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most ridiculous ticket you've ever gotten (1 Viewer)

one of my craptacular piles of crap cars was breaking down it ended up being a combination of the timing belt and a water pump going at the same time even though they are not realy all that related anyhow i had passed and exit and knew the next one was not for a ways and also up ahead was construction well i knew that sucker was not going to make it so i used the cops uturn lane to go back to the exit i just passed and there was a cop right there the car stopped running i put it in neutral and coasted down the ramp he pulled me over at the bottom of the ramp but the best part is he had to follow me at about five miles per hour and then gave me a ticket for an illegal uturn even though he gave me a ride to the gas station to call a tow truck so that was cool but i was like hey brohan look at my car maybe just do me a solid and leave me alone i did get him to write that my car broke down on the ticket and eventually the local court let me off basically they probably just said man look at this guy what worse can we do to him so that was nice take that to the bank bromigos

 
Got a ticket in canada for having a radar detector. Except I didn't have a radar detector. He searched my car and couldn't find one. He claimed I threw it out the window and gave me a ticket anyway.

 
Thunderlips said:
Get into Dewey Beach, DE one night.....get to a friends house and crack the first beer in the front yard. We're talking near the street and while clowning around I step out into it. Here this "Freeze". It was a seasonal cop. She wrote me 125.00 ticket for alcohol on a public road......and here's the capper....made me pour it out. Got maybe two sips out of it. Most expensive Budweiser I ever had.
Been to Dewey a ton of times....the seasonal cops are the worst. My sister in law got a $200+ littering ticket when her 5 year old son threw his gum out the car window while they were stopped at a red light.

 
Road Warriors said:
I was pulled over around midnight leaving a shopping plaza by taking an illegal left turn. The road is a 4 lane, generally busy road, but at midnight, there was one set of visible headlights about 1/4 mile away. Turns out that was the cop.

Pulls me over, asks me if I've been drinking ( leaving a BW3 after 2 rounds ), but it's late so he has me step out for a field test, which I pass easily. While waiting on the cop, I lit a cigarette. He returns and asks me to put it out, so I drop it to the ground. He has me get back in the car and returns to his.

He comes back a few minutes later and tells me " I'm giving you a warning for the illegal left turn. However, I have to give you a ticket for littering."

$400 ticket for littering that couldn't be fought or dismissed by taking a driver course.

Thanks, officer!
I wish a cop would do that every time I see an inconsiderate idiot throw their cig out the window... Evidently he didn't like inconsiderate people either ;)

 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
SacramentoBob said:
pantagrapher said:
Chadstroma said:
City of Chicago. Having a truck.
Friend of mine got that ticket. Ridiculous that this is an offense (and only in some neighborhoods in the city!). You can have a massive SUV parked on the street, but not a pickup truck.
WTF?
Ditto. In Texas, there are pickups everywhere. And how are they not street legal?
They are street legal but they can not be parked in residential neighborhoods overnight. The only way around this is getting a sticker from your alderman's office. (which I have no idea how anyone would know about that until they got a ticket)

 
Chadstroma said:
Now, I very much dislike people who ride bikes and ignore road rules. Very much. (nothing personal :D )
Eh. Multiple studies have shown that bikers and drivers break traffic laws at the same rate.
That is fine and all but the point where I started to very much dislike bike riders in the city was the fact that they almost cause me killing them because they broke the laws and then apparently feel that because they are on a bike they can then yell at me as if I didn't save their lives from their own dumb mistake.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.

 
Why was I going that fast? I was drinking bourbon.

Just kidding.

I'm a smoker too. At that speed you can't even light up. It was stupid on my part.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.
I got my '73 Mustang with a 351 Cleveland up to about 119 coming down a hill on a freeway before backing off. Absolutely stupid thing to do and only did it once but I was young (16) and wanted to see how fast the thing could actually go.

 
Got a ticket in the 80s in some hick town in Michigan for speeding. He said I was going 28 in a 25 MPH zone. I said "you're really going to give me a ticket for 3 MPH"? He says to me "I don't know what it is like in PA but here in MI we respect our laws". :rolleyes:

Total cost of the ticket was $150 or so.

