Busted! First Ticket in 25 years

Not for lack of trying... nailed for doing 64 in a 45 zone. Cop was cool enough to roll it back to 59, but it's off to traffic school in a couple of weeks.

What's the HAMB record for most -- or fewest -- speeding tickets?

 

***hole, you deserve it you ****!

 

<font color="green"> I've only had one. For a busted headlight in mom's wrangler. They took it off my record when I showed them a receipt for a new headlight.

My car is too gimpy to get me in any real trouble. </font>

 

Watch it, you Florida ****nugget. I'm Public Enemy #1, on the Post Office wall.

Top o' the world, Ma!

 

Sorry for your misfortune, MR Z.
I had 19 speeding tickes and a hit and run (hit a tree...which subsequently landed on someone's house. I bailed) in 2 1/2 years.
How's that?

JOE

 

Last summer, I bought a van from flatheadpete's grandma. I was ticketed for doing 15 over on my way home with it. Until then my record was the best it has been. Oh well, sold the van the next day, and cleared plenty of money to cover the ticket cost.

 

Never had a ticket, never wrecked....but now that I said that.....

 

I've had two speeding tickets in 20 years...but with a V6 going into my old Chevy, I won't ever have to worry about ANOTHER one!!!

 

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<font color="green"> I've only had one. For a busted headlight in mom's wrangler. They took it off my record when I showed them a receipt for a new headlight.

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i had a headlight out for a couple yrs and got pulled over for it several times... got out of the tickets by showing them a headlight i had sitting next to me... 2 yrs later, i finally installed it, problem solved

 

I gots 12 points in 12 months once. I had my license revoked for a month and had to go to traffic school.
This Jamaican fella that was in cl*** with me says, "You know you Indian fellas don't know how to drive, mon."
I says, "You fellas ain't exactly Mario Andrettis 'yerself."

 

You know what really torques me off Nads?

It was in a ******* Honda.

 

{quote}I've had two speeding tickets in 20 years...but with a V6 going into my old Chevy, I won't ever have to worry about ANOTHER one!!!{/quote}

Number three son on getting me to co-sign on his loan for a 4 cyl Mustang, "Dad, I won't get a ticket in this, it aint fast."

Took too long to wash it, raced to work, got a ticket first day.

Jim

 

I had a restricted license once...MANY years ago...kind of funny, actually!

I had acquired several points within maybe a two year period, and got the notice to go to the driver review thingy for a session which involved watching a movie, and then getting my designated restriction.

When it was my turn to see the lady who wrote the license restriction, she asked the specifics of each ticket. She then concluded that I had just been in the wrong places at the wrong times, and that I wasn't a danger on the roads, so she decided to go easy on me.

She said that she HAD to write SOME sort of restriction for the required time period (90 days if I remember correctly!), but she didn't want it to be too severe. She had been writing things like "Can only drive to work and back" or "can only drive during daylight hours" on other people's forms, so I was wondering what I'd get!

Smiling, she asked "What kind of car do you drive?"

I answered "A 66 Fairlane, why?"

"How many people can it seat?"

"Um...maybe five or six...unless I'm sneaking into a drive-in!"

Laughing, she wrote out my "restriction" and handed it to me...

"Can not drive with more than seven p***engers in vehicle from the hours of 8pm to 6am"

Ha Ha...I never violated it...even AT the drive ins!!

 

Got nailed doing 90 in a 65 3 years ago. Cop cut me a break and wrote it up as 75. Did the online traffic school. Finished it up in about 2 hours, took the test, emailed it off, and the traffic school online business mailed off my results to the courthouse. Piece of cake. **** going to one of those all day traffic school deals. Take it online if you can. You can stop anytime you want and start up again any time you want. You can take 2 weeks to complete it if you want.

 

Junkyard Dog, remind me to keep you away from my trees.

 

My record?

Over 1998-1999 I received 22 speeding, or speed related tickets.

Paid three of them. Defensive Driving Cl*** dismissed another, and I fought all the rest. Only lost one.

Worse ticket was on New Year's Eve 1998. I-10 coming into Kerrville. Local fuzz clocked me going "over 100" in a late model Mercedes station wagon that was easily capable of going much faster, on a nearly empty highway that could easily accomadate an attentive driver.

