Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I have never tried to talk myself out of a ticket, but I did get out of one that I should have gotten. Up on the mountain, a couple of miles from my house I get pulled over by a sherriff's deputy. (San Bernardino County) He asks me if I know why I was stoped, nope I don't. 1. I just did a rolling stop through a stop sign (and I'm sure I did) and 2. He *started* following when I took one of our mountain curves *really* wide (which I totally remember doing) but didn't notice him following me. So, he asks for license, registration, insurance. I can only find the license right away, so he takes that while I dig for insurance and regsistration. About 5 minutes later he comes back and by then I've found an old insurace card, but no registration. He asks me if I know anyone who works for RIVERSIDE sherif's dept. I say, yes, my husband, who works support for RSD and is at work right this very minute. (ElderP took the opportunity available to him when he worked front desk to block the address for our DL and Registration, no now when you look up our address in the system it doesn't show our address it just shows Riverside County Sheriff.) At that he asks me if I'm safe to drive home, I assure him that I am, and he sends me on my way. And I make a FULL stop at the next stop sign. I totally should have gotten a ticket, but didn't because of the blue wall. Not fair, but neither am I going to write a letter of complaint and demand a ticket.
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess No, but I've been pulled over six times now for California stops (3 times), swerving (once - tired), no headlights at night (new car, thought they were on because my dash automatically lights up at night), and a clear cover over my license plate (illegal, apparently). I have never gotten a ticket yet, knock on wood... in 21 years of driving!
Originally Posted By MomofPrincess Oops, that was written wrong! SHOULD HAVE SAID, "I have been pulled over six times now: For California stops (3 times)... " Doh!
Originally Posted By dsnykid I fought a ticket and won even though I had been speeding: we have photo radar here and I got a picture of my car in the mail with my speed and the amount of the fine, but I look closer and the time stamp is wrong because I was at work the timeof the ticket. I went to court with my timesheet and said that while I may have been speeding I couldn't have been doing it at the time listed on my ticket, so the judge had to throw my ticket out... apparently one of the guys who runs the photo radar had screwed up the time setting, so my ticket was improperly issued
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x When I was 19, I was pulled over for goin 45 in a 30. The cop that pulled me over was the father of the junior high kid I was tutoring! He slapped me on my arm with his gloves and my friend in the passenger seat made an audible gasp (probably thinking "police brutality!" LOL). He let me go with a warning. When I was 21, I was pulled over coming back from Reno. I was going 80, and everyone else had sped passed me so the CHP had only seen me by the time he finished with the ticket he had just finished writing. I paid it and did traffic school. The last one I should not have gotten. I was taking my flex time from work, so I had a 3 hour lunch. I was going through a stop sign, and knowing it was near a school, I did a full stop. The cop was no where to be seen, but when he saw me, I was going 15 through the intersection. Well, yeah...I had sped up to move through the intersection. Duh. So I got the ticket, paid it and did traffic school again. I was involved in a hit and run this weekend, on Manchester Ave, right across from Disneyland, but that's a whole other story.
Originally Posted By beamerdog mater4, we had a runner in our office who sped like crazy. She came from a family of cops and had a FOP sticker on her car and also some kind of id that she carried. She was stopped a lot but Never got a ticket. She's now on our local police force. Yes, I remember now being stopped for rolling through a stop sign 2 blocks from my house with my kids who were at that time very little. I told them that they absolutely had to remain silent. I admitted to the cop that I had transgressed, he looked at my two kids with eyes as big as saucers and lips sealed and just gave me a verbal warning. He must have figured that being embarrassed in front of my kids was punishment worse than a ticket.
