From street view...

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Bob (Lake CleElem) is your best bet to answer that Q.

It appears to be marked for airplane surveillance.

But were is the other one, they time you between two marks and I don't see a second one (should be 1/8 to a 1/4 mile apart i think)

certainly, another obvious road feature could be used for the start (like a bridge).

i've heard some people enjoy going out at night and fixing this public road graffiti by painting over it with black paint...

You can still fight the timing between two marks tickets based on a principle known as parallex shift.

Google it.

"i've heard some people enjoy going out at night and fixing this public road graffiti by painting over it with black paint..."

And perhaps painting another making the two a bit farther apart?
Jim

heheh, good idea!

Sometimes it can work the other way. I went to court for a ticket. The cop signed in, sat down, and looked across the room at me. Then he got up and left. When court began, they called me and one other person up and told us the officer didn't show up so our cases were dismissed. All I can think is that I was very polite. That and we talked a little about his Camaro police car. And it was Houston Police Dept.

As for a lawyer, would they really take the time to fight it or just ask for deferred adjudication?

Since this is my thread, I guess I can digress with a few pics of the tour. 4,600 kilometers in 6 days. Car ran like a Swiss watch.

The mountains of Glacier National Park in the background.

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Whiskey bar in Missoula. I thought RacerBVD might like this sign. ;-)

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Hemingway's grave in Ketchum Idaho. It took me a while to find this. I paid my respects by pouring a glass of fine whiskey on the old boy. I think he would have liked that.

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Ever read "Riders of the Purple Sage"? Well this is where the title comes from. Somewhere is south Idaho.

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Strange, desolate landscape with brilliant, twisty roads— near Ukiah, Oregon.

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The ticket was a small price to pay. Move on.

this is the type of mentality that promotes abuse of authority by cops to make extra money. do you really want to support this type of behavior? personally i'd rather spend my money on a lawyer before paying a cent to support this.

there are lots of local lawyers that make a living specializing in getting these very types of tickets dismissed in washington state. most of them only handle 'traffic tickets' and nothing else.

tells you what the situation is like around here, eh?

They fight it. I have used lawyers a couple times, and in each case, I was found not guilty.

Loved the pic near Ukiah...you're close to good elk hunting country, there..."The Blues"...

So, if I were you, I'd hire a local lawyer who specializes in WA speeding cases. The links I posted contained some names. This seems to me like the best combination of getting even and getting off. No point in doing it all yourself and blowing it due to some obscure rule that no-one's going to tell you about. But call such a lawyer ASAP because it appears that you have only a short time to file certain papers, starting with the demand for trial (I think I read 15 days somewhere). In your shoes, I would spend up to $1K on this. That also seems like the best compromise between getting off and getting real. My guess - your best chance of getting off is to subpeona the officer and the pilot and hope one doesn't show up.

I fought two tickets back in LA, ages ago. Demanded trial, cross-examined the officer, brought photos showing signs weren't visible, etc. Got traffic school for both, which was okay since I had used up my traffic school allotment and, err, I was in fact guilty both times. Cost me like three days and that was just a local court.

Yeah, when I get mugged and the mugger leaves me $40 so I can get home I'm pretty thankful.:rolleyes:

That's exactly what I've decided to do. And the links you posted were very helpful. Many thanks.

Now I made a few phone calls today, and while no one will give me anything definitive until tomorrow, one person at the Sherriffs office told me categorically that the name and badge number of the person issuing the ticket belongs to a Fish & Wildlife officer.

WTF?

This whole thing has something of a bad Twin Peaks episode about it..

Oh Oh. Were you driving in WA without a fishing license? For shame...

Not Washington, but
 

In Montana the FWP cops are state patrol officers and can/will ticket you based on Speed/recklessness, and you will be pulled over by a truck..

Good luck fighting it. Nothing worse than knowing you are in the right and just being targeted.. Isn't that profiling???