Why So Many Tickets?
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After making many visits to the Aberdeen and Southern Pines area in the last couple of years, I decided to relocated to Aberdeen in January 2012. Most of the citizens and businesses are very friendly people.
The thing that really catches my attention is the number of cars that the Aberdeen Police Department pulls over every week. If they are writing tickets for just 90 percent of the ones that they pull over, that has to be a staggering statistic.
I am very familiar with the old saying, “No more quotes on writing tickets; we can write all we want to now!”
Are Aberdeen citizens really all that bad at violating traffic laws? How about a little friendly warning, courtesy of the Aberdeen Police Department?
I am not anti-police at all, just anti-nitpick.
Ray Britt
Aberdeen
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The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Traffic tickets are a government racketering scam in this county. All you need to do to get around this is pick up your NC law books, I think you need about 4 of them and research your right to travel. There are in actuality no speed limits for private citizens, nor can the law require you to wear a seat belt nor can the law require you to hold a drivers liscence.
getreal 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Aberdeen is one of the worst for this. They are famous on the speed traps in the US sites. If officer Br**ks is still on the force beware! You not only get a ticket but her nasty attitude along with it. Be careful, they love to get you at Linden and route 5 and route 5 by Food lion. Don't speed, make sure you put on your seatbelt even if you are driving 100 feet down main street to another store, make sure you count to 5 at every stop sign and never try to cross an intersection on a yellow light, if it changes when you are 7/8ths through, they get you! Better yet avoid Aberdeen all together.
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The plain fact is that the legal system has been made so complicated that you need a degree just to understand your rights.
clarabelle 9 months, 3 weeks ago
OK - I'll beat the trailer dwellers to the punch.........
If you dont like the way things are done here - move back north............. snivelin yankee!
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Clarabelle you really should just tape your mouth shut, I think that is the only way you will ever keep your foot from lodging in it.
Really_Now5 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I do not think it is a Yankee thing, There are other brilliant ways to avoid meeting the Aberdeen Police Department and it would be to obey the law and refer back to you NC Driver handbook on proper stopping times and what the black and white signs are on the side of the road. And I do not believe said officer would have such a smart mouth if you would comply with the rules and regulations. Yes you are going to see more people pulled in Aberdeen then any where else because how many cars come through the area it is only common sense.
clarabelle 9 months, 3 weeks ago
" The_AnonymusProfit - Clarabelle you really should just tape your mouth shut, I think that is the only way you will ever keep your foot from lodging in it."
And you should open up a new business - filling hot air balloons with all that rhetoric. You could be a millionaire and quit your job as a greeter at Wallyworld :)
AFCHIEF 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Clarabele, where in the letter did he mention he was from north? Or are you just ASSuming!!
cantstandya 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Have lived North and South, just did not hear the north-south thing while up there, just remember even the Southern population has a distant relative from up north somewhere, where do you think the southern art of making moon shine came from, can't be all that bad.
clarabelle 9 months, 3 weeks ago
" AFCHUMP - Clarabele, where in the letter did he mention he was from north? Or are you just ASSuming!!"
It was a JOKE ............ Too many times I have read that comment on these boards - probably a few from YOU .........
Toda 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Another twaddle blog ... too much about nothing.
JD 9 months, 3 weeks ago
It's how the town makes money...
xemrac 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Towns don't make any money form tickets...not in NC anyway.
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Todas comment is funny to me. I dont need anything from the state to legally operate a vehical on the roads. I have a right provided by god to travel. The supreame court if the united states says not inly do i have a right to travel. I have a right to do this with whatever the pipular converses if the day are ie cars and trucks.
olebaldy 9 months, 3 weeks ago
To The_AnonymusProfit, it's obvious that you believe yourself to be a "Sovereign Citizen", congratulations, try your line on a police officer and see how it works, while you're at it, let us know how the food in the jail is. Towns receive no funding from the tickets that are written and the best way to avoid getting a ticket is to obey the traffic laws, they are there to keep everyone safe, this includes Sovereigns.
Toda 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I have to agree TAP to an extent. It's just another form of taxation. As long as the zombies pass laws to take our hard earned - net disposable income - or rather what is left for us to have taxed again, then we have to submit to communist rule of law.
DoubleHeroides 9 months, 3 weeks ago
@The_AnonymousProfit: I’m not sure what Supreme Court case you are referring to but the Right to Travel doesn’t give you the ability to hop in whatever has an engine in it and scoot down the road. Since the advent of the automobile the courts have upheld licensing requirements on roadways.
Toda 9 months, 3 weeks ago
TAP consider reading my latest blog: Over Taxed, I think so ....comments welcomed.
