Have you ever talked your way out of a speeding ticket?
I have had the following situations: 1982 in my 1976 Mercury Comet. I got pulled over. I rolled down my window and put both hands up on top of the steering wheel. "Do you know what the speed limit is in a residential district?" "25?" "30! You were going 41. License and registration" "Officer, I have a blue plastic dart gun wrapped in tinfoil on my hip. (It was Halloween, and I was dressed as a cowboy)" "Show me," he said, taking a step back. "Right there," I said, pointing, with my hands not leaving the top of the steering wheel. (I got a warning.) 1980 or 1981, in my mother's car: "You're the fastest through here today!" (I knew that was trouble! I got a ticket, 51 in a 30 zone, coming over a hill near a school (not in session)) 1983 in a beat up little Datsun. "License and registration." "Officer, I can't reach my wallet (I had a neck brace on! LOL) can I step out to get to it?" "Ok. What are you up to? (He recognized me, local cop.)" "I just had my car tuned up, and I wanted to see how fast it would go." (The truth! It was downhill in a 3/4 mile section of road that has no side streets) (Not even a warning. I think I was going 80 in a 45 or 50 zone. Some hot rod.) I don't speed anymore at all, except on the highway. I guess turning 25 does that. |
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I have only gotten one actual ticket....I cant say that it really counts...it was by photo radar...darn Scottsdale...the second one was also photo radar, but it got the front picture of an asian guy in a focus and my license plate number....I got the ticket and had to go to court to prove that it wasnt me.  |
| I have gotten pulled over a significant number of times.......... sometimes I get a ticket sometimes I don't. BUT, I ALWAYS tell the truth.
Got pulled over at 3:00 in the morning going 55 in a 35, had gotten called in to the hospital for an emergency in the Cath Lab. Told the officer I was the on call nurse for the cath lab and had been called in. He told me to go ahead but he actually followed me to the hospital, came INTO THE HOSPITAL and followed me intot he cath lab to verify the emergency. I did not get a ticket. Got pulled over at 4:00 in the afternoon on Thanksgiving Day YEARS ago, after working all day. Told the officer I was in a rush to get to my Mother in Law's for some turkey before my family ate it all....... he let me go with a warning. Got stopped in PA, doing 68 in a 55 late one afternoon, I was headed to SC where my mother was in the ICU, dying. Told the officer, got a ticket anyway. Got stopped headed home from work one fternoon going 55 in a 40 MPH. When the (female) officer asked me how fast I thought I was going said I had no idea, when she asked me what I was doing said, "not paying attention", got a ticket  .
The best one was MANY years ago when my son was about 2 weeks old, my husband gave me the "afternoon off" and I was headed to the mall to goo shopping. I needed to get to the mall, shop and get back before he needed to be feed again. I lingered a bit too long and I was in a hurry to get home because I had called home and I could hear him SCREAMING in the background, which made my milk start running (I was breast feeding). I was speeding home got pulled over and the officer asked me what was my hurry. I pointed to my soaking wet shirt and said HUNGRY BABY at home, he waved me on told me to slow down and get going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| I've only been pulled over a handfull of times, 2 tickets - rest were warnings. The cops are pretty lenient here. As long as you're not excessively speeding (like 25 mph+ speed limit), you have insurance, tag/sticker up to date, no outstanding warrants (they run your license), and they don't have any suspicions, they'll usually let you go unless you get one having a bad day. |
| hahahaha...ginny...the last one was priceless....wonder if i kept a water bottle in my car and tried that if i ever got pulled over! |
LOL at the leaking, been there 
I have had a few tickets but the one I didn't get was when I was driving from NC to DC for my father's cancer surgery. I honestly started crying because I was so worried and overwhelmed and was leaving my 6 month old at home with his father for the first time. Bless him 
Good karma for that officer! BTW- Dad's tumor shrank from grapefruit to golf ball size and he is healthy today
Lark |
| Ginny that last one is priceless the best I have ever heard |
| Year (age) all in a 1995 montero LS (big friggin truck) except the most recent, in a Cobalt SS rented for a road trip, thing is like a friggin rollerskate.