 
El Floppo said:
I used to get pulled over in HS all the time. "weren't you going too fast there?"... "no, officer". suburban cops with not much to do but hassle teens .
I live in a small town. My then 17 year old son pulls into my driveway while I'm outside grilling streaks. Cop follows him and flips on his lights. Son hadn't seen the cop and was partially out of the car by the time the lights went on. Cop SCREAMS at my son to get back in the car.. I walk over. Cop is absolutely screaming, "DO YOU KNOW WHY I PULLED YOU OVER!?! DO YOU KNOW WHY I PULLED YOU OVER!?!" At this point I'm thinking, damn he must have really done something wrong.

Son's plates were expired. His mom gave him the new stickers the night before he just hadn't put them on yet. My son is literally shaking, and now I'm :hot: . All the screaming for that? After a few choice words I get the cop to ease off. Still pissed, I had to walk away so I don't make #### worse.

Not a ridiculous ticket story, just shows an example of some small town/suburban cop attitude.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.
Everyone has different risk tolerances. My infant and childhood years were spent getting bounced around in the backseat of Chevelle SS's, Corvettes, and V-8 Mustangs so maybe that's where my love for speed comes from. Then factor in that over the course of a several hour trip you can save significant time by exceeding the speed limit. That being said, there's a time and a place to drop the hammer, and in heavy traffic is not the time.

As for the one slip up and you're dead, that goes for every car on the road every day of existence.

The point is ladies and gentleman that speed, for lack of a better word, is good. If you ain't first, you're last.

 
El Floppo said:
I used to get pulled over in HS all the time. "weren't you going too fast there?"... "no, officer". suburban cops with not much to do but hassle teens .
I live in a small town. My then 17 year old son pulls into my driveway while I'm outside grilling streaks. Cop follows him and flips on his lights. Son hadn't seen the cop and was partially out of the car by the time the lights went on. Cop SCREAMS at my son to get back in the car.. I walk over. Cop is absolutely screaming, "DO YOU KNOW WHY I PULLED YOU OVER!?! DO YOU KNOW WHY I PULLED YOU OVER!?!" At this point I'm thinking, damn he must have really done something wrong.

Son's plates were expired. His mom gave him the new stickers the night before he just hadn't put them on yet. My son is literally shaking, and now I'm :hot: . All the screaming for that? After a few choice words I get the cop to ease off. Still pissed, I had to walk away so I don't make #### worse.

Not a ridiculous ticket story, just shows an example of some small town/suburban cop attitude.
Ridiculous

 
I love on long trips when I pass a certain vehicle doing 55 in the right lane, then I'll stop for lunch/gas/bathroom and an hour later pass the same vehicle.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.
I got my '73 Mustang with a 351 Cleveland up to about 119 coming down a hill on a freeway before backing off. Absolutely stupid thing to do and only did it once but I was young (16) and wanted to see how fast the thing could actually go.
When I was a young knucklehead I got my '73 911S up to 149 on Highway 280 somewhere south of San Mateo. I hit 120+ many times on my bike. Now I rarely get up to 75.

 
OK., so this story is about a bud of mine. I was in the car with him. It happened almost 30 years ago so the details are a bit hazy.

We were at the Salinas airshow in Northern CA. I was driving because my buddy had recently gotten a ticket and he didn't want to take chance. But, I came down with a raging headache and asked him to drive. We were in a Honda Civic.

Of course, he couldn't control himself and as we were coming down a mountain he decided to pass a string of cars. As we started going back up the next mountain he was driving like a maniac with the pedal floored. But he just couldn't get enough speed and at nearly the last second he had to nail the brakes, slow down, and pull in behind the car leading the string.

As we pulled into Salinas we were behind that car at a stop light. All of a sudden a guy about 6' 6" wearing camo jumps out of his Volkswagen Rabbit, runs up to us, whips out a pistol and points it at my buddy's head while he yells "I should kill you right now." Then he tells my friend to hand over his license. Turns out he was a copper and was the Police Chief's son. Anyway, my friend got 3 tickets (speeding, improper passing, and reckless driving). He went to court and the judge tosses all of 'em once he heard the story. Good times.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Ugh. Never answer that question. Or "Do you know why I pulled you over?"

