DANG.

[James48843]

Speeding ticket.

Laser says traveling 56 in a 40 zone.

He NAILED me.

DANG.....I HATE when that happens.

You get that feeling- right at the moment you look off to the right, and you realize there is a police officer, with the radar gun pointed directly at you, and you're only a few hundred feet away from him, and there is NO WAY he is pointing at anyone else, and you look down and see you are 16 MPH over the limit. And the feeling in the pit of your stomach KNOWS he just nailed you to the wall......

Doooohhhh! I HATE that feeling.


$152, and two points on the license.

Merry Christmas.

 

[alevin]

ouch. I'm extra careful these days, munibonds and state income taxes are both not doing too well.

 

[KevinD]

Dang is right.

 

[burrocrat]

no need to speed home just to post that witty comment, slow down, take it easy, we'll still be here when you get there.

 

[tsptalk]

$152, and two points on the license.

Bummer. Is the $152 for doing 16 over or did he cut you some slack?

I recently paid $90 for going 5 mph over, but I was actually 13 over. $90 seemed steep for 5 over but I don't know what it would have cost me at 13.

I'm guessing it's all a game. The tickets have gone up in price but the cops get to give breaks. You feel he/she did you a favor, but they still get their money.

 

[James48843]

He cut me slack. Nailed me at 16 over, and wrote me for 15 over. Our state it's 5-15 over is one fee, 16-20 is another.

 

[Steel_Magnolia]

About four years ago I got the only ticket I've ever had in my life. It was given to me by a just graduated from POST cop who works for my BIL. For half an hour the cop gave me such a lecture that I was a basket case. Just give me the d***** ticket all ready! No slack whatsoever, $86 bucks.

At the time, my BIL said the ticket writer was a wiener because he was still too young to be a pig.

Does anyone besides CB get the reference?

Maggie

 

[tsptalk]

No slack whatsoever, $86 bucks.

At the time, my BIL said the ticket writer was a wiener because he was still too young to be a pig.

Sounds like they need the money to pay for all the pork BIL's.

 

[Buster]

Attitude plays big time into how your ticket experience will go..

 

[Steel_Magnolia]

Attitude plays big time into how your ticket experience will go..

Yeah, most of the time that's true. When Spouse was a street cop he would tell me about flunking the Attitude Test.

Sometimes it doesn't help though. When I got my ticket, the cop had it all written out before he approached the car. Then he stood there and lectured me for 23 minutes by the clock before he asked for my signature. I think he was just enjoying writing up his boss's SIL.

I was super polite to the little twerp the whole time. Just about killed me! :laugh:

 

[Aviator_Guy]

The craziest ticket I got was at age 19 on my Honda 750 doing 65 in a 30. I sat in the court room and was amused listening to every crazy excuse you can think of. When it was my turn, the Judge asked me, “What’s your Excuse young man?” I told him the truth, it was 3:00am and there wasn’t any cars on the road and I was in a hurry to get back to my Navy base. The Judge started laughing and I thought oh man, this guy is going to give me a big fine. He said, “You’re the first person today that I believe has been honest with me, I’m only going to charge you Court Cost, but I don’t want to see you in Court again” I didn’t have to pay the ticket just by telling the truth!!!