I've been driving for 6 years and I have only gotten 2 tickets. Last one I got was in '04. So it's been like 3 years since the last one. I thought I would share my 2 experiences.
1) My first ticket. I was driving down the road going the normal speed , but what I hadn't realized was that I was in a School Zone and during it's effective time.
2) I was driving downtown and I got lost. I drove into a closed street. A cop stopped me and my insurance had expired by like only a day. I'm sure I would have gotten away if my insurance hadn't been expired.
How many tickets have you gotten? Any experiences you want to share?
1) My first ticket. I was driving down the road going the normal speed , but what I hadn't realized was that I was in a School Zone and during it's effective time.
2) I was driving downtown and I got lost. I drove into a closed street. A cop stopped me and my insurance had expired by like only a day. I'm sure I would have gotten away if my insurance hadn't been expired.
How many tickets have you gotten? Any experiences you want to share?
shankenstein
769 Posts
17 years, 3 months ago
I've been driving for four years, and I've received one. I have two sisters and they both got their first speeding tickets in two consecutive days, respectively. Luckily I didn't get one on the third day.
I'm very lucky, I've gotten NO tickets. I've been pulled over once for speeding, but only got a verbal warning.
I don't drive, but my mom who is 48 has never gotten one and has never been in an accident.
I've had mine for 3 years and I've never gotten one. Rear-ended someone who stopped on an on-ramp and my car got beat up by one of those stupid electrical boxes in a parking garage, but no other incidents so far.
A bunch of warnings, but never an actual ticket.
I'm prrrretty sssneaky.
I'm prrrretty sssneaky.
One actual ticket and one parking ticket in .... 5 years.
I was speeding really bad at the time... like 85 in a 55. I tried to explain that I had to get to a resturaunt in downtown Dover Deleware to drop off fresh rabbit, but the cop, for some reason, thought that was not a good enough excuse.
I was speeding really bad at the time... like 85 in a 55. I tried to explain that I had to get to a resturaunt in downtown Dover Deleware to drop off fresh rabbit, but the cop, for some reason, thought that was not a good enough excuse.
None as of yet.
I have been driving since 85 and I have only received 2..
Both were "fixed".
Both were "fixed".
gustogummi
2602 Posts
17 years, 3 months ago
I had only one ticket in my 14 years of driving, that was for speeding.
I did get pulled over early this year because a cop thought that my registration tag was expired. It really wasn't because the silly cop just misread it.
Never gotten a real ticket, but I've had two warnings, one for not having my headlamps on at night (the street lights were so bright it fooled me).
The second was a student officer with what I guess was a member of the good ole' boys club teaching her. It was 2 a.m., I was leaving Wal-Mart with some computer parts I needed to fix the home LAN, and I got through an intersection just as the light was turning red, I DID make it, however....
The police pulled me over. My only understanding is this, being a long haired man in the deep south driving an older vehicle with Black Sabbath on the stereo with all the windows upen at 2 a.m. is just asking for being pulled over. Yeah, those damn longhaired hippies.....just what do they think they are doing buying a 4 port hub at 2 a.m.? Thankfully it was only a warning. Profiling (sigh).
The second was a student officer with what I guess was a member of the good ole' boys club teaching her. It was 2 a.m., I was leaving Wal-Mart with some computer parts I needed to fix the home LAN, and I got through an intersection just as the light was turning red, I DID make it, however....
The police pulled me over. My only understanding is this, being a long haired man in the deep south driving an older vehicle with Black Sabbath on the stereo with all the windows upen at 2 a.m. is just asking for being pulled over. Yeah, those damn longhaired hippies.....just what do they think they are doing buying a 4 port hub at 2 a.m.? Thankfully it was only a warning. Profiling (sigh).
System
79987 Posts
17 years, 3 months ago
I'm happy to say I've never been stopped for a ticket. I did have a weird instance of having a police vehicle behind me with his lights on and I had to pull over to let him go. The embarrassing thing is that it must have been a few seconds before I noticed he was in the mirror. He had no siren on!
I've been driving for four years. I got pulled over for "speeding". I explained to the cop there was no sign that said I had to slow down... and then the cop explained to me that slowing down on that particular bridge was "common knowledge" in the city I was passing through... I hate Southern cops, they think they can make up rules and be justified everytime. I was going 50mph on a 45mph road... but the cop says that on the bridge the speed limit is 35mph("common knowledge, no sign needed"). So I was written up for going 15 over the speed limit, and had to go to court and pay $210!
Just last week, I borrowed my brother's car and got pulled over because his brake light was out on the right side. I was also late to my interview that day, and didn't get the job. Luckily the cop only wrote up a warning.
Cops are fine when they are stopping a criminal, but I do not appreciate them writing me up for bogus road rules.
Just last week, I borrowed my brother's car and got pulled over because his brake light was out on the right side. I was also late to my interview that day, and didn't get the job. Luckily the cop only wrote up a warning.
Cops are fine when they are stopping a criminal, but I do not appreciate them writing me up for bogus road rules.
... That's one bleak future you come from.
-Coop, Megas XLR
haven't gotten a ticket yet
Four tickets in 11 years of driving. Three of them were this year, one of was so absolutely ridiculous that I should have contested it (I ran through an almost impossible to see stop sign on a local road; when the officer was writing my ticket, he pulled over two other guys who did exactly the same thing.)
Still have my license, though.
Still have my license, though.
2 speeding tickets and one ticket for driving with one headlight out. No accidents and I have been driving for nearly 18 years.
3 speeding
1 red light (camera)
1 red light (cop)
1 seat belt
3 expired tag
1 leaving key in ignition unattended (by far the dumbest ticket ever)
1 red light (camera)
1 red light (cop)
1 seat belt
3 expired tag
1 leaving key in ignition unattended (by far the dumbest ticket ever)