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.
Everyone has different risk tolerances. My infant and childhood years were spent getting bounced around in the backseat of Chevelle SS's, Corvettes, and V-8 Mustangs so maybe that's where my love for speed comes from. Then factor in that over the course of a several hour trip you can save significant time by exceeding the speed limit. That being said, there's a time and a place to drop the hammer, and in heavy traffic is not the time.

As for the one slip up and you're dead, that goes for every car on the road every day of existence.

The point is ladies and gentleman that speed, for lack of a better word, is good. If you ain't first, you're last.
I always thought Gordon said greed was good

 
I got a ticket by a Madison Wisconsin Bike Cop for speeding on my bike. My mistake was that I stopped at a 7-11 for one thing or another and he caught up to me there. For the next month, every day he was in the same place, waiting. Everyday I would go flying past him and he would start chasing. Everyday he could not catch me, he starting from a standstill and with a fair amount of equipment in his packs and me prepared to ride he had little chance.

I'd see him around occasionally in area bars and at citizen criterium races. He would just smile and say "next time". He never hassled me, it was just a game after the first time. I think I eventually bought him a slice and a beer when he came into the place I worked.

 
Got a ticket in the 80s in some hick town in Michigan for speeding. He said I was going 28 in a 25 MPH zone. I said "you're really going to give me a ticket for 3 MPH"? He says to me "I don't know what it is like in PA but here in MI we respect our laws". :rolleyes:

Total cost of the ticket was $150 or so.
38 in a 35 here, on a dirt back road in Montana, in a 69 FJ40. County mountie already had someone pulled over when he gunned me. He directed me to pull in and wait while he finished with the other guy. Halfway through ticketing me he grabbed his radar gun and pulled someone else over. I think he was working on commission.

 
cheese said:
Wife was in the cell phone lot of the airport to pick me up. She called me to see when/where I was coming out. I told her and soon as she started to leave she got a ticket for talking on phone while driving. Not really sure what they even want you to do to pick people up.

Note: "driving" = car parked but running in parking area
i would spend as much as it took to fight this one!
 
Mrs. Rannous said:
SacramentoBob said:
pantagrapher said:
Chadstroma said:
City of Chicago. Having a truck.
Friend of mine got that ticket. Ridiculous that this is an offense (and only in some neighborhoods in the city!). You can have a massive SUV parked on the street, but not a pickup truck.
WTF?
Ditto. In Texas, there are pickups everywhere. And how are they not street legal?
They are street legal but they can not be parked in residential neighborhoods overnight. The only way around this is getting a sticker from your alderman's office. (which I have no idea how anyone would know about that until they got a ticket)
Pickups are also not allowed on Lake Shore Drive, although I suspect that one is never enforced.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
SacramentoBob said:
pantagrapher said:
Chadstroma said:
City of Chicago. Having a truck.
Friend of mine got that ticket. Ridiculous that this is an offense (and only in some neighborhoods in the city!). You can have a massive SUV parked on the street, but not a pickup truck.
WTF?
Ditto. In Texas, there are pickups everywhere. And how are they not street legal?
They are street legal but they can not be parked in residential neighborhoods overnight. The only way around this is getting a sticker from your alderman's office. (which I have no idea how anyone would know about that until they got a ticket)
Pickups are also not allowed on Lake Shore Drive, although I suspect that one is never enforced.
Correct on both accounts. Drove tons on LSD in my F-150 without ever being stopped.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.
Everyone has different risk tolerances. My infant and childhood years were spent getting bounced around in the backseat of Chevelle SS's, Corvettes, and V-8 Mustangs so maybe that's where my love for speed comes from. Then factor in that over the course of a several hour trip you can save significant time by exceeding the speed limit. That being said, there's a time and a place to drop the hammer, and in heavy traffic is not the time.As for the one slip up and you're dead, that goes for every car on the road every day of existence.

The point is ladies and gentleman that speed, for lack of a better word, is good. If you ain't first, you're last.
I just bought a 2011 Dodge Challenger with the 6.3 Liter HEMI fully loaded with the performance suspension and everything. It has been my dream car for a little while and I finally found an incredible deal on one.

