Your first speeding ticket--How old????

15 1/2, 1975. I was living in Pasadena, CA. Driving on a learners permit. Back then, a person driving with a learners permit needed a licensed driver in the car with them, and it couldn't be after dark.

I got pulled over at 1:00 am in the morning, and I was alone. I wasn't even doing anything wrong. Cop just had a feeling something wasn't right I guess.

David

 

16------

In my first car, 79 Malibu Classic 2DR HT. I had not had the car for 6 months and its speedo didnt work. I lived in the country so I drove dirt backroads to school. NEVER highway to avoid speeding accidentally. Well my mom was making dinner and wanted me to go get a gallon of milk in the closest town to us. Now this town I had to take highway to get to. So I tell my mom I cant go on the highway. She says no milk=no dinner. So off I go. I have a girl with me that we'll call a romantic interest. So I'm driving down the road guessing Im goin about the right speed. Well I was wrong. You guessed it, lawman was behind me with the lights on. So I pull over and the girl with me say "What do I do? I have a joint in my pocket." I just about sh!t. I didnt do that stuff and I swore the cop would just know she had it and blame it on me. I think it was the most scared a kid could be. Well I got my 76 in a 65 ticket and sent on my way. I got the milk and went home. Handed my mom the milk and told her to enjoy her 175 dollar jug of milk. She was pissed and my dad just laughed. Worked all summer on the farm to pay off that ticket and diversion.

 

18. 'Nuff said...

 

17. 85 in a 65 zone on the freeway.

 

I was 14 in 1980 on my way to school. Texas was great we could get a hardship license at 14 to go back and forth to school and school activates but of course I drove every where!!

 

Knock on wood...none yet, almost 64 driving 47 years. Stopped once when I was 62 but let me go. Not that I haven't deserved some. I have just been lucky.

Bill

 

16yo in '71,

My 1st ticket:was actually an 'exibition of speed' ticket.
Got the speeding ticket about a month later.

This is why:

 

15, I had two tickets before I was 16 that also read driving without a license. Still managed to get my license on my 16th birthday but Between 16 and 17 I got 5 more and had my license taken away for 45 days. Got the last one on my 17th birthday and then went without another till I was 18 1/2 living in a different state. Not exactly proud of my record but it is what it is. I've been a good boy as of late and my insurance rates are very low.

 

Wow... I thought I was alone in this ,but guess not. I was 16 ,two weeks after I got my license. It was around 60 in a 35 zone. I was heading outta town with my foot on the floor. I lost my license for a few weeks on that one.

 

Never got one in High School... Got a bunch in College. The police officers in my hometown were cool, so they let a lot of shit slide.

 

I was 13?ish, coming down the long hill on the other side of town on my bicycle - man, i was flying! I must've been going 40-50mph, i recall thinking about the bearings in my front wheel and said fuckit, lets see what happens. The town cop actually pulled me over and gave the talkto of a lifetime - a drill instructor would have been proud of that tounge lashing. He was right, there were houses all along there and anybody could've backed out of thier driveway and never even seen me and i'd probably driven a foot or more into thier fender, there was now way i could've stopped and i'm not even sure i could steer the thing at that speed.
But, that was my first. My second was when the 5 of us took dwaynes' 53 for a ride, the local cop was so overjoyed taht he could catch up to us in his 54 that he let us go 'as long as you boys go straight home'! I think that was '63 or 4
Times were a little different back then. A ticket was nothing but a piece of paper, when he told us to go straight home he meant it and had called the policeman in our town to check - if we didn't do exactly what he said there'd been hell to pay. And i don't mean a fine either.

 

Didn't get caught until I was in my mid-twenties, and then it wasn't in a cool car, but in the daily grocery getter, driving the residential neighborhoods. Got another one on a "Midnight Trophy" run when I was thirty something. That one could have been UGLY, cuz it was the Highway Patrol, it was not my car and there was a loaded 45 under the front seat (long story). Haven't had another one until a year ago and I'm now 56, guess I was due. Disappointing though cuz I've never been caught in the Old Hot Rod.

 

Lucky guy. The cops in Riverside were more of the rectum variety.

 

Them ol' goats do it to ya all the time..

