driveway sits on about an 18-inch grade from the street and I drive a Jeep. I took pictures - there was no farking way you could see that damn car with the mirrors, or by looking through the rear window. I took out the driver's door and window and just crunched the corner of the Jeep's bumper.

So like a good citizen, I call the police, and tell them yeah, I backed into an illegally parked car. He gives the guy a $75 ticket for parking in a fire lane and gives me a $130 ticket for improper backing - 2 farking points on my unblemished record! I was not amused...he tells me has to do it for the insurance companies (which my lawyer tells me - "oh, I don't believe he said that"...oh yes, yes he did). I said, Officer, I've lived here for 10 years and no one backs out of the driveway as carefully as I do. He said, what if you hit a kid? I said, I didn't!

Anyhow, given my legal plan at work, I went to court, and my lawyer was a complete dick. We settled before it got to the judge and he smirked, "Here - you preserved your perfect driving record". The DA agreed to 'reduce' it to obstucting traffic - no points - but my fine went up to $200.

Result? Well, my insurance company did not raise my premiums because I didn't get a moving violation, nor did they hold me at fault for the accident. All this bullshiat (asshole lawyer and additional fine) paid off six months later when I blew a stale yellow and got written up for no proof of insurance instead (no points and $35, or $25 if you show the proof to a cop and he signs the ticket).

Moral of the story?

Always take your traffic tickets to court. Always.

Meh- show me the fireball.



Leaving un-impressed.
Was looking for John Law not slacker cop

Had something similar happen to me many years ago.

I was driving down a back road, enjoying a late summer drive after having been stuck in a hospital for two weeks for pneumonia. At one point I was going over a blind rise, when suddenly a chick in a big, old boat of a car going like a bat out of hell appears, driving dead center in the middle of the road. I swerve to avoid her, hit the gravel shoulder, spin out, and end up in a ditch on the other side of the road, both wheels on the passenger's side off their rims.

biatch who caused the accident didn't even slow down.

So I get out, walk to the nearest house, call the cops to report it like a good citizen, and when he shows up he tickets me for crossing the center lane.

I think there's a moral in my story somewhere ...

Mi-go amigo: I think there's a moral in my story somewhere ...

Yes there is: Insurance companies and municipalities like tickets because it increases revenue.

/I wonder what ticket you would have gotten if they had to scrape your greasy remains off the road?

KwameKilstrawberry:


There is a fire route on the other side of the street from my home, so I always have my neighbor's Silverado in front of my house, and trees on either side of my driveway. We also have a lot of foot traffic since there is an ice cream parlor at the end of the street, so I am always extremely careful backing out of my driveway at all times.

Well, imagine my ire when one day I crawled out of my driveway and proceeded to back right into a little red Toyota that was completely and utterly in my blind spot. My driveway sits on about an 18-inch grade from the street and I drive a Jeep. I took pictures - there was no farking way you could see that damn car with the mirrors, or by looking through the rear window. I took out the driver's door and window and just crunched the corner of the Jeep's bumper.

So like a good citizen, I call the police, and tell them yeah, I backed into an illegally parked car. He gives the guy a $75 ticket for parking in a fire lane and gives me a $130 ticket for improper backing - 2 farking points on my unblemished record! I was not amused...he tells me has to do it for the insurance companies (which my lawyer tells me - "oh, I don't believe he said that"...oh yes, yes he did). I said, Officer, I've lived here for 10 years and no one backs out of the driveway as carefully as I do. He said, what if you hit a kid? I said, I didn't!

You're a farking moron. You hit a giant, red farking car. That was parked! Yet, you still somehow convinced yourself that it wasn't your fault. Learn to drive, dumbass.

/Human nature I suppose. Cant cure stupid and all that.

Last Wednesday, I lost a wheel on a '97 Jetta I just bought two weeks ago. I knew it wasn't a great car, but I didn't think it was dangerous to drive. I pulled over to the right of a city road, the wheel didn't hit anybody, and I wasn't blocking much traffic. I called and waited for a tow truck. A police officer showed up, and immediately started to treat me as if I had lost the wheel of my own decision and had already called a police wrecker, and had my car impounded. I completely understood that they needed to get my car out of the road, and I'm glad I didn't receive a ticket, and I don't want to rant and call all cops dicks, but man, that cop was a dick. What really disturbed me was that he had a smile on his face the entire time.