Well, on the night of the MLB All-Star game a bunch of us got together at my buddy's house in the Valley here in SoCal. I ended up leaving at around 1:00 AM and I have to drive about 50 miles east to go home. Las I am cruising down the 101 the freeway is virtually empty. I hit the interchange to the 134, which, as anyone in SoCal knows, is a very secluded mountainous stretch of freeway for a little while. This Dodge Charger pulls up next to me and passes me, then I pass him, then he passes me. This goes on for about 4 miles until I realize we are doing 125 MPH. I backed off and drove home at around 85. That was really fun, but you realize that one blowout or one bump the wrong way and you are in trouble.

 
Got a ticket in the 80s in some hick town in Michigan for speeding. He said I was going 28 in a 25 MPH zone. I said "you're really going to give me a ticket for 3 MPH"? He says to me "I don't know what it is like in PA but here in MI we respect our laws". :rolleyes:

Total cost of the ticket was $150 or so.
38 in a 35 here, on a dirt back road in Montana, in a 69 FJ40. County mountie already had someone pulled over when he gunned me. He directed me to pull in and wait while he finished with the other guy. Halfway through ticketing me he grabbed his radar gun and pulled someone else over. I think he was working on commission.
I watched two state troopers on I-81 standing in the right lane, motion for a string of 8 cars to pull over. Seven did, I did not. I just kept going. Nothing happened.

 
Got a ticket for a bad brake light in the parking lot of the auto parts store where I was buying the light. Gave the cop #### and told him it would be fixed before I left the parking lot. Fixed it. Went down the the police station to have my fix it ticket signed off. Complained about the cop being a ####, so the cop that signed my fix it ticket lit me up as I was leaving and cited me for not using my blinker... in the police station parking lot.
I'm sorry, but :lmao:

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
Why were you going that fast? I'll never understand why people drive that fast. I mean I understand it, I just don't understand "why" you would do that. One slip up and you are dead. Or someone else/others is done.
Everyone has different risk tolerances. My infant and childhood years were spent getting bounced around in the backseat of Chevelle SS's, Corvettes, and V-8 Mustangs so maybe that's where my love for speed comes from. Then factor in that over the course of a several hour trip you can save significant time by exceeding the speed limit. That being said, there's a time and a place to drop the hammer, and in heavy traffic is not the time.

As for the one slip up and you're dead, that goes for every car on the road every day of existence.

The point is ladies and gentleman that speed, for lack of a better word, is good. If you ain't first, you're last.
I'm not even mentioning how fast I've gotten in a car before...but I will say that I am terrified of death and am generally very cautious...except when it comes to driving. I don't know why. I think it's a control thing. As long as I'm driving, I'm completely comfortable at nearly any speed. I never go that fast around other cars, but if you give me a wide-open highway at night, I'll put the right foot down.

I completely understand that I can't control everything (deer, unexpected debris, flat tire, etc)...but for whatever reason, I have a need for speed. I think it's the Type-A personality and the need to be 1st...I totally agree that on long trips, it does make a difference, but even though I KNOW speeding gets me to the store 5 miles away maybe 30 seconds quicker, I'll still go fast.

 
Got a ticket for a bad brake light in the parking lot of the auto parts store where I was buying the light. Gave the cop #### and told him it would be fixed before I left the parking lot. Fixed it. Went down the the police station to have my fix it ticket signed off. Complained about the cop being a ####, so the cop that signed my fix it ticket lit me up as I was leaving and cited me for not using my blinker... in the police station parking lot.
Any lessons learned?

 
Got a ticket for a bad brake light in the parking lot of the auto parts store where I was buying the light. Gave the cop #### and told him it would be fixed before I left the parking lot. Fixed it. Went down the the police station to have my fix it ticket signed off. Complained about the cop being a ####, so the cop that signed my fix it ticket lit me up as I was leaving and cited me for not using my blinker... in the police station parking lot.
Any lessons learned?
I don't know, sounds like the cop just refused to learn.

 
Didn't happen to me but a good friend of mine. Approaching a multi lane toll booth someone had rear ended another car, a police officer directed all the cars behind the accident to go around and through the EZ Pass lane. A few days later she gets a ticket for that in the mail.