1999 (16) 33 in a 30, awarded for 'peeling out' 2000 (17) 85 in a 40, my first wreckless driving ticket 2001 (18) dazzling, flashing your lights at a car traveling in the opposite direction, as it happens, is a crime, particularly when said car is a police car. 2002 (19) 55 in a 40, traveling up an onramp, to a highway, where the speed limit was *gasp* 55. 2003 (20) 68 in a 65, basically given because it was raining 2004 (21) roll over accident, ticket given 2005 (22) failure to yeild the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, she waved me to go. 2006 (23) 79 in a 65. BOOO PENNSYLVANIA! (he missed me doing 100) |
| Before I even write this - knock on wood.
Vic has talked his way out of every single thing he has been pulled over in for the last 20 years. (not all that many pull-overs, I know that sounded bad) Just two weeks ago he got out of a speeding ticket on the PA turnpike. He was doing almost 80 and I think it was a construction zone. Many years ago before we sold the business and we were really hard up he got pulled over. He was driving with an expired license, an expired registration, no insurance AND he was speeding. He even got away from that one with nothing. We did recitfy all the expirees. He told the cop he was already really late (friday night after work) and his wife was really going to kill him when he got home. The cops in town all knew us because we serviced all the city vehicle batteries. Guess they knew me better than I thought, cause he let Vic off! Vic has a way with people I guess. Now me... last time I got pulled over was in a DUI checkpoint. I wasn't speeding or anything, but I had a bulb out in the back. I looked at the cop and without even thinking, I said, "No Sh**, I didn't know that." He laughed at me and said, Go home. I couldn't stop laughing from the moment I rolled down my window, it's really a wonder he didn't ask me to get out and walk a line! I actually did get pinched for speeding when I was 17 - and that did it for me. I have been a very careful driver ever since. And that was many years ago. Not so great at talking my way out of ANYTHING, let alone with a cop! Shellie |
| I got a speeding ticket once, driving the 401 Toronto to Montreal. Don and I were still on vacation, just back from our honeymoon, and were on our way to visit family. Boring.
Don got a ticket once via photo-radar. My mother was visiting us from Quebec City (which is a good 9 hours drive away). We had a huge snowstorm, when the mayor of Toronto called in the military  (Toronto is still embarrassed about it. )Anyway, she had to stay with us for an extra week, and then sprained her ankle so couldn't travel for a month after that. Don finally dropped her off to catch the train back and got caught speeding on the way home. I guess he was excited to get back to his house without the MIL in it.
A few years ago we were heavily into sheltie rescue. Don was out in his Triumph and got pulled over for speeding. He had our blue merle in the car with him. The officer was about to fill out the form and noticed her. He leaned over and asked "Is that a sheltie?". Hubby said yes, and the officer told him that he had a sheltie, too. So Don told him all about our rescue work and gave him a card and phamplets, and the police said there was no way he could give the local sheltie rescue guy a ticket and let him go.  |
| my friend got pulled over for speeding, he is from brooklyn, and many of you may be familiar with the practice of stopping the car, pulling the keys out and dropping them on the pavement. My friend, then a minority living in rural NY, figured it best to follow this policy. in a huff however, he chucked them over his shoulder out the window.
An unsettling 'clunk' echoed from behind his Maxima. It was the sound of his keys dive-bombing the troopers cruiser. The trooper, a solid 6'2 walked over to the hood of his car, took the keys off, examined the hood thoroughly, and proceeded to the window of my friend's Maxima. In the most serious tone anyone could have heard, the man kindly and calmly asked "now, just what the f* is it you hoped to accomplish by chucking your keys at me" Everyone in the car fought hard to keep the laughter down. "You know, I could write this as 'assaulting a police officer..." My friend interrupted him to clarify the policy of brooklyn police, and was interrupted by the officer midway. "Now, let me finish son...I could write this as 'assaulting a police officer', if I wasn't laughing so hard I almost s* myself. Now get on outta here before you make me cuss more. .. and slow down" We drove off, being careful to observe speed limits, and keep all hands arms and keys inside the vehicle. |
| These are hilarious....
