[Bill Douglas]

A few months ago a cop phoned and wanted to come around to talk about a traffic complaint about me. I thought fair enough, I'd recently come back from a few weeks holiday when I was totally on my worst behavior doing things like 130mph on public roads, passing stopped cars on give ways, wheels up on the curb, the list goes on...

So the big ugly cop came around and told me the complaint was about me passing on a double yellow line (the two lines in the middle of the road) at 2:15 in the afternoon of December the 9th. Well I was at work that day and got printouts from the security system to show door swipe activity, and got a printout of activity from the phone on my desk, then showed that to the cop. He said either I'm lying or someone else was driving the car. I said no one was driving the car and the only other key is locked in a safe. So he said he is charging me with (not driving offence, but criminal offence) section 118 of the Land Transport Act of not telling him who was driving the car. I told him he is trying to bully me into confessing to the lesser crime of the passing on the double yellow lines. Then the prick just walked off and in a sarcastic note said, "you have a nice day". Well gun laws in our state don't allow me to blow his head off so I called my lawyer who is expensive but very good.

The crazy thing is two separate individuals had gone into the police station and spent and hour or two filling out statements about passing on a double yellow line. I don't know about your country but we pass on double yellow lines all the time, it's not that bigger deal. Each time I go for a bike ride about 30 cars must pass me on double yellow lines, it's that common. So something stinks here, especially as I was NOT driving the car at the time.

My lawyer tried to get the charges dropped but the police weren’t returning calls or "could find the file", so I've now received a summons to appear in court - Geez.

So my goals are to not get a criminal conviction, and secondly find out who is out to get me. Scary huh?

Any good advice other than brush my hair and wear a clean shirt to court?