I had to pull every favor I had in that town to not spend the night in jail.

Most bogus tickets?

Spring and summer of 1987. Drove a bone stock '71 Datsun 240Z. Lived in a community with a 20mph speed limit, and lived 2.5 miles away from the gate. One of the 4 Taylor Lake Village Police officers was - and I'm not making this up - Richard Seaman. The joke didn't even dawn on me for a few years. Well Richard was a 98 lb toothpick of a man with a HUGE inferiority complex. He wielded that badge like a thug with a billy club. When I didn't drive and had friends drive me home I warned them about the 20mph limit and just how strick the cops were. Seems like 4 out of 5 were busted for doing 21 or 22 mph. Well, during that year I ended up receiving 6 speeding or unsafe speed tickets in the neighborhood. Being a kid, my pop had to go to court with me. He started noticing that the ONLY folks in court were kids, and there were a LOT of kids in court. After asking around he found that Seaman was targeting kids. The last straw was when my dad found out that the other cops all together wrote less than 10 percent of the tickets that Seaman was writing.

That was it. My pop teamed up with 4 other families and filed har***ment charges against the police. The police were forced to investigate and eventually fired Seaman after coming to the conclusion that he gave false testimony about kids speeding. All those 21mph tickets were taken off my juvenile record!

That one police officer ruined my image of cops, and I lost all respect for any law enforcement that I may have ever had.

Don't fight the system, use it.

Do I need to even mention my run-ins with CHP while driving collector cars with Texas YOM plates? Those guys are NAZIS!

 

Gotta nip it in the bud, Jason.

Nip-it-in-the-bud!

 

And for all those that are poo-pooing my speeding:

I've only had ONE wreck that was remotely my fault. I tapped a pickup truck with my old tow van at a stop light when I though he had made a right and was watching for an opening in traffic for me to make a right. He looked at the minor scratches on his dirty bumper and said "too bad for your van" and drove off.

I've had some close calls but they usually involve overloaded trailers, wildlife, other folks bad maintaince, or trying to drive down 4x4 trails.

My advice: take a good drivers school. A race car driving school. You'll never feel the same way about a car again. When you learn what a car is REALLY capable of, and what sort of safety cushion you need for things like blowouts, idiots, bad pavement, and deer you become a much better driver.

 

No - Can - Do, Barney.

Gotta find some quality in my life somewhere. Anyway, it's not like I allways speed everywhere I go. Just when it's safe enough. Sorta like riding a bike: it's ALWAYS more dangerous than the alternatives, but it's so much FUN!

 

Surprised no one said it already.......

just file it under CS!

 

I think I had around 12 or 13 tickets but I'm not sure may not even be that many I can't remember. Got 3 in one week when I was in college for drag racing on main street. One was a 65 in a 35 the next 78 in a 35 and the third 68 in a 35. I also got a 70 in a 65 on the interstate right after all that. Got a 42 in a 35 once right after I changed my motor and trans out of the 60 boy was I pissed cause I didn't know my speedometer was off. I hadn't even put the hood back on the car yet and he still didn't believe me that I just changed everything.

 

My daughters husband is a patrol seargent for a sheriffs dept. Got to know quite a few cops over the last 6 yrs, unfortunately all too far from where I live to be of any use. One kid, a DPS trooper, was getting back into his patrol car from a stop, radar was bouncing between 195 &amp; 200. Looked back saw a speck on hill in distance, decided radar screwing up. As he started to pull out a sportbike blew past him. He hit flashing lights, just for the hell of it, bike started braking. He asked rider why he stopped, no way he could have caught him. Kid said yeah, but someone up ahead would and he didnt want to lose his license. Scotty wrote him up for 90 in a 70 zone, about 110 less than he was going just because he stopped and was honest. True story.

