Speeding Tickets

[Waus]

are bullshit. When did our police force turn into a bunch of radar gun-meter maids? I can understand pulling over impaired drivers, but I think "protecting and serving" goes out the window when the whole populace sees the police as a nuisance enforcing arbitrary speed laws.

[abcdefz]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

[-T-]

I just nailed for 93mph in a 55mph last week. I just got a civil infraction and speeding ticket and not a misdemeanor and reckless driving or drag racing (would have been BS). I was lucky because he clocked me when I slowed down lol. I did not get mad because i got off desent.

What makes me mad is when you get pulled over early morning for some BS reason because the cop wants tog et you for being drunk or and something. Had that happen for the millionth time a few weeks ago. Kept trying to pressure and trick me into letting him search my car. I told him no many times. I had absolutely nothing to hide but you know.

Tickets are income.

But like A-Z says...

[abcdefz]

A friend of mine just paid $125 for walking against a red light.

Whoa.

[Waus]

I think it's crap that they have a quota of tickets to meet (or so I'm told). Then people have their driveway on busy streets, so it's automatically zoned as 35 or something - when the main flow of traffic is 45 and up. I just don't pay attention, sort of go with the speed of everyone else on my way to work and get pulled over. Bull.

[befsquire]

yeah, they just use it as an excuse to try to search your car. the bonus is the income for the department.

a former co-worker of mine moved to georgia. speeding there is a crime.

[b i o n i c]

and to run your license for other violations?

[Nygel]

a week after i got my license i got pulled over. The cop, captain cool, comes up to the window... this is how it went down.

"So, going a little fast weren't ya?"
"I guess."
"How fast do ya think ya were going?"
"37ish?"
"I clocked ya hitting 41, and you were accelerating."
"oh"
"Where ya headin'?"
"Home."
"Little too eager to get home and eat them Oreos, aren't ya son?"
" . . . guess so."

after that he got kinda angry. Also I was going 48 in a 30. I actually slammed on my brakes and he got me for 41. No ticket, just a 'verbal warning' (too lazy to even write me a real one)

Second time, about a month or so ago. Its 3:56. About 45 minutes after school gets out. The same guy gets me (2 years later). This time he realized he was being a douchebag for pulling me over. I was going 32mph, but it was a 'school zone' so 20. He said if not for one punkass skateboarder I would have just been let off, but then he said its late and I wasn't really speeding and I didnt know it was a 20, so I got a real warning. That story isn't as fun as the first one, sorry.

[Dorothy Wood]

I've only gotten two speeding tickets, both when I was 19. the first time I was on my way to class and there was a stretch of road that had a lowered speed limit, and I knew it, but I blasted through anyway. the cop was pretty nice to me considering it was my first ticket and I was on my way to class.

the second time was by my house, and I was zooming up an overpass on my way to the freeway, not realizing how fast I was going because the dude in front of me was going even faster. a cop pulled me over and I was pissed because the guy ahead of me was clearly going wayyyyy over the limit. he actually said, "yeah, I tried to get the guy ahead of you, but he was going too fast, heh heh". he took my info and stuff and then came back with a ticket saying, "so, didn't your radar go off?" and I was like, "what radar?" and he pointed to a thing plugged into my car lighter. and I was like, "um, that's my car phone". then he turned all sheepish and gave me the ticket and apologized and said I should contest it. I didn't. I was too scared to go to court :o


I've been an obedient citizen ever since. ;)

[-T-]

^^^ Haha if you would have contested it he just wouldn't have showed up and you would have been free!



A buddy of mine just got a speeding ticket of 110mph in a 55mph zone on a bike, i think he got the reckless also. Well his dad is a cop and talked to the cop who wrote the ticket and let him know he was his step dad. The officer just told him to contest it and he would not show up. He got off with nothing.

Definitely wrong but I'm not going to say I would not take advantage of it lol.

My first ticket was for a 94mph in a 55mph, i told him my speedo said 85mph(was true since thats where it stoped). Again I was lucky because I was slowing down and came over a little hill where he clocked me.

[TAL]

I've never gotten one.

[sjp]

i find it funny cops in milwaukee they could careless about speeding its the suburbs that clock everyone, idk i guess for milwaukee they figure why pull over speeders when we have the sheriff and state patrol for that.

by the way i've gotten off for three speeding tickets, each time i had my police books in the car with me from school cops were just like going to school to be a cop cool be careful you can ruin your chances we'll let you go.

[Waus]

I had a girlfriend once who was just crazy when she was younger. She drove her truck over a railroad track ramp at like 100 -some mph (in a 35). Turns out there were cops waiting just down the road and they saw her get that air.

Her dad had mafia connections apparently and he got them to look the other way on that ticket and discard it. She could've had her license revoked.


I remember when she told me that story I was like, "wait, like...Mafia mafia?"

[abcdefz]

It always kills me when someone breaks the law and gets pissed that they got busted. It's never, "Dammit, I shouldn't have been speeding" or
"I should never have robbed that bank," it's just: "FUCKIN' COPS, MAN..."

[BangkokB]

Scoll down to my thoughts

It should be according to the type of car you have and your age, sex, and ethnicity.

There should be a Muscle Car Lane for Men...Can't Go Slower than 80 in that Lane or You'll Get a Ticket for being an asshole to traffic

Before everyone dogpiles on me: Asian Women Race Car Drivers...A Man will be on Mars driving a muscle car before that will ever happen

Once an old person starts drawing SS he/she should be required to take the behind the wheel test once a year. Old People are a danger and not just to Food Markets and Flea Markets. They are to Cars what termites are to houses

[abcdefz]

So, funny enough, I got pulled over on my bike Saturday evening. I was doing the bike rider's thing, you know, slowing down as I came to the
stop, but then not completely stopping, because you want to keep some momentum going on a bike, right?

Oops.

So the cop tells me I have to obey the rules just like a person driving a car, yep, sorry... hand him my license... parole? outstanding warrants?
nope. Where are you going? Home. Where's home? I pointed down the street -- "about two blocks" and he checks my license again, it
jibes, and he tells me to have a good night and be safe.

I think part of the reason I got stopped was because just a few days ago a 12 year old girl was killed on her bike, and it's been a big deal.

[AceFace]

There should be a Muscle Car Lane for Men...Can't Go Slower than 80 in that Lane or You'll Get a Ticket for being an asshole to traffic


yeah, i'd be the woman in the honda keeping up with all the men in that lane.