Unofficial Oppo QOTD - What's the highest priced ticket you've gotten?

"Mercedes Streeter" (smart) 04/28/2016 at 14:45 • Filed to: tickets, qotd

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I’ve gotten a total of three tickets in my entire life. The first was in 2012 for going 16 over in a 45mph. The one was $120. The second time, I was clocked going 5 over in a 35mph (different county), that one was also $120. But just last Fall, I got the ticket to end all of my tickets, a window tint violation...valued at just $335...or more than the other two tickets combined.

How? I got stopped in a highly affluent neighbourhood, where the police don’t believe in “fix it” tickets and court costs START at $298.

The officer searched my car (it smelled like skunk outside and he assumed it was coming from my car), found nothing, then I was given a patdown by himself or his lady partner...I can’t remember. Anyway, he sent me on my way with the promise that so long as I show the judge a timestamped picture of the car without tints, the ticket would be thrown out. Nope.

I’m still not finished paying the ticket. $335 and SR-22 insurance requirement just for tints. *Sigh*

Does anyone out there have anything worse?

Nisman > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:49

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I think my only ticket was around $170 for 5x in a 35. Still paying for it through insurance until August of this year... All in all probably cost me $1,500. Radar detector was in my back seat not hooked up.

Jcarr > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:51

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$0

16 years of driving, not a single ticket.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Nisman 04/28/2016 at 14:52

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Five times the speed limit? What exactly were you driving?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:52

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I got a bogus speeding ticket years ago for $500 and 5 points. I took it straight to court and it was chopped down to $200 with 2 points

TheRealBicycleBuck > Jcarr 04/28/2016 at 14:52

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Better start knocking on wood.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:53

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$508: towing a trailer 65 in a 55 in California. We were really doing 75, but we were grown up about it when Chippy pulled us over and he only wrote us for 65. I shudder to think what 75 would have cost. My wife was driving and I believe she went to a comedy driving school to get rid of the point.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 04/28/2016 at 14:54

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But did they reduce the points?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/28/2016 at 14:54

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from 5 points and a license suspension to 2 points

Klaus Schmoll > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:55

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Most expensive ever was like €120. Germany is cheap when it comes to speeding. The only downside with that ticket is that I now have 3 months left to hand in my license for 30 days. OUCH!!!!!

duurtlang > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:56

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I’ve only received speed camera tickets. The last 3 abroad (Germany), the last of two in my own country in 2012. The German ones were €30 a piece, for 19 (kmh) over. The Dutch ones were higher for a lower violation, but still in the mid 2 digits.

Mercedes Streeter > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/28/2016 at 14:56

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Your first born child lol. I think that’s a fair law, it’s insane to see people in Illinois going 80+ with a Harbor Freight trailer in tow. :O

Jcarr > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/28/2016 at 14:56

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Nah, I’m a pretty conservative, laid-back driver so I really don’t ever do anything that would be cause for a ticket.

Dru > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:58

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Circa 2008, I got a 110 in a 45, somehow avoided reckless driving charge, but still lost my license for a year. I think the ticket cost between $300-400 itself and another $700 or so for an attorney that basically just kept it from being any worse. Gobs and gobs of money in insurance, and I wound up selling the bike in a rush, losing my ass on it. All told, the whole experience probably wound up costing more than $8K. But he infraction itself (if you include attorney fees) was more like $1,100. Ah to be young and dumb.

PS, where do you live that they basically string you up by your toenails for having window tint?

Mercedes Streeter > Jcarr 04/28/2016 at 14:58

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Damn it...I hate puberty. xD

To be fair, I think I’ve been stopped 10 times in the past year, the worst for going 40 over the speed limit...Usually the cop is laughing so hard at the thought of a speeding smart that he just lets me go free.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 14:59

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I can’t argue with that. If we’d been going 65, he might not have pulled us over at all.

We pulled a tent trailer from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back twice. We found 65-70 to be a comfortable speed. 14-inch tires on the trailer. Even Chippy admitted to us that the low sixties would’ve been okay. We weren’t that upset about it at the time, but the fine seemed exorbitant to us.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:03

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$595 for the ticket

$499 for the lawer

& a 30 day suspension. for going 168km/h on a 100km/h zone (105mph in a 62mph zone)

KyleA > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:14

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Oct, 2012. 0445hrs. Staten Island. 82 in a 45mph work zone.

$760 + 6 points

Firewrx234 > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:17

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I believe the most for mine was $225. It was an illegal u-turn. All I was doing was heading to dinner and it was across the street. I should’ve known better but Mrs. firewrx and I were having a heated debate when she said “you can’t do a u-turn here” and I said “watch me”. Next thing I knew, a cop showed up out of nowhere and stopped me in the parking lot where I was meeting my family.

Needless to say...it was an awkward dinner with my family and one irate wife.

Mercedes Streeter > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 04/28/2016 at 15:17

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*Faints* I wouldn’t be able to afford something like that if it happened to me.

Nisman > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/28/2016 at 15:20

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Sorry the x was meant to represent a digit. Couldn’t remember if it was 53, 56, etc. hahaha.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:20

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Never! Woo

Mercedes Streeter > Dru 04/28/2016 at 15:21

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My lord. I’ll remember that the next time I try setting a speed record (my current record is 45 miles in 21 minutes).

