[RBS] help: did you get a ticket on 38 Sunday morning?

[Miriam Druyan]

There was a chefetz chashud Sunday morning on kvish 38, around 9:20
AM, causing all traffic to be halted in both directions for a looooong
time.

1) yay, better to stop traffic with the police than with chas veshalom
an attack on yidden
2) even better would be getting to work on time

Upon seeing the utter lack of movement, and realizing I could reach
Yerushalaim on the back road, I made a u-turn over the white line
(gasp!) to go back towards Beit Shemesh.

1) yes, it was technically illegal, because such a move is 'dangerous', but
2) since there was no oncoming traffic except other people doing the
same thing, it wasn't REALLY dangerous! And, like, you know, everyone
was doing it.

Two Jewish men who have chosen their life's' work to be protecting
other denizens of the land of Israel (i.e. traffic cops) were
immediately on-hand to stop me and a few other drivers who did the
same thing (although they couldn't stop all of them, not that I wish
any of them bad) (I just wish I was one of them!).

The officers of the law then...

1) took my license and registration
2) expressed their concern for my safety and those of others on the
road (while encouraging me to have more patience), specifically by
utilizing their favored means of educational negative positive
reinforcement, namely they
3) gave me a 500 NIS ticket (and said they were deigning to NOT seize
my license, which was generous)

SO - my questions be...

1) is there any chance of succeeding to dispute this ticket because,
by golly, it's just not nice! and
2) my husband quickly snapped a picture on his phone of the attending
copper who served me my ticket while not wearing his fancy chapeau
(police hat), since we'd heard an urban legend that that alone is
enough to get a ticket overturned - any hope there?

Bless you all, and may you always adhere to traffic laws, get to work
on time, and may robots continue to blow up suspicious objects as
opposed to anything else getting blown up, amen.

-Miriam Druyan