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Inspired by the speeding ticket post, i'm curious as to how many people on this board have gotten tickets? How many and for what reason? 

 

I have gotten 4 tickets total. (2 speeding tickets, one for using my phone as a GPS as I was holding my phone and then another for causing an accident). 

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4 minutes ago, Halloween Land said:

Inspired by the speeding ticket post, i'm curious as to how many people on this board have gotten tickets? How many and for what reason? 

 

I have gotten 4 tickets total. (2 speeding tickets, one for using my phone as a GPS as I was holding my phone and then another for causing an accident). 

were the 2 speeding tickets from you racing to a buffet?

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My first was over 40 years ago in high school when I went through a stop light that just turned red before I got in the intersection. I thought my dad would kill me as it was his car, but he just said i hope you learned your lesson.

 

About 20 years ago I got 2 within a month on the same street for speeding and rolling through a stop sign, as I was late for work both times. After the 2nd I was worried about points, so I got a lawyer and he got it reduced to a faulty muffler.

 

I got one this July coming home from vacation on 81N. A state trooper clocked me going 87 in a 65. But because I wore a mask and he said I was polite he wrote me up for changing lanes without a signal. It was only a $25 fine, but $95 in court fees.

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0, gotten pulled over 3-4 times, but no tickets. The last two times were head scratchers. I got pulled over for having my high beams on when a cop passed me. This is a potential sign of drunk driving from what I read. But I was sober, driving home from watching the meteor shower at my buddies who lives up in the hills away from the city lights. I told the cop it was a new car for me (which it was), and I tried to turn off the high beams like I would my previous car which was different from this one (one was a push, one was a pull). After shining a bright ass light in my eyes and checking my record he let me off.

 

The other time I got pulled over for driving too close to the yellow line. Not over it, just too close to it (his word's for the reason of pulling me over). Funny thing was it was at night, and he sped up and pulled up right behind me, with his lights off, tailgaiting me so close I could not see his license plate nor could I see the top of the car to see the lights. I was coming up on my house so I pulled close to the yellow line to turn into my house and let this crazy driver pass me on the shoulder, and as soon as I hit my turning signal to go into my house he turns on the lights and makes me pull over. After questioning where I was coming from and going to, I said I was coming home from work (still had uniform on) and was trying to pull into my house (pointed to the house) before being pulled over. He said he pulled me over for driving too close to the yellow line, I asked if I was over it, he said no, just too close to it. He asked if I had been drinking, I said no I was at work, and he wanted my license and registration. I open the glove compartment and he sees a glass, and thinks its a small liquor bottle and starts freaking out over it. I had to show him it was a blinker light (I just bought a packet of 2 blinker lights because I had to replace one of them, so that was the 2nd one still in the package). He goes back t his squad car, looks up my clean record and comes back and says "I'm going to let you off this time, don't drive so close to the yellow line" and then gets in his car and speeds off. I feel like that was one time he abused his power.

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43 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:

My first was over 40 years ago in high school when I went through a stop light that just turned red before I got in the intersection. I thought my dad would kill me as it was his car, but he just said i hope you learned your lesson.

 

About 20 years ago I got 2 within a month on the same street for speeding and rolling through a stop sign, as I was late for work both times. After the 2nd I was worried about points, so I got a lawyer and he got it reduced to a faulty muffler.

 

I got one this July coming home from vacation on 81N. A state trooper clocked me going 87 in a 65. But because I wore a mask and he said I was polite he wrote me up for changing lanes without a signal. It was only a $25 fine, but $95 in court fees.

i take the 81N to the thousand islands many times a year....they can't wait to pull you over on that stretch.  i won't go over 75, and even that's cutting it close.

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I got a BS driving while using my phone (texting) ticket.  He said he saw me texting while driving.  The cop wouldn’t even look to see that my phone was hooked up to Bluetooth, and that my last text was 25 minutes prior to being pulled over.

