Gotten out of a ticket? Let's hear your story.

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Point #9 is extremely badly written.

Point #10 is nonsense. What is a "menial fine"?

I haven't received a ticket in more than 30 years, and only one in my entire driving history. The points in your article are largely "right on". I might also add, "Keep the inside of your car clean" and "Get rid of any offensive bumper stickers and window stickers" and "Turn off your radio" and "Take off your sunglasses".

 

1. When I was a kid my mom got out of a ticket by crying - not likely to work today
2. While riding with a girlfriend years ago, the cop asked us to step out of the car
(profiling of course - couple of teenagers ). As she got out she completely peed
her pants as the cop was approaching. He just told us to slow down and never even
asked for ID. I don't recommend this technique however.

Jedi

 

little old lady told the cop she was speeding so she could get where she was going befor she forgot.

 

Ooooooooooo, that's SO BAD!!!!!

Jedi

 

Three questions-
1. Was she attractive?
2. Did you date her after that incident?
3. Did you let her get back in the car with her 'wet' pants?

 

"Well, son, I caught you robbing that liquor store, but I also noticed that you spit on the sidewalk. Tell you what, I'll let you go on the robbery thing, but I'm going to have to bust you for spitting."

Yeah, right.....

 

1. VERY
2. YES, often
3. But of course Didn't bother me a bit (vinyl seats!) But that's another story...

Jedi

 

The OP has a point with the throwaway offense. Most of the time when you get pulled over, the officer is going to write you up for SOMETHING.
If you have a non points offense that you can barter, it is a win-win.
(points can get really expensive in NJ)

 

Agree. But it's often 'profiling' too. I got pulled over MANY times in the early 1980s - young guy, long
hair, crappy car... just so the officer could look in my car for something 'good'. I recall being pulled
over on I5 in 1984, when I was 23, and the 'reason' he gave was a crack in my driver's side door mirror!!!
Something he could NOT have seen from the right side of the road. I was doing the limit, doing nothing
wrong, and got no ticket. BUT he DID take a good long gander inside the car and trunk, before letting
me go with a 'fix-it ticket' for the crack in the mirror.

Talk about a 'throw-away offense'....

(of course, my bong and 2 ounces of pot were safely back in my apartment )

Jedi

 

Maybe she was just "excited"

 

Haha! Even if I had my dream girl xD, I'm not sure I could I'm not sure I would want to take her out again! Heck, I know i would take her out again if it was my dream girl

 

LOL!!!

 

Hey ... worked out great for me either way ...

Jedi

 

Did you have to take her to your house to let her pants dry? jk

 

Of course. It wasn't that big of a deal. That's why they call them accidents. It was the
first time she'd ever been pulled over.

 

No experience here but my brother who is a firefighter was told by the police in his city that as a professional courtesy they don't give tickets to firefighters. I'm currently trying to get a pair of firefighter license plates from him.

 

My uncle got out of a speeding ticket when my cousin was born, in fact, after being pulled over he was given a police escort

 

I worked at Pratt&Whitney in Fla, right across the street from Moroso back in 1975. Back then there was NOTHING between Military Trail and the plant. Just 20 miles of dead straight, and ulnless it was at the P&W shift change, empty road with only one or two places where you could get off the road and not sink into the sand. One Saturday I had to go into work early and got done around noon. I was headed back and decided to blow the cobwebs out my BMW 2002. I had a 190 hp Alpina based engine in it and when the Webers got from 6500 to redline it would just howl. I got the speedo wound around to "MPH" (about 130) which was all she would do. A car was off in the distance and I got out of it and coasted for a while. As I was coasting down I went thru a speed trap a FHP and a county mounty that were in a service road hollow up by the railroad tracks....

I turned around and started back and the sheriff was just coming out to get me...

He was pretty gracious when I said that I figured he would want to talk to me about it... Turned out he owned a BMW 1600 and wanted to know what I had done to make it sound and run like that. Showed him what was under the hood and he liked it a lot. He asked me how fast I was going and I said "you really don't want to know do you?" He thought about if for a minute and said, "Well, we heard you coming for a long way off and figured we had hit the jackpot, then you saw the traffic and heard you back out of it and you coasted for a good while, and we still got you at 85" Then he said, "The trooper was pretty PO'd so you just better get out of here before he comes out an starts writing himself"

He let me go and that was a good thing... The plates were expired and so was the inspection sticker. I hadn't been driving the car for a while and got stuck driving it on that day. If he had started writing he would've seen each of those, and he wouldn't have stopped....

Just my lucky day I guess...

 

Was driving from Chicago to NJ back in May... got pulled over by a PA highway patrol at around 11pm in the pouring rain...

the policeman was real easy going... mentioned he his father just purchased an BMW E90 M3 and told me to take it easy so I don't get wrapped around a tree....


although i do wonder if it wasn't pouring.... would he have written me up?