I've been lucky so far... I have only been stopped 3 times, all in one year, all in my Dodge Neon when it was brand new and I was working 2 full time jobs to pay for it. Each time I was caught on the same freakin road, but by a different officer each time. All 3 times I was doing at least 120 in a 50 zone. The first time, I was so embarrassed, and I just sighed and said "so much for my perfect driving record" (obvsiouly upset by this). He gave me a warning, I thanked him profusely. Next time, I explained that I had just gotten off work at my one job, and was on my way to my other job which I had to be at 20 minutes after my shift at my other job ended. He told me to be careful and gave me a warning. Last time, it was a woman officer, it was basically the same thing, I had just finished working a full night shift, and was headed to my day shift at my other job, with only half an hour between (my two jobs were in different towns as well) and the officer said well we'll just mark it down as only going 10 over the limit (meaning a smaller ticket and no points lost). I quit the second job shortly after that because I almost (or maybe did) fall asleep while driving from one to the other. LOL |
JakobandBrandonsmom wrote: The cops are pretty lenient here. As long as you're not excessively speeding (like 25 mph+ speed limit), you have insurance, tag/sticker up to date, no outstanding warrants (they run your license), and they don't have any suspicions, they'll usually let you go unless you get one having a bad day. Or you're from the North. |
Ron wrote: JakobandBrandonsmom wrote: The cops are pretty lenient here. As long as you're not excessively speeding (like 25 mph+ speed limit), you have insurance, tag/sticker up to date, no outstanding warrants (they run your license), and they don't have any suspicions, they'll usually let you go unless you get one having a bad day. Or you're from the North.Ain't that the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worst ticket I ever got wasn't even a speeding ticket. It was a ticket for following too closely. Apparently once a ticket is written it cannot be destroyed (?)...... One winter a few years ago in my 3 wk old car ( with less than 200 miles on it), I was driving home in a blinding snow storm after a snowfall of about 16 inches. I came around a corner on a local highway to find a car stopped in the middle of the road making a left hand turn. I put on my brakes and nothing happened, I slammed into the back of the car, my air bag failed to deploy (another long story) and despite the fact that I had my seat belt on I hit the steering wheel. I broke 3 ribs, shattered my sternum, broke my collar bone and had a cardiac contusion. The police office that responded decided that he had to write someone a ticket so he wrote a ticket to me for following too closely. The only problem was that in the meantime I was hauled off to the hospital in an ambulance (I guess he didn't realize how badly I was injured). Sooooo, three or four days later he made a personal delivery of the ticket to ICU. I think he was mortified by having to give me the ticket, but according to him he had already written it and had to "deliver it". I think I wound up paying a $40.00 fine or some stupid thing. |
| I have been pulled over several times as I drive quite a bit in my job and they always let me off. They always tell me just to pay closer attention.
But the one that sticks out so clearly in my mind was when my sons were about 4 & 6 yrs old and I got pulled over on the interstate doing 85 in a 65. The cop came to my window and my youngest son started talking "I told you momma you were going faster than the speed lemon. I told you. I told you." The officer laughed and said that the flack I was getting from my son was better than any lecture or ticket he could give me and to have a nice night - laughing the entire time. To this day he still calls speed limits - speed lemons and he is 18 years old. |
| I've only had one ticket I didn't flirt my way out of. I got pulled over going 65 over in a 45, which was also a construction zone-- however, it was a Sunday and no one was working so I was enjoying the open highway. I'm glad I got hit with radar at the top of a hill because I had slowed down a little by then. He clocked me at 110 mph but I know I was doing more than that in the straightaway.
The cop told me that he couldn't just let me go with that kind of speeding so I freaked out trying to calculate what the heck it was going to cost me when he went back to write it up. He came back and handed me a ticket for 5 mph over the limit. Woohoo!