I live in NE Illinois, but at the time I was driving through the lovely community of Oakbrook Terrace. Been to court 4 times for it already.

Strangely enough though, my insurance went down despite the ticket...no complaints lol

Mercedes Streeter > KyleA 04/28/2016 at 15:21

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Ouchies!!! :(

Ash78, voting early and often > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:22

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16 over in a speed trap construction zone, small town, Sunday morning. $225 because of the construction zone — no workers present, but officer gave zero fucks because he knew I would pay, since it was 3 hours from home.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:28

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With court fees it ended up being 155 but it was a 74 in a 55 on i80. I got lucky though cause I was in a construction zone but the cop marked it to the last mile marker before the construction started

Tripper > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:31

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Most $ for one stop - Leaving OCMD after senior week, I quickly passed 3 cars without signaling in an area that went from 35 to 45. I was promply pulled over and given 2 speeding tickets and 3 separate citations for “unsafe lane change” - a touch over $900 no points/MD did not reciprocate

Most $ for one ticket $500 and change, speeding on NJ turn pike no points

StingrayJake > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:33

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Had to have been the one that had a BS passing in a no passing zone charge tacked on to a speeding ticket. I got another speeding ticket a year later in the same town and had an expired insurance card, though that got dropped after faxing them a current copy.

Don’t recall the costs.

StingrayJake > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:35

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Correct me if I’m wrong... but is that not an average speed of 128 mph?

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:35

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$120 for running a Red (actually yellow but didn’t argue because no points so meh) and no points.

Ross Kraz > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:35

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Not car related but on a snow day in college, I woke up at noon and had a ticket by 1:00 for throwing snowballs at passing cars.

$263.50 for “Disorderly Conduct - Throwing or Shooting Arrows or Missiles”. Worth it.

yitznewton > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:37

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I had just one, about $150 in 2000, 41 in a 25. Got a verbal warning a couple months ago that cooled me off a bit.

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:40

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I’ve never had a speeding ticket or moving violation. I had one $55 parking ticket once thanks to a twisted, ambiguously placed “no parking here to corner” sign.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:46

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I wasn’t in a great spot financially when that happened. It damn near bankrupted me.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:49

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$249 and change. only one I’ve gotten and the only one I will get thanks to my trusty radar detector and brake pedal!

AkursedX > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 15:50

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I got a $20 parking ticket once. (Yeah, I’m pretty boring). And I’ve never received a ticket for a moving violation. I haven’t even been pulled over since 2006.

Mercedes Streeter > StingrayJake 04/28/2016 at 15:59

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Oops, I was two numbers off on the time, my average speed was 117 for the run.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 16:00

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I think it was $180 for my 78 in a 60 one I got last year. Got a $10 no seatbelt violation a month or so ago, oops.

The speeding ticket got dismissed though, can’t remember why or how that happened.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 16:01

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Only ticket I got that stuck was for 70 in a 50. (km/h) $130. My insurance on my truck went up $200 as a result of the two points, which doesn’t sound like much until you realize I was only paying $500/year.

The more expensive ticket I got but fought and won (kinda) was for driving through a do-not-entre sign. The sign itself was pointed at such an angle that it would have been impossible to see from the direction I approached it until it was too late to not drive through without having to back out onto a highway. I parked, got out, and then the cop kinda pulled up along side and got out. Young cop absolutely furious that so many people were ignoring the sign, interrupted himself twice while writing my ticket to walk over and tell two other people they were getting one too. $200 ticket, plus two more points on my licence. To make matters worse, I’d borrowed my roommate’s Jeep, only to discover that it’s actually his maternal grandfather’s Jeep, so it’s registered in a name I don’t recognize at all, and to top it off I’d been at a bar the night before, and left my driver’s license in the pants I wasn’t wearing... fortunately I did have some other stuff in my wallet with my name on it, including an out-of-date student ID card with my picture on it, but I could tell he was pretty suspicious of how this guy with no official ID came to be driving this Jeep registered to a guy I don’t know. But that one ironed itself out I guess.
Fast-forward to my court date (no joke, six months later) and I’m sitting behind the cop who gave me the ticket in the court room. Senior looking officers are coaching him on taking the stand as if it was his first time. During a recess, the crown attorney calls my name, apparently I was supposed to talk to him before hand, but no one told me that. He tries to convince me to change my plea from Not Guilty to guilty with an explanation, on the grounds that I hadn’t argued (per the officer’s notes) I hadn’t driven past the sign, only that I hadn’t seen it. I said uh, no, and showed him the picture I’d taken. He said “well, you may have a defense there” in a tone that made it clear we were done talking. Then during the next recess, he went over and talked to the cop who gave me the ticket. My name was first on the docket when the session resumed. They called my name, I went up to the front, and the crown attorney ruffles the ticket papers, and says “Well, this is a little embarrassing, but the crown can’t read the issuing officer’s name on the ticket. Is he here?” He looks around the courtroom, none of the six cops twitch, but the one who gave me the ticket is staring at his boots. “Well, I guess the crown won’t be pursuing this ticket. You’re free to go.” The judge bangs his gavel and says dismissed. That was that.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 16:13

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$0. I did get a warning once though.