 
Worst ticket: Speeding ticket on an exit ramp from the highway into the city. It is a VERY long ramp and while I can't recall exactly how fast I was going it wasn't excessive. When I saw the lights in the rearview my first thought was that I have to get over to allow the police car to get around. When the car didn't go around me I'm thinking "What the hell did I do?!." This felt like some kind of quota ticket.

Best ticket: Speeding ticket on the autobahn in Austria. If you thinking "Huh, there is no speed limit on the autobahn!" you'd be wrong. There are parts that are unlimited and there are others that are speed enforced. I was with my family in eastern Austria roughly 10 miles from the Hungarian border on the way to Budapest. All of a sudden a police officer in the distance steps into the road and signals me to pull over. I do and he asks for my license and registration. Now I took German in HS but this was long after that and my conversational German was never very good so I reply "Ich bin ein Americaner. Ich weiß nicht gut Deutsch sprechen" (Translation: I'm American and I don't speak German very well). He hangs his head and in his best English tells me to get my AAA license, car registration and come with him. We get out and he points to the road and tells me the speed limit and asks "verstehen?" (Understand?). I nod "Ja, ich verstehe" (I understand). He then points at the car and tells me how fast I was going and again says "verstehen?" "Ja, ich verstehe." Then he tells me how much I owe. Now. On the spot. My knee jerk reaction is #1) Is this legal or is this a money grab? #2) I'm trying to do the conversion of Austrian currency to dollars quick in my head to figure out how much I'm being fleeced. The short of it is it was chump change. I can't remember anymore how much it was but I know it was less than $50. Given that it wasn't much $ I'm thinking "This is an awesome souvenir! A speeding ticket on the autobahn!" I still have it in a box somewhere. I'll now have to dig it out and look to see what the actual amount was.
 
Last year, I got pulled over by a cop and ticketed while riding my bike for failure to observe traffic signals. There was a traffic light on the road, but no intersection at the light, so I apparently just keep my momentum going through the red light. When I saw the flashing lights behind me, I got over to let him pass until I eventually realized that he was following me on my bike. It ended up costing me like $200.
I have no sympathy for you here. In fact, I wish more cops gave these tickets out.

I never had an issue before but after a few years of living/working in Chicago and having likely at least 10 times where I almost hit someone because THEY ignored road rules and then proceeded to yell at ME because of the near miss and once almost being plowed into as a pedestrian by a biker who ignored a red light and did not see me (blind corner)... he was tearing through too... I would have had serious injury if he did hit me. A split second faster movement from me and he would have hit me....

Now, I very much dislike people who ride bikes and ignore road rules. Very much. (nothing personal :D )
Me too. Would have prevented one of my scariest accidents. Stupid biker running a red light and then hitting my car and flipping over it.

 
18 years old in the taco bell parking lot at like midnight. I was in a car with a couple people, and another few friends in a car right next to us. Just sitting there eating, talking............

Someone made a joke or made fun of someone or something, someone threw a taco wrapper at the other car, and it fell on the ground. Immediately we see flashing lights and two cops pull up and start hassling us asking questions about something where we had no idea what they were talking about. They were clearly looking for someone else.

They wrote ALL of us (like 6 or 7 people) tickets for littering. The wrapper wasn't even on the ground for more than 2-3 seconds before the lights came on. We actually were going to pick it up.

I guess if you are walking down the street and accidentally drop something you can get a ticket for littering before you are able to pick it up. These guys work fast.

 
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Left a fishing line in the water at the beach of a campsite while taking a piss. Came back to Ranger Smith writing me a ticket for unattended pole.

 
110 MPH in a 55. 4 lane freeway with no traffic. Got it for reckless driving. Already had 2 pts & this one cost me 12 pts. 15 pts you lose your liscense so for a year I had to drive the speed limit which was 55 at the time. Cop asked me "do you know how fast you were going"? I said yes, 110 MPH. Thought he was going to faint.

I deserved what I got.
lol...that reminded me of when I was pulled over going 135 in a 55...had to go to drivers school to avoid a mark on my record. The instructor had everyone state why they were there and I said "ticket for 80 over the limit" she says ticket for going 80? No, I was going 135...did you know you were going that fast....?

Yes, yes I did!

 

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