Seriously… what the hell?
I can’t believe that this gambit actually worked!
You do the same crime over and over and only get fined for one instance?
What the hell, man?
This one was a TONNE of work. WAY more than I’ve done in a while!
Appearing:
The Joker, Yosemite Sam, The Hamburglar, A Beagle Boy, Voldemort, A Pirate, Al Capone, A Cowboy Bandit Dude, The Ghost From Outer Space, Jack the Ripper, Bonnie and Clyde and Doctor Octopus.
I actually did reference and found pictures of the real Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone.
Cool.
Holy crap! That’s three in one day!
The point for this Mike, is that Ricky never received notice of the fine.
This is a lot different than say… committing burglary or murder.
It’s a traffic offence. If you happen to have one of those readers outside your driveway and you go in and out of your driveway 20 times in one day…..
For instance… let’s say you park illegally one day… maybe not knowing you parked illegally. And instead of putting a ticket on your car because you were only supposed to be there an hour… the warden writes down your license plate, and then every hour comes back and makes a note. And then at the end of the day gives you a ticket for 10 hours of illegal parking…
I understand that it’s not a serious offence, like murder etc, but it IS still a crime.
Driving out of your driveway 20 times a day, when your car isn’t licensed is STILL breaking the law 20 times in a day… or 10 times a day, with in AND out…
The parking thing used to happen here, as well, where you’d get a ticket every day.
And finally, ignorance of the law is no excuse or defence.
If you’re driving illegally, you’re breaking the law.
Now, I understand that $20K and $60K are excessive and people shouldn’t be bankrupted for traffic offences, and I have no problem with them lowering the fine, it’s the fact that they could possibly have set a precedent that could have repercussions.
Plus, this should have been thought about beforehand.
potentially bad precedent, but I’m of the opinion that drivers who break the laws should be punished anyway.
What, no Gargamel? Or Mumm-Ra? great comic strip
I agree it should’ve been thought about before hand, but here’s what should’ve happened…
It catches you once, fires a message off to tcd. The database logs you ONCE for that day… A notice/fine is fired off to you. Perhaps even a phone call is made. Then, sure track you again for the next day..
But $1000 every time you go underneath it? how do we even know the frequency that this thing checks.
What if yes, one day you do drive your car illegally, and as you come up to it, it marks you sends you a fine. but you’re stuck in traffic, so when you move forward 15 feet, it tags you again..
Yes, I agree that the fines for multiple repeats for the same offence, on the same day, i.e. you leave and drive under 10 different sensors, you should only be fined once.
We’re on the same page on that one.
And where were you yesterday, tryangle, when I was racking my brain trying to figure out who to put in the pic!?
Gargamel and Mumm-Ra would have been perfect!
BTW, Welcome, Marc. Hope to see more of you.
From today’s Bermuda Sun ….
“It appears that legal principle requires that people charged in court on the same occasion for a number of similar offences should not be given a fine that’s greater than the maximum available for a single offence unless the overall conduct is of the worst imaginable sort.”
agreed.
it’s like being late on returning movies.
if you say you lost it, they charge you $20, or, cost of dvd.
if you’re good and return it, they charge you late fees….
for EVERY day over, even if it’s more than the cost of the dvd.
I would know… $300 for 2 movies
And, hey, if the offences were all on one day, then yeah… the guy shouldn’t be charged for a grajillion offences.
But if it was day in, day out, over several weeks, then come on…
that’s repeat offender and should be charged as such.
Just like if he had parked in the same illegal spot every day for a week.
3264,
that’s what I’m saying, I guess. If you’re not doing it over and over, but are being charged for the same offence, i.e. leaving your house in an unlicensed car and getting charged 48 thousand times in the course of the day, then yeah, one offence.
Two, three, four days running? That’s you playing silly buggers and hoping not to get caught.
Marc,
Only $300? That’s lightweight! *grin*