It was like 2 points and $110-- well worth the fun but I won't make it a habit. |
I have gotten about 8 tickets and been pulled over probably about 11 times. Police officers just dont like me  |
| I got one ticket when I was late getting to work because of a kid's orthodontist appt that morning. The sneaky cop was hiding behind a bush and caught me doing (GASP!) 45 in a 25 zone. Since I was late there was very little traffic on the road, so I was a prime candidate. So I pulled over, already ticked because I was late and getting madder by the second because EVERYONE goes 45 on this road and he was hiding! So when he came up to the car, I just said - Fine, just give me the ticket. He took my license/registration back to his car and it took what seemed like forever before he came back. As I sat there waiting, other cars went by me doing - 45!!! So when he FINALLY came back, I said - You know officer, that one's going 45. So is that one! And that one! He said - so what would you have me do, maam? I said - stop them too! His reply? I've already stopped you!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
The only other time I've gotten pulled over was the night my mother died and I was on the way to the nursing home to meet my sister. No problem with that one - he just let me go. |
| oh yes, got out of quite a few - sometimes being a woman has its advantages - you can either flash a smile and act dumb (ok we don't want to, but it works) or as I've found in the past, get out of it with gynaecoligical issues - men always seem to blush and just want us out of the way - ha ha ha ha !!!!! |
| I've only gotten pulled over 3 times in my life. The first on college campus, security guard said I ran a stop sign. I made him drive back with me and point out the sign. It was so overgrown with plants you couldn't even see it. By the next morning the grounds crew had been out though!
The second time was by a cop that almost hit me! It was a four way stop and I was taking my turn and this female, k-9 cop (insert your own joke here) came flying down the hill and blew the intersection. She almost hit me and then pulled me over for almost hitting her! Grrrr!! She ran all my info and then saw my wedding dress in the car and said I must have been distracted because I had other things on my mind and let me go. The third time I was pulled over was in my sports car and for once I wasn't speeding! It was in an area where we provided ambulance service so I was hoping I knew the cop. When I saw him in my mirror, I recognized him and thought, woohoo. He walks to my car and doesn't even look in, just asks for my license, reg and insurance, d'oh! He takes one look at my license picture, pops his head in my car and goes, "I know you!" Thankfully he remembered that we had just sat for 4 hours together at a psych patient call because he said that I was doing 57 in a 25 and in Pennsylvania that would have really hurt! I saw him at a call later on that week and it turns out his radar gun was miscalibrated. Hah hah hah on the cops! Now that I are one. Professional courtesy rocks!!
I do have a great cop and ticket story from work. One of the cops pulled a girl over for doing 47 in a 20, her license was expired and her registration sticker was missing. He ended up letting her go, no verbal warning, no citation, nothing!!! When he came back to the station I asked him why he let her go. His response: "She cried!" I read him the riot act for a good 5 minutes. He then said, "If I go find her and write the ticket, will you stop yelling?" |
| LOL... she cried.... that's hilarious... |
| this is a different point of view.....before B was a fireman, he was a DPS officer (highway patrolman)....first off, they really do have quotas to make...but B hated to pull people over...he actually would go to the nearest cemetary and write warnings for the deceased...lol... |
Darcy wrote: this is a different point of view.....before B was a fireman, he was a DPS officer (highway patrolman)....first off, they really do have quotas to make...but B hated to pull people over...he actually would go to the nearest cemetary and write warnings for the deceased...lol...
LMAO.... you're kidding! That's too funny... |
| nope, not kidding..... |
| I'll tell you what doesn't work...Telling the officer that the reason you were speeding and almost hit him head on passing another car on a two lane highway is because your husband was teaching you how to pass. My husband still gives me a hard time for blaming it all on him and still getting the ticket. |
| I got my first speeding ticket at the age of 17. My girlfriends and I had altered our DL to say we were 18 and went to the bar. I called my Mo to ask if we coiuld stay out later and she started ranting and told me to get my A$$ home now. Upon leaving the bar (underage of course) I get pulled over for speeding 80 in a 60 zone. The cop asked for my Licence and I told him I only had the pink copy (Alberta licences used to be 2 pieces) and handed him my High School ID and Pink sheet. I got a ticket for 100 bucks I think and then got grounded when I got home for being even more late.
