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I simply popped out of the bushes and said, "hello officer, here I am".

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HAHAHAHAH. I had a mental picture going while I read your story, and I broke out laughing at that part. Awesome.

I used to live in Northgate (mistake of my life).

Never failed- every Thurs, Fri, Sat night at 1:15am- HONK HONK HONK... we lived 2 blocks from the garage- even with windows shut, TV on, still woke us up.

This was when the bars closed at 1am.

BTW- you can probably fight the ticket since the offense says "Honking in a garage" or whatever it says....

Wow...there actually IS a law against honking your horn.

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§ 547.501. AUDIBLE WARNING DEVICES.

(c) A motor vehicle operator shall use a horn to provide audible warning only when necessary to insure safe operation.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

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I didn't know that.

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I got a ticket in Deep Ellum in Dallas for "honking my horn in a non-emergency situation" when I was in high school. I would have been $300, but they misspelled my name on the ticket.

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I just noticed that my name IS misspelled on the ticket. Is this really a way to get out of it?

KIA, they don't let you out of it for an error anymore...

This is not a troll. I think the ticket might have to do with KIA honking his horn to "F*** th police" which was playing on his Am/FM/casette player in his 1982 Cutlas Supreme.

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Never failed- every Thurs, Fri, Sat night at 1:15am- HONK HONK HONK... we lived 2 blocks from the garage- even with windows shut, TV on, still woke us up.

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Why were you asleep that early on the weekend?

I sometimes go to sleep that early - depends on how early I started drinking/if I have something to do Saturday... etc.

The noisiest place I ever lived was a block behind the Dixie Chicken.

It was nearly impossible to go to sleep before 2 am on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Sometimes I would just sit on the porch and watch everyone walk by.

But that wasn't a family neighborhood.

If you go to sleep that early due to drinking, you're not hearing **** anyway.

nope. the only noise that wakes me up is my dog barking. the neighbors dogs don't wake me.

Just called the court it went something like this:

Court Lady: "When did you get the ticket?"
Me: "Last friday"
Court Lady: "What was it for"
Me: "Honking my horn in a parking garage."
Court Lady: "hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha"
Me: "............."
Court Lady: "Its $380"
Me: "hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha"
Court Lady: "Do you want to contest the ticket"
Me: "Is the sky blue?"



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$380. You might have to give the lawyer a call.

Which judge is it?

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The ***** laughed?

What were you charged with? It should only be $155 (I use the word -only- as it compares to $380...it's still an outrage).

Horn - Unnecessary Use $155.00
http://www.cstx.gov/home/index.asp?page=194

They called it disorderly conduct. Im an evil, evil disorderly person.

AW - not sure who the judge is. Talked to the lawyer at the tailgate. He said just set a court date and it should get dismissed. He said he didnt want to take my money for that because i could get it dismissed myself...we'll see i guess.

Court date = Jan 26th

The Christmas Lights thread brought this back to my attention...

alteast you are smiling now.

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and as we are leaving northgate from the parking garage, people are honking there horns - Honking the fight song, honking in general, just honking. I let off a small honk to join in, and here comes Mr.Bike Cop to pull me over. Gives me a ticket for "Honking a horn in a parking garage." And then proceeds to ask me, "do you think the people in here like to hear your horn?"

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Ive heard of some pretty ticky tack stuff, but this one is possibly the best.
(Well right up there with CSPD writing me a ticket for not parking 18 inches from the curb in front of my house)

Get a copy of the city ordinance for "honking in a garage." You should be provided with a copy at city hall. Make sure all of the stipulations for the ordinance were met. If not, it should get dismissed.

Most likely your ticket will not get dismissed for a misspelled name. It usually takes more than that, or a city prosecutor who is looking for any reason to lighten his case load. Good luck.

I hate to hear of officers writing chicken s*** tickets. It makes the job that other officers do that much harder. I personally do good to write 5 tickets in a month. I would much rather be patroling the neighborhoods looking for car burglers and people trying to break into businesses. I do stop a few cars, but I write quite a few more warnings than tickets. I hope you have good luck fighting that ticket, and if you were cited for disorderly conduct, I would check the penal code to see if the offense fits what you did. Good luck

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• Two Anglo American males
• Ages: undetermined
• Heights: approximately 5’7”-5’9”
• Body builds: Small & Medium

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Meanwhile the smallest two dudes in college station manage to overpower and mug someone.

Know It All...
If you want some advice on the CS Muni Court system, shoot me an email. I had to deal with a bogus ticket a few years ago and eventually had it dismissed.


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Still on?

Still on

The pre-trial hearing is this week. Anyone ever had a ticket dismissed at a pre-trial hearing. The wording on the tickets sounds like they won't dismiss anything at that point.

for the right price, I'll take someone out

The prosecutor you will be meeting with at the pre-trial is a dick. Bottom of the barrel from law school and fresh from it at that. He flat out lied to my face multiple times and even went to the extent of making up an entire report from a police officer to read aloud to me. That report does not exist according to the courts and the police station...On top of that he had the balls to call ME a liar.

My pretrial conference was horrible, if you are a student he will try to put one over on you. KNOW THE LAW before you step in...because he will make a bunch up and when you call him on it he shuts up. He kept telling me I would not win my case, I said lets allow the jury to decide. He tried many times for me to change my mind..and then once court date arrived, my date was magically changed without my knowledge. Then two weeks later he asked if I wanted a plea bargain (much cheaper then it would have cost me to take it to court)...I wish I had the time to go through with the case.......

This is long and rambling..just be careful if you are taking care of this yourself...there is something fishy going on in that courthouse.....

Does the right price involve swallerin?

I swallered it.

thanks copelt

A CSPD bike cop in the Northgate parking garage once prevented me from almost assuredly getting laid with a hot chick, because as we were about to get into my car to head back to my place, she yelled across the garage to someone she knew, and the jackass bike cop came peddling over and arrested her for public intoxication.

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Jamotoe?