Driving Ticket fine increase in NJ

[97gsxawd]

I had this circulating around in my emails from some friends.

Driving Ticket fine increase in NJ:

Starting on August 15th, the price of a ticket for violation of NJ Law39:3-29 (failure to show your driver's license, registration, or insurance card at the time you are stopped) is going from $44.00 to $173.00. Please make sure your vehicles have the proper documents in them. If you jump in the car to run to the store and forget your wallet with your license in it and you are stopped, you just spent $173. And the fine for not having all three documents is $519!!!

Forward to people in NJ, and let them know of this change. And, be careful, the fine for hand held cell phone use while driving will be going up to $180.00.

[JessGST]

I think that started last year.

[steveVR4]

Yeah those fines are already sky high. I don't think they're going up again.

[gvr4737]

ehh...

just build a 10 second street monster and outrun the cops...

dont ever look back

[91trbo_mitsu]

You might be able to outrun a squad car, but not the radio.

[twizzle]

or a helicopter, or spikes, or roadblocks. Heh, just look at the guy from my town who tried to run on 287 last week. He didnt get very far :wink:

[quasimondo]

Wow, the state must really be hard up on cash.

[twizzle]

yeh, I also heard of a proposed drinking age change? I heard its supposed to go from 21 to 22. so fuckin gay...

[TurboMike]

It can be easily done. You cant outrun a radio but you can disapear before the first call gets in and they get organized. You gotta be willing to dump the car in a hiding place and find another way home.

Then again, you gotta be willing to face the hell if you get caught. Out of the 5 or so times I bolted I got caught once. I got pretty lucky how it played out, but its much worse now because so many people run and wind up wrecking or killing someone, cops are tired of the bs and the odds of them coming down on you heavy is a lot worse. Once it reaches the point of helicopter or spikes, you should have pulled over a long time ago. If you get away clean right at the start is one thing, but if the cops are behind you more than 60 seconds you're in trouble and better off pulling over than facing real jail and ruining your life (job goodbye, car goodbye, wife or gf goodbye, family thinks you're an idiot, you kill yourself or someone else). The problem is you have about 3 seconds to decide what you're gona do and a lot of stupid people make the wrong choice and then it just escalates until you're on the 10oclock news.

My lic is clean and my insurance low and legit now, so now I always pull over unless the cop makes it too easy for me to get away.

[Monger]

yup, I plea bargained a careless driving ticket down to some stupid non-point offense just a couple weeks ago, and the fine was $450 :shock: jersey can suck my balls!

[iboostdoyou]

some of these fines are really getting out of hand and are obviously only used to up citywide profits. It's only a matter of time before someone steps in and hopefully the penalties will be lowered. It is getting damn expensive to be driving these days

[CollegeDropout]

i have a novel idea guys, its called obeying the law and not worrying about cops :roll:

[Monger]

I've been driving like an old lady in an old man's car for years, and getting pulled over is inevitable no matter what you do. towns need the money, that's the simple fact. if they dont get money thru tickets and fines, they raise your taxes. you're fucked either way, you're gonna pay either way. I was the only asshole driving around in 2 feet of snow back in february, so I deserve the ticket just because I was the only idiot on the road that they could pull over :lol:

[95RedRS]

i've often thought about if I could get away if was on the highway. And I don't speed much anymore I'm like a cruise control kind fo guy nowadays...but I do open her up sometimes just to get a rush real quick. (usually late at night)

But lets say i'm doing well over 120 and i go by a cop...if i accelerate more (even though it IS pushing the car to the MAX) and get to the next exit...by the time the cop reacts pulls out and gains enough speed to catch me...I could potentially be off the next exit and out of my car.

Honestly if i was a cop and you flew by me over 120...i don't even think i would try...

[iboostdoyou]

they dont try... they get on the horn and radio the next closest unit to track your ass down

[TurboMike]

If the laws were realistic and not broken by 90% of all people driving, I'd agree with you. When bluehaired grandma's in their Camrys all go 10 over because the limit is too damn slow, theres a flaw in the system. 90% of all people dont break a fair and just law.

If cops were writing tickets to make the roads safer, I'd agree with you. Instead of going to dangerous busy roads to look for problems, they go to the ones with the lowest speed limits so they can write tickets easier. Instead of actually patrolling the roads, they sit in the bushes because its easier to hide and catch a good driver who is aware of his surroundings looking for cops doing 17 over than some dumbass all over the road endangering everyone who's going 12 over. Instead of looking for cars driving dangerously through traffic, a major cause of all accidents, they sit in the dark at 2am on an empty highway because thats when its easier to sit and relax and wait for the radar to beep and they can leasurly pull out and pull you over for going 15 over on an empty highway when you havent seen a car in 10 minutes.

Meanwhile its illegal for cops to speed unless they're on a prioroty call or doing so to catch a speeder or other danger, yet every copcar I see on the roads will tailgate you and not use turn signals and go 100mph for no reason. Including friends I have that are Auxillary cops in totally unsafe old CrownVics that bearly run, on or offduty. So fuck the speeding laws. Its a money machine. Its all about luck if you get caught or not these days.