Lamont Gets An Unfair Traffic Ticket | Sanford and Son

fred this is uh sonny cochran sorry hello johnny hey miss champion good and that's uh uh uh um uh le mans yeah sit down sonny have a little sit down yeah i had to sit down sonny have a little sit down right here uh say sonny uh are you a lawyer that depends on who you ask if you ask me i'm a lawyer well uh who says you're not a lawyer the state of california but sonny knows more law than most judges go ahead ask him anything well look look here sonny now uh lamont here got a traffic ticket and he's innocent now what should you do about it well two viable options immediately suggest themselves he can either pay the fine or fight it did you hear that friendship man that was a real talk look look i i'm gonna pay the fine just like i did the last two and just skip all the hassle but you have two prior tickets yeah within the past year yeah if you have two prior tickets within the past year do you know what this means what this means that this is your third ticket what i mean is under california law you're only allowed four tickets in one year and if this one goes on your record as the third one you're only one away from the big one the big one what happens when you get the big one a judge can revoke your license and no more driving and then that means there goes the truck that goes to business that goes sanford that goes sun won't be nothing left but anne son i think you're the fighter that you may not have a choice but listen what are the chances of fighting this case well that depends on your line of defense but first we have to ascertain the facts but tell me what happened well see i had the green light and there was this guy that came up from my right side and he was just about to run the red light but he stopped all of a sudden so to keep from hitting him i had to go around him and run through the light but you were supposed to stop and yield he was supposed to stop and yield fred you supposed to stop and yield dummy i knew that but there was a guy directly behind me and if i had stopped all of a sudden i could have got rammed in the rear yeah and that'll be dangerous you can get whiplash and around rear oh did you tell this to the officer yeah i told him but he said the guy behind me had enough room to stop uh-huh we may have a good defense after all the facts established two immediate hazards one in front and one in the back and a dummy in the middle it may no longer be lamont's word against the policeman's word but lamont's judgment against the policeman's judgment your best defense is to take the stand and tell the simple truth and here's what you do watch this friend sonny's going to show them how to do it in court yeah watch this lamar yeah watch this is everybody watching yeah we watching go ahead sonny you get up in front the judge and you say your honor my story is quite simple i saw a car pull in front of me which constituted an immediate hazard and even though i had the green light i was intending to yield the right-of-way just as the law says cause i was always taught to obey the law i'm not finished uh sorry but just then i looked into my rear-view mirror and i saw a car coming up fast behind me now what was i to do break the law and avoid an accident or obey the law and see the blood of my fellow man spilled on the streets of our beautiful city i made my decision and i accept full responsibility and throw myself on the mercy of the court and place my faith in the hands of your honor oh now you

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Id: 3JZdVaQO754

Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2021