Speeder: They made fawn of me in court

A 56-year-old Haverhill man who unsuccessfully tried to get out of a $105 speeding ticket by telling a judge an incredibly fast deer must have interfered with the police officer’s radar gun says he felt unfairly mocked when he made the claim in court.

“I said, ‘The deer, can they disrupt the radar?’ That was my point of view and the judge was very confused,” Dennis Sayers told the Herald yesterday, one day after his story appeared in the Newburyport News and was picked up by the Daily Mail.

Newbury District Court Judge Peter Doyle’s response, “You’re not contending the radar picked up the deer?” left him feeling mortified, he said.

“They made fun of me ... I felt mocked in the courtroom” Sayers said, adding, “I was saying a deer could have disrupted the radar.”

Doyle ultimately ruled against Sayers and ordered him to pay the fine for going as fast as 51 mph in a 30 mph zone.

The three deer he spotted just before he was pulled over on Bachelor Street, Sayers said, ran toward the police cruiser after he beeped his horn before bounding off into a nearby swamp.

“I’ve sped many times in my life but what they are saying is totally made up,” Sayers said.

And though he still believes he was driving 32 mph before he was pulled over, Sayers said it’s time to put the embarrassing incident behind him.

“I’m still very upset but I have to go with what the law says,” Sayers said.

“I have to pay the fine.”