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I just got out of a speeding ticket
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited August 2008
I got out of a speeding ticket by not actually speeding. Damn cop was new to the area and didn't know where the 65 MPH switched to 55. Of course, he didn't actually revoke my ticket until after I'd gotten my ass chewed out by my parents (I was 15) so I'm still pretty bitter.
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ZeroFillFeeling much better.A nice, green leaf.Registered Userregular
edited August 2008
yeah but you drive on the wrong side
you're lucky your car hasn't been impounded
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
Nah, I've been posting from my phone because I've been getting too excited about PAX, and I finished work early today.
I wish I could win the lottery, and never have to work again.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited August 2008
Also, one of my friends from college once remarked on how strange it was that she got pulled over all the time but hardly ever got tickets.
Huh. A college girl who looks like Barbie's less freakish cousin and who has a habit of taking road trips in her pajama top doesn't have a problem with traffic tickets. Yeah, that's fuckin' mysterious right there.
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ZeroFillFeeling much better.A nice, green leaf.Registered Userregular
edited August 2008
I'm pretty sure I have a bench warrant in texas
I got a speeding ticket going up an on-ramp into traffic going 80mph, apparently you're supposed to merge going 20 under the flow of traffic and get rear ended
I got to where I was going and called to pay the ticket and they were like "Ok that will be $360, will you be paying with credit or an electronic check?"
$360. So I hung up the phone and went "Well, guess I'm never going back to Texas"
I did actually, through no real actions on my part.
It was my 18th birthday, I was late for a movie, I had a carload of friends, I drove aggressively through our downtown area and was literally within 1 block of the movie theater when I got pulled over.
The cop had been following me since I passed through downtown and I'd accumulated around $200 worth of transgressions, or so he claimed.
Anyway, he pulled me out of my car and then said he made it a point never to bust anyone one their birthday, wished me happy birthday and that was that.
We made it to the movie in time too.
Hooray!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
so what is it cops think they let a hot girl off on a ticket that she's going to drive directly to their house and wait for them there
All hot girl-related stimuli is routed through a special nerve cluster that bypasses the logic center of the brain and goes straight to the glands. Hooters has created an entire business model around this fact.
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
i ususally get out of tickets when friends of mine who are police roll up on the scene and laugh at me for getting pulled over and then tell me to get the fuck out of there
I'm sorry sir... I uhh.... I didn't know I couldn't do that.
No, expressing ignorance of safe driving is more likely to get you a ticket. It was more like "Yes, I was doing around 40mph." "No, I don't have any good reason, it was stupid of me." "Yes, I will drive more carefully from now on".
You know, crawling.
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Once I blew by a motorcycle cop hidden behind a shrub doing 55mph in a 25mph, but since I had pulled over and turned on my blinkers before he was even able to hey back on his bike and come after me we just had a laugh about it and he let me go.
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ZeroFillFeeling much better.A nice, green leaf.Registered Userregular
Once I blew by a motorcycle cop hidden behind a shrub doing 55mph in a 25mph, but since I had pulled over and turned on my blinkers before he was even able to hey back on his bike and come after me we just had a laugh about it and he let me go.
Same thing happened to me on my way to vegas, doing about 90
I blow past a cop sitting behind a large rock so I just immediately pulled onto the shoulder and turned my car off
He comes after me, pulls up kinda slow by the window laughing and just keeps going.
It took a minute to realize what just happened and that it was ok to leave.
I didn't get out of a ticket once but the cop had a really bad and faded Tasmanian Devil tattoo on his arm that I'm sure he has regretted for last 10 years or more. I had to pay but I feel like I still came out on top of that interaction.
It was like 2 in the morning about a week or two before Revenge of the Sith came out and a rolled through a stop sign while turning right. This cop pulls me over.
As he approaches my car he has his maglite out and begins to give a spot check of the contents of my car. I had just come from a night of Star Wars RPG-ing and had all of my rule books and shit on the backseat. He sees the books and the first thing he says to me was, "you play the Star Wars RPG?"
We then bullshitted about Star Wars for 15 minutes and then he says, "I don't remember why I pulled you over. It's not important, have a good night"
I got pulled over on the way to work (I worked at the local court house as a paralegal) and the cop let me go because he was going to the same court house to testify against other speeders and didn't want to waste the time to write the ticket and have me fight it and win because I know the judge (little did he know that had he gave me the ticket the judge would have called me a retard and maxed it out)
Once I blew by a motorcycle cop hidden behind a shrub doing 55mph in a 25mph, but since I had pulled over and turned on my blinkers before he was even able to hey back on his bike and come after me we just had a laugh about it and he let me go.
Wait, is that like some kind of magic "You lose" trick? If you get to the side of the road before they pull you over, they have to let you go?
Once I blew by a motorcycle cop hidden behind a shrub doing 55mph in a 25mph, but since I had pulled over and turned on my blinkers before he was even able to hey back on his bike and come after me we just had a laugh about it and he let me go.
Wait, is that like some kind of magic "You lose" trick? If you get to the side of the road before they pull you over, they have to let you go?
you get to arrest the policeman for being bad at his job
I've been pulled over a few times, once was on the way to a funeral. Got out of that easy. Then theres the subdivision cops.
See behind me theres this huge housing area called Lakes of the Four Seasons, which is like a giant subdivision, and they have their own cops who really can't do shit. I get pulled over in there all the time (20 MPH speed limit in an area the size of two towns? No thanks) and have never paid a single ticket, because their guys arn't real cops, and all they can do is ban me from there. But its OK, I rarely drive out there anymore.
Sounds like something that would only exist as a rich suburb of a city. Like the place where all the local sports stars have their giant houses.
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acidlacedpenguinInstitutionalizedSafe in jail.Registered Userregular
edited August 2008
the time I got a speeding ticket I was passing the rest of the cars going 120 in a 110 divided highway, when I noticed the cop car in the utility junction, made eye contact, then he just pointed at me, then pointed at the shoulder. So I had to pull back through all the people I was passing then wait for the cop. He said it was a 100 zone and I was going 130, but he was going to "go easy" on me and give me the minimum fine $168 :_(
I couldn't make the court date because they booked it in a court that's like a 3 hour drive from my home town, and mid week, and during regular office hours. Jackass.
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Because I don't drive like a dick.
you're lucky your car hasn't been impounded
You ever driven in the US? You hush, mister!
can you post from work again?
Yes I have.
Your roads are so wide, its like you don't even have to drive at all.
Stop being so much like me.
Nah, I've been posting from my phone because I've been getting too excited about PAX, and I finished work early today.
I wish I could win the lottery, and never have to work again.
Huh. A college girl who looks like Barbie's less freakish cousin and who has a habit of taking road trips in her pajama top doesn't have a problem with traffic tickets. Yeah, that's fuckin' mysterious right there.
I got a speeding ticket going up an on-ramp into traffic going 80mph, apparently you're supposed to merge going 20 under the flow of traffic and get rear ended
I got to where I was going and called to pay the ticket and they were like "Ok that will be $360, will you be paying with credit or an electronic check?"
$360. So I hung up the phone and went "Well, guess I'm never going back to Texas"
Are we going to tear apart space and time this weekend?
It was my 18th birthday, I was late for a movie, I had a carload of friends, I drove aggressively through our downtown area and was literally within 1 block of the movie theater when I got pulled over.
The cop had been following me since I passed through downtown and I'd accumulated around $200 worth of transgressions, or so he claimed.
Anyway, he pulled me out of my car and then said he made it a point never to bust anyone one their birthday, wished me happy birthday and that was that.
We made it to the movie in time too.
Hooray!
All hot girl-related stimuli is routed through a special nerve cluster that bypasses the logic center of the brain and goes straight to the glands. Hooters has created an entire business model around this fact.
That reminds me, I gotta charge my camera batteries.
To Document the end of all things?
But that's more to do with the fact that they can't be bothered to trace you back to the UK
Yeah, take that legal system!
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No, expressing ignorance of safe driving is more likely to get you a ticket. It was more like "Yes, I was doing around 40mph." "No, I don't have any good reason, it was stupid of me." "Yes, I will drive more carefully from now on".
You know, crawling.
Indeed.
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Same thing happened to me on my way to vegas, doing about 90
I blow past a cop sitting behind a large rock so I just immediately pulled onto the shoulder and turned my car off
He comes after me, pulls up kinda slow by the window laughing and just keeps going.
It took a minute to realize what just happened and that it was ok to leave.
As he approaches my car he has his maglite out and begins to give a spot check of the contents of my car. I had just come from a night of Star Wars RPG-ing and had all of my rule books and shit on the backseat. He sees the books and the first thing he says to me was, "you play the Star Wars RPG?"
We then bullshitted about Star Wars for 15 minutes and then he says, "I don't remember why I pulled you over. It's not important, have a good night"
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Wait, is that like some kind of magic "You lose" trick? If you get to the side of the road before they pull you over, they have to let you go?
you get to arrest the policeman for being bad at his job
See behind me theres this huge housing area called Lakes of the Four Seasons, which is like a giant subdivision, and they have their own cops who really can't do shit. I get pulled over in there all the time (20 MPH speed limit in an area the size of two towns? No thanks) and have never paid a single ticket, because their guys arn't real cops, and all they can do is ban me from there. But its OK, I rarely drive out there anymore.
I couldn't make the court date because they booked it in a court that's like a 3 hour drive from my home town, and mid week, and during regular office hours. Jackass.