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I love how that phrase "overcompensating for a small dick" has become some kind of honorary fact, especially when people see a very expensive car. There is a parking garage where I work next to Madison Square Garden that gets overflowed with Maserati and Porches, especially if there is a Knicks game. I worked past with a co-worker and this guy was like, "dayyum, lots of small dick a-holes park their cars here." Never once thinking that those were the player's cars, hugely successful professional athletes that bust their asses for years, or the team managers. you buy a car like that because you have money to burn and love the thing, but no, everyone has it on good authority that it is proof of something else. Even my wife will look at a late model Mustang and say the same thing. I say this because I am seriously looking to get a replica kit car to build. One so hot people will be of sure of the diminutive size of my genitals. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

http://equalizermag.com/news/vinyl-purist-identified-as-primary-suspect-in-slaying-of-22-year-old-traktor-dj/ DJ does a musicaly offensive show (to a purist) and gets himself stabbed to death. I am still not sure this isn't a joke, but I think it isn't.

Oh good grief.

Oh Fer chris' sake! Way back when I got my NYC permit the woman at One Police Plaza specifically asked me what I would do if I saw a man breaking into my car from my apartment window. I said I would call the police, because the guy I paid to help me through the process had warned me that they like to ask that. If I had said "I will shoot them in the back" I would have left empty handed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I like how shocked he was that his frind had guns and ammo in the car he borrowed. I feel his shock.

As you would suspect, mind blown by all the guns. A fun read nonetheless. http://www.confiscatedtoothpaste.com/australian-living-in-the-usa/

Just a thought. I have a Ruger LCR in 357 magnum and my "normal state" defense load are the tiny barrel optimized .357 HP's. I was thinking that i might try putting some target loads together that might be optimized for the snubbie as well. Any thoughts? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

One of my former soldiers that used to drive with me at the tail end of mile long convoys hauling jet fuel posts on Facebook: "All soldiers like to barbecue and drink beer. If you don't do this on Memorial Day weekend you are dishonoring your country." As he is currnently Special Forces in Afghanistan, I suggest you all heed his warning. In this forum I feel it is unnecessary to say pause for a few minutes every now and then, but please do. If I and others have fought for your freedom, please enjoy the gift of the first barbecue of the summer! and have one for Jose "java Joe" Velez

The points are only good on the license for a certain number of months after the date of the ticket, not the court date. So if it goes bad for me they don't stay on as long. It also servers to lessen the officer's memory, we hope. For all that I have to say, if the guy says "well that's an interesting story, but I absolutely saw him turn off ninth avenue," then I am hosed. He also had a partner in his car and who knows if he will be there. Lots of variables so hedging the bets is prudent. As far as a professional witness, I might be allowed but I would rather not incur that expense on top of the lawyer. I am still learning all this so I might be wrong on all of it, but since the video can't be shown and creativity might not have the odds in its favor, I am choosing to listen to my lawyer and get better odds or lessen the damage.

I can't imagine that actually working. Frankly that would fall on the wrong side of a line in my moral compass. The thing is, with what I am limited to presenting, the lawyer's delay tactics actually sounds like the safest bet. Which, I say again, also pisses me the F' off! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That may well be what happens. however the attorneys have a quiver of things that they throw at them all at the ready and the tried and true by the guys that know might make all of that mute. I am just pissed off that it cost me money, one way or the other. They already took a court date in January because by that time even if there is no delay and found guilty the points will be on record for the shortest amount of time save for further continuances. Continuances are expected from my side simply to lessen the impact/duration of points on the license. As for as your earlier question about carrying over ( I asked him this afternoon), my atty says that he could never answer with 100% certainty ; "imagine how many thousands of policies can be written for tens of thousands of people." Then he asked me not to ask my insurance company directly because they can decide that is enough to raise my rate.. Fun.......not...

Spot on Raz. I would like to point out though that even if the OP is some kind of "shill," why should anyone care? We, as a group, have a lot of very good information to give to anyone that should ask. Many of us are very prepared to give logical answers to anti-gunners questions. I especially like to talk with those that are undecided, hear one side and then go to the other hear what they have to say. So, for me and I would like to suggest to all, that it should be very easy to spot those that have no clue and are posting here asking silly questions. It really is kind of easy isn't it? But consider, are they here to just blast us with anti rhetoric or are they merely questioning what they hear and looking for a good solid perspective that the news is not giving them? Y'all jumped on this guy as being slightly naive and I sure pegged him the same way, but naive is not always troll. I think for all that we know, and the group that we are, that a few questions on subject we are damn near expert on should not throw us, but instead be a welcomed opportunity.

