Speeding tickets, parking tickets, any traffic violations in your lifetime?

Far from perfect, Amber. LOL!

I did a rolling stop at a stop sign once and was nabbed, no ticket, just reminded that stops signs are placed in locations to get drivers to stop.

Another time I was pulled over for a burned out tail light. Got a fix-it ticket.

Did have a policeman raise his hand in his vehicle one time and using his thumb as a signal, he pointed his thumb downward and made a few up and down gestures with it. I gather he was relaying to me to slow down, which I did.
 

Oh, the one or two times I was pulled over for speeding, play dumb (easy for me). Be nice to the officer, do what he asks. Give him your ID/info if he asks for it. Don't run your mouth or give him a hard time.. I said "no sir I didn't not realize I was going that fast"... of course I knew I was. LOL. :rolleyes: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Twice in 1963 .... each time for not wearing eyeglasses.

Wore reading glasses when taking my driving test as a teen and then, stupidly, kept the damn things on when taking the driving portion of the test. So that license was marked "restrictive."

Shortly thereafter, I was pulled over for a burned-out bulb. Cop saw no eyeglasses and ticketed me. The penalty was a fine. Honestly don't recall if points were assessed.

Next time was a warning for a loud muffler. Again, no eyeglasses. This incident occurred within city limits and for some reason required a court appearance. Pled guilty and fined but not sure if points were assessed.
 
Not bad. Three tickets in 53 years.
One speeding ticket when I was 19 (I was going 50 in a 35 zone).
One ticket for making a U-Turn at an intersection. (The "No U Turn" sign had tiny letters that were unreadable)
One totally bogus ticket for "Failing to yield the right-of-way to an emergency vehicle." My light turned green & I started through an intersection. When I was halfway through, an ambulance turned his lights & siren on. Since I was already blocking the intersection, I continued through & pulled over. I saw the moronic cop watching me, so he knew what happened but he was determined to write me a ticket. It was the only ticket I fought, but of course I lost.
No tickets in the past 28 years.
 
My life of crime started out by making my own car inspection sticker. I had a clunker that couldn't pass inspection, So I made my own. Actually, it was a rather good copy. But my next door neighbor just happened to be an eager beaver cop, and he noticed it. I remember when he stopped me. He took the sticker of the windshield and said," You misspelled Pennsylvania".. The other two times was for going through a speed trap. In PA, most of the funds for police used to come from tickets issued by local police for speeding, etc. A road with a 40 mile/hr would suddenly have 300 feet with a 25m/hr speed limit. And wouldn't you know a cop was hidden in the bushes, just waiting for so called "speeders". It wouldn't hurt to have the 25 m/hr sign hidden behind a tree., or something. The locals knew about the places where there were speed traps, but visitors didn't and they got ticketed. This is a long and cherished Pennsylvania tradition.
 
I haven’t had a ticket for about 25 years and only had 2 tickets before this. One was for 10 kilometres over and one was for going at such an outrageous speed that the car could have been impounded.

On an ‘Empty’ country road just outside of the city I was in a new sports car speeding very fast. The woman who pulled me over was laughing so hard she had to catch her breath. When she finally did she looked around asking if she was being ‘PUNKED.’ Since I’m so easily amused I started laughing and couldn’t stop.

It was her first day on the police force and she thought for sure she’d been set up by her follow employees. She kept looking around. 🥺

When I told her that I wasn’t part of a big joke or some type of set up, she said she explained that normally she’d have to impound my car but instead gave me an outrageous driving fine. Of course I thanked her. Almost kissed her I was so happy.

With both my Suzuki and Ninja Kawasaki, I never once got a ticket but did get pulled over by 2 cops after coming home from a midnight swim and not for speeding. I don’t know why I was pulled over.

They were in an unmarked car. When they asked for my license, I showed them. When they asked me to remove my helmet so they could see if I matched the picture in my license, I did. They asked where I was coming from and where I was going but once they asked me to remove my jacket I told them to 🤬🤬 and left with them laughing hysterically. To this day I don’t know if they were real cops or cop impersonators. I like to think the latter.
 
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No. Only thing I ever got was a warning in Texas back in the 60s. I was going a wee bit too fast out in the absolute middle of nowhere where the only things I saw for hours were tumbleweeds, a jackrabbit, and that Texas highway patrol guy. I swear those guys must beam down from above -- you go for hours on long, flat roads where there isn't another living thing and suddenly there's a patrol car in your rearview mirror.
 
