Got a ticket for running a “YELLOW” light after a chick threw a full beer can at the side of my newly painted truck. (yes she did hit it). I chased her through the intersection while my buddy was trying to get her license plate number.
The cop that pulled me over (she got away) was one of my best friends dad’s on a power trip. We used to call him “Supercop”. He basically told me that I was bullshitting him about the beer can and the drunk bitch that hit me. (yes there was a dent in my newly redone truck and we did have a plate number from her car) Ticket cost me around 70 bucks and the cops never did try to find the bitch. Oh yeah, I still had the dent in my truck from her wasted beer.
[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Spring break junior year of college in Ft. Lauderdale. I am making out with this blonde on the beach and just as we are about to get “into” it… someone taps me on the shoulder and shines a flash light in my face. As the cop starts to write a ticket, the chick pulls out an NYPD badge and the cop stops writing. Then he says, if you are going to do that, the dont do it so close to the street. She was embarrrassed as shit but we visited the empty life guard shack a bit further down the beach shortly thereafter. True story.
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Worst ticket… 98 mph in a 45 mph zone. It was the only clear reading on the officer’s radar as I was hard on the brakes when I saw his headlights. I was hitting somewhere around 130 mph when I first saw him. That little stunt even got me in the local paper’s Police Blotter.
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You actually pulled over? They might’ve not even tried to catch you at 130, unless you’re in California.
[quote]swivel wrote:
TDog305 wrote:
CU AeroStallion wrote:
Box Seats at Bon Jovi two weeks ago in Denver.
they were rediculous!
Speaking of which - you should see these Yankees tickets I get, I sit right behind the K on the dugout for 3-4 games a year (love them or hate them, they are ridiculous seats)
yeah if i had to sit that close to puffy mcblowlips i’d be worried about my anal virginity also.
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Ha!
Seeing the reaction of a Boston fan, was the sole reason I posted that.
[quote]WtCoach wrote:
Got a ticket for running a “YELLOW” light after a chick threw a full beer can at the side of my newly painted truck. (yes she did hit it). I chased her through the intersection while my buddy was trying to get her license plate number.
The cop that pulled me over (she got away) was one of my best friends dad’s on a power trip. We used to call him “Supercop”. He basically told me that I was bullshitting him about the beer can and the drunk bitch that hit me. (yes there was a dent in my newly redone truck and we did have a plate number from her car) Ticket cost me around 70 bucks and the cops never did try to find the bitch. Oh yeah, I still had the dent in my truck from her wasted beer.[/quote]
I got a public urination ticket after a good night at the bar a few years back. I was so proud of that one it hung on my fridge for a long time.
Speaking of speeding tickets last summer some kid got busted going over 200 mph on his bike. Funny part was he turned out to be the local sherrifs kid. Bad part, a new law was passed so anything over 100 mph and you automaticly lose your license for 6 months.
I got a $120 ticket for TOC while I was road hunting. In hindsight, I might have deserved that one.
Best ticket I ever got out of was when I was playing football in college and we were had just won the Semifinal playoff game. We went out drinking during the week and I was driving home and I got pulled over by the sheriff. He asked if I was on the football team and I I had been drinking. I told him yes and he told me to go home.
[quote]tveddy wrote:
I got a $120 ticket for TOC while I was road hunting. In hindsight, I might have deserved that one.
Best ticket I ever got out of was when I was playing football in college and we were had just won the Semifinal playoff game. We went out drinking during the week and I was driving home and I got pulled over by the sheriff. He asked if I was on the football team and I I had been drinking. I told him yes and he told me to go home.[/quote]
My friend’s sister, who was visiting home from her Ivy league school (which she attended on full scholarship) was killed by a drunk driver a couple of years ago. Getting away with driving drunk isn’t as “awesome” as you might think.
Worst ticket… 98 mph in a 45 mph zone. It was the only clear reading on the officer’s radar as I was hard on the brakes when I saw his headlights. I was hitting somewhere around 130 mph when I first saw him. That little stunt even got me in the local paper’s Police Blotter.
You actually pulled over? They might’ve not even tried to catch you at 130, unless you’re in California.[/quote]
I thought about running, but the cop was coming head on towards me and there were no side roads. I figured he had me fair and square. Plus, my bud was on another motorcycle with my girlfriend on the back of it. While my bud was some ways back there, I didn’t want him pulling some stupid stunt and gettin’ my girlfriend hurt.
I prefer being an idiot when I’m only putting myself at risk (that’s my excuse and I’m stickin’ to it).
I haven’t driven while I was drunk in quite a while. When I did though, it was always in the country on dirt roads or pastures at about 20 miles an hour.
[quote]Aleksandr wrote:
tveddy wrote:
I got a $120 ticket for TOC while I was road hunting. In hindsight, I might have deserved that one.