Some quick answers. but first I want to point out that I am so angry about this at times I might be missing some information. so here is the best I ahve based on shopping around to three different attorneys A solid 90% of those that defend themselves in NYC traffic court fail and are found guilty because they think it works like that on television. It might be tough for some cops to go throught the "script" but those are the ones being questioned by lawyers. Wriiten evidence is all that is allowed and so are witnesses. So technically more than just the ticket and the notebook are allowed, but how many people can provide written evidence that they did not run a red light? The written evidence I have right now is that I asked for the video through the freedom of information act and I received a written response from the Port Authority along with a DVD. This, as far as my lawyer is concerned, is unprecidented. He has never seen PA video from the tunnel. The video is not great but my 22 year old POS car is VERY distinctive in the video and has me in a place that makes it impossible to be where the offiecer said I was, but this all would have to be explained with a map. The freakin' camera right over the intersection doesn't record anything. (http://nyctmc.org/multiview2.php select 9th ave and 30th st. then "view") Anyway, as I write this the anger boils up, so I am ending this one abruptly.

Because I prefer to live my life and still be prepared for the worst at the same time. If there is ever a need in my house to have a gun at the ready I want to pick it up with one hand and have the other free to use a phone or what ever else might be necessary. I am NOT going to be hamstrung by having to put on a belt with extra magazines, hold an extra magazine in my hand, or wrap something over my shoulder. Dropping the phone for a two handed grip is an option, dropping a magazine is not. I WILL be grabbing maximum firepower with one hand and a phone to the police with the other. Suiting up to make up for an ammunition deficit on a firearm already designed to handle more is not acceptable. Maybe I was spoiled as a light machine gunner, but many rounds loaded in a bad situation frees your hands and mind to getting on with the business.

I don't understand what you mean by a guilty "plea". Do you mean verdict? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I had thought about that earlier. You're right, the video might make a difference. It could make it worse too. The officer was not one of those asshole cops. He was just wrong. In fact he was being very nice about it. He only gave me the ticket because he thought I was straight out lying to him in the face of something he believes he saw. And he had a partner in the car with him. Wrong to the point that he truly believes he saw me do something that did not happen. Convincing HIM might be the hardest part. Other people not so much. Maybe I should consider sending it to the prosecutor. Now I have an atty though so who knows. All of this still pisses me of because if I had a window broken I could have used the evidence in civil court, but a ticket? No chance. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is due process within the limits of the court's jurisdiction. Awesome, ain't it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Traffic court in NYC is Administrative. The presiding judges have no authority to issue a subpoena. No video evidence can be presented and there are no tv's or computer monitors to present evidence. The only evidence allowed is the ticket and the officer's notebook. I don't want to have two points on my license at all, because there is always an opportunity to get in this mess again, random as it was. What bugs me the most are the following: This judgement is accepted by insurance companies as being truth and rates are adjusted accordingly. I have to present my case first and then the officer, who will be present, can respond by saying "that's not what I saw" and I have nothing to show otherwise. The fact that my lawyer (i called him because I wanted to file the motion for discovery) told me that because NYC traffic court is run this way the best defense is to postpone over and over again so that the officer forgets things and trip him up. And that hearing my side of it will make him remember things, so he advises I don't speak in court or even be present. The owner of the law firm is a former presiding judge at this same NYC traffic court, so how fu ked is that? And most importantly is that for all 8 video cameras that taped me that day and the fact that this is a ticket for something that did NOT happen, I am forced to pay a lawyer to do the tap dance for me, and that tap dance looks no different from some scumbag just trying to get out of something he actually did. If I got to pay a lawyer for this then I am putting the story out there with my video given to me by the port authority. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh, I work in television. I am writing the script. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great. I got all the footage I need from the Freedom of Information act. Video proof. Just no court to show it in.

Well, yes and no. But I see the point you are trying to make. It is similar to what I meant, in that the phone call could have been made to guarantee a response by making it sound worse than it is/was. Not to mention we have all heard about "swatting." Just pondering out loud.

When I lived in Queens the favored thing to do in the projects was to call in an "officer down" no matter what the situation. Everytime the people were gone but the cops got there PDQ. Most would tell you though it was usually about a fight on the street or an argument over a parking space, but they wouldn't tell the cops that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

http://youtu.be/Ia4csoQLvGY

OO- SHAH!