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Hex, sheesh. In 10 years, you'll know.

 

Anyway, did he give you a breathalyzer ? No.

 

So, you were under the BAC limit when you were in the car. Just that you had a beer in your hand. This seems screwed.

 

Almost every state in the US has laws against open containers in vehicles, whether driver or passenger. They don't need to sniff it. Beer bottles are nearly 100% guaranteed to be carrying one type of liquid. If you can smell it on someone, they've probably had more than a little. And by his own admittal, the OP is/was drunk.

Yeah, I live in Canada but passengers still get tickets and it doesent matter how much you drink unless your driving and he smelt the alcohol on all us. I didnt really plan to get away with it but it was worth a shot seeing if I could lol.

 

Hex, sheesh. In 10 years, you'll know.

 

Anyway, did he give you a breathalyzer ? No.

 

So, you were under the BAC limit when you were in the car. Just that you had a beer in your hand. This seems screwed.

Also, he's underage. Depending on where you live, having any sort of alcohol in the car with you when you're below the legal drinking age is at the very least ticketable.

 

So now let us suppose that you fight this under the defense that the officer did not make sure it was beer in the bottle. You state your case, then the judge says, "Well, was their beer in the bottle?" Not much you can do there.

Yeah they can dump out your alcohol and ticket you for being underage but I got lucky with that one I guess, along with my seatbelt. And good point, I guess there isnt really a way to fight it lol.

 

Just pay it and be glad he didn't arrest you. It's your own fault for being an idiot and bringing an open container in a car.

Arrest me for what?

 

Next time you'll know better; drink what's left of the beer before the cop gets to your car so all it is is an empty bottle.

 

Problem solved.

Well I was hoping they werent gunna search the car and they would have easily seen me drink the beer because the windows werent tinted or anything. Oh well [cabbage] happens I guess, I had it coming to me and atleast I got off on the underage and seatbelt ticket, And got to keep the beer that was in the trunk! :) haha.

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Next time you'll know better; drink what's left of the beer before the cop gets to your car so all it is is an empty bottle.

 

Problem solved.

Well I was hoping they werent gunna search the car and they would have easily seen me drink the beer because the windows werent tinted or anything. Oh well [cabbage] happens I guess, I had it coming to me and atleast I got off on the underage and seatbelt ticket, And got to keep the beer that was in the trunk! :) haha.

 

Some places it's illegal to have empties anywhere but the trunk

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Hex, sheesh. In 10 years, you'll know.

 

Anyway, did he give you a breathalyzer ? No.

 

So, you were under the BAC limit when you were in the car. Just that you had a beer in your hand. This seems screwed.

And by his own admittal, the OP is/was drunk.

 

Ahhh. Well you see, that changes everything.

 

:shame: OP.

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Either way, you were underage. I think that overrides anything you can say.

 

Police pwnt ya. Stop QQ'ing. =P

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Alight so I was looking over it earlier today, and the court date says "January 10th, 2009". Can this change anything?

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alright well about an hour ago i was with some friends coming from a party and we got pulled over, i had a half full beer in my hand. i set it on the floor and the cop got me to stand outside. he looked in the car and found the beer on the floor and poured it out (without smelling it or anything, he just seen the bottle and poured it out). he asked whos it was and i admitted it was mine so my friend driving didnt get the ticket. he put me in the car and wrote me a ticket for $360 and asked me a buch of bull [cabbage] and asked if i could help him with drug dealers. is there anyway i can fight this ticket because i got better things to spend $360 on lol. im still half drunk so if i didnt spell good or this doesent belong here sorry!

 

Are you underage? If so, then you only have yourself to blame and the only way you can get out of it is to lobby to change the law (good luck with that).

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I still don't get it, why is it illegal to have an open container of alcohol in a car? I could understand if he ticketed you for underage drinking, but I can't see the problem with passengers drinking in a car with a sober driver...

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I'm not familiar with what an "open liquor ticket" is - is it basically a ticket for drinking on the streets? It's probably not worth the time and effort of fighting it, probably best to just take it on the chin :\

 

Seriously, Stop drinking alchohol.

 

Why, exactly?

Because Hex is 8 years old and thinks its offensive that people drink alchohol.

Yeh, Because mummy says alchohol is naughty

 

(No, Basically whats the hype over alcohol, why drink it if you get into trouble: i know it may give off some good effects but seriously... How does it help you in the long run?)

It's fun.

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Unless you wan't to fight the law itself, your paying the ticket. And fighting the law would cost thousands of dollars, and seeing as its a just and resonable law, you won't be able to fight it anyways.

 

So you have two options that I know of. Pay the ticket or don't. I suggest paying the ticket unless you want your own personal lear that will prevent you from ever having a loan for teh rest of your life until you pay it off, and it will probably have interest.

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I still don't get it, why is it illegal to have an open container of alcohol in a car? I could understand if he ticketed you for underage drinking, but I can't see the problem with passengers drinking in a car with a sober driver...