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sure thing toda
@oldbaldy i have used thus defence before as well as a due process defence with alot of sucess..
@dh i will provide ypu the cases when i get home. Just because you want to give up your rights or are ignorant of them does not mean i am.
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Toda on a side note. I did some calculations. I currently work 4 1/2 months of the year for free.
Toda 9 months, 3 weeks ago
No you don't TAP ~ you work for those in Congress's vibrant lifestyles and pork money...the lobbyists only contribute to re-election and the subliminal bonus package program ...!
DoubleHeroides 9 months, 3 weeks ago
@The_AnonymousProfit: I’m not ignorant of the subject matter I am merely challenging your interpretation of various Supreme Court cases related to freedom of movement. Kent v. Dulles addressed the freedom of travel as one of our inherent liberties but did not address how much that liberty may be curtailed. By the way at this point it is important to note that all this talk about travel doesn’t mean going anywhere however you want. It means that you can’t be restricted from traveling from state to state or town to town. Nowhere is there a contention that it means you don’t have to have a drivers license. You don’t have to have a driver’s license to enter or exit the state, your ability to exit the state is not hindered, just how you chose to do it. Operating a ton of steel and plastic at 65 miles an hour is not a right. However I welcome any information that you may have that may show me to be incorrect.
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Here are some links DH http://www.barefootsworld.net/sui_juris/right_to_travel.html
http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/right2travel.shtml
Also DH not only do you not need a license, when you are pulled over by a police officer and the request you to turn off the vehical or step out, you are being unlawfully detained, which is known as kidnapping. Know your rights.
Also traffic tickets violate your right to due process.
WFB 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I seriously doubt AnonymusProfit has personally used any of the defenses he is citing. The vast majority of the cases cited in the first website he linked to date as far back as 1880 and the most recent case was in the mid 1970's. Perhaps back in the good ol' days, supreme court justices ruled drivers licenses unconstitutional. But those judges are now all dead.
pilotreader 9 months, 3 weeks ago
@anonymous profit... Please, please, PLEASE do me a favor and let us know when you have to go to court for a ticket!! I have been to several trainings regarding Sovereign Citizens such as yourself and I would LOVE to see you get your bee-hind handed to you in court for being so misled. Are you still waiting on your $$ from your 'strawman'? Good grief and bless your heart is all I can say... as I'm laughing at the thought of you being drug out your 'vessel' window when you refuse to show a LEO your license.
Spocks_Brain 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The problem is Aberdeen does not have a 10 Million Dollar station to hang out in...like Southern Pines...you never see SP cops anymore cause that station has a Starbucks and Subway in it! This is not Mayberry. That said a lot of people pass thru Aberdeen and you really need a firm hand on this...I thnk in general its a great department but you have some cocky officers and I think many of us imagine this is Mayberry...I do think the practice of accosting people sitting in their cars talking ona cell phone needs to stop-I was a victim of this and it was totally unlawful-guess my $60,000 Mercedes was making them think (2 cars) I was a dealer or something-this happened with my car parked right next to Kees appliance with the nose on Main..I raised hell and they just laughed when I called in the next am and complained....that said one of these officers let me slide on a 50 in 20 so...why bitch???
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Pilotreader i always comply with police when i am pulled over. The only thing i do differently is inquire as to wjy the police have declared and emergency and can i assist after that i take my ticket and go to tje courts. I currently have a driving with no liscense ticket in court right now and will be using infingment of due process to have it dismissed. It will never go farther then the das table.
JD 9 months, 3 weeks ago
xemrac 11 hours, 18 minutes ago Towns don't make any money form tickets...not in NC anyway.
Ok so maybe Boston among most cities, but the model works for here too.
Oh and 'not quotas' also.
cantstandya 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Found it a lost cause to argue with law enforcement, some are just looking for that one little gesture to make your life miserable, usually the fines are not as bad as the inconvenience, found Moore County and Southern Pines to be common sense law officers, some others at surrounding areas are abit overboard, always wondered if not reaching their goals and being rejected from a major force leaves them that way.
clarabelle 9 months, 3 weeks ago
" The_AnonymusProfit - Also DH not only do you not need a license, when you are pulled over by a police officer and the request you to turn off the vehical or step out, you are being unlawfully detained, which is known as kidnapping. Know your rights."
Has someone been drinking again.............. :)
The_AnonymusProfit 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Im sure you have been clarabelle
babiehop 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Perhaps some of the traffic stops Mr. Britt sees are only for warnings and perhaps some of the officers are overly aggressive, but certainly if speeders and scoff-laws were not stopped someone would complain of that as well. I love seeing cars stopped with the officers bent over the drivers' window.......in those tight uniform pants. :)