I got a ticket a couple Springs ago while I was trying to be honest and fair. I had winter stored the Harley in my hangar which is 12.5 miles from my house. I was hitch-hiking to the hangar to get the bike. Along came a Connecticut pickup truck towing a 28' boat on its trailer. The driver probably saw the helmet I was carrying and stopped. The cab was fully occupied but he said that if I didn't mind riding in the truck body he'd deliver me to the hangar. They were on their way to catch the ferry to Islesboro Island(John Travolta's vacation haunt).
When we arrived at my hangar, during discussion he bought some of my photography and then proceeded en route to Lincolnville Beach to catch the ferry. Sometime after he'd left I noticed that he'd overpaid me by virtue of two $20.00 bills stuck together.
No sweat; I put the new registration stickers on the plate and set out to catch him; he couldn't be too far East, towing the boat. After about five miles there was a straight line, no sight of him, and I pulled out to pass a couple vehicles -- speedily. Busted! At the long end of the straight-away was a Maine State Trooper parked and ON went the blue lights. I explained the circumstances of my travel and showed him the crisp overpaid $20.00 bill in my shirt pocket. "That yellow Chevy truck towing a boat from Connecticut can't be too far ahead." He allowed he thought he'd seen it while he was parked.
Insurance Card? Inspection sticker? Nada! Each were in the policy envelope at home, the envelope I usually keep in the saddlebag.
But a stroke of good fortune: the trooper decided that a motorcycle of its appearance would certainly have passed Maine's inspection process, the registration was only two weeks old(having required evidence of insurance), "so I'll overlook those two factors; however, I'm not able to overlook the 80 in a 55."
Oh well, it could have been more expensive.
HR
By the sounds of things, yes, the law won.
