Faced court today for my driving offence plus possesion...

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As in another thread I got my car impounded for a burnout (http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=97774 for more details) and today I went to court.

Got a good behaviour bond for carrying 1.8grams of canabis in the car (Stupid mistake, actually forgot it was there) and 400 dollar fine for carrying out a burnout...

My solicitor went up for me and went on about "Clearly out of character, has no other driving record. He's studying network administation and has worked for Mobile Computers here in Taree and is highly recommended. He took part in some spirited acceleration and is truely remorseful and glad noone was hurt".

Judge gave me a lecture, but I got off very lightly considering. My solicitor said I'd possably get 500 - 600 dollars for the possesion and up to 600 dollars for the burnout. - Maybe he just said that so he looked better at the end of the day, but anyway.

Now please dont contaminate this thread with "Hope you've learnt your lesson, you're an idiot". I've heard it from almost every member here and I've dealt with it already. I need no more advice, or I think my head will explode :P

Overall it was an expensive 15seconds.

One thing that got me though wes how over exagerated the police report was. They claimed I did a U turn (I didn't, I turned onto the road), claimed I sustained loss of traction for atleast 60meters (Try 30) and claimed they could hear tire noise (when they were 3 townsized blocks behind me, inside a car, and it was wet...)

Was going to plead not guilty for the burnout because all the facts were wrong to begin with, but I wanted to end it then and there. And at the end of the day I did do something similar, even if it was at half the scale of the police report.

I also got my car back. Alot closer than the court date, because it was rego'd in mother's name and I was told to write a letter to the Senior Commander of the area by an officer at the station the night it got impounded - Had it back in 4 days instead of three months. Still, it hasn't been driven much since, it's parked around the back and been stripped for a clean up.

I appreciate keeping my car tidy now :P Anyway, I'm going to wind this up because noone will bother reading it otherwise!