 

My colleague whose son is a trooper told me it wasn’t even worth fighting and to just pay the ticket so I did 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Pulled over 4 times and got 2 speeding tickets (both on my way to church, go figure).

 

but you want to hear the dumbest ticket I got? Was in a small town and Parked on a street meter. Was ticketed for “parking more than 12 inches from the curb.” It wasn’t my best parallel parking job, but it was probably like 15 inches and nowhere near being into the road. 

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I've gotten a bunch lol but never convicted of a moving violation.  First three were all at once, car crash that was completely my fault when I was 17.  Went away because I was close with the DA's daughter (no, not that close).  Haven't gotten a ticket in 3 years now but get pulled over once a month or so.  Lead foot 🤷‍♂️

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5 hours ago, LeviF91 said:

I've gotten a bunch lol but never convicted of a moving violation.  First three were all at once, car crash that was completely my fault when I was 17.  Went away because I was close with the DA's daughter (no, not that close).  Haven't gotten a ticket in 3 years now but get pulled over once a month or so.  Lead foot 🤷‍♂️

You get pulled over once a month and get warnings every time?  You must have the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow up your ass. 🤣

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1 bull#### parking ticket (blocking a "driveway" which was overgrown with grass as part of a lawn, in front of a fence!) and have been pulled over 3 times, and issued warnings: tail-light out, expired registration and once for "being in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time of night" after getting of the interstate at the wrong exit.  Never a ticket for a moving violation.  Lots of people say I am a perfect driver!  :)

 

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14 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

You get pulled over once a month and get warnings every time?  You must have the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow up your ass. 🤣

 

6 hours ago, LeviF91 said:


I’m pretty charming 😎

 

And he has big hands ...

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I once pulled over once because I rigged up a stuffed human leg and had some of it hanging out of my trunk. Had clothes on it and and shoe on the foot. Cop pulled me and said I couldn't do that because it looked too real and they had been getting calls about my vehicle stating that someone was kidnapped and hanging out my trunk.

 

I refuse to say anything about other times I was pulled over.

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I would get one about every 6 months as a kid.  But have only gotten one in the last 20+ years.  I really don’t speed much unless you count 7 miles over the limit speeding.

 

My dog barfed in my car and I had to go home, clean it up and then take her back to Camp Bow Wow.  That made me very, very late and I was rushing.  I got nailed for 70 in a 55 on 290.  I was new to Buffalo and now know that’s a speed trap. 

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Get two in a month in 97. None since. Lesson learned.

 

Strangest ticket: Facing the wrong way parked on the right side of the street. Christmas morning at 2:25 am no less. I stopped at a buddies on the Eastside for some Xmas drinks. With all the snow and the direction I was coming from it was easier to park that way. I stayed the night and in the morning found the ticket. 

 

The woman at City Hall looked at and said " In my 23 years. I've never seen this." I told her I was sorry someone had to work Christmas, but c'mon.

 

To my surprise, she dismissed it.

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1 speeding ticket... was going 2 over in a 30 zone on RT 16 in Franklinville, just moved to Allegany, was driving our second car there at like 1:30 in the morning, no speed signs and GPS said it was 35....prick cop! Reduced to noise violation.

 

Only other time I got ticketed was when my friend convinced me we needed to turn fine cigars into blunts and we needed Chinese food but we didn't have a vehicle that was on the road.

 

We switched plates from my old car I hadn't turned in yet, I had no insurance, no registration, no inspection... Cops swarmed us as we were leaving a parking lot and ended up letting us drive home to smoke some more and eat our Chinese as long as we didnt venture out again...got all including a felony dropped to only  a noise violation.

