Gentlemen, it has been a great pleasure. (zbillster's farewell post)

[zbillster_imp]

so one law firm turned down my case ... they turned out to be out of state. however we have some new wrinkles that may be of interest ... the police issued me a ticket while i was out of it on the ground waiting for medical help for "failure to control speed" i of course was unable to sign the ticket. methinks this speed trap of a town was so used to writing tickets, it was a force of habit:



yes, this will be contested. however, it does give me a location, though the cop wrote down SH 289 to the east (Preston Road, where the speed limits suddenly change and generate income) instead of FM 121 which i was on. he was probably working 289 when the call came in.

here is an overall aerial view:



and a closer view:



street view, facing west:



and the opposite view, facing east:



i plan on looking over the scene for skidmarks and debris, and interview the homeowner. and stick around with my cameras to see how the mail carrier pulls over to the mailbox. i think the tires with brakes applied lost traction on the grass, fell over on the muffler side, and was stopped by the sign when it impacted the headlight area.
and here is a summation i have been submitting to lawyers to fight the ticket, and hopefully generate personal injury case interest:

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I had a motorcycle accident on 7/27/2019 on FM 121 west of Gunter. I suffered a concussion, broken collarbone, bruised and scraped right arm, and strained left wrist. I was transported to Baylor hospital McKinney for treatment and released the next day. I went to Gunter police station the following Wednesday to retrieve my firearm (CHL), which was in the motorcycle luggage box and being held for safekeeping. The accident report was not ready yet. When I got home they called a couple of hours later and said I had a citation that I did not sign and my court appearance was scheduled for 8/5. I knew nothing about this! The officer who arrived at the accident scene did not witness the accident and wrote the ticket while I was unconscious. Due to the concussion my last memory was passing the auto speed shop downtown at 4th and FM 121 heading west. I remember it because I took a photo the previous Sunday of a rusted IH pickup there, I noticed that day they had an old Mercury sedan with slanted roll-down rear window from the 1960s. I thought of taking a photo of it but decided to continue west on FM 121. The Gunter detective I called last weekend said that I was passing a rural mail delivery vehicle, which was probably left hand drive civilian vehicle facing the wrong way on the left side of the road to fill a mailbox from their driver’s window, and when they pulled out back into the right lane as I was approaching and passing this previously stationary vehicle, I was told that I went off into the grass to avoid collision with the mail vehicle, hit a sign and fell on my right side. Judging from my injuries and the motorcycle and helmet damage, I estimate my speed to be low when I impacted the ground. Errors on the ticket include: incorrect incident address -- the officer wrote SH 289 west of Wall Street -- the incident occurred on FM 121 West of Wall Street. The intersection written does not exist. The officer was probably used to writing speeding tickets on SH 289 nearby and put it down out of habit, as Gunter is a known speed trap. There is no known or posted speed indicated on the ticket. I never signed the ticket as I was unconscious or at least in and out with no memory afterward.