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MoneyGuy · 05-11-2009, 03:06 PM

Does anyone have experience with this? Bylaw ticket is written up with an incorrect address. Would it likely be thrown out of court if challenged. This is not my ticket but someone has asked me about this.

FlamesKickAss · 05-11-2009, 03:08 PM

how will they find you if they have the wrong address?

VladtheImpaler · 05-11-2009, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Does anyone have experience with this? Bylaw ticket is written up with an incorrect address. Would it likely be thrown out of court if challenged. This is not my ticket but someone has asked me about this.

Some specifics would be helpful, but typically any sort of error would result in ticket being thrown out. Not my area of law though...

Jayems · 05-11-2009, 03:30 PM

A buddy had a wrong court date written on a ticket of his and that was enough to get it turfed. Now, if they wrote down your old address because you didn't tell them you have a new one, you may be SOL. In which case, don't fight the law.

Bring_Back_Shantz · 05-11-2009, 03:35 PM

I'd be willing to guess that it doesn't matter.

Hulk Rogan once got a speeding ticket and his name was put down as a ization of his real name and his street name, and all they did was correct the ticket and say "here you go, now pay up", so I doubt it'd be any different with a bylaw ticket.

Bagor · 05-11-2009, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

Does anyone have experience with this? Bylaw ticket is written up with an incorrect address. Would it likely be thrown out of court if challenged. This is not my ticket but someone has asked me about this.

IMO and from my experience .... I would say there's definitely a chance.

I fought a red light ticket in court once which was thrown out basically because the cop on his opening statement screwed up the intersection where the offence was supposed to take place.

After a lot of toing and froing and insistance from us both that we were right the judge gave me the benefit of the doubt and threw it out.

Not how I was expecting it to go down.

Boblobla · 05-11-2009, 03:50 PM

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I fought a red light ticket in court once which was thrown out basically because the cop on his opening statement screwed up the intersection where the offence was supposed to take place.

YESSSSS

I have been waiting all day for this thread, hopefully there are enough of the people around the never ever ever ever break that law in any way at all to get this thread moving.

I will kick it off.

Bagor, you good sir, are a waste of my hard earned tax dollars. Where do you get off fighting traffic tickets. YOU did the crime, YOU do the time.

Bagor · 05-11-2009, 03:57 PM

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Bagor, you good sir, are a waste of my hard earned tax dollars. Where do you get off fighting traffic tickets. YOU did the crime, YOU do the time.

Well, aren't you Mr assuming, know it all Judge and Jury all rolled into one?

Maybe ...... I went to court because I felt that I DIDN'T do the crime and DIDN'T run the light? Ever consider that? The possibility that the cop screwed up.

I was there because I was ADAMANT I DIDN'T DO A CRIME and the cop was on some sort of mission.

The justice system exists for a reason. To allow individuals like me to put forward their case when they feel there has been a wrongdoing.

I've better things to do than fight traffic tickets, I'm also however, not in the habit of bending over because some cop on a mission wants to give me one.

That he couldn't even record correctly the intersection in dispute says a lot about his competance.

But don't let that stop you judging people. Carry on ........

albertGQ · 05-11-2009, 04:03 PM

I make more then a decent wage. If it was I that got the ticket, I'd pay it even if the address is wrong. Since I make so much money, it is not worth my time to go fight it

Ford Prefect · 05-11-2009, 04:05 PM

Is your name on the ticket, or just the incorrect address? If the address is the only type of identification on the ticket, then I'd say you're home free.

I had a parking ticket once that the only identification on the ticket was the licence plate number. And the cop wrote down my licence plate number wrong so I just threw it way and forgot about it. The beauty is I stood right there while the cop arrogantly stood with his foot on my bumper right above my licence plate, and wrote the number down wrong. Guess he should have asked for my driver's licence since I was standing right there and all.