 

19. I went to NTTC Corry Station in Pensacola FL, for my Navy A-school. My buddy had an RX7 and I was driving back to base from the beach. There is a nice long bridge in Pensacola that has a 50mph speed limit that goes down to 35 when you get off... I was down to about 42mph when I got off the bridge so the cop hooked me up with a speeding ticket... pretty lame.

 

34 since then a few. I lived in NYC till I was 30 and the cops there are or were not like the gestapo in socal

 

Got a ticket at 19 yrs passing a string of tractor trailers kicking up road spray and winter salt...I was clocked doing almost double the federal limit of 55mph then. The trooper wrote the ticket before I could say anything or tell him I worked as a PD dispatcher. That was a big thing back then as its was rare for many agencies to hire young civilians. Well I gave the ticket to an old-time judge friend to take care of it. I didn't hear anything more about it. On a later note the judge got in trouble for squashing tickets by head judge. They went after a bunch for doing favors. The judge went back to his law practice and helped out on many other civil legal matters up unto 2 days before he died.

 

First one, age 19, June 1976, 11th and Utica, Tulsa, OK, cited for going 39 in a 35 zone at 2:00 a.m. on the way home after getting off work at a bread bakery. He had me sit in his cruiser, where dough, flour and cooking oil from my clothing really messed up his upholstery.

Second (and last) one, March, 1980 I-35 Wichita, KS going 63 in a 55 zone. Driving my 327 Chevy-powered '53 F100. Speedometer didn't work and I drove past two troopers parked on the median. They said they thought I was on drugs or something because I didn't even slow down. I thought I was going about 55 or I woulda' slowed down!

 

First one at 17 in 1980, in my 68 GTO (still have the car!). I graduated with a master's degree from traffic school before I graduated from college. Went 6 or 7 times in 5 years. Good thing the tickets were all in different counties and there was no cross-checking, supposed to be only 1 time every 2 years back then in CA. I wised up and now drive responsibly most of the time, or at least smart enough to know when it is safe to go fast. For most part I drive with the flow of traffic, don't weave in and out.

Kind of a related note, anyone notice how much the fines for tickets have gone up to cover all the city/county budget shortfalls lately?

 

Got "busted" in 1947 for driving my WHIZZER motorbike at night with a flashlight taped to my handlebars!!!


You guys are coming up with some great stories!!!!!!!!!LOL!

 

16, in a boat!

 

Mines the same---!0 yrs old and Whizzer on a public hyway

 

16 in NYC. Lost my licence for a year was still on probation. Oh yeah it was in my moms 76 300d mercedes. You know, the one I told her was the slowest POS and could not make it past 50mph even if you threw it off a cliff. yeah...... got caught doing 80 in a 50.

 

Yea, the only ticket I got in my 67 goat was for loud mufflers. The officer asked me where my mufflers were and I told him they were under the car. It went downhill after that!

 

I was going deer hunting at 5:30 in the morning and got held up behind a line of traffic on a hilly winding road. There was one stretch of road where I could pass. I pulled out and the guy in back of me also pulled out. I floored it to give him enough of a chance to pass. As the speedo hit 100, red lights came on on top of the car behind me. It was a State Patrol. When I pulled over he asked what I had in my car because he had his floored and I was pulling away fast. He said he was doing 85 when he hit the lights. He wrote the ticket for 70 in a 55 zone and told me if I fought it, it would be 85 pulling away.

 

17 and a few months. 66 GTO doing 75 in a 25, passing on the left in an intersection and exhibition of racing. 1967 and judge gave me a choice, join the Marines or..... Retired from the military in 1991. My best screw up ever was getting caught.

 

16... 4 days after I got my license! SPEEDING what else???

 

Some great stories for sure. I've never gotten a speeding ticket but I've deserved a boatload of em and after I out-ran a NYS Trooper on a 2 lane road heading home one night in 2005, I kinda gave it up before my luck ran out . I was celebrating my 50th birthday and had just street-raced and blown off a 2004 GTO . Those things ran like crap...........

 

16, 1964 Exibition of Speed, Santa Ana Cal. Light to light drag racing, cop stopped at the light ahead, Oh Well! My dad said my insurance at 17 cost him $1600 a year.

 

18. I had been stopped a few times by both san Bernardino and Riverside county sheriffs, but was let off. The C.H.P. got me in May of '68. Officer Hazard was his name, obviously he was known as "Hap". Used to run in to him at the barber shop in Calimesa, CA. years after. Good guy and a decent gunsmith.