How many tickets have you had? For what? Did you pay them or go to court?

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

Answers

Just one -- for speeding. I paid it right then and there -- in cash. I later found out that it was probably illegal, but oh well. My name didn't go into the local paper, which is what happens to "criminals" in my town. Yay.

My friend Jamis, on the other hand, gets tickets like you wouldn't believe -- for going something like 50 miles over the speed limit -- he goes to court, represents himself, offers to pay the fine, and requests that the ticket not go on his record. He wins.

He also flirts with the gay judge, though, so does it really count?

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

I've never gotten any driving tickets, but I was once "detained" by military MPs for "trespassing" at the Pentagon while delivering magazines using a boxed sized box... Luckily I was cool cause the security guard was supposed to inform me that special badges where now required to enter all areas of the pentagon, so they let me go, but I'm sure it's in my FBI file now...

Does that count?

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

3 speeding tickets.. in one year. I didn't tell my parents about the first 2 because they were "no big deal". The third time I got a speeding ticket the cop told me that it's very possible that my license will be suspended. I cried all the way home. Not only did I have to tell my parents about the third ticket, but I had to explain to them why I was going to lose my license.

I told them. They were pissed. They called my lawyer (really, he's my uncle). I got a bigass lecture from him. He set up a court date. We went to court. I parked in a no parking zone, because I thought I was going to be late. My uncle worked out a deal with the prosecutors (he's friends with most of them, and I was family afterall) and I had to pay a $250 fine and was under court supervision for 6 months. None of the tickets are on my record. So, when I go to get my renew my license in a couple of weeks, all I have to do is get an eye exam and my picture taken. Wooha!

While I was in court, I got a parking ticket.

I've gotten pulled over a couple of more times for speeding, but didn't receive a ticket either time. Then I got pulled over for not having a front license plate and no rear view mirror. Almost received tickets for those, but got a 10 day warning or something.



-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

I've been pulled over twice; both were written warnings. The first one was for flashing my headlights (who knew?!) and the second was a stop sign violation. I never told my parents about the first one (I got pulled over by a highway patrolman), and I wasn't going to tell them about the second one, but in a small town, you can't really hide anything from them (I got pulled over by a town cop) so they confronted me about it. But it's a warning, for God's sake! Who cares?

I have a friend who got a speeding ticket, took it to court, and won. I thought that was pretty cool.

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

I got summoned for hitting another car. The fucking police officer slipped on the road too but he still summoned me. Not to mention my car was totalled and I could have killed my friends... but still my car hydroplaned... what could I have done??

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

I've never gotten a speeding ticket or any tickets besides parking tickets. I've gotten 3 million of them, because campus parking is so bad I didn't get a permit last uyear and I had to park on the one street semi-close to my dorm. And the city has alternate side parking so everynight i had to move my car from one side of the street to the other when it was a) freezing and b) there werent enough spots...hence the parking tckets

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

Okay, Katie, I've got you beat... I should write it up for my own page... I've gotten TWO speeding tickets in the last WEEK.

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

Well... i got warned once, not a written one, for one of my turn lights being burnt out. The second time I got pulled over for speeding 72 in a 55. I apparently pissed off the county cop because he was about ready to issue another ticket for something REAL minor. I didnt go to court, which i hear i would have just gotten watched or whatever for 3 months, but i paid for the little school shit thing so it wouldnt go on the record. That was a total waste of time. But you can do those things in Illinois

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

The only time I've ever been pulled over, it was because the one headlight was out in my mom's car. I still had a junior license (meaning I couldn't drive between midnight and five am, stupid Pennsylvania laws), and it was 12:30am, but the cop didn't care.

The beauty of living in a small town! I didn't even get a warning!

I'm paranoid though, that I'm going to feel all invincible and fuck up big time.

emmers----mildew

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

I've actually only had my license for two weeks, so no tickets yet. However, I WAS actually pulled over about a year and a half ago when I had my little permit thing. I had driven just slightly over the white line on the express way, so the cop pulled me over - thinking I was drunk. Dumbie. HELLO - my dad was in the car!

Anyway... he and my dad sat outside the car having a laughing fit about the whole thing while I sat in the car seething. Jerk. Anyhow, I didn't end up getting a ticket.

And, just so everyone knows, when you go to court to get off from having the ticket, you usually have to pay the fine still, you just don't get the points on your license [I work in a law office]. But that may just usually be how it is in Michigan. Don't take my exact word for it. :-)

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

Hey, look, Kirsten wrote "Dumbie."