The double beauty of it was that if the incorrect plate number he wrote down was a valid licence plate, it belonged to somebody back in my home town. Hopefully one of the jackasses from there had a very unexpected and unpleasant surprise one time when they got pulled over for something and the cop radioed in for any outstanding warrants on them. Larf. It would serve 'em right ... nothing bunch of inbred, gumboot wearing, Oiler loving hillbillies.

4X4 · 05-11-2009, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Bagor

Well, aren't you Mr assuming, know it all Judge and Jury all rolled into one?

Maybe ...... I went to court because I felt that I DIDN'T do the crime and DIDN'T run the light? Ever consider that? The possibility that the cop screwed up.

I was there because I was ADAMANT I DIDN'T DO A CRIME and the cop was on some sort of mission.

The justice system exists for a reason. To allow individuals like me to put forward their case when they feel there has been a wrongdoing.

I've better things to do than fight traffic tickets, I'm also however, not in the habit of bending over because some cop on a mission wants to give me one.

That he couldn't even record correctly the intersection in dispute says a lot about his competance.

But don't let that stop you judging people. Carry on ........

Woah woah woah! Take it easy on the man with truck balls. Clearly he's kidding. He's giving you the canned CP response before one of the real self righteous a-holes comes along and says it...

FlamesKickAss · 05-11-2009, 05:15 PM

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Woah woah woah! Take it easy on the man with truck balls. Clearly he's kidding. He's giving you the canned CP response before one of the real self righteous a-holes comes along and says it...

maybe he was just giving the canned CP I wasnt doing anything I thought was wrong because I was the one doing it and its my right to fight tickets but I wanted to come on here and vent to people response.

SteveToms · 05-11-2009, 05:17 PM

It's probably a City bylaw saying you have to get a second ticket and pay both.

FlamesAddiction · 05-11-2009, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Some specifics would be helpful, but typically any sort of error would result in ticket being thrown out. Not my area of law though...

I had my name misspelled on a ticket before, but it didn't matter. They didn't throw it out (although I still talked them down).

In fact, it wasn't just misspelled, but it was the wrong first name on it (a similar name, but not the same).

Bagor · 05-11-2009, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

Woah woah woah! Take it easy on the man with truck balls. Clearly he's kidding. He's giving you the canned CP response before one of the real self righteous a-holes comes along and says it...

Oops! My bad!

Apologies Boblobla, I totally took your post out of context.

jayswin · 05-11-2009, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by albertGQ

I make more then a decent wage. If it was I that got the ticket, I'd pay it even if the address is wrong. Since I make so much money, it is not worth my time to go fight it

You forgot the weirdest part of that guys post. After explaining that he just pays his tickets because he can afford it, he used that as justification for everyone else to pay their tickets.

It was something along the lines of "I make more then a decent wage. If it was I that got the ticket, I'd pay it even if the address is wrong. Since I make so much money, it is not worth my time to go fight it, so just pay the ticket!"

4X4 · 05-11-2009, 05:48 PM

I make so much money, sometimes I circle the block a few times and get 3 or 4 multanova tickets just so I can go pay them.

BlackArcher101 · 05-11-2009, 06:19 PM

There are different ways to prove an identity on the ticket, so one missing (like address) won't necessarily get it thrown out. Even a wrong name won't get a ticket thrown out.

Always worth a shot though.

Maritime Q-Scout · 05-11-2009, 06:54 PM

I don't know about Alberta, but in Nova Scotia the issuer of the ticket has up to 6 months to amend the ticket.

Therefore if you got the ticket today, and went to court next week, they could simply correct the error.

However if your court date is tomorrow, and the offence took place just over 6 months ago it'll be tossed.

jar_e · 05-11-2009, 08:04 PM

If its based on the fact that the person didn't update their driver's licence or something like that, you pretty much just set yourself up for a second ticket if you decide to fight it. Also, fyi, if you don't decide to pay it, the majority of bylaws do turn into warrants so either fight it or pay it...don't do nothing about it.