I got pulled over for 35 in a 25…
on my way to take my driver’s test.
OK, perhaps the most rEdiculous ticket I ever got, I was deserving of, but at the time it seemed crazy all the same.
I was traveling through Montana and got pulled over for speeding. Of course, at the time, I was speeding excessively, half / or more cut, and had a cooler full of beer with one open.
The cop seemed to pay no attention to my inebriated state. He explained that the ticket was for speeding, and that the ticket was a summons to appear in court. I needed to pay him a $5 bond as my promise to appear. If I did not show up in court, I would forfeit the $5 bond. I was having trouble processing this information, so I asked him, ‘You’re saying that I give you 5 bucks, and drive away, and that’s it?’ He says, ‘Yah,’ and went on to explain that he was giving me a break, because it was getting a bit dark out, and after dusk, the ‘bond’ was supposed to go up to 10 bucks.
I could not beleive it, I couldn’t get the fiver out of my wallet fast enough. Hell, I would have tipped him the other 5 bucks, if I thought he’d have taken it.
Montana is one helluva state. If I’m not mistaken, they have no set speed limits on their freeways now. I believe it’s unlimited, and you’d only get pulled over and ticketed if what you were doing was unsafe.
Where else can you buy your gas, ammo, and beer all at the same place. While gambling, too?
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Oh ya, I kept the ticket in a photo album.
i was getting a backy on a moped and i had no helmet on so the police man said he was going to book me for no seat belt lol.
he ended up letting me off if i walked the rest home which was 2 miles.
Thought I’d just stuff this in this thread. Even though I look back at all my stupidity and laugh, I often wonder why I am still alive.
This accident happened last night. We are at the in-laws for spring break, and we heard the crash. It sounded closer than it was, then we heard the sirens ( alot of sirens ) and they seemed farther away. We heard the news this morning.
Keep your kids close.
[b]Thursday, March 16, 2006
NANAIMO, B.C. – Police are blaming speed, alcohol and drugs for a dramatic accident in which a car crashed into a barrier, flipped in the air and landed on its wheels, killing three of the five teenagers inside.
Residents say they heard two loud bangs and some had their houses pelted with debris after the single-vehicle accident late Wednesday night.
One woman told a television station she found a purse on her roof and human remains and pieces of car on her property. A hole was gouged out of her house’s exterior stucco.
“I heard on the news today that one young lady was 15 and I think it was her purse that was found,” the woman shakily said.
The 15-year-old and two 18-year-old males were killed.
The 19-year-old driver was taken to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and a 17-year-old girl from Ladysmith was airlifted to Vancouver – both in critical condition.
Two of the passengers had been ejected from the vehicle.
“We’re looking at some possible causal factors of alcohol, drugs and speed,” said Const. Jen Allan of Nanaimo RCMP. “Those are being examined closely by the investigators.”
Joan Burnett said she was watching a movie when she heard the accident.
“I heard a screaching of brakes and then I heard a big bump and then I heard a second bump.”
She and her husband pulled on their coats and ran three houses down to the yard where the car had landed. Neighbours gathered. Some helped direct traffic.
Burnett said police and fire crews, which have stations nearby, were on the scene quickly and shielded neighbours from any view of the victims.
The accident occurred on Hammond Bay Rd., a long thoroughfare running along Nanaimo’s waterfront.
Burnett said there are many accidents in the same spot.
Police said the vehicle appears to have taken a curve too quickly, causing the driver to lose control.[/b]
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[quote]chinadoll wrote:
Lucky I didn’t get a DUI or worse. [/quote]
Worse, like a second degree murder?
I am thoroughly disappointed by not only the drunk driving stories told here, but the callousness exhibited by those who are telling them.
[quote]tveddy wrote:
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]
I hope no one realistically uses that as an excuse to justify drunk driving. Unless you live on a dirt road or pasture and have no way of passing by anyone on public streets on your way home, then you are still displaying a reckless carelessness for other human life.
I am not writing this in an attempt to incite anyone, but if you drive drunk at all in any form or fashion, you have absolutely no way to justify it. As exhibited by Aleksandr’s anecdote, I’m surprised people can pass on their drunk driving stories at all without deep shame.
Don’t know if it’s ridiculous or not, but it really pissed me off.
Made a right turn on red, where yes, there was a no turn on red sign posted, at 1am near my neighborhood. As soon as I did it, I realized it, and lo and behold, I see the flashing lights behind me. Pull over, cop comes up to the car, asks me for license, reg etc. Looks at the license, says “ah, it’s your birthday”. I’m thinking, cool, and luckily, I don’t drink, so no issues there.
Well, the bastard looks back at me, and says, “well, we have to learn lessons on our birthday as well”, and slaps me with something like a $90 ticket!
I think what got me more than anything was his attitude. The fact that I was like 35 years old, he was like 20, and just being an ass.
I got a $45 parking ticket for the meter running out. I was parked for 2 minutes beyond the time. I know this because I looked at the time on the ticket, the time on my cell phone and the time on the meter that told how many minutes I was beyond the meter.
I can’t complain too much about tix since I’ve gotten out of way more than I got saddled with (2).
I did have front row center tix for Billy Joel while in college. I’ve also worked backstage for a few shows as well - it’s not what you see on tv or movies, though.
