Comments on: The Street Racer – Our Days in Court

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:06:15 +0000

Curt – you’re an idiot.

Anyone who endangers other people while driving deserves to lose their driving privileges for life.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:19:47 +0000

It’s one thing to do it, but it’s an entirely different thing to say it. Not very smart.

By: curt

curt — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:14:27 +0000

I StreetRace And IM Never IM Never Going To Stop and I Do Mean Never going to stop.

By: Kari Chellouf

Kari Chellouf — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:46:02 +0000

PS: The level of professionalism that your job requires unfortunately kept you from returning the favour from the ticketing incident and blowing him a kiss as he got hauled away. Too bad!

By: Kari Chellouf

Kari Chellouf — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:42:59 +0000

Thank you for working hard to keep this fool from hurting anybody.

By: KLF

KLF — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:07:56 +0000

No matter how annoying the accused (or defence counsel on occasion!), it has been my experience that judges/JPs are pretty capable of separating themselves from their irritation and ruling appropriately.

I loved the story though. A colleague of mine in Surrey once skulked around the courthouse parking lot because he was convinced the accused he’d just prosecuted successfully for driving while prohibited had driven to court. (Of course, getting convicted of that offence means an automatic one-year driving prohibition kicks in from that point, not to mention the judge pretty well always imposes a prohibition as well.) My colleague’s instincts were bang on, and he was quickly on the phone with Surrey RCMP who swooped in and arrested the accused.

I could go on with other similar stories – as Sandra says, the results are usually things of beauty!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:04:08 +0000

Great story, a classic indeed.

I’ve been following your blog for a while now (first time posting) and must say that it has given me (and I’m sure others) a great insight into what policing is like in Vancouver. I have active applications with a number of the municipal forces in the GVR and applied to the VPD but am still waiting to be reviewed; clearly an extremely busy time for the department. Looking forward to starting the process to say the least! I must say though, the Transit Police have been surprisingly quick at processing my application. Looking forward to hopefully joining your profession in the near future.

Thanks for providing a window into your work. Stay Safe.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:50:18 +0000

Chris – I’m not sure, and this question is out of my area of expertise. I would think traffic records may be admissible in criminal court if certain requirement are met, but that’s only a guess on my part – any lawyers out there care to answer this one? You can comment anonymously if you like

Moe – his car was not impounded on the first instance as there was (at the time) no legal authority to do so. That hs since been ammended.

By: Moe

Moe — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:42:31 +0000

HA. Very funny, what a dummy. He’s late for court once and just makes it the second time,then gets caught driving away in his corvette after he’s prohibited to drive.
Good idea in the end to have his car being watched, you guys caught him red handed. I think his car should have been taken away in the first place, the motorcyclist did so why not his?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:03:02 +0000

Sandra
Thanks for explaining the differences between traffic court decisions and the Provincial Court criminal system.
I guess my next question will have to be:
Will the Provincial Judge know about the traffic court tickets?