I mostly get Photo Radar tickets, my nickname in high school was Marianne Andretti!!! |
| The first time I got pulled over, I was leaving a bar at the age of 20 (drinking age was 21) but since my step MOL was working there, I wasn't drinking even though I never had a problem being served.
I had left my old beater car parked across the street where you have to come up a hill to the roadway and needed to make a left turn. Just as I started to go out, one of my headlights burned out and wouldn't you know it, a cop comes by. Of course since I was leaving a bar this was the perfect excuse to pull me over. He thought I was nuts when he came to the car and I was laughing my a$$ off. I told him the light had just gone out and no I had not been drinking. He was so disappointed!! The next time I was pulled over was the day after I had bought my 72 duster. cute car w/ a canvas sunroof, bright blue. I had been to the insurance office to transfer my insurance and when I came out I noticed a (unmarked) car that had pulled in behind my car (same area where I had been stopped before - very small rural town). When I pulled out, the car pulled out behind me. Had a funny feeling and made sure I kept to the speed limit. Once I got out of town and was headed into a narrow bridge, the lights came on and I pulled off in a turn off before the bridge. Two men got out and came toward the car w/ guns drawn - REAL NERVOUS now. They asked for license and registration (of course all I had was the bill of sale). After looking at it they said ok, you can go. Once I got home my then husband wanted to know why I had even opened the window w/out some id. I said it wouldn't make much difference, the sunroof was open (was large sunroof that opened most of the roof). Apparenlty they were looking for a car or person that looked like me. Was also stopped another time leaving a bar, apparently I ran a stop sign. I had my VERY large GS w/ me in the car and he didn't like anyone to get near the car so was barking very ferociously at the officer. He didn't ask me to get out and just said to be careful. Fortunately, I hadn't been drinking then either. I have gotten 2 speeding tickets in my life - 20 yrs apart - both of which I deserved. Knock on wood, that's it |
| My sister and a cop pulled onto a main road about 2 blocks apart at the "same" time. I "seen" him pull out and told her a cop was behind her.
As we veered off onto another street he gunned it and passed her. As he did, she yells out, "Whew!" He heard, and we seen brakelights. Pulled back in behind her, hit the light and siren. She stops, and he does his "studly" walk to the car and asks what she thinks she's doing. He tells her he's going to give her a ticket for an unsafe start. She gets teary eyed and I tell him, "You can't write her a ticket! You're just ticked because she yelled out. You don't even know if she yelled at you!" Well, that didn't go over very well.
Back and forth, yes I can - no, you can't. He tells her she better get me quiet or he'll give her a ticket for speeding! She says, "Shhh!" I say, "No, he's not writing you a ticket, unless its for yelling out the window!" It changes from her to me! I better be quiet or he's takin' me in. I said, "Fine, go ahead! I'd love to see the judge's face when I tell him I'm here because your male ego got hurt". He was mad, but told her, "Im gonna let you off this time, but..... dah dah dah!" He knew he was wrong, and I knew I wasn't gonna back down. Sometimes ya' just gotta take a stand. I'm just glad I didn't have to do it in jail! |
| I have had 2 tickets so far.
Pulled over a lot more than that though. One ticket was for failure to yeild (which was pretty much a head on collision) apparantly my fault
Another ticket for not wearing a seat belt (CLICK IT OR TICKET) that time I was also speeding but he let me go with a warning for that. |
| My teacher told me a funny one back in school....
He got pulled over for speeding the cop told him he was going 53mph (it was a 35mph zone) my teacher told the cop he was dyslexic...lol the cop called him a smarta** I can't remember if he said he got a ticket or not. My b/f got a ticket for leaving his 8 yr old in the car while he went into the gas station where the whole front of the building is covered in windows. We had to pay $80. they gave us our money back because the judge said it was a BS ticket. |
| One of my friends got stopped by an officer and she decided to try to cry her way out of it. She got into it so heavy she couldn't stop and not only did the cop not ticket her, he finally took her to have a cup of coffee to help her calm down! That's her story, anyway..... |
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