You got Ticketed.........

• Belly35

  

  How many traffic violation have you received?
  How many years have you been driving?
  What to explain any of the violation when and where?
  
  
  I've been driving age 16 for 52 years my last ticket 77 North Arlington Road was 20 years ago.
  
  Four car accidents ..
  1 garage truck (no brakes busted line), 1 bread truck (he pull out I had no where to go) , 1 fence/ mail box (drunk) , 1 Lake Erie (drunk)
  
  One motorcycle accident
  drop my Norton 750 an skidded almost into a cop car, hit a manhole cover and gravel, just lost it doing maybe 40mph
  
  Three speeding
  Drag racing down W. Tusc. Canton
  Bear in the air in Wooster
  Bear in the air 77 North Arlington road
• QuakerOats

  A lot ..... for speeding; and a lot of warnings .......for speeding. No actual tix in the last 6-8 years, just warnings.
• justincredible

  

  I've been pulled over several times, only once did I get a ticket. The ticket was for speeding, I think I was doing 78 or so in a 65 on I70 over a 4th of July weekend. I was pulled over once for expired tags, but I was on the way to the BMV to renew so he just followed me there and let me go.
  
  I also received a parking ticket once, the day after my birthday, because my tags had expired and I only had street parking at my old house. I was pretty annoyed at that one.
• BR1986FB

  Haven't got an actual ticket in about 3 years (knock wood) but within a month period I got nailed for those stupid camera violations 3x's.
  
  Got hit for 70 & 69 in a 50 mph zone going to and coming back from the same place within an hour. Very deceptive in that the speed limit on Rt 11 is 70 mph until right before East Liverpool, where it drops down to 50 mph. By the time you come around that curve and see the 50 mph sign, it's almost too late and didn't see the police officer until I was right on him.
  
  These things suck in that they are a flat rate $100 & $150 a pop but you don't get points on your license. All three times I was driving the actual speed limit (70 mph) and it suddenly dropped down to 50-55. Needless to say I'm much more attentive when I drive through these areas now.
• like_that

  

  I have received about 10 tickets in DC, and I have only had to pay for one of them for having my car parked on the street sweeping side, because I forgot to move it. Most of my tickets came from bullshit camera tickets, which I contested and won every time.
  
  A year ago I received a ticket for not "properly affixing" my registration sticker tags onto my window. That one probably pissed me off the most, because the sticker was on my dash board and they clearly could see my car was registered. Seriously, how petty can you be? My car was registered, and I had the tags clearly visible to demonstrate I was registered, yet this dumb fuck still gave my a ticket, because he wasn't happy with how I was displaying my registration. There was no photo evidence (DC always provides photo evidence to all of their parking tickets) and thus I asked them to provide evidence. They responded 6 months later and said I was found liable, yet they still didn't provide any evidence or an explanation as to why I was wrong. I asked for reconsideration and once again told them to provide evidence. This time 6 months later they determined I was not liable (also provided no explanation). It took them an entire year to determine I was not liable for a fucking egregious ticket.
  
  The lesson in all of this is to fight every ticket you get, unless you know you are clearly in the wrong. If they are going to try and take away your money, then you might as well put them to work. Most of the time it is not worth the man hours for these tickets.
• BR1986FB

  like_that;1865226 wrote:I have received about 10 tickets in DC, and I have only had to pay for one of them for having my car parked on the street sweeping side, because I forgot to move it. Most of my tickets came from bullshit camera tickets, which I contested and won every time.
  
  A year ago I received a ticket for not "properly affixing" my registration sticker tags onto my window. That one probably pissed me off the most, because the sticker was on my dash board and they clearly could see my car was registered. Seriously, how petty can you be? My car was registered, and I had the tags clearly visible to demonstrate I was registered, yet this dumb fuck still gave my a ticket, because he wasn't happy with how I was displaying my registration. There was no photo evidence (DC always provides photo evidence to all of their parking tickets) and thus I asked them to provide evidence. They responded 6 months later and said I was found liable, yet they still didn't provide any evidence or an explanation as to why I was wrong. I asked for reconsideration and once again told them to provide evidence. This time 6 months later they determined I was not liable (also provided no explanation). It took them an entire year to determine I was not liable for a fucking egregious ticket.
  
