Quote :

"Long story short: he runs my license, finds out I'm the weatherman here, asks for a personal fishing forecast and lets me go, telling me just to remove the tinted plastic cover from my plate. "

best finish so far.

6/19/2012 10:25:42 AM

87 in a 70
radar
dodge intrepid
interstate
ticket
South Carolina
Caucasian
24
me and my wife

Driving on an interstate near Spartanburg, SC. A group of about 10 or so cars (including me) had banned together and we were all doing 85-95mph. Since I wasn't at the very front or back of the group, figured if anyone got pulled over it wouldn't be me.

Wrong.

He wasn't up for any chit-chat either. He came up to my window, asked for license and registration and returned to his car quite quickly. Came back after a few minutes told me he clocked me doing 87 but wrote the ticket for 79 and tossed everything through my window at me and quickly walked back to his car. I didn't get a chance to say a thing. Oh well, I took the 79 and just paid the fine. Guess he was trying to meet quota or something

6/19/2012 10:25:52 AM

^Or you were doing 87 in a 70. Could be either one.

6/19/2012 10:32:20 AM

how fast were you going / speed limit: 95 in a 25
how did they catch you: TAG TEAM BACK AGAIN
what were you driving: Bookmobile
highway / city street / back road: that's racist
warning / ticket / arrest / got away (explain how): ticket, to a Charlotte Bobcats game
what country: Uzbekibekistanstan
what race are you: grey
age (or age group): 95
passengers in the car: 124

6/19/2012 10:55:44 AM

just got a citation for running a red light in Cary in the mail, well, it came in the mail to my dad's house back in January

I had changed my address when I renewed my license in December to my Raleigh address.

looked it up online and the video was more than 120 days old, so it was no longer available

$101.95

6/19/2012 11:12:02 AM

These are the only times I have been pulled over:

Quote :

"51 / 35 radar while in motion (Siler City Police) Jeep Wrangler City Street Ticket Siler City, NC, USA White 16 none Late for a meeting regarding a school project. SCPD Officer pulled me in the parking lot of the guy I was supposed to go meet. Lawyer reduced the ticket to Improper Equipment + Court Costs."

Quote :

"66 in a 45 radar while in motion (Pittsboro Police) Ford Mustang City Street transitioning to a back road. Ticket Pittsboro, NC, USA 18 1 passenger Was heading home from State to build a Trebuchet for E101. Turned out in front of a car and juiced it to get up to speed. Speed limit was changing from 35 to 45 to 55 in about 1000'. PPD Officer was two cars behind me. Lawyer reduced the ticket to Improper Equipment with $100 Fine + Court Costs"

Quote :

"99 in a 70 (Hwy 85 Northbound in N. Georgia) radar while in motion from Southbound (Georgia State Police) Ford Mustang Interstate Hwy. Written Warning Lawrenceville, GA, USA 19 0 passengers Was heading back to Raleigh on a Sunday evening after visiting my GF in Snellville. I was the last in line of several cars cruising between 95 and 105 mph. He asked me what I was doing so far from home and let me go with a warning when I told him I was trying to get back to school."

Quote :

"75 in a 55 radar while stopped/speed trap (NCSHP) Ford F150 US 64 Hwy West between crossing Haw River Ticket Chatham Co, NC, USA 20 0 passengers Heading home from NCSU (living at home at the time) one night after being on campus all day. It was around 11:30 and I hadn't seen a car since Apex. I was going down the long grade approaching the river and I was accelerating down the hill because the speed limit changed to 65 for the Pittsboro Bypass about where the trooper was sitting. I never saw him until he cut his lights on to pull me (there was no moon that night)."

Quote :

"81 in a 70 (Hwy 70 Bypass Westbound) Radar while in motion from Eastbound lane (NCSHP) Ford F150 Controlled Access Hwy Verbal Warning Johnston/Wake Co line, NC, USA 28 or 29 2 (wife and son) On my way to a family gathering. NCSHP was doing a U-turn to help a disabled motorist and pulled me in the process. Gave me a verbal warning to slow it down."

6/19/2012 12:47:55 PM

Eh, I don't really have any good stories, but plenty of citations:

charge: 55 in a 35 on Carmel Road in Charlotte, reduced to 49 in a 35
age: 16
vehicle: Volvo 850 station wagon

charge: 69 in a 55 on some state road in western VA, no reduction
age: 21
vehicle: Mazda Millennia

charge: reckless driving - spinning tires through intersection & excessive acceleration. Wasn't speeding though
age: 20
vehicle: Honda Prelude

charge: 55 in a 40 on Centennial Campus, reduced to 9 over by the ADA
age: 23
vehicle: Acura Integra

charge: 80 in a 65 on I-85 S in VA, no reduction
age: 26
vehicle: Acura Integra

charge: 81 in a 70 ( ), no reduction
age: 30
vehicle: Honda S2000

Never had more than 2 points on my license though, and it is currently clean

6/19/2012 3:22:59 PM

70 in a 55
careless and reckless
running a stop sign
no seat belt

Yes, that was all in one stop. It all got reduced to improper equipment though. Hooray small towns.

6/19/2012 3:34:09 PM

Many lawyers contacted me after the accident. