When was the last time you got a driving ticket?

Never, but I did get pulled over once for having my music too loud in the car, the Officer said as it was Classical music and not Heavy Metal he would just warn me.:oops:

I do have a son in the Police Force too, so I keep those snippets of information to myself.
 

I confess to having a propensity to speed when driving on the open highway with little traffic. I've probably had a half dozen speeding tickets over the years...but "knock wood", no accidents. I did some amateur airport racing in an Austin Healey when I was stationed in Germany, and got a novice FIA racing license. I had a dream about becoming a NASCAR driver...until I got married, and reality set in.

The most entertaining ticket I ever got was back in the early 90's...driving across Kansas in my Camaro Z-28. I gave it a good run on a stretch of I-70 with virtually no traffic on a weekday. When I finally slowed down, I noticed the red light coming up behind me. Luckily, it was a fairly young highway patrolman who had also recently bought one of these, and he was curious how it handled at 134MPH. After we chatted for a bit, he wrote me up for doing 80 in a 70 zone, and sent me on my way.
 
The last time I got pulled over was about 18 years ago. I was heading to the mall to pick up my 15 year old daughter who'd been shopping and I was whipping along quite happily, enjoying the sunny day and failing to watch my speedometer. The policeman who stopped me let me off with a warning after I admitted that I hadn't been paying attention and was sorry for the infraction. I think sometimes, just being humble and admitting ones wrong can help mitigate troubles.
 
Debby said:
The last time I got pulled over was about 18 years ago. I was heading to the mall to pick up my 15 year old daughter who'd been shopping and I was whipping along quite happily, enjoying the sunny day and failing to watch my speedometer. The policeman who stopped me let me off with a warning after I admitted that I hadn't been paying attention and was sorry for the infraction. I think sometimes, just being humble and admitting ones wrong can help mitigate troubles.
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That is how I got out of doing 90 plus ! he asked me did I know how fast I was going? I said yes, he just told me to be careful, he realized I was upset about something and did not asked and let me go and I calmed down. That was way bk in my 20's
 
Have they done away with requiring cops to meet ticket 'quotas'? It's come to light recently that the police are pressured to create revenue, and this has become a priority over just doing their jobs to honestly protect and serve the public. Any thoughts on this?
 
SeaBreeze said:
Have they done away with requiring cops to meet ticket 'quotas'? It's come to light recently that the police are pressured to create revenue, and this has become a priority over just doing their jobs to honestly protect and serve the public. Any thoughts on this?
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After all this Ferguson, MO. nonsense from last year, our governor has initiated an investigation of several police departments in the state. It appears that in many locales, the police are looking upon as "revenue generators" by the city councils. There is a county just to the North of us that has a bunch of cops patrolling the roads, and we always see multiple cars pulled over when we travel through that area...little doubt in my mind that those cops are being "urged" to write tickets. I have a pretty good radar detector in the car, and it goes off constantly in that county.
 
RadishRose said:
27 years ago. I rolled through a stop sign on a little back road. ugh.
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also did that but no ticket, I admited to it , he smiled and let me go. A lot of stupid drivers get tickets around here . ie running red lights. I mean 10 cars going trough a red light. That is a in your face manuver.
 
1985. I had just purchased a radar detector. Within 2 weeks after installing the detector in my truck, I had rec'd two speeding tickets. The slightly used radar detector found its way to a road ditch in South Central Kansas.
 
Grumpy Ol' Man said:
1985. I had just purchased a radar detector. Within 2 weeks after installing the detector in my truck, I had rec'd two speeding tickets. The slightly used radar detector found its way to a road ditch in South Central Kansas.
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That is terrible, but I have heard that is one way to get a ticket, it seems to put a target on a person.
 
I moved from Memphis to Pasadena in 1988 and within two years I got two tickets; both from illegal turns (left turn out of parking lot/right turn on red). Both tickets were near the intersection of Colorado Blvd. and Lake Ave. I have avoided that part of town and haven't received another ticket in the remaining 20+ years.
I resolved the first ticket by going to Driving School but my second ticket resulted in a big fine and a big increase on my Auto Insurance.
 
The last was about 45 years ago. In those days I drove abour 40,000 miles a year, so there was a lot of exposure. Now I drive about 4,000 miles a year.
 
The last ticket was in the early 90s'. Only 2 tickets (both for low-level speeding) in 50 years or so of driving. At least 30 of those years I used my car for my work, so on the road pretty much every day, covering a very large area. Two very minor accidents, nose-to-tail bumps, only one was my fault.

Not too bad, all things considered. I'd like to think that's because I am a pretty careful driver, but the reality is that I have just been lucky. There have been a few close calls and I have seen some pretty nasty accidents along the way, unfortunately.
 

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