  The lesson in all of this is to fight every ticket you get, unless you know you are clearly in the wrong. If they are going to try and take away your money, then you might as well put them to work. Most of the time it is not worth the man hours for these tickets.

  I remember reading a previous thread about this topic and your comments about fighting the camera ticket, and winning. When I got these camera tickets, they pretty much had me dead to rights. Had a photo of the front/back of my car and the license plate. I thought you had previously mentioned that you said "I wasn't the one driving the vehicle" or "prove it was me driving" and they had that base covered with the ticket too. There was verbiage that said "if you weren't the one driving the vehicle....blah, blah, blah." Well I wasn't going to report the vehicle stolen and I wasn't throwing my girlfriend under the bus and saying it was her, so I was pretty much stuck.
  
  It sucks how these guys are sneaky about that shit though. They set up these cameras right in the areas that drop down from the speed limit you are (legally) driving in to a much lower speed limit and put the officer right after the area where the speed drops down and, in many cases, he's concealed and you don't see him until after the fact.
• like_that

  

  BR1986FB;1865227 wrote:I remember reading a previous thread about this topic and your comments about fighting the camera ticket, and winning. When I got these camera tickets, they pretty much had me dead to rights. Had a photo of the front/back of my car and the license plate. I thought you had previously mentioned that you said "I wasn't the one driving the vehicle" or "prove it was me driving" and they had that base covered with the ticket too. There was verbiage that said "if you weren't the one driving the vehicle....blah, blah, blah." Well I wasn't going to report the vehicle stolen and I wasn't throwing my girlfriend under the bus and saying it was her, so I was pretty much stuck.
  
  It sucks how these guys are sneaky about that shit though. They set up these cameras right in the areas that drop down from the speed limit you are (legally) driving in to a much lower speed limit and put the officer right after the area where the speed drops down and, in many cases, he's concealed and you don't see him until after the fact.

  They do that in DC too. It's a bullshit scare tactic. The Government cannot force you to incriminate yourself or others. Do you have to appear in court or can you contest it via letter? If letter, contest that shit. The $150 is far less than the amount of man hours they will put into taking your case.
  
  Camera tickets are just a bullshit way for cities to generate revenue, because they are inefficient at spending tax payer money. If everyone contested their tickets, they probably would start to reconsider their use of the cameras.
  
  Edit: I am ready for somebody to take this shit to the Supreme Court. It's going to happen eventually.
• BR1986FB

  like_that;1865229 wrote:
  Camera tickets are just a bullshit way for cities to generate revenue, because they are inefficient at spending tax payer money. If everyone contested their tickets, they probably would start to reconsider their use of the cameras.

  The difference in the number of the first ticket that I got on the way going to my destination and the one I got coming back, about an hour later, was about 70. So, unless those ticket numbers are numbers generated statewide, that cop nailed about 70 other people with his camera in that hour.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Got pulled over in April for running a red light. I was in the intersection turning left when the light was green. When it went yellow/red I yielded to oncoming traffic and turned when it was safe to do so. Cop pulled me over saying I ran the red.
  
  Showed up to court, judge said plead guilty and he'll give me a $0 fine, just pay court fees and I'll be put on 4 mo supervision. Fine, whatever. Problem is court costs were $213. Two hundred and thirteen fucking dollars.
  
  The alternative was to plead not guilty, have a trial, risk the judge finding me guilty, and still having to pay court costs.
  
  Pissed me off.
  
  That was my first ticket in 10 years, too.
• QuakerOats

  $213 in court costs is nuts. Judge must have been going to Hyde Park Grill that night.
• gut

  About 4 tickets and 4 warnings.
  
  And probably at least half a dozen other times I thought I was absolutely nailed - not even pulled over. A friend told me "yeah, well, I have a theory about that"....to which I replied "is your theory that the cop's eyesight was so good that he could tell I was white....thru tinted windows going 80 mph?". No response.
• Belly35

  

  SportsAndLady;1865231 wrote:Got pulled over in April for running a red light. I was in the intersection turning left when the light was green. When it went yellow/red I yielded to oncoming traffic and turned when it was safe to do so. Cop pulled me over saying I ran the red.
  
  Showed up to court, judge said plead guilty and he'll give me a $0 fine, just pay court fees and I'll be put on 4 mo supervision. Fine, whatever. Problem is court costs were $213. Two hundred and thirteen fucking dollars.
  
