i dont understand.... please help, i think i have a problem :/ Options

[bslik]

ok so on this past friday night, me and my friend were driving and got lost in a strange neighborhood thinking i could cut through to the next major road. when i hit a dead end, i was in the parking lot of some club house or community center so i parked up and turned off the car while i called my friend that lives around there. the next thing i know, a sherrif dept vehicle is shining the spot light in my eyes and telling me to keep my hands where he can see em.

so he tells me and my friend to get out of the car, checks us for drugs and weapons then without asking he checks my car.
me knowing that i dont have any drugs or weapons, i didnt try to stop him. he said we were suspiciously in a neighborhood that has been having many burgularies so he had to check us. so he goes though my car and doesnt find anything... then he goes back after a minute and looks in my car again and pulls out my knife that i had been using at work for cutting, stripping and splicing wires (installing lights and eletrical devices). AND APPARENTLY, THATS A CONCEALED WEAPON!

so im thinking, "ok hes gonna take me down to the precinct and issue my arrest and whatever how that works"

but no, he writes me a ticket for it. not a ticket that i have to pay, a ticket for me to appear in court!

ok so the question is, does anyone know whats the reason i have to go to court for this? why cant i just pay or do community service or something? and also should i contact a lawyer?

im so lost.

[D-Man]

take a picture of the knife and where you work. take pics of work done using the knife and say you were harassed.

That's a premium idea. Just dont say you were harassed The court ticket is the police officers way of "discouraging" future break ins. He dont know if it was you or not, And he obviously didn't think so, but by sending you to cort; You wouldn't dare to do it. Farthermore, INCASE your "know" the burglars, you'd tell them to stop. That's how it works in his head. it's happened to me. Just goto cort, take some pics to 100% gaurentee that nothing will happen to you. Even if he shows, just tell the judge the truth. It takes 5 min (after you get to the judge) and they'll throw it right out. If the cop is there, he'll only say that it looked suspisios, But has no evedince nor farther reason to believe that you are doing, nor have done anything wrong. "thank you sir, have a great fcuking life" is what i was told

thanks guys, ill try to have pics taken with me using it lol. so basically this means im just goin to court to tell a judge what happend? i guess technically the cop could have pulled a pencil out of my car and called it a weapon. its true i did have a weapon in my car so i have to pay anyway right?

Yes. This is true.

I seriously doubt that you'll have to pay a fine. Especialy if you can prove via pics that it's a tool, not a weapon