Best ticket I ever got out of was when I was playing football in college and we were had just won the Semifinal playoff game. We went out drinking during the week and I was driving home and I got pulled over by the sheriff. He asked if I was on the football team and I I had been drinking. I told him yes and he told me to go home.
My friend’s sister, who was visiting home from her Ivy league school (which she attended on full scholarship) was killed by a drunk driver a couple of years ago. Getting away with driving drunk isn’t as “awesome” as you might think.[/quote]
Just a funny story, I recently got a 9 point ticket. 6 points for speeding (68 in a 40) and passing in a no passing.
I got it reduced to a 11-10a which is 2 points because I did a court case about a fighting at tacobell a year before for the DA, hahaha.
Even better part, my brother got the same ticket b/c he was following me. He pulled us both over. I drive a 2000 mustang GT and he has a 2003 Lancer Evolution. He was about to give us a “Contest Driving” ticket which is automatic loss of license but he was “nice.”
My buddy got a no seatbelt ticket…
For riding in the box of a truck.
[quote]gojira wrote:
Got pulled over once for having only one tailight…
I was driving my 1941 pick-up truck. It was manufactured with only one tailight. Only one windsheild wiper too.
No ticket. I think the cop just wanted to look at my truck.[/quote]
Similar story:
At a road block, my dad and I stop, and a cop walks over, looking all smug, like he’s going to give us a no seatbelt ticket. He asks, Are you wearing your seatbelts today? And my dad says yes, this is an old truck (74) it doesn’t have lap belts. The expression on his face just dropped.
Fight the ticket. I have gone to court on over a dozen tickets and have only lost once. That may sound like a major accomplishment, but it isn’t. They are usually bluffing and have no interest in prosecuting your case. I have seen the DA bluff right up until the point it is time to present evidence and then tell the judge that they withdraw the charges) Also, the cop is seldom there (I live in a major US city).
But, make sure to prepare SOMETHING. Do some research on the Internet and print it at the least. Go in there empty-handed and the judge is likely to stomp on your sack for wasting the court’s time.
I think I might be pretty close to a record…NO LIE, I have been pulled over 32 times, only ticketed 6…
I guess I learned the art of negotiation from my father, i.e., he taught me how to talk to cops…
I’ve also gotten really lucky with some of the officers that have pulled me over. I was doing 95 on the Jersey Turnpike, I think the speed limit is 65 there. Luckily, I was playing Bruce Springsteen, and when the officer approached the car and heard what I was listening to, he said “son, turn up that song and slow down your car.”
I have probably deserved every ticket I have ever gotten. I was let go for about the first 8 or 10 infractions I was pulled over for when I was 16. Once I finally did get a ticket, it seemed like I was getting one every other day until I was about 25.
One ticket, that I didn’t think I was going to get… I was driving a parts truck for a living, and was making a left turn off a busy street onto a less busy street. I fucked up, and started to turn, when I saw pedestrians crossing the street I was turning onto. A quick assesment of the situation, led to me turn anyways, because I was in the way of oncoming traffic now, and the pedestrians were cops, and I knew they saw me, so they’d stay out of the way. They flagged me down and ticketed me. I recall getting another ticket that same day.
I was also extremely lucky in my 15 year drinking and driving career to only rack up two impaired charges, with one conviction.
One time my buddy was driving my car, because I was way too wasted, and he kept his sense about him better than I did, when drunk. ( Not that either of us should have been driving )
We were on the Squamish highway, which is nowhere near Pender Harbour, they are a ferry ride apart. We also had a flat tire. We got pulled over, late at night, and I started babbling at the cop something about ‘We’re just going to Pender Harbour, occifer…’. The cop explained that perhaps we should leave the vehicle there, and get the flat fixed in the morning.
I woke up in the morning, with the sun blazing in my eyes, staring at a sign that said, ‘Brakendale 5KM’. My buddy had decided to thumb a ride home, which was a long fucken way. Apparently he bugged the driver the whole way home because he wasn’t allowed to smoke in his vehicle. I think I drove on the flat into Squamish, where I had to wait in the bar until they could order in a new rim for my vehicle.
Then, while sitting in a construction lineup, my alternator went, and it was raining. My wipers would barely move. Of course my head was pounding.
Probably enough to make anyone quit drinking. But I toughed it out for years after that.
I guess I learned the art of negotiation from my father, i.e., he taught me how to talk to cops…
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My dad was the biggest prick in the world. Abusive, mean, and crazy. Yet somehow, that fucker NEVER got tickets. I’ve seen him get pulled over three times in a single day in Austin and each time use the,“I’m from out of town” line. One of those stops was because he got tired of circling Shultz’s Beer Gaurden due to all of the one-way streets downtown.
He said, “Fuck it, I’ll take the middle lane” and pulled head-on into five lanes of one-way traffic. We got two blocks down the middle lane, and got pulled over. “I’m from out of town”, no ticket.