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Rick Rosner: All right. So, we were talking about transcribing because there’s a whole process when we’re talking and then to get it turned into a print for putting on online. I have a transcription story that infuriated my wife and myself. Carol got a driving ticket from the highway patrol for making a maneuver that she didn’t actually do; by a motorcycle cop whose view was obstructed and just jumped to a conclusion because somebody behind Carol in a Porsche SUV got impatient. The cop jumped to the conclusion that Carol had made an illegal lane change or dangerous lane change when Carol hadn’t actually gotten out of the lane she was in. Carol gets this ticket and I’m like, “Take it to court” The way you do traffic tickets in LA and probably a lot of other cities is you go to court hoping that the cop doesn’t show up because if the cop doesn’t show up, then you get off. This cop showed up with his wife because if you’re Highway Patrol and you show up in court, you get a total of like five hours off so they could go out to a nice lunch date afterwards.
Cops fabricate on the stand; the cop didn’t know anything about the ticket, had her going the wrong way, just contradicted the shit out of himself and also contradicted Carol and the judge was judge pro tem which means he wasn’t a professional judge with experience. He was some guy who probably needed some hourly, some crappy lawyer who needed to pick up some work. So, he became a traffic court judge. And he made a terrible judgment, like Carol said she wasn’t guilty that she didn’t actually do what she was charged with four times and the judge’s ruling, what he said from the bench was “Well, we have two different patterns of fact here but either way you’re guilty,” which is ridiculous. So, we were like this is still fucking bullshit.
So, then you can appeal which is ridiculous to do but we were pissed. So, it turns out that they don’t have a stenographer for traffic court but for 50 bucks you can order a cassette because they have a tape recorder going of the proceedings. So, we did this and I transcribed the proceedings and I’m an excellent transcriber; I’m very meticulous and experienced because when I worked on a clip show like in America’s Funniest Home Videos, you have to transcribe what’s said in the clip for this script along with adding a joke to say at the end. So, I’ve listened to a lot of shit and so I did a spot on, just a perfect transcription including all the ‘uh’s that a lot of people leave out and it was just the best transcription. So, we turned in the transcription and our argument which was “No, my wife wasn’t guilty according to her pattern of fact because she said she didn’t do it repeatedly” We get the judgment back and it’s still guilty because they just hadn’t even looked at our argument and nobody told us this that you need to hire a court approved professional transcriber which would have been another hundred bucks. So, it was just a big waste of time. The end.
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Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
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Founder, In-Sight Publishing
In-Sight Publishing
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