Tell us about your last ticket!

"macanamera" (macanamera) 07/02/2014 at 12:45 • Filed to: None

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Opponauts! When was your last ticket, and why? It has to be a moving violation, I don't want to hear about parking tickets...

Bonus points for also including your worst ticket, even if it wasn't the most recent!

I'll go (don't judge me):

Last ticket...I really can't remember, it's been a while.

Worst ticket: 101 in a 65, Florida. Punishment: nothing. Florida.

Second worst ticket 75 in a 25, Florida. Punishement: nothing. Florida.

For Sweden > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:46

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Was driving a rented Dodge Challenger though Montana; 9 miles over the limit on the expressway. $20.

HammerheadFistpunch > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:47

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41 in a 35. Yup.

thebigbossyboss > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:49

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My last ticket? Was driving a flamed coloured Mustang from BC through Washington watching everyone from BC get pulled over on Interstate 5. We having a ridiculous arguement about how somehow a car from BC had pulled over another car (me to my friend: that is impossible), when a cop pulled us over. 72 mph in a 60 zone. Thought it was a 70 zone.

shop-teacher > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:49

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Got a 15 over speeder last year. Cost me $135. I was pissed because I wan't in a hurry, and wasn't intending to speed. Before that, I hadn't received a ticket in 15 years (almost to the week). I had a string of 5 warnings in a row going.

505Turbeaux > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:51

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caught alot of warnings but I havent had a moving violation in 12 years.

Milky > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:51

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A couple weeks ago got pulled over for doing 82 in a 70. But because I just got written up for a 75 in a 70 when I was actually doing 85mph a month prior, he let me off easy. Just impeding traffic.

Worst ticket was 10mph. I'm polite and never have been written for the full amount. Or is it like that for most people?

Sn210 > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:52

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42 in a 30. As soon as I pulled over I took off my seatbelt, reached into my glovebox for my registration and had my license ready to go. I said "yes sir" and was very polite. He ran my info and said he wasn't going to give me a speeding ticket, but gave me a $25 ticket for not wearing my seatbelt.

phenotyp > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:52

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Most recent, and worst: 61 in a 55, right as a 70MPH-limit freeway slows for a stoplight a half-mile down the road.

$120 ticket, plus $75 "safety course" so I didn't get the points.

Seriously. Let that sink in.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:52

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My last one was a parking ticket, 45 minutes on only 20 minutes worth of change. Best one before that was two drinking in public tickets about 15 minutes apart to the tune of $462.

thebigbossyboss > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:53

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I should add: Will not discuss worst ticketing offense on internet. Many tickets. Such Offenses. Very stupid. Wow!

PheeNoIVI > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:53

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Ticket? Don't have any of those!

McMike > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:54

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Katie's Cars&Coffee Great Falls, VA. My first time. Aug 25, 2012

I mashed the gas to make it through a red light, but didn't make it. Braked hard, almost came to a stop, then made the right hand turn towards the entrance ramp to the highway.

It was a no turn on red, but at 6:15 in the morning, who cares, right?

I tried to be charming and innocent, claiming that I thought it wasn't a no-turn-on-red from the center lane, but he wasn't having it. I got a ticket for "failure to pay attention to a highway sign" which was nice since I actually didn't come to a full stop in the first place.

Not only did he not find me charming, I did not either after watching the GoPro footage later.

macanamera > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:54

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I'll go:

Last ticket...I really can't remember, it's been a while.

Worst ticket: 101 in a 65, Florida. Punishment: nothing. Florida.

Second worst ticket 75 in a 25, Florida. Punishement: nothing. Florida.

