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Fiop posted...

One of my physics professors in college told the story of how he represented himself in a court and tried to use math+physics to prove that he couldn't possibly have been speeding. He apparently hadn't been speeding and there was another car they confused with his.

Apparently the judge told him something like, "the laws of mathematics don't apply to this courtroom" and he had to pay the fine anyway.

Hope it goes well anyway, though.

This is basically why I didn't fight a ticket I got for "driving on the shoulder" on a turn lane. I was told that, basically, traffic judges don't care and aren't interested and hate their jobs so people almost never win. And in California, they're spiteful and will tack on other stuff if you challenge the ticket. They're not impartial and just believe whatever the cop says.

I just paid the fine and went to traffic school.

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