  The alternative was to plead not guilty, have a trial, risk the judge finding me guilty, and still having to pay court costs.
  
  Pissed me off.
  
  That was my first ticket in 10 years, too.

  my daughter sold her car in Chicago to much of a pain in the ass with all the permits and parking bans.She happy with doing UBer and thinking of a electric scooter for work in good weather. No permits for electric scooter... plus can ride in the bike lane...
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  I would guess I've had about 5-7 tickets in 30 years of driving. One glaring one was a DUI in 1999. Worst mistake I could make. But the silver lining was the no one was hurt and it was a catalyst for a life change.
• Fab4Runner

  

  16 years of driving, three tickets. Two accidents and one for expired tags.
• Heretic

  

  Three tickets (two speed, one expired tags) and four warnings.
• gut

  Interesting that many people have a fairly equal number of warnings and tickets.
  
  Was there any difference in your speed? Mine have all been pretty equal, usually doing about 80 in a 65, except for once I got ticketed doing 80 in a 45 construction zone (that one was scary - thought I might get points which would jack my insurance).
• mcburg93

  

  Four speeding tickets went to court for each one plead no contest and and was out the door cheaper than if I paid the ticket. All of those were in a two year period and on the same stretch of road. Rear ended once cause a guy was not paying attention. I was going a little to fast and hit some ice and hit a car trailer. I was also a passenger in a car of a pretty bad accident that one of my good friend died.
• gut

  FYI, before you go to court trying to reduce the cost of a ticket, check into whether a safe driving course can mitigate (or even expunge) the ticket. I've done that before - about 2 hours and $35 online and the ticket was erased (which means, also, no record/ticket to report to the insurance company to increase rates).
• 4cards

  

  ...40+ years driving & 5 tickets (all speeding). When I was about 17 or 18, I had 2 of those tickets inside of 3 hours (one was in a school zone) and had to go in front of the same judge a week later for both tickets and he took my DL for a week.
• Ironman92

  

  2 tickets in my life.....both were for going 37 mph. One here in town in a 25 mph but other 5 years ago turning off an exit ramp onto a county road. I was going slow looking for unknown destination point. I see a cop parked in a lot and pull in to ask him directions and he turned his lights on and pulled behind me and the fucker gave me a $150 for going 37 mph in some weird 25 mph section that every other car was going by 40-50 mph. Fuck that 16 year old cop from South Point
• Zoltan

  One for expired tags.
  
  One for a red light, did what S&L said above, but I was the second car to push my way through on a left turn. A motorcycle cop was hiding behind a metro parks sign and flew out to nail me.
  
  One for rolling through a stop sign when I was 16.
• GOONx19

  

  One ticket, three warnings, all for 10-20 mph over the limit. No accidents so far. I did pay about $1000 for parking tickets and tows over my 6 years in Lexington. Yesterday I got a $40 ticket for missing my emissions test inspection deadline by one day.
• Zunardo

  One ticket in 42 years - speeding near downtown Columbus, was running late for work. That was in 1985.
  
  Other than that, several courtesy stops over the years stops for having a tail light or headlight out.
  
  My wife got pulled over speeding last year - let off with a warning because she thought we were in a semi-rural 35 zone, turned out to be 25. She told me it was the first time she's been pulled over since 1975.
  
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  To those of you who say "fight it", even if you do get it dismissed, don't you still have to pay court costs?
  
  My son just got a "no seatbelt" ticket in Columbus - $35 fine on paper, but he had to pay almost $100 with the added "court costs". Another way of saying "revenue generation, baby!", I guess.
• Bio-Hazzzzard

  

  Three tickets for speeding. One of them was in Iredell county NC busted in a speed trap doing 90 in a 70. I pulled over long before he got to me waiting and he reduced the speed to 78mph. One week later I get a letter in the mail stating that they (an Iredell county local attorney) can get me off the hook. I accepted, didn't have to appear and got off with inoperative equipment, no points against my license.
• GOONx19

  

  Bio-Hazzzzard;1865374 wrote:Three tickets for speeding. One of them was in Iredell county NC busted in a speed trap doing 90 in a 70. I pulled over long before he got to me waiting and he reduced the speed to 78mph. One week later I get a letter in the mail stating that they (an Iredell county local attorney) can get me off the hook. I accepted, didn't have to appear and got off with inoperative equipment, no points against my license.

  How is it a speed trap if the limit is 70?