KirkyV > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:55

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I've been driving for two years so far, and still haven't managed to get a ticket. I was stopped by police once, in the middle of the night, for doing about thirty five in a thirty, but they let me off with a verbal warning. 'You should be more careful, young man' and so on. I think the main reason they stopped me was to make sure I wasn't drunk, or anything; it was around pub kicking-out time.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:56

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none so far for me! yay for being a new driver!
My stepdad got booked at 114 in a 65 about 8 months ago. $247 ticket for doing that! he got lucky though. 6mph more, and it would've been a felony according to Washington's laws.

macanamera > For Sweden 07/02/2014 at 12:57

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Really taught you a lesson.

macanamera > phenotyp 07/02/2014 at 12:58

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Let which part sink in? That makes sense pretty much...

macanamera > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power 07/02/2014 at 12:58

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Wow, that's actually worse than my worst. Impressive.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 12:59

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Blasting along in CAR LOL (1997 monte carlo ls) doing about 90 on 69 west. I was in a pack of other traffic doing 90 but I got pulled along with like 3 others when we passed 4 cops parked in the median strip. I pulled off immediately and had to sit for 20 minutes while I imagine the others ran. I should point out that this was just outside Flint, MI so the chances are very high they had outstanding warrants and/or suspended licenses.

Cop finally walks over to me and we have the following exchange.

Cop: Sir do you know how fast you were going back there?
Me: No, I was just keeping up with traffic and this speedo isn't that accurate (half-true. It wasn't accurate until about 70)
Cop: Well I clocked you at 86......and we dial these down a bit so it's entirely possible you were doing in excess of 90, maybe even 95
Me: .....maaaaaaaaybe
Cop: BUT! 2 things. First of all, I like your car
Me: Thanks?
Cop: And more importantly, you pulled over once you saw me. Everyone else ran. They also ran through the construction zone that's a mile down the road. So they've got much bigger tickets than yours (he finishes scribbling something down on the ticket he brought over)
Cop: ......Okay, so we're just going to say 5 over. No points, no other violations or infractions, 105$ fine, no court appearance, and have a nice day.

Khalela > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:00

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Picked up a 47 in a 40 last month. The officer informed me that they changed the limit the day before from 45 down to 40 and they would be here all week to let people know. "With a warning", I asked? The officer just chuckled, ah no. $153.

My favorite ticket was in 1999 for 105 in a 65. I was driving my new Honda Insight demo car through West Texas. He didn't fall for the "it has a low coefficient of drag which makes the wind noise non existent, I didn't realize how fast I was going excuse." But, he did write it for 90, so I could take defensive driving. He asked me half a dozen times, "now, what kind of car is this?"

macanamera > thebigbossyboss 07/02/2014 at 13:00

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I can almost guarantee I have had worse tickets than you, which I am more than willing to discuss, lol.

phenotyp > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:01

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61 coming off a 70MPH limit, while there are plenty of people still going faster? It felt like a real fuck you and your little Japanese car.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:02

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44 in a 35. Was actually worse (maybe 50-51?) - that stretch of road is actually 45 going the other way at that point and thus total BS, but the downgrade wasn't something I quibbled further.

macanamera > Khalela 07/02/2014 at 13:03

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Pro tip: If you say "coefficient of drag" to a cop that pulled you over, you are getting a ticket. Always.

D > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:05

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Okay, here's my story:

macanamera > D 07/02/2014 at 13:08

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Deep, man.

JGrabowMSt > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:09

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Feb 2012

$167 — PA State Trooper got me on Rt78 West while going out to Allentown. I was nearly hit by a truck, so I sped up to not get hit. Trooper coming up an on ramp clocked me 82. Wrote the ticket for 78 in a 55. 4 Points. Given the time to go back and forth to fight it, I chose not to. Thinking back, I should have.

thebigbossyboss > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:14

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The worst traffic stop I have ever been a part of ended up with 5 tickets for seperate offenses and a license suspension. Vehicle impound was threatened. Given what had happened this was getting off easy.

AM3R > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:17

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no tickets yet. I have a good story though.