The lesson: If you have an accident on a city road, do everything you can to pull it into a parking lot, even if it causes more damage to your car, because it will cost you all that much more in time and money to get your car out of impound.

And for any Southeast Michiganders, yes it happened in Warren.

A few years back the wife and I were driving through Wyoming early in the morning and hit a patch of black ice. We flipped the truck and it ended up perpendicular to the highway. The Highway Patrol showed up 45 minutes later, and after it was all said and done gave her a ticket for "Leaving the Roadway." She still gets bitter about it.

Reminds me of the time I hit Lake Waltham in the middle of Rte 128 one rainy night, and went into a 720 or possibly 1080 spin (you lose count after 1 revolution, trust me)... and the cars passing me were honking their horns at me... like I could fking control it.

Alonjar: KwameKilstrawberry:


There is a fire route on the other side of the street from my home, so I always have my neighbor's Silverado in front of my house, and trees on either side of my driveway. We also have a lot of foot traffic since there is an ice cream parlor at the end of the street, so I am always extremely careful backing out of my driveway at all times.

Well, imagine my ire when one day I crawled out of my driveway and proceeded to back right into a little red Toyota that was completely and utterly in my blind spot. My driveway sits on about an 18-inch grade from the street and I drive a Jeep. I took pictures - there was no farking way you could see that damn car with the mirrors, or by looking through the rear window. I took out the driver's door and window and just crunched the corner of the Jeep's bumper.

So like a good citizen, I call the police, and tell them yeah, I backed into an illegally parked car. He gives the guy a $75 ticket for parking in a fire lane and gives me a $130 ticket for improper backing - 2 farking points on my unblemished record! I was not amused...he tells me has to do it for the insurance companies (which my lawyer tells me - "oh, I don't believe he said that"...oh yes, yes he did). I said, Officer, I've lived here for 10 years and no one backs out of the driveway as carefully as I do. He said, what if you hit a kid? I said, I didn't!

You're a farking moron. You hit a giant, red farking car. That was parked! Yet, you still somehow convinced yourself that it wasn't your fault. Learn to drive, dumbass.

/Human nature I suppose. Cant cure stupid and all that.


Sandy vag this a.m.? Or functionally illiterate?

Same thing happened to a friend of mine years ago. The officer told him they have to write a ticket so failure to stay in the lane is what he was cited for.

KwameKilstrawberry: Alonjar: KwameKilstrawberry:



Sandy vag this a.m.? Or functionally illiterate?

No, I just despise people who always have to blame everyone else for their own failures.

Das Hammer: And for any Southeast Michiganders, yes it happened in Warren.

If you were outside the GM Tech Center, I'd blame it on the ghosts of domestic, unemployed autoworkers.

Alonjar: KwameKilstrawberry: Alonjar: KwameKilstrawberry:



Sandy vag this a.m.? Or functionally illiterate?

No, I just despise people who always have to blame everyone else for their own failures.

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So like a good citizen, I call the police, and tell them yeah, I backed into an illegally parked car.

I didn't blame it on everyone else, did I? At what point did I say it wasn't my fault? When I truthfully noted the car was parked illegally?

But if it makes you feel all sanctimonious by calling me a moron, by all means, have at it.

/I'm leaning towards functionally illiterate. Or at least a low reading comprehension coupled with ITG syndrome.

KwameKilstrawberry: Alonjar: KwameKilstrawberry:


There is a fire route on the other side of the street from my home, so I always have my neighbor's Silverado in front of my house, and trees on either side of my driveway. We also have a lot of foot traffic since there is an ice cream parlor at the end of the street, so I am always extremely careful backing out of my driveway at all times.

Well, imagine my ire when one day I crawled out of my driveway and proceeded to back right into a little red Toyota that was completely and utterly in my blind spot. My driveway sits on about an 18-inch grade from the street and I drive a Jeep. I took pictures - there was no farking way you could see that damn car with the mirrors, or by looking through the rear window. I took out the driver's door and window and just crunched the corner of the Jeep's bumper.