StingrayJake > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 16:26

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Haha that’s still crazy on public roads

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 16:28

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$500 for 98 in a 50. Got it reduced to 9 over, a $120 fine and a probation before judgement(basically keep my ass clean for a year and the ticket goes away, get another infraction, and I get the OG fine plus whatever the new ticket is).

$800 total for expired registration. $400 in fines, $400 in towing fees. Word to the wise, don’t get your car towed after hours the day before thanksgiving. I couldn’t get my car back until the following Monday(because they weren’t open on thanksgiving, black friday or weekends, and the charged me for all 6 days). I had to walk home 8 miles and on the way back helped the cop that wrote me up get some random woman that high centered her car off the curb. He clearly felt super-bad about it. Fairly sure that’s why he didn’t show up to the hearing, letting me off the hook for the citation and fines.

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 18:50

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$75 for “failure to reduce speed” when the brakes failed on my car, causing me to rear end somebody (under the speed limit, not tailgating, or distracted)

Jay, the practical enthusiast > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 19:04

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Back in 1999 I got stopped going 20 kmh over the speed limit in Japan. 60,000 yen fine (about $550 US at the time if I remember right).

I was using an international drivers license but if I had had my Japanese license it would have been suspended for at least 3 months.

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 22:12

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O.K. Sit back and relax, this is gonna take a minute.

My junior year at the Air Force Academy, they finally let us have our cars on Campus. Car sits idle three weeks at a time (I was working on a double Major and had no life). My first trip home solo in my 1976 Jaguar XJS, I find myself bored to tears crossing Kansas on I-70, so I step it up a little bit, then a little more, and maybe a little more. After about an hour of this I crest a hill and lo and behold there’s a state trooper less than a 1/2 mile at the bottom of the hill, but my radar detector doesn’t go off. I slam on the brakes... nothing. Oh shit I’m airborne, check the speedo - 152MPH. A second later all four wheels are skidding down the hill billowing smoke and rubber. I coast past the trooper at 64MPH and he just sits there.

30 miles down the road, he catches up to me and pulls me over. He tells me he knows I was well over 100 when I came over the hill, but his radar couldn’t get a lock through all the smoke and when it finally did it was 64 in a 55. He stopped me anyway just to let me know I wasn’t getting away with anything here in Kansas.

The ticket cost me $150. The four flat-spotted tires cost me $1600.

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 22:14

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“Oakbrook Terrace”

Say no more. They’re notorious there.

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 22:16

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Then stop making speed runs you mad-woman!!

ranwhenparked > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 22:21

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I’ve only ever had one ticket, as I recall, it was like $90 or something. I only got it because I lost track of what side of the river I was on and crossed over into New Jersey accidentally.

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 22:25

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$170 for doing 15 over. Got court supervision and no points. Never had a point on my license actually.

BayAreaMiataBoi > Mercedes Streeter 04/28/2016 at 23:58

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I earned and paid all my tickets, except the bogus one. . .
When driving the limit in my green ‘71 Pinto hatchback (the one with the pencil-thin bumpers) around a bend in the road, I am passed by another (beige) Pinto (probably a ‘73 or later) (sedan) (with the enormous bumpers) probably going 30 over.
HaHaHa, thinks I, someone’s in a hurry! Just then a local cop comes zooming around the same corner and tickets +me+ for speeding! Not so funny now, Bungalow Breath!
So I go before “Hanging Judge (last name withheld)“ in traffic court, even though I am probably going to be found guilty and have to pay someone else’s fine. While I am waiting and fuming, I see one of the attorneys I worked for that Summer, and he asks me what I am doing there. He listens to my story and says “Just sit there when your name is called. I’ll represent you.” The following exchange ensues:
Hanging Judge: “. . .so how do you plead?”
Lawyer: “Your Honor, in the interest of justice, I move that this case be dismissed.”
Hanging Judge: “I see. Would justice be served by having this case dismissed?”
Lawyer: “Yes, your honor, I believe that justice would be served by having this case dismissed.”
Hanging Judge: “Case dismissed.” (pause, shuffling the paperwork) “And councilor, are we still on for golf next Thursday?”
Cost for ticket, $0. Cost for attorney, $0. Getting a bogus ticket dismissed by the Hanging Judge, Priceless.

Justino6969 > Mercedes Streeter 04/29/2016 at 00:07

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$120 for 81 in a 55. Send a money order to the court, and they didn’t tell insurance, no points, and I’m pretty sure there’s no record as long as I paid it on time. Middle-of-Nowhere, Ohio.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Mercedes Streeter 04/29/2016 at 00:45

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none. pulled over once when I was 17 and got a warning going 20 over. Im actually surprised too because I drive fast at times and have done many pulls on the highways around here with no cars spotting ahead of me

His Stigness > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/29/2016 at 01:25

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Try looking up the fine is actually split up. I think the actual fine for speeding is super low, but it’s all the extra shit they add on which is stupid only because programs should not rely on funding from tickets.