Stage 6, day 14:
I have noticed a worrisome trend. Last summer when I went to court to defend myself for an alleged infraction concerning my spa installation and this afternoon when I wanted to contest a parking ticket. All the staff in the court was female. The judge, the attorney. I have heard often that justice was biased toward women in marital cases... Well, I start to believe it as I lost my case this afternoon.
and it is not hard to believe when the whole court system is operated by women. Now, you just need to have few female judges and attorneys that are feminist and borderline mysandrist... and you have the perfect situation to make men pay.
I thought that the legal system was that you were innocent until proven guilty. I felt more like I was guilty unless I was able to prove otherwise.
My defense was this: The payment device credit card reader was broken. It couldn't read any of my 2 CC. I went to second payment device. Same problem. I had to search for an ATM. Find a store that could give me change. It took about 10 minutes for me to pay for my parking. In that interval, I got a ticket. I only found out the ticket at the end of the evening.
I contested because I found the situation very unfair. The evidences that I did bring with me were:
1. CC statements showing that my cards were working fine.
2. A 2015 Bank Of Canada study showing that in 2013, the majority of national monetary transactions were electronic (66%). A 10% increase from 2009. Now extrapolate the % in 2019. I guess it is certainly above 80%.
3. I got my parking payment receipt. Paid few minutes after the ticket was emitted.
I did bring this study with me because sure enough, I was expecting the attorney and the judge to try to put the burden on my shoulder. Sure enough, they did ask me if I was sure that I didn't have any change on me that night. No. I go to the bank about 3 times per year. I can totally live fine and make all my purchases without any CASH. Then, they did ask me why I didn't have the wonderful municipal mobile app to make parking payment. No I don't have the app. I wanted to pay with my CC. Is this a crime? Does that make me guilty? Why should I be penalized and pay ticket because I don't have the app installed.
Bottomline, I told the truth, I was prepared. The judge did simply told me that she didn't believe my story. She didn't find it credible. Therefore, I was guilty. Pow. Here is some justice served for me. What the judge told me did insult me. She basically insinuated that I was perjuring myself. That is pretty much insulting.
I'm not happy of the outcome. I still find it unfair that I got the ticket because of a defective payment device but the positive aspect is that I have learned how to better defend myself. The evidence that I didn't think to collect was a video showing that the payment devices were defective.
It feels good to ventilate those disappointing personal experiences... On a brigther side. Lunch tinder date girl did text me... She wants to hook up either tonight or tomorrow evening...
I though that since the last time that she flaked on me... now she was gone for good... I'm very happy to see that she still want some from me (I did let her chase me as instructed by SM3...)
I have noticed a worrisome trend. Last summer when I went to court to defend myself for an alleged infraction concerning my spa installation and this afternoon when I wanted to contest a parking ticket. All the staff in the court was female. The judge, the attorney. I have heard often that justice was biased toward women in marital cases... Well, I start to believe it as I lost my case this afternoon.
and it is not hard to believe when the whole court system is operated by women. Now, you just need to have few female judges and attorneys that are feminist and borderline mysandrist... and you have the perfect situation to make men pay.
I thought that the legal system was that you were innocent until proven guilty. I felt more like I was guilty unless I was able to prove otherwise.
My defense was this: The payment device credit card reader was broken. It couldn't read any of my 2 CC. I went to second payment device. Same problem. I had to search for an ATM. Find a store that could give me change. It took about 10 minutes for me to pay for my parking. In that interval, I got a ticket. I only found out the ticket at the end of the evening.
I contested because I found the situation very unfair. The evidences that I did bring with me were:
1. CC statements showing that my cards were working fine.
2. A 2015 Bank Of Canada study showing that in 2013, the majority of national monetary transactions were electronic (66%). A 10% increase from 2009. Now extrapolate the % in 2019. I guess it is certainly above 80%.
3. I got my parking payment receipt. Paid few minutes after the ticket was emitted.
I did bring this study with me because sure enough, I was expecting the attorney and the judge to try to put the burden on my shoulder. Sure enough, they did ask me if I was sure that I didn't have any change on me that night. No. I go to the bank about 3 times per year. I can totally live fine and make all my purchases without any CASH. Then, they did ask me why I didn't have the wonderful municipal mobile app to make parking payment. No I don't have the app. I wanted to pay with my CC. Is this a crime? Does that make me guilty? Why should I be penalized and pay ticket because I don't have the app installed.
Bottomline, I told the truth, I was prepared. The judge did simply told me that she didn't believe my story. She didn't find it credible. Therefore, I was guilty. Pow. Here is some justice served for me. What the judge told me did insult me. She basically insinuated that I was perjuring myself. That is pretty much insulting.
I'm not happy of the outcome. I still find it unfair that I got the ticket because of a defective payment device but the positive aspect is that I have learned how to better defend myself. The evidence that I didn't think to collect was a video showing that the payment devices were defective.
It feels good to ventilate those disappointing personal experiences... On a brigther side. Lunch tinder date girl did text me... She wants to hook up either tonight or tomorrow evening...
I though that since the last time that she flaked on me... now she was gone for good... I'm very happy to see that she still want some from me (I did let her chase me as instructed by SM3...)
