We’ve all been there before. You’re running late for your kid’s soccer game, your buddy’s wedding, or you’re just trying to hit the bar before kickoff. Or, maybe you just enjoy driving really fucking fast. Then, BOOM – out of nowhere, you see the blue lights. You know you’re going to miss kickoff, and you’re just hoping it’s not one of those games like the Super Bowl, when Devin Hester ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown.
Happens to the best of us.
It’s the main reason I quit driving like Jeff Gordon. I was the recipient of one speeding ticket – and it was the biggest waste of my money outside of that time I bought a yoga mat. Now, shit – if that speed limit says 40, you better believe I’m doing a crisp 37.
But, if I had thought of this man’s argument, who knows? Maybe I’d still be out doing my Dale Earnhardt on the daily (Junior – not the dead one)!
Courtesy of NH1 New Hampshire – “A Massachusetts man fighting a speeding ticket in court had a unique explanation — the officer’s radar gun may have picked up a deer.
The Newburyport Daily News reports that Dennis Sayers, of Haverhill, was clocked going 40 mph in 30 mph zone in West Newbury in November.
He got a $105 ticket.
He appealed in court on Thursday, asking Officer Royster Johnson if he was 100 percent sure his radar captured Sayers’ speed or the speed of a deer that could have been in the vicinity.
When confronted by the skeptical judge, Sayers replied that anything was possible.
The fine was upheld.
Deer, by the way, can run approximately 30 mph.”
I like this argument a lot for a couple of reasons:
1) It provides a solution. It’s not like the guy was just saying, “WASN’T ME” or “NOPE – YOU’RE WRONG.” It was this guy saying, “hey, there’s a problem here….but maybe this is the solution.” Or, specifically in this context, it’s like, “think something might be off here, but it could’ve been the radar gun.”
2) It’s not accusatory. Again, he’s not explicitly saying, “YOU’RE WRONG.” He’s offering an olive branch to the officer – not being standoffish. He’s asking a question, allowing the officer to think about it. That’s quality social engineering, folks. We learn that stuff day one at business school.
So, all in all, it was a good strategy. But, Dennis, my man – you have to go a little deeper on something like this. You have to have a better rebuttal than “anything is possible.” You had to know there was going to be follow-up.
And, the judge was skeptical! Like, you had him! There was a door for you to walk through, but he slammed it shut when you couldn’t offer a decent explanation as to why the officer may have caught a deer with super speed instead of your speeding car.
Ultimate choke job, Dennis. Be better.
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