I almost got a ticket when a sneaky cop said I ran a red light when I was pretty sure it was yellow at the time. I realized I won the blue lights special when he followed me to Walmart. I didn't argue when he asked for my license; said "Hi officer, how's your day?" He didn't say anything, proceeded to check his laptop. Heart raising, I was thinking, "How much will this cost me?". He came back with a grin on his face saying, "You're free to go". Unbelievable! how did I get lucky?
 
hellomimi said:
I almost got a ticket when a sneaky cop said I ran a red light when I was pretty sure it was yellow at the time. I realized I won the blue lights special when he followed me to Walmart. I didn't argue when he asked for my license; said "Hi officer, how's your day?" He didn't say anything, proceeded to check his laptop. Heart raising, I was thinking, "How much will this cost me?". He came back with a grin on his face saying, "You're free to go". Unbelievable! how did I get lucky?
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We all know how you got so lucky.
It is because you are so likeable, pure and simple.
 
21 tickets in one year but never convicted on three which would have meant a suspension of my license. I was 17. Most of the teens ticketed in my small town got off with most tickets. Don't ask for a reason because I don't know. One night I got three at one stop. Running two stop signs and speeding. I did none of them because I saw the cop turn around to come after me as I pulled out of the gas station. He is behind me so I stop at the sign. Proceed on and stop again at the sign. Turn left and after two blocks he lights me up. Then this happened. A volunteer firefighter pulled up behind the squad and tells the cop, "If he gives you any trouble I'm right here." The cops and teens knew each other very well. I beat all three tickets in court. A lot of the times the ops never showed for court.
 
1 for following too closely when I was 16. I went to class to take care of that one.
2 or 3 for speeding over the years, all reasonable. Paid for 2, took class for one.

The strangest ticket I ever got was on my bicycle. I used to ride my bicycle to work at around 5:30 in the morning. My route took me through a stop light where I could run over the car detection strip on the left turn lane and by the time I got to the signal it would usually turn green for me. I could see the lights for the streets I was crossing so I knew whether or not I had tripped the signal and stop if needed.

This one time I did my usual trick, saw the lights turn yellow for the cross traffic and proceeded to keep at speed ready to make my left turn. Well something unusual happened and rather than turning green it stayed red while the lights for the cross traffic went back to green. Thankfully I also checked to see if there was any oncoming traffic while doing my trick and knew there wasn't anything close to the intersection for me to worry about. I did see a car coming the same direction I was turning to about two blocks away. A short while later I heard a siren and saw lights. The car that had been two blocks away was a cop car.

He pulled me over telling me I had run a red (which I had technically done) while I explained that the light had malfunctioned and hadn't turned green properly for me. He wasn't buying any of it and gave me a ticket for running a red. I think the fine was about $250 for that back then. Anyway I still didn't think that the ticket was fair and I decided to fight it. I ended up going to court three times and the cop never showed up so finally the judge dismissed the ticket because the cop wasn't there to give his side of the story.
 
Nothing too exciting and nothing that I didn't really deserve.

The one that sticks in my mind was a parking violation in Alexandria Bay that carried a fine of fifty cents. I didn't feel that it was justified so I ignored it. A year later I received a notice in the mail from them requesting the fine so I paid it. I felt if they had the tenacity to chase me and my little fine a year later it was the least I could do.

In normal years Alexandria Bay is a great little place in the Thousand Islands for the autumn leaf peepers to take a boat tour and have lunch.

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i got 1 ticket for 5 miles over the speed limit--
i had a 70 plymouth and if you didnt pull the the light thingy real hard the lights wouldnt come on all the way
it was at night and a police stopped me-i had
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- my 15 year old son with me he was dressed up like a hippe with the band tied arround his head--the policeman walked arround the side of the car and my son said what are my friends gonna think--i started laughing and couldnt stop the police said do you know your lights arent all the way on--i was still laughing at what my son said---the policeman said lady have you been drinking?
 
Four speeding tickets, and one ticket for not stopping properly at a stop sign. I got the stop sign one 'fixed' by a friend. It was in the middle of nowhere and I did slow down and look thoroughly. Found out from the LEO friend that pulled it that it's a favorite stakeout on slow days because hardly anyone stops completely there turning right because visibility to the left is so clear.
 

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