{"id":35386,"date":"2017-01-30T08:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=35386"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:09:50","slug":"speeder-tells-court-that-cops-radar-caught-deer-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/speeder-tells-court-that-cops-radar-caught-deer-speeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Deer! Speeder Tells Court That Cops Radar Caught Deer Speeding, Not Him. !”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Massachusetts man contested a speeding ticket in court last week claiming that the officer’s radar caught a deer speeding, not him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The deer was speeding, not me!”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to court records, Sayers was charged with going 40-mph in a 30-mph zone and went before a clerk magistrate in late December. The magistrate ruled in favor of the West Newbury Police Department and fined him $105. Sayers appealed the decision, setting the stage for Thursday\u2019s hearing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

During Sayers\u2019 questioning of ticket<\/a> writer officer Royster Johnson, he mentioned that he was traveling as fast as 51 mph before being pulled over. Sayers asked\u00a0the veteran law enforcement official if he was 100 percent sure his radar device captured Sayers\u2019 speed or the speed of a deer that could have been in the vicinity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sayers\u2019 line of defense had people in the courtroom giggling, which turned to laughter when Doyle asked him a question:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not contending the radar picked up the deer?\u201d Doyle said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sayers replied that anything was possible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few minutes later, Doyle ruled in favor of West Newbury police and imposed the original $105 fine.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to reference.com<\/a> and other online sources, deer can run approximately 30 mph.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n

Upon hearing about the court\u2019s decision a few hours later, West Newbury police Chief Art Reed said that Sayers\u2019 speeding argument was a first for him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 30-plus years of me being a police chief, I have never heard anyone use that defense,\u201d Reed said, \u201cand expect it to succeed.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  A Massachusetts man contested a speeding ticket in court last week claiming that the officer’s radar caught a deer speeding, not him.\u00a0 “The deer was speeding, not me!” According to court records, Sayers was charged with going 40-mph in a 30-mph zone and went before a clerk magistrate in late December. The magistrate ruled in favor of the West Newbury Police Department and fined him $105. Sayers appealed the decision, setting the stage for Thursday\u2019s hearing.\u00a0 During Sayers\u2019 questioning of ticket writer officer Royster Johnson, he mentioned that he was traveling as fast as 51 mph before being pulled <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,619,4],"tags":[2285,1313,2390],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35388,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35386\/revisions\/35388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35386"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}