 

Because the potential is that the passenger is merely "holding" the beer for the driver. It's a no tolerance policy.

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Well [cabbage] lol. meh i got 2 months to pay it. but theres nothing i can do seeing as he didnt even sniff the beer he just poured it?

 

Beer has a very very strong odor especially to a trained nose. He probably could tell someone in the car had been drinking before he even saw the can/bottle. The probability of you having some other type of drink in the beer can/bottle is highly unlikely and would be stupid so he really doesn't need to sniff the beer.

 

Kids don't be stupid like this guy. Alcohol and a car are NOT a good mix at anytime, driving or not. Hence the reason we have open container laws.

 

Hex, sheesh. In 10 years, you'll know.

 

Anyway, did he give you a breathalyzer ? No.

 

So, you were under the BAC limit when you were in the car. Just that you had a beer in your hand. This seems screwed.

 

We don't know he was under the BAC limit. The cop wasn't trying to get him for DUI anyway, just open container.

 

I still don't get it, why is it illegal to have an open container of alcohol in a car? I could understand if he ticketed you for underage drinking, but I can't see the problem with passengers drinking in a car with a sober driver...

 

Because sometimes the driver gets a hold of the alcohol, or is given the drink. Can have deadly results.

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Alight so I was looking over it earlier today, and the court date says "January 10th, 2009". Can this change anything?

I've heard of things like tickets being thrown out because of inconsistencies like this.

Take it to a solicitor or some type of legal aid? Might be doing yourself worse off though if you try to fight this since you are under the legal drinking age.

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(No, Basically whats the hype over alcohol, why drink it if you get into trouble: i know it may give off some good effects but seriously... How does it help you in the long run?)

Drinking makes parties better.

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(No, Basically whats the hype over alcohol, why drink it if you get into trouble: i know it may give off some good effects but seriously... How does it help you in the long run?)

Drinking makes parties better.

Why don't you use salvia, that makes partys better AND its not illigel (i know same about alchohol)

 

whats the diffrence bewteen taking crack and having alchohol?

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(No, Basically whats the hype over alcohol, why drink it if you get into trouble: i know it may give off some good effects but seriously... How does it help you in the long run?)

Drinking makes parties better.

Why don't you use salvia, that makes partys better AND its not illigel (i know same about alchohol)

 

whats the diffrence bewteen taking crack and having alchohol?

 

Are you kidding? You can't even speak or see the real world if you take salvia.

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Salvia pretty much disconnects parts of your brain, and causes you to hallucinate. Alcohol, assuming you don't drink in extreme amounts, makes you happier, more confident/changes your judgement, shortens your attention span, and makes it troublesome to do fine movements (like writing).

...Not the same.

Matt: You want that eh? You want everything good for you. You want everything that's--falls off garbage can

Camera guy: Whoa, haha, are you okay dude?

Matt: You want anything funny that happens, don't you?

Camera guy: still laughing

Matt: You want the funny shit that happens here and there, you think it comes out of your [bleep]ing [wagon] pushes garbage can down, don't you? You think it's funny? It comes out of here! running towards Camera guy

Camera guy: runs away still laughing

Matt: You think the funny comes out of your mother[bleep]ing creativity? Comes out of Satan, mother[bleep]er! nn--ngh! pushes Camera guy down

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Alight so I was looking over it earlier today, and the court date says "January 10th, 2009". Can this change anything?

I've heard of things like tickets being thrown out because of inconsistencies like this.

Take it to a solicitor or some type of legal aid? Might be doing yourself worse off though if you try to fight this since you are under the legal drinking age.

Yeah, I had a friend that got a ticket thrown out because the wrong court date was on it so hopefully they throw this one out. Yeah I'll try and call someone and ask what I can do about the ticket. Thanks.

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(No, Basically whats the hype over alcohol, why drink it if you get into trouble: i know it may give off some good effects but seriously... How does it help you in the long run?)

Drinking makes parties better.

Why don't you use salvia, that makes partys better AND its not illigel (i know same about alchohol)

 

whats the diffrence bewteen taking crack and having alchohol?

Take crack then drink and tell us what happens :).

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Hex, sheesh. In 10 years, you'll know.

 

Anyway, did he give you a breathalyzer ? No.

 

So, you were under the BAC limit when you were in the car. Just that you had a beer in your hand. This seems screwed.

 

The BAC limit for him is .00%. He was drinking underage.

 

You won't be able to fight this.

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Just pay it and be glad he didn't arrest you. It's your own fault for being an idiot and bringing an open container in a car.

Arrest me for what?

For drinking underage. Seriously, just pay it and be done with it. Trying to plead it down will just result in a bigger annoyance for you.

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Just pay it and be glad he didn't arrest you. It's your own fault for being an idiot and bringing an open container in a car.

Arrest me for what?

For drinking underage. Seriously, just pay it and be done with it. Trying to plead it down will just result in a bigger annoyance for you.

That's only a ticket and they will give you a ride home if you need.

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you may actually be able to get it thrown out since the date is wrong.

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