 

saw this and stole it off some webpage a few months ago....
had to help some folks in one very similar about 15 years ago....makes me cringe to look at her

I've had three tickets and two wrecks ...first one was tangling with a tree.....tree won...busted the windshield with my hard head...and ripped the drivers side front tire off...stopped short of the front porch of a house....second wreck i was enjoying the acceleration on a f-250 powerstroke... everyone took off from the green light like they were in a hurry so i did like wise....then this little red miata stopped on a dime in front of me.... if i hadn't stopped when i did i would have pushed the trunk up over the guys head....scared the **** of of me.... i was white faced...the guy was really cool about it...I've gotten out of two tickets in my life..... one i was doing burn outs in a park parking lot way out in the country...cops just happened to be driving by at the time... the cop asked me did i think i had a bad car... I said NOOOOOO sir... and he gave me a warning... probably giggled all the way back to the station....second time was speeding through Indiana... female state trooper pulled me over....asked me what was my hurry...told her I hadn't been home in 6 months (which was true) and she let me slide.... I've been ticket and wreck free for 6 years now...knock on wood........

 

30 roadster, thats a CAR???, holy ****! Do you know the story behind it?

 

4 yrs on the payment plan at the local courthouse, had a cop in town that wasnt as cool as barney fife, figure i spent about 3k in tickets throughout highschool, the one that i really deserved is the funniest

the speedo on my bike was broke and me and a buddy got a little jumppy on the throttle , next thing i see flashin lights my friend ditches, and the cop follows me, asks me how fast i was going....i said probely 50 or so, the guy exploded, said he didnt have me on radar...blah blah blah...gave me a ticket for "basic speed" an *****ed at me for 45 minutes, found my friend an hour later, his speedo worked ...we were going 110 in a 30....oops!...better yet the ticket was $40. almost makes up for all the other ones in the "c.s. file"

 

Speed kills!

...but only if you're one of the lucky ones.

 

I shut my car off in a late nite traffic jam at the local street racing spot, and got a ticket for "parking in traffic". 80 f***in dollars!!! The best one I didn't get was this:
Me and a buddy are street racing (I already know I'm going to hell, thanks anyway) it's like 3am, and were doing like 125-130 in a 25, and a cop goes by the other way... he hits his lights for like 2 seconds, then just turns 'em back off and keeps goin! By the time he'd have got turned around we woulda been LOOOONG gone, so he didn't even bother!

 

I stopped a doctor for speeding.
Doc: "I've got a medical emergency."
Me: "You're going the wrong way."
Doc: "I have to drop my friend off at (Local department store)"
I write ticket.
Doc registers for court, and after I testify, he denies everything, calling me a liar.
Me: "Judge, do you want to hear a recording of our conversation?"
Doc cringes as he hears himself on tape.
Red with anger Judge fines, suspends, and gives Doc a few hours in jail for lying under oath.
Every cop in the courtroom asks, "Where did you get that?"

 

i get h***led once ina while from some stupid cops asking me why i dont have commerical plates on my truck, or askin why i dont have new plates because my rear one looks like it was chewed up by my dog. But one time when i first got my truck i was drivin down the street goin a lil two fast for the limit and the light turns red and i thought i had enough room to stop, i didn't know my brakes are really touchy and lock them all up to a slidin hault. come to a rest right in front of the white line, i turn to my right and theres a cop lookin at me with a mean *** grin. luckly he just laughs and say slow her down buddy.

 

I have gotten plenty of tickets, and paid fo them all (one way or another).. way too many to recount here. but I wanted to share a lil bit.

Listening to the radio one morning there was a guy talking about a book he wrote on fighting traffic violations. he apparently got a ticket from an officer who was 'visually' capable of estimating speed without the use of a radar gun. I guess officers that can do this have to p***/undergo some testing. anyways, they goto court, and the officer admits that he is certified to +/- 3 mph (I think, it may have been 5 mph)... so the guy that receieved the ticket stood up, held his arm straight out, and dropped his pen. he then asked the cop how fast was his pen traveling when it hit the floor!! I guess this guy was a math whiz, and had (beforehand) figured out with his height, the weight of the pen, the formulae for gravity, bla bla bla (math ****) he had a "scientific" estimate on the speed of his pen. The officer was off by more than his 'certification' and the guys ticket was dissmissed!!

Talk about ballsy.. you KNOW that cop was looking for that guy from there on out!