You know those little screens that display your speed? They put one up on this long slightly curving road near my house where the speed limit is 35. You can (and everyone does) go 50 without trouble and I guess the cops wanted to stop that. Anyways, after 5 days of driving by it and not seeing cops, we wanted to have a little fun. I wanted to see how fast I could go through it. I was doing around 95 when I passed it and saw a cop hiding behind a building jump on his motorcycle. At the same time, I saw an M6 fly past me in the right lane doing well over 100. I make a quick left into a neighborhood and he starts to pursuit the M6.

That would've been very, very bad. Would've been considered reckless driving.

Khalela > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:17

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I swear, he radioed ahead to all his sheriff buddies. I got pulled over four more times on that trip for: not having a front plate (it's a dealer plate, officer, it only comes with one. Well, what kind of car is this?), not having a registration sticker (it's a dealer plate, officer, the sticker is on the back plate. Well, what kind of car is this?), impeding traffic (is there a reason you are driving less than the speed limit?, Well officer, you see, there has been a cop car behind me for the last 5 miles...... Well, what kind of car is this?) and for touching the white line (I'm not completely sure that I did this, but I knew he just wanted to know what kind of car this was....). I got four warnings that weekend and talked to some very sweet good old boy West Texas sheriffs that didn't know what a hybrid was.

macanamera > thebigbossyboss 07/02/2014 at 13:22

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annnnddddd story time. I want, no, need to know.

Jagvar > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:29

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On Van Buren Drive, the speed limit is 40, then it's randomly 25 for two blocks, and then it's 40 again. I got busted for doing 42 in a 25. The cop stepped out into the road and waved me over, and then I had to wait my turn while he wrote four other people tickets.

I don't drive on Van Buren anymore.

macanamera > Jagvar 07/02/2014 at 13:34

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I would have just been like PEACE

HammerheadFistpunch > phenotyp 07/02/2014 at 13:37

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Thats about what my 6 over cost.

Rico > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:38

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This was about a year ago.

I had been looking for parking for close to 30 minutes and I saw on the corner nearby there seemed like just enough space for me to park, problem was there were 2 separate white lines and the rear of my car would've been on some of the first white line.

As I'm at the light debating with my passenger on whether or not it's valid I saw there were 2 cops standing on the corner so I figured I'd pull into the spot and ask them. I turn into the corner spot (traveled less than 30 feet) put my car in park and ask one of the officers if this was a valid spot. She takes a few steps back and says she wouldn't risk it and that I might get a ticket parking there so she wouldn't advise it, I tell her thanks and was just about to leave.

Just then her partner comes running to my window demanding my license and registration, I give it to him and ask him what happened he says I never signaled to park, comes back with a ticket worth $125 and 2 points on my license. I'm like "Officer I just finished having a conversation with your partner and now you're giving me a moving violation while my car has been in park this whole time?" He basically threatens me by saying "You sure you want to do this right here" so I told him I'll see him in court.

I plead not guilty and beat it in court.

Jagvar > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:38

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If I got busted running from the cops, it would have been so much worse.

NaturallyAspirated > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:39

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Last ticket: Right turn against a red right turn arrow. As with basically any red-light related ticket in CA, it was a $490 ticket. The cop was mistaken, the intersection I got the ticket at does not have a red right turn arrow - it's a normal round red signal. I went back the next day with my camera, took a photo of the stoplight with each segment illuminated, and got it thrown out with a Written Declaration.

Slave2anMG > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:40

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One stop sign warning (1/2 block from my house...careless me); otherwise no moving violations since....1978. I was driving my mother's '75 Caddy Coupe de Ville barge. My uncle had a florist shop in the small northeastern NC town where he and my grandmother lived. There was a funeral about 90 minutes away and a mess of flowers needed to go there. We loaded up the Caddy and off I went. Met an oncoming state trooper about halfway there...whoops. The trooper wrote the ticket for 64 in a 55; was doing closer to 70. But the flowers did get there in time...

Slave2anMG > thebigbossyboss 07/02/2014 at 13:41

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Details. Or we ain't going to believe...

Slave2anMG > AM3R 07/02/2014 at 13:43

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VERY reckless driving.

So, is driving safe and sane considered recked driving?

