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Beat that ticket...NOTSep 10 '00 Write an essay on this topic.Here's another urban legend about beating a traffic ticket and keeping the point off your record. This was forwarded as an email to my wife who gave it to me. The message says, "This has been tried and it works. Send this to everyone you know. It is said for a fact this works so if you ever get in this situation, you have an out. This procedure works in every state. Read it an try it, you have nothing to lose but the points on your license.... When you get your fine, send in the check to pay for it and if the fine is say, $79, then make the check out for $82 or some small amount over the fine. The system will then have to send you back a check for the difference, but here is the trick! DO NOT CASH THE REFUND CHECK! Throw it away! Point are not assessed to your license until all financial transactions are complete. However, the system has gotten its money and is happy and will not bother your anymore. This information come from an unmentionable computer company that sets up the standard database used by each states DMV." 1. I've heard of this maybe twice in almost 7 years of teaching traffic school but have never seen any real documentation about this. Conclusion: urban legend. 2. The court "system" is separate from the city/county treasurer's office. If you are paid up at the court, whether or not you are due a refund from anyone, you are finished with the court system, having fulfilled your obligations re: your traffic ticket and the payment of your fine. It may be that someday someone from the gov't agency, or a bank, calls and asks about that check, if it's worth the effort to track down your five or ten dollars. 3. Court is separate from DMV. If you fail to take traffic school to mask your ticket because you think your refund check will hide the ticket, big mistake. You get one point on your record. The court has your money; you've paid your fine; it's someone else's job to worry about your refund. The clerk at traffic court won't think twice about why you elected to NOT take traffic school when you had the opportunity to do so. No one will call to ask if you overlooked it, or whether or not you were aware that you could have that point masked. 4. If you were ordered to show up in person and you told the judge that, yes, you want to take traffic school (snickering up your sleeve because of the 'refund' trick) and you fail to complete traffic school, you will suddenly find that you have now committed a misdemeanor for failing to complete traffic school when you said you would do so, and your new fine (in California) will approach $500, and you may have a bench warrant issued on you. If you have a case, my advice is to check out "Fight Your Ticket," by Brown. Nolo Press. Best book on the subject you can find. Don't try to trick the system, it's bigger and meaner than you. Read more at http://trafficschool.homestead.com  |
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