Heh...when I was in high school, a joke that my friend and I had was "You're so dumb you can't spell dummy," because she once spelled it "dumby."

I don't know if Kirsten meant "dummy," but it made me laugh anyway.

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

My boyfriend and I call eachother "Dumbies." Actually pronouncing the B. So I laughed at her saying "dumbie" too. Yes, we're dorks, and yes we do love eachother. :P

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

haha that's hella cute. i am so stealing that now.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

well let's see i think i have got 2 tickets since i've my permit. the first time, i was driving my cousin to the medical for her check-up and she was tired and she was laying down in the backsit without a belt and someway she was playing with a poster that i made and at some stop sign there was cop beside me and he saw something moving in the back and checked on me and i got ticket for it. i was so mad. i payed that ticket but i was mad at my cousin it wasn't exclatly her fault it was mine because i'm older i should have know better. the second time, i was on the highway and i was coming from a party (don't get me wrong i wasn't drung or anything) so there was a light i went throught it but it was orange. and then out from the blue, a cop came to give me a ticket because i went trought a red light but for me it was orange. we argued for a few of minutes but he gave me a ticket anyways i wasn't happy so i went in court and i won. guess i was lucky since it's my story vs his. i guess i was convincing and i had a good face.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

I have never even gotten pulled over and I have been driving for two and a half years (I know it is not that long...but still!):-)

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

my brother got 2 tickets on the same night... bothe speeding.... both on the same road. We got this bigass bridge here (Katie & Eric know aboutthe coleman) well he got pulled on both sides of the bridge. gotta be the most cops rt 17 ever seen in one night...

-- Anonymous, December 13, 2000

I've only ever had a parking ticket (but then, that's after only about 18 months driving). I was going to pay it, in fact I had the check written out and everything, but then I lost the little slip thing that you have to send them along with the money. So I decided not to send it after all and then three months later they sent a red reminder saying that it had to be paid or I would get a fine of £1000. So my parents found out and had to pay. They were not happy.

-- Anonymous, December 13, 2000

I've never gotten a ticket, but I almost got one on Labor two years ago I guess it was. My dad was taking me on the freeway to test me since driver's training did shit on the freeway. And I almost got killed by this truck, so I swerved into the next lane, and some highway patrol pulled me over and yelled at me.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2000

I haven't actually had a ticket, but i have been pulled over before. I was cruising with my girlfriend, in her mother's car, interstate.

So this cop pulls me over, because i had just passed a pub. Which the cop thought we had just left, so i had to do the breathalyzer test. Naturally, i was zero, cause i hadn't been in the pub. This wasn't enough, so he asked for my lisence. Which i did not have on my?

"Did you know it's a $68 fine for that?" No, really? I think he let me off with a warning because i was from Victoria (it was a Sydny cop).

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2000

I've never gotten a ticket (I've also only ben driving for 3 months). I'm bound to get one soon, though, as I don't pay attention to my speedometer, because I intently drive at whatever speed I feel like going, whether it be 112, or 35. Also, I don't really pay attention to stop lights. Well, scratch that, I do, but if the light's red and there's no one around, I don't see a deal about running the damn thing.

-- Anonymous, December 23, 2000

Ugh, tickets. How fucking annoying. The first one i got a few weeks ago for running a stop sign, and the bastard also wrote me up for "obstruction of a license plate" b/c i have a trailer ball. I mean, how many people have those? Then a few days ago i went through the wrong end of a Taco Bell exit, freaked out, and backed my car right into the sign, taking out my taillight. The cops were called and I bet those Taco Bell fuckers reported it to my insurance too! Which means another point on my record. Surprisingly, i've never been caught for driving my friends around (which is illegal in CA for the first 6 months) and hopefully i'll make it to January 21st!

-- Anonymous, December 28, 2000

My Brother was driving and we had just knocked over some cones with the door of the truck so what not a big deal, we had also knocked over some barriers and egged some signs. We went back to my cousins house and came back to town which is a 25 min. ride we are driving through town and the cop pulls us over for knocking down the cones what the f*** we hurried to put our seat belts on. We got a warning if the cones were knocked over again we would have to put them back up. The only shit is there is only one cop in this whole town. Later a few days after talking to one of my cousins friends my cousin said the cops were looking for our truck. This friend we had also raced and beat we were going 90 and beat their ass. but I don't think they were lying. The next week was deerhunting and we had to go throught that town. Big Shit The cops are gay, they have to have a reason to pul you over. Why did he pull us over?

-- Anonymous, February 04, 2001