Slave2anMG > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 07/02/2014 at 13:44

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5 over, $105 and a new set of Fruit Of The Looms?

AM3R > Slave2anMG 07/02/2014 at 13:47

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I meant if I were pulled over it would be for reckless driving, not speeding. VA law is tough.

thebigbossyboss > Slave2anMG 07/02/2014 at 13:51

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....when I am not at work.

phenotyp > HammerheadFistpunch 07/02/2014 at 13:53

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It just seemed like such a fuck-you, coming down from a 70MPH limit.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:54

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Last and Worst and Only:

168km/h(105 mph) in a 80km/h(50mph) (it was 100km/h(62mph) but the cop was a dick and wrote the ticket for 80km/h) $690 fine and a 30 day suspension but no demerits :-)

I was driving my 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT8 was cruising at 100km/h dropped down to 4th gear a gunned it for MAYBE 4 seconds just to see what it would do on the highway since I only had it for less than 2 weeks, got up to 168km/h and immediately slowed back down to 100km/h. I was going that fast for a MAXIMUM of 2 seconds. it's not like I was cannonballing across the country.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Slave2anMG 07/02/2014 at 13:55

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Please, I wear Hanes.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 13:56

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Only been driving a year , no tickets. Last one someone I was with got was my mom for like 75 in a 65.

macanamera > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 07/02/2014 at 14:11

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Where do you live that you have an SRT8 Challenger, yet measure speed in kmh?

Agrajag > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 14:42

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In fourteen years of driving, zero. Knocking on all the wood.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 15:07

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Strange Noises Alou > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 15:12

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the usual California $565 photo ticket. rolled a right turn on red at 3mph. $490 fine, then about $75 in various fees to take the online course and avoid the fine.

taking that course had one benefit: I learned why so many California drivers are terrible. they're taught that way. 'fast travel lane', my ass.

macanamera > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 07/02/2014 at 15:15

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I just wanted to know if that's the only place!

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 15:30

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That's a really good question now that I think of it. Canada might be the only place where the challenger was officially sold where speed is in KM/H. Actually Mexico is in KM/H and they also have the SRT8 Challenger there

The Compromiser > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 15:42

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Last one was driving home from a carpool. Town was about 30 to 40 minutes from my city. I was cruising within the ok zone (Possibly 20 over the limit in metric, eh?). The road was hilly and had very few passing zones. I was stuck behind someone (insert stereotypes here because yes it was an old woman) doing 70 max in an 80. Well I got to the last spot for a bit where I could pass. Whan I hit a higher rate of speed than legal during the pass, I let off hoping the slope of the hill would bring me down.

God bless those wonderful provincial authorities and their always on, front and back radars. The officer driving noted my higher than acceptable speed and used his flashing lights to warn me of this situation, and his concern for my wellbeing as well as those around me (I assume the people in the house about 2kms away). He informed me of my infraction, but out of the goodness of his heart ( and nothing to do with only needing to meet an issued ticket quota for his performance review) he decided the equipment and my speedometer were less correct than his trained observer eyes. I was indeed above the legal limit, however nowhere near where I thought I was... thank goodness as I thought I was truly and egregiously violating the law. Turns out I was only denting it.

Everyone told me to fight it. Their logic? I was passing and therefore exempt in some way. I marvel at this when I reflect upon it. Not the speeding, not the sterotypical slow driver, not telling the officer to go put his hat on as it was very cold and starting to rain and I would feel terrible if he caught pneumonia from giving me a ticket ( I relented and let him finish giving it to me as it would speed up him getting back to his car), not the stupidity of the situation (5 seconds on the brake would have saved me $50). The fact that people felt that I was ever in the right when violating a law. No one was endangered, all recommended signals were used and passing approved areas, were where it occurred, but the law was broken and I was caught.

My first ticket was 60 in a 40. I saw the cop on a side street and realized how fast I was going. I was pulled over and waiting before he put his donut down and shifted out of park.

