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Pleading Insanity To A Traffic Ticket

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How many here would plead insanity to a traffic ticket in order to avoid paying the traffic ticket? On an episode of the Honeymooners Kramden stated that Norton could get away with a traffic ticket by pleading insanity.
 
And then you would have to prove your insanity. If you cannot prove it, then either you will be given the ticket anyways or you may very well be charged with lying to an officer or some such thing, and also wasting their time. If you can prove insanity then you will be legally insane, that means you cannot drive anymore, you lose a lot of other things, and the state can lock you away in an asylem if they feel you may be a hazard to the public (and if you are getting a speeding ticket, and are proven to be insane, then I think they have more than enough to lock you away).

It's easier to just be responsible and suck up to the fact that you were speeding and you need to face the consequences of your actions.
 
What works better was discovered by our German Nationals in a company in Columbus Ohio that I used to work at. If stopped by the police while driving they'd pull out their International license, and pretend not to know any English at all. Normally the Policeman wouldn't want to go through the hassle of dealing with this, and let 'em go.

I used the same dodge in Germany - playing the "Dumb American" role - and always walked away too.
 
Bob Carabbio said:
What works better was discovered by our German Nationals in a company in Columbus Ohio that I used to work at. If stopped by the police while driving they'd pull out their International license, and pretend not to know any English at all. Normally the Policeman wouldn't want to go through the hassle of dealing with this, and let 'em go.

I used the same dodge in Germany - playing the "Dumb American" role - and always walked away too.
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So how do you "pull out your international license"? Is this being dishonest? Not pointing fingers, because I've tried other means. Honestly, I've only been pulled over a few times in the past 10 years. I fought the cases both times, showed up in court, and the officer didn't, so my tickets were dismissed.

This could get into a lot of Christian/ethical questions about traffic violations. When is the line in not submitting to authority? One over the speed limit or 30? Any of them, or none? Is it also not submitting to authority in finding a loophole (disputing a ticket) when you know you were wrong?
 
WELL OF COURSE it's dishonest!!

But of course when you're in a "foreign" country, it's really easy to get in trouble for breaking laws you didn't even know were there.

I bought a ticket from a vending machine in Goeppingen to ride the Train to Stuttgart, and when the conductor came through the car, he looked at my ticket, scowled and asked me "Vo gehen sie"? I told him Hauptbanhoff, Stuttgart. and he looked at me hard for a moment, and then snorted and handed back the ticked and walked off. My accent had told him that I was just a Dumb American, and it was obvious I'd done something wrong (ignorantly) - but the conductor wasn't going to deal with it.

I found out later that when you buy a ticket from the vending machine, you need to get it stamped at another little machine on the platform within an hour of boarding the train for it to be "Legal", and there are stiff fines for not doing so.

OF course the "Law" has nothing to do with "Honest or Dishonest" and if there are "Loopholes" then one would be foolish NOT to take advantage of 'em - kind of like Paul and his Acts 23:6 "resurrection bomb".
 
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And then you would have to prove your insanity. If you cannot prove it, then either you will be given the ticket anyways or you may very well be charged with lying to an officer or some such thing, and also wasting their time. If you can prove insanity then you will be legally insane, that means you cannot drive anymore, you lose a lot of other things, and the state can lock you away in an asylem if they feel you may be a hazard to the public (and if you are getting a speeding ticket, and are proven to be insane, then I think they have more than enough to lock you away).

It's easier to just be responsible and suck up to the fact that you were speeding and you need to face the consequences of your actions.
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Correct. But it was funny on that episode of the Honeymooners when Kramden stated that Norton could get away with a traffic ticket by pleading insanity.
 
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