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The fun answer would be to hack into the police department computer system and change the court date on your ticket :)
One principle for this is that whatever approach you take shouldn't cost more than 55€, either in terms of actual costs or the opportunity cost of your time.
So based on that, my first thought is that you should just try to maximize the chance that you get a court date that results in a schedule conflict for the officer.
I'd ask around with friends, especially if any is a police officer, how their scheduling works. Likely it's a weekly schedule, and if it is, I'll try to call the court to reschedule the court date to the day of the week that I got ticketed, on the assumption that the officer would be on shift. I'd do this as close to the actual court date as possible, to maximize the chance that the last-minute change either doesn't get communicated to the police department, or is communicated too late that the police department doesn't want to change the officer's schedule to accommodate the new court date.
I don't think any games relating to dressing up, or calling to impersonate a police officer or court officer would be worth the risk over a 55€ ticket, and any strategies that would take more than an hour or so of time don't seem worth it. (Honestly, even showing up to the court date doesn't seem worth the time... rather just pay the ticket haha)
0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek OP 22h
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Don't want to reply just yet, want to wait for more answers.
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To expand on some ideas for maximizing schedule conflict:
Since you know his name, you can look him up on social media. See if he has kids and if they have any sports events. Or see if he has been talking about some vacation or event he's going to, or if he's part of some club or group that's having an event. Then try to schedule your court date during one of those events
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 21h
If I were a teacher and you would raise your hand to answer a question, I wouldn't pick you to give others a chance haha
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Haha I have students like that... I sometimes have to say, "Does anyone other than <smart_student> want to give it a try?"
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 21h
This happened to me in math and I still didn't get the best possible grade for my oral performance but one point less :(
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