Never got a ticket in a military vehicle. By the time I passed them, they saw the Federal plates and were back in park.

unpredictable_swerve > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 20:56

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only had two so far (knocks on all wooden objects in house). Last was worst. 19 over in a 45 (20 is mandatory jail time). No inspection or registration, and illegal tint. (5%, legal was %35).

Got the tint off, got inspected and legal 20 minutes before my court date (no, really. Jail time was possible driving to court). Got to court, dropped everything but a 0-9 over. Paid, driving class, on my way.

RTeeJay > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 21:02

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Ticketed for 111 in a 65, easily 120+, in Western Maryland. That ticket cost me $530, no points (thank God).

A week later, caught doing 75 in a 55 in Ohio, went to court and got it down to 69 in a 55. I paid court costs and no points...

I don't live in either state...

Mike_Smith > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 21:59

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Worst: 1987, upstate NY, 97 in a 55 in my old '75 Monte. Don't remember the fine, but I got a 90-day suspension and 2 days in county lockup. Which may have been the judge messing with me, or possibly taking pity on me: I was sentenced on a Friday night. Apparently, in Sullivan County (maybe all of NY? don't know), if your sentence ends on a weekend (it would have been Sunday night) they have to let you out by midnight the Friday before...

wiffleballtony > macanamera 07/02/2014 at 22:38

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My most recent ticket was probably 7 year ago a week before Christmas. I wanted to get my soon to be deceased grandfather a Christmas present. It was late, probably 8 ish and we were heading to a shopping plaza in Scottsdale and most of the stores close around 9. I was travelling down a road that is normally 45mph, but that night it was under construction, so the speed was reduced to 35. The road was empty, but unlit so I stayed at 45. A cop hiding behind a bush nailed me for it. Was stuck there long enough the stores were closed. I never got him a present in time, and I actually never saw him before he died.

My worst ticket was on the way to Vegas earlier that year. Outside a small town called Wickenburg. There was a severe downgrade on the freeway with a speed trap at the bottom. I was clocked at 93mph in a 65 because I was coating. The cop wrote me up at 85.

Shiftright > macanamera 07/03/2014 at 16:12

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111 in a rented '13 Mustang V6 convertible on the way to LA from Vegas at night....That one cost me...a lot...I am now investing in a radar detector

Zerofret > macanamera 07/04/2014 at 18:26

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40 in a 30... $110. Texas.

Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken > macanamera 07/07/2014 at 16:30

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I have a story!

I used to work in studio when getting my degree until the wee hours of the morning, and then blast home on a mix of highway and country roads to get as much snoozing in as possible before getting up and doing it again. And I'll have you know, I don't know if it was the caffeine, the sleep deprivation, or the empty roads, but I used to drive like an asshole.

This one night at about 3:30, I'm coming off the exit ramp (from the empty freeway on which I was probably doing 85, and know all the PoPo hidey holes) and barely slow down for the right turn at a stop sign to get home. I see the lights come on behind me, and pull well over, and of course I'm thinking "oh fuck, how long was he following me?" The trooper comes over, and we go through the motions of exchanging paperwork. He asks me why I think he pulled me over, and I say: "I'm not sure officer, I may have been going a little fast??" in that not so sure, but if I phrase it like a question it sounds more innocent voice.

The officer asks me where I'm coming from, and I say school. He gives me a look that conveys a certain distrust and disbelief that someone in so ratty an old sports sedan at such an obscene hour would be such a diligent student, and I explain that I'm studying architecture at such and such a college, and no really, this sort of thing is normal. He asks me if I've been drinking tonight, and I say absolutely not, officer.

The Trooper tells me ok, because if you had, it would explain the way you look. You crossed over the white line making that turn back there. Get home safe, and get some sleep. I say, thank you officer, have a good night. This story isn't about a ticket, it's about a very nice NYS Trooper, and ow I drove the final 5 miles home like an absolute saint.

This sort of thing happened on three separate occasions while I was in school!