Smart people with life experience unite and save spider-nerd!

[Lackey]

you kids and your drinking... what's the big deal about alcohol

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

It makes me stop aching all over. It Rocks!

 

[Holly Goodhead]

My drinking tickets were dismissed in court.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

Well I had to do 30 hours of community service on the first one, and take a 3 hour drug and alcohol class, and pay fines. That's it

 

[Hyper Venom]

Life experience and common sense would dictate that you don't carry your bottles out in the open, anyway. That's regardless of whether or not you're the legal drinking age. You should have kept them in your pockets until you got to the party.

As for this situation, you really have no choice but to face the music. What argument can you actually make? No matter what, you were underage and had alcohol on you. Just pay the fine, be glad that's all that you have to do, and learn from your mistake.

 

[WeeZiTe]

That blows, I'm a freshman at Rutgers and a bunch of my friends got tickets for jay walking the first week of school. They said that the RUPD are a bunch of *******s.

 

[Sandman138]

Your mistake was handing the bottles over in the first place. They were Gatorade bottles and he didn't have sufficient evidence. However, since you handed them over of your own accord, you now have no recourse. Never let a cop search your possesions without a warrent.

 

[jaguarr]

This has never happened to me. I always went to the parties with booze already there.

However, if this is anything like traffic court, see if you could go in and plead down to a lesser offense. Like disorderly conduct, and maybe the fine won't be as much.

Also, and I'm not sure of this, somebody back me up here if I'm right. If you call the precinct and see what days the officer who gave you the ticket is working. Then call the court to change your court date and try to get it on the day the officer is off. Likely the cop won't show up on his day off. Then I believe you can throw your case out because you have the right to face your accuser.

Double check a real lawyer and not somebody who listens to too much radio.

Good advice. The Bretheren of Samurai has given you the tools to resolve your own problem, Spider-Nerd. The rest is up to you.

jag

 

[Sandman138]

 

[Spider-Nerd]

That blows, I'm a freshman at Rutgers and a bunch of my friends got tickets for jay walking the first week of school. They said that the RUPD are a bunch of *******s.

yeah, the RUPD suck ass. I live on huntington st, we were at the cross of sicard and richardson and we got stopped, like 2 blocks from my house.

 

[Spider-Nerd]

so....anyone want me to do stuff for money?

 

[Lackey]

so....anyone want me to do stuff for money?

sure

show up at my house with a ball gag and a large paddle, expect to stay at least 2 hours. I'll pay you handsomely

 

[WeeZiTe]

yeah, the RUPD suck ass. I live on huntington st, we were at the cross of sicard and richardson and we got stopped, like 2 blocks from my house.

I'm dorming on Busch at Metzger. I haven't had a problem with them yet, but I always see them parked in the street ready to pounce on jay walkers.. Which is the gayest thing ever. I don't know why they decided to crack down on something dumb like that.

 

[Spider-Nerd]

sure

show up at my house with a ball gag and a large paddle, expect to stay at least 2 hours. I'll pay you handsomely

Define handsomely and you may have a deal, this ticket has broken me.....

 

[Boom]

This reminds me of one time when I got drunk off my ass at a party. I lived down the street from the house so a couple of friends and I decided to crash at my place for the night.

On our way there, we stopped at a gas station, where I bought one of those Root Beers that look like beer bottles.

As we're walking to my house, a cop pulls over and approaches us. He asks, "What'cha drinking there buddy?" I started laughing and was like, "Relax officer it's totally Root Beer!" He chuckled and was like "Mind if I see for myself?" I handed it to him.

He sniffs it, and looked perplexed. He looked back at me and said, "Wow. It really is Root Beer." We all started laughing, the cop too.

Then I got back to my house, threw up, and passed out. Good night.

 

[black_dust]

My advice, Move to England could have been drink years ago legaly, plus cops dont care that much either about it over here

 

[Hades]

Weird, I'm never been caught by the cops before. But I know lots of people who have, and the majority of them have never even been fined. Hell, I've seen a kid my age walk around in broad daylight down mainstreet smoking a bong once.

I guess the cops just don't care here

 

[Boom]

I am so putting this up on my fridge.

 

[Hades]

What are you supposed to say if you don't have a lawyer, though

 

[Boom]

You lie.

 

[Hades]

I'm fine with lying, but what if he gives you a phone or soemthing to phone with. Who are you supposed to phone

 

[C. Lee]

What are you supposed to say if you don't have a lawyer, though

You say - "Do I make the check out to you, Your Honor?"

 

[Orko Is King]

So last thursday night ole spider-nerd decided to head out to a party or two seeing as how it was thursday night at rutgers university. So my roommate and I left out apartment with a gatorade bottle in hand, bottles had gatorade mixed wtih vodka and we proceeded to walk to the party we were heading to. I of course, was paranoid that we were gonna get stopped by the cops but said whatever, there are 30k undergrads at rutgers, nothing's gonna happen. Not 2 blocks from our house a cop pulls up next to us and askes us for the bottles and ID. We give it to him, he advises us that he could arrest us for having alchohol (being that we're both 20 years old) we told him we weren't drinking it as the bottles were closed. Then he said that we should have told him that we were drinking it because that's less serious than not drinking it (I guess minors transporting alchohol is worse). So eventually he gives us two tickets, one each that say and I quote, "Drinking in public (underage) gatorade bottles w/ vodka".

Now, we were'n't actually drinking in public, we just had it with us and at the time I wasn't about to start arguing with the cop as I'm not in law school just yet (about 1.5 years away actually). I looked up the penalty for this kind of thing in New Jersey and apparently this is no joke, minimum fine of five hundred bucks, possible counciling, ect.....

I was wondering if anyone had been in this situation before/had any advice. There are two of us (my roommate and I) so should we get a lawyer? The only reason I would get a lawyer is if it would end up being really working out, because even if that 500 dollar fine is reduced, I'm still gonna have to fork over dough for a lawyer. Any advice would be greatly appreciated......

This is why you put that kinda **** in your backpack.

 

[Spider-Nerd]

bad news, just found out that this thing goes on your permanent record. Ya know, when you apply for a job you gotta check that box that says you've been convicted of a felony....gotta go get a lawyer

 

[guitarsingerguy]

bad news, just found out that this thing goes on your permanent record. Ya know, when you apply for a job you gotta check that box that says you've been convicted of a felony....gotta go get a lawyer

How in the **** is that a felony?