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Question about upcoming court date.

canuck678

canuck678

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Got a call at work last week from my son. He had borrowed my bike, (without my permission or knowledge) and was pulled over by police exceeding the posted speed limit. Since he was traveling at 50 kph over the limit my bike was impounded for a week. He has a court date in less then a month for speeding and driving without a license. At this point he is going to owe me the $980 to get my bike out of the impound. Since he doesn't have the money to pay whatever charges are handed down in court, I'm going to have to pay for that now as well. What I want to know is, should we contact a lawyer or just have him plead temporary stupidity and hope the judge doesn't nail him to the wall for this first, (and it had better be his last) offence?
 
Get help.

Call them: http://www.redlinelegalservices.ca/

Whatever the outcome, I don't think you should be paying for your sons mistakes, you should have him pay his own fines (plead to the court that he's low income, etc etc), if it comes to that.

Apart from that, keep an eye on your bike keys. Good luck.
 
I sense alot of lawn mowing and snow shoveling in your neighbourhood..... :rolleyes:

Every kid does something dumb around that age and learns a hard lesson, your son pulled a real dooozy though.
(give him a big smile and sarcastic pat on the back from me please. :D )
I guess you'll have to sit him down and explain how bad he screwed up.
When we were kids, you would have been in trouble, but with today's consequences, it's a new ball game.

At least you have a new "employee" now, get him to wash and wax your car for starters.
Get him to do all the chores you normally do.
Take yourself a nice break while you work on helping save his butt. :thumbup:
 
How old is your son?
 
I think a good spanking is in order. And then a week in the chair of shame, in the corner of shame, in the dungeon... err basement, of shame.
 
Ah, leave the poor kid alone. Boys will be boys!

j/k but I agree with the earlier poster that it's just the sort of thing (most) teenagers seem to get up to once in a while. Just be glad he's not hurt.

Get a lawyer, because he's not going to learn his lesson any better by owing $20,000 than he will by owing $2,000. All it will mean is that your family as a whole will take longer to recover.

If you can manage your anger (not that I would be able to), it might be better to try to get him to actually understand the impact to your family's budget, than simply punishing him. Force him to make $2 pasta dinners for your family from scratch, to save the $20 that burgers would have cost, etc.

Good luck, sounds rough all over.
 
You NEED legal help. Call Redline ASAP. The fine is the least of your worries as another poster said.

JPs have been known to throw the book at young guys to make a point, so don't rely on them taking it easy. You also need to think about the licence suspension, fines which can get into 5 figures, insurance ramifications, etc.
 
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