You got paid to testify?! Hmmmm, might have to look into that!

*starts calculating how many DUIs she'll have to call in to be able to afford a cruise to Alaska*

Well I have just done my homework and there is no mention of "Puppies" That list is clearly not complete

Only if the trial took place on one of yours days off...then it was paid overtime. Things changed a number of years ago and all they did was re-rosterd your day off...retired now, just a distant memory...best place for it too...

I guess I shouldn't have posted that. Yesterday I got pulled over in the speed trap on that road, 115 on the gun. I was passing a couple of cars. Unusually for me I spoke up, the officer said

"you know you shouldn't have been passing there?"

"No, whyever not?"

"There was an oncoming car"

"Yes, I saw it, miles away, I had a clear shot and wanted to pass the front Volkswagen, it was going very slowly"

"Very slowly because the limit here is 60"

"Er, yes, I suppose it is, one forgets"

She said speeding at 55 over is a $300 fine and 4 points and gave me a ticket for inappropriate overtaking instead, she said there's no points in such a ticket but that remains to be seen.

Afterward I followed a Corrola at a prudent 50mph (still over the limit but within the acceptable margin), the driver didn't flash anyone but held her arm out of the window performing perfect "slowing down" hand signals. I liked that, it's kind of a secret signal saving only Brits from the filth.

Sorry to hear that dbd !
Tried to find out what the penalty is for such an offense
Here is a link for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (it says 3 points for "improper passing") if that's the same thing ?

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dan...er/demerit.htm

Ah well, if so it sure beats the 6 points for being 50 over, nevermind that the cops have the option to confiscate your car.

Yep, suppose it could have been worse. Didn't know they had the power to confiscate your car though !

Yep. It's a new law. Most speed traps now have tow trucks waiting.

Souvette has just had to pay a ticket on a vehicle that isn't even hers.

When we kicked out The Boy a couple of months back, his scooter went with him. It was registered in his mum's name. He was given the paperwork to get the registration changed. He didn't. He did, however, swap the scooter for something else, also neglecting the paperwork bit. The new owner promptly slapped on an illegal exhaust. He had no ID on him when the police stopped him. Guess where the ticket came?

I presume The Boy and/or the scooters new owner will be getting the bill at some point?

Yes. It's The Boy's birthday next month. The bill will be in his birthday card.

Extreme, yes, but he has to buck his ideas up. That's his mother's idea BTW, not mine.

Are you serious?

Would love to be a fly on the wall when he opens up the card expecting a nice fat cheque but getting a bill instead.. love it. Not sure I would have the guts to do it on his birthday tho...

Very serious.

Standing ovations from this side of the river.

Ack, bad luck. I like the hand signal though, it's not the hand signal I usually give fellow drivers but I'll start using it

In Winnipeg they had mobile vans as well as the fixed cameras - I once saw a guy in winter, standing on top of a snow mound about 20ft in front of one of these vans with a hand-written sign "Radar van here ---->, slow down!". That was sweet of him.