So like a good citizen, I call the police, and tell them yeah, I backed into an illegally parked car. He gives the guy a $75 ticket for parking in a fire lane and gives me a $130 ticket for improper backing - 2 farking points on my unblemished record! I was not amused...he tells me has to do it for the insurance companies (which my lawyer tells me - "oh, I don't believe he said that"...oh yes, yes he did). I said, Officer, I've lived here for 10 years and no one backs out of the driveway as carefully as I do. He said, what if you hit a kid? I said, I didn't!

You're a farking moron. You hit a giant, red farking car. That was parked! Yet, you still somehow convinced yourself that it wasn't your fault. Learn to drive, dumbass.

/Human nature I suppose. Cant cure stupid and all that.


Sandy vag this a.m.? Or functionally illiterate?

No, he is merely supporting the first rule in driving-you are always responsible for knowing what is in the path of where you are driving. You self righteous, indignant rant pointed out one irrefutable fact, you drive into another car. The fact that you have managed to work yourself into a tizzy of victimization is amusing and frightening.

It does not matter if the other car was parked illegally. Your lack of attention to where you were driving caused an accident.

Mi-go amigo: Had something similar happen to me many years ago.

I was driving down a back road, enjoying a late summer drive after having been stuck in a hospital for two weeks for pneumonia. At one point I was going over a blind rise, when suddenly a chick in a big, old boat of a car going like a bat out of hell appears, driving dead center in the middle of the road. I swerve to avoid her, hit the gravel shoulder, spin out, and end up in a ditch on the other side of the road, both wheels on the passenger's side off their rims.

biatch who caused the accident didn't even slow down.

So I get out, walk to the nearest house, call the cops to report it like a good citizen, and when he shows up he tickets me for crossing the center lane.

I think there's a moral in my story somewhere ...

The reality is that police cannot react to your story(uless corroborated by witnesses). They can only go by physical evidence. In this case, the only physical evidence was that you had to swerve and lost control of your vehicle.

MycroftHolmes: You self righteous, indignant rant pointed out one irrefutable fact, you drive into another car.


Yeah, we kinda established that, Captain Obvious.

Look, if you get handed a $130 - $200 ticket + points and are looking at 3 years of increased premiums + ongoing state 'responsibility fees', you are a fool not to find every conceivable reason why you are not at fault. Which was the point to my original 'rant'.

Go to court. Always.

Yeah, yeah - I know it's much more fun to whip your tiny little Internet dick out and piss all over someone else's post.

KwameKilstrawberry: MycroftHolmes: You self righteous, indignant rant pointed out one irrefutable fact, you drive into another car.


Yeah, we kinda established that, Captain Obvious.

Look, if you get handed a $130 - $200 ticket + points and are looking at 3 years of increased premiums + ongoing state 'responsibility fees', you are a fool not to find every conceivable reason why you are not at fault. Which was the point to my original 'rant'.

Go to court. Always.

Yeah, yeah - I know it's much more fun to whip your tiny little Internet dick out and piss all over someone else's post.

Sorry,didn't mean to anger you. I'll let you go backto slowly killing personal responsibility. Moral of this story-maybe some people are annoyed at self righteous fools who work the system to avoid the consequences of their mistakes. I know you wanted people to agree with you that you were screwed and applaud you for how clever you were to avoid the insurance premium increase (justified, in my opinion, as people who are unable to avoid hitting stationary, parked vehicles tend to be a higher risk), but this is probably the wrong crowd for that.

Maybe if in your original post you had, for one instance, admitted that you were careless, instead of complaining about the road, the neighbor, the parked car, the cop, and then the judge, you might have a little more sympathy. Act responsible, and people might be inclined to listen to your story without thinking 'what a db'.

Just my 2 cents.

MycroftHolmes: I'll let you go backto slowly killing personal responsibility

I paid the fine, more than the original fine, in fact. Jebus, what aren't you getting here?

FFS, you're an sniveling sanctimonious asshole, too.

KwameKilstrawberry: FFS, you're an sniveling sanctimonious asshole, too.

And you're projecting so hard it's not even funny. A little less vitriol - it's only the internet!

He really smoked that pole.