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How did youbest get out of a speeding ticket?

Posted by npuhalsky • 10/09/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: authority law speeding tickets fines

I was writing tonight and it made me think of this:

So, on my page I have a list of things describing me and this goes into one of them. Loving science fiction I was following this short lived series The Lost Room starring Kevin Pollack. Reminiscent of Friday the Thirteenth the series I was hooked. Early in the evening I met a friend around the corner for lunch. Conversation drifts and the hour faded before I realized if I didn’t get a move on it I was going to miss my show. At that time I had no DVR so I had to hurry. Hurry I did, right past a cop, at night without my lights full on. Dinner was a mile away and I was now just a half mile from home.
Ahhh, what the hell was I thinking? Ten and two, windows down and music is turned off. Waiting and waiting, less than five minutes. Just get it over! Cop walks up and see’s me with my black frame glasses, hair pulled back into an explosion of frizz and I don’t give a damn and a look of AHHH! “Why were you speeding” he asked. Again I uttered the dumbest thing I could have. “There’s a show on Sci-Fi I don’t want to miss” I blurted. He let me off with a warning and I got to see my show. What happened? I had been given mercy without a plea while I looked like the living dead.

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10/09/09

HollytheHousewife

For some reason the cops just don't give me a tickets. I have been pulled over a million times,but I have only gotten 1 ticket and that was before I even had a drivers liscense.

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1. 10/09/09
  
  theAWWWBUTmum
  
  Holly - girl! Look in the mirror!!
10/09/09

jeremyjanson

I usually watch for cops, and spot them before they spot me.

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10/09/09

sorcerer

Say No thank you. with a smile

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10/09/09

crazyTsu

Follow rules?

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10/09/09

Friday13

I don't know how this Youbest person got out of it, but I don't even drive.

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10/09/09

Sebastyne

Hahah, my dad sued the cops for giving him a ticket "even though it wasn't me" and won. XD My dad's nuts. Of course he was speeding - he always is by a lot - but he just came up with the perfect set of evidence that he wasn't, basically saying to the judge: "The cop didn't even write down my registration plate correctly, how do you expect him to read the scanner right? Secondly, he didn't notice I had the other head light burned out - here's the receipt of a new light. Thirdly, I drove from place a to place b in x hours without stops. Here's the receipt of payment at the gas station when I left, and here's a receipt of another gas payment X hours later." (He left out the fact he picked me up on the way and we had a cup of coffee before continuing.) He got the cops so furious at him for getting off the ticket that they basically trailed him for 3 months to bust him again. The cops really don't have that much to do in our neck of woods...

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1. 10/10/09
  
  MadameX
  
  Sounds like he didn't "leave it out" so much as "lie about it" if he said "without stops".
10/09/09

geekchick

I have a number of techniques to get out of tickets. 1) they have to do speed surveys every five years and adjust speed limits to round up to next 5 mph on what speed 80% of drivers use. So I contact the DOT for results and date of the last speed survey. 2) I take all the technical requirements for scanners and ask them to produce their log books showing that they have properly reset their scanners after each use and performed proper maintenance.

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1. 10/10/09
  
  npuhalsky
  
  Damn, have you thought about doing technical litigation?
10/10/09

LGramlich

I told the truth straight up & the officer was kind enough to cut me slack.

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10/10/09

MadameX

My mother got a pass once for "we're late for the first Brownie meeting of the year". I rarely speed and haven't been pulled over in many years. I did have an entertaining experience after inadvertently running a stop sign once, but it's too long to relate here.

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1. 10/10/09
  
  npuhalsky
  
  I don't speed much anymore but in my youth I had a lead foot. I learned to drive on a 1987 Buick Grand National with turbo, sway bars and nitrous - and that was my Mom's ride
2. 10/10/09
  
  MadameX
  
  My mom had a lead foot, too. Still does, in her sixties. When I was a kid, she drove a turquoise '68 Firebird convertible, and when I was a teenager a '74 silver Camaro. I think it skips a generation. Most of my cars have been Neons.
3. 10/10/09
  
  MadameX
  
  duplicate
10/10/09

Selbon

I once got out from a traffic violation by a good acting job of my uncle seated on the backseat. He acted as if we needed to be in a hospital at once. We all had a good laugh after the escape.

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1. 10/10/09
  
  MadameX
  
  Oh, yeah--hilarious to fake an emergency and perhaps affect the treatment other people receive in REAL emergencies later. Nicely done.
2. 10/10/09
  
  npuhalsky
  
  I work with an improv troupe and timing like that is hard to come by!