DB
[quote]eyver wrote:
I am thoroughly disappointed by not only the drunk driving stories told here, but the callousness exhibited by those who are telling them.
I am not writing this in an attempt to incite anyone, but if you drive drunk at all in any form or fashion, you have absolutely no way to justify it. As exhibited by Aleksandr’s anecdote, I’m surprised people can pass on their drunk driving stories at all without deep shame.[/quote]
People find humour in just about everything. The same day a tragedy happens, someone makes a joke about it. I was a practicing drunk for 15 years, and drove drunk 100’s, possibly 1,000’s of times during that period. I wrecked vehicles, spent nights in jail, drove over friends lawns while screaming obscenities about their sisters… the list is endless.
Some of the stories are quite funny, and it IS the story of my life at the time. I knew two guys who KILLED people with their vehicles, and I don’t find anything funny about that at all. I don’t know how I got through those 15 years and lived to tell about it, but I am quite sure, had I killed someone myself, I would have topped myself soon after. That was the past, this is the present. And no, I feel no shame for anything I have ever done.
I did what I did. Some of it was pretty fucken funny. Some of it was just plain twisted. That’s not who I am anymore, but that’s who I was.
As far as I am concerned, if you can’t laugh at yourself, you’ve got a stick permanently stuck up your ass. I don’t promote drunk driving, and assuming we are all adults here… anyone reading these posts, should NOT take these stories as promoting driving drunk. They are what they are. Stories. Funny to most, offensive to some.
If you want to do something productive, join MADD.
And furthermore, while I am on a rant. As I inferred in my post with the news clip about the dead kids… raise your kid to THINK before they act. When the time comes, I’ll explain to my kid why I don’t drink, and tell him, he may have my fucked up genes and a predisposition to alcoholism. I’ll explain to him why kids shouldn’t drink, and I’ll explain to him why I will kick his ass and ground him for life if he EVER drinks and drives.
If my kid turns out like I was, I may have to top myself anyways.
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I was standing at the corner of the street waiting for my ride. I saw a friend of mine driving by and I raised my hand to say hi. A cop gave me a ticket for “Manifestation of Prostitution”. He said I was flagging down cars and I was trying to sell myself for sex. went to court and the ticket was dismissed.
[quote]littlericky wrote:
I was standing at the corner of the street waiting for my ride. I saw a friend of mine driving by and I raised my hand to say hi. A cop gave me a ticket for “Manifestation of Prostitution”. He said I was flagging down cars and I was trying to sell myself for sex. went to court and the ticket was dismissed.[/quote]
YOU WIN THE AWARD FOR THE MOST RIDICULOUS TICKET!!!
[quote]eyver wrote:
I am thoroughly disappointed by not only the drunk driving stories told here, but the callousness exhibited by those who are telling them.
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You are absolutely right. I was 18 at the time and very immature. Drunk driving is extremely wrong.
[quote]rubberbubba wrote:
I worked at a Ferrari dealer as the gopher kid in college for a little while.
I lost that job when I got busted by the local PD for 160 in a 45 driving a 1980 Ferrari Boxer. It was a very cool car. It was a Koenig Turbo conversion with these crazy flares and 345/35 tires in the back. It was worth losing the job. It was also worth the $300 ticket and higher insurance prices. I drove a beater so I didn’t carry full coverage and it didn’t really affect me that much.
I thought I’d be ok since I was driving one of the cars from the Pre-Owned lot. Nope.
RB[/quote]
[quote]3toes wrote:
I am thoroughly disappointed by not only the 160 in a 45 stories told here, but the callousness exhibited by those who are telling them.
I am not writing this in an attempt to incite anyone, but if you drive 160 in a 45, you have absolutely no way to justify it. I’m surprised people can pass on their 160 in a 45 stories at all without deep shame.
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J/K man. Good story. GopherKid in a Ferrari dealership. What an awesome fucken job. The cop should have been more benevolent, I mean, you were just trying to work your way through college, right?
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[quote]Rotlex wrote:
The fact that I was like 35 years old, he was like 20, and just being an ass.[/quote]
So you ran a red light, but shouldn’t get a ticket because the cop was younger than you?
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
this past september i got pulled over outside Bloomington, IL speeding in a “construction zone”, 74 MPH in a zone reduce to 55 MPH. All told it cost me about $650. The cop told me, “Workers are dying all the time in construction areas and we need to protect them…”. A few weeks later, I read a VERY interesting in Motortrend…The State of Illinois states that in 2004 39 highway workers died in construction zones, so the State raised the minimum fine for speeders to $375.
What the State does not tell you is that in their numbers they include ALL worker deaths, whether a 60 year guy had a heart attack in 100 degree heat, someone fell off a girder, etc etc. As it turns out, in 2004 the number of construction workers who died as a result of being hit by a motorist was 1. The 9 year average also is 1.
What is also suprising is that workers do not even need to be present, nor any work being done at all to incur a $375 + ticket. As for me, I got pulled over on a 2 mile stretch of highway with only cones on the shoulder.
So, be careful to anyone travelling in Illinois…it does not matter if there’s actual work being done or anyone present in a “construction zone”…trust me, a $650 ticket is a serious bite in the ass!!