 

 

 

 

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four

 

1) Speeding - written as 82 in a 55. There's no way the car I owned could even go that fast. I still pled guilty, the judge took pity and reduced the fine

2) No front plate - work van, no bracket for a front plate, so we just kept it on the dash. Only a $60 fine, so just paid it through the mail, and rigged up some screws to hold the plate on the bumper

3) Speeding in a construction zone - Cresting over a hill, and right there was the start of the zone, I had slowed down some, but not enough. Trooper wrote it up as no turn signal when changing lanes

4) Passing a stopped school bus - I still will say the lights were still yellow as I went by, the DA ended up knocking it down to two parking tickets, didn't even have to go to court

 

Times pulled over and no ticket

1) Speeding on the 219 - Told the cop I hadn't seen any speed limit signs since I got on, thought it was 65, not 55, he hands me back my license, gets in his car and left. I waited a few minutes, thinking he was checking, then took off

2) Possible trespassing - I was looking in an empty storefront window because my current employer was thinking of moving our store to that location. And it was after 9 at night. On Memorial Day. 

3) Headlight out - I had noticed it earlier so I stopped and bought a new headlight. Cop let me go because I showed him I had just bought the new headlight, but couldn't replace it till I got home and had tools. This was back when you replaced the whole headlight, not just the bulb. 

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3 in college. 2 on I-86 (Rte 17 back then), both 72 in a 55. They wouldn’t bat an eye today. Got a 66 in a 55 on a back route to Fredonia near midnight on Thanksgiving. 27 years since then, no tickets.
 

And that’s including me totally running a red light in Charlotte and t-boning another car. I had picked up my apartment keys 20 minutes earlier and was going to meet friends for lunch. I got turned around because everything was named “Ballantyne” Commons, Way, etc. The cop on the scene said the light had just been put in like 2 weeks prior and was difficult to see with the trees in the median. No ticket issued. They put in a “Traffic Signal Ahead” sign about 4 months later. She sued me but USAA took care of it and I didn’t even have to go to court.

 

Currently waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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On 9/15/2020 at 10:22 AM, Halloween Land said:

Inspired by the speeding ticket post, i'm curious as to how many people on this board have gotten tickets? How many and for what reason? 

 

I have gotten 4 tickets total. (2 speeding tickets, one for using my phone as a GPS as I was holding my phone and then another for causing an accident). 

Two, both by the same multi-township police department.  

 

One for going 47 in a 35. It's a straight country road way out in the middle of nowhere.  Used to be 45, the township dropped it to 35 for no reason other than to write tickets.  I was on my way home from work shortly after the signs were changed after a crap day and was daydreaming for a minute.  I drove on the road every day at that point.  I should have known better, but it's still aggravating that the limit was changed in the first place because it's still way too slow for that road.

 

One for driving with an expired inspection sticker. Tag was about a week out.  I knew it.  I had an appointment at the shop literally the next day. Cop pulled up next to me at a traffic light, pulled in behind me after the light turned green and followed me for a little while. Long enough to run the plate and see if I was going to commit any other infractions presumably. 

 

Fortunately, I don't work in the same place and my in-laws moved out of that township so I very rarely have to drive through there anymore. 

 

There is an interesting road near where I live that, according to the signs, has a different speed limit depending on which direction you are going.  It's 35 going up the hill and 25 going down.  And it's a hill, not like a mountain, and the road is straight.  I don't think it's intentional but the road defines a township/borough border also so it could be.  Depending on how the border runs, the uphill side is in the township and the downhill side is in the borough so, theoretically, they are each responsible for signing their respective side of the road if they each own half the road.  Dumb crap like that happens in PA all the time, the joys of a Commonwealth and local control.  There was a bridge over RR tracks nearby that essentially fell down because two bordering municipalities claimed that they didn't own the bridge so neither of them paid to fix it...ever.  It first closed in 2008 after a the decking fell through.  They didn't replace it, they patched it.  It closed again in 2019 to be replaced when the state finally agreed to pay for it and it has been closed since 2019 because Amtrak is holding it up.  Giant traffic nightmare for a dinky little bridge that somehow nobody owned.  The article is from 2008!  I worked there then and this was a PIA at that time, it's much worse now.

 

https://www.southernchestercountyweeklies.com/news/borough-e-caln-working-to-re-open-chestnut-st-bridge/article_787246c3-c3f5-5402-9682-652bc57634dc.html

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