WARNING.Palisades Speed Trap
WARNING.Palisades Speed Trap
To all my dear buddies,
I am offering you a note of warning and if you care to share this
information with your friends, it could be helpful to them as well.
When you drive on the Palisades Interstate Parkway between New York and
Monsey, do not go above 65 and ALWAYS stay in the right lane.
Recently somebody I know got a ticket for speeding and I'd like to
enlighten you as to what happens:
1. The cops on this stretch have NO compassion whatsoever -- they are
stopping you for a reason, and that is to give you a ticket and make sure
their Alpine area pulls in as much money as possible from these fines.
2. When you go, on the designated day, to answer your ticket, you will be
amongst 200! other people who got stopped for some traffic infraction.
3. You will wait. They hear people's not guilty issues until 10 PM! at
night.
4. You have no choice but to wait.
5. If you hire a lawyer, you will go first but you will not get off --
all the people who had hired lawyers were the proud recipients of a
judgment of $380 (100 fine 30 court fees and 250 for the infraction) to
be paid immediately, in addition, of course, to paying your lawyer's fee!
(ouch).
6. You will wait -- the judge takes a break during the guilty and not
guilty pleas.
7. You will wait again because the judge takes a dinner break!
8. The cops sit by and watch the unsuspecting people squirming in their
seats.
9. There were only two cases that were dismissed.
10. With pleading guilty and a good excuse (and a good clean driving
record) you will "get off" with a quick fine of $95 to $105 (so sweet!).
11. If you have a New Jersey license, you will get points and a lowered
fine, or a higher fine ($380) and no points.
12. If you have a New York License, you get no points (NO points are
transferred from New Jersey to New York).
13. If you do not show up for this ticket on the designated date, you
will get arrested the next time you are stopped because an arrest warrant
is in place for you with bail already set at this courtroom.
14. End of the day I am here to tell you DONT SPEED ON THE PIP -- they
have no compassion. Within one hour they took in $380 every five minutes
-- my friend saw it with his own eyes.
15. By the way, he got off with a guilty and a low fine because he had a
good excuse.
16. Save the time for yourself rather than sit in this stone house at the
end of the road! You'll do yourself a favor.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Please pass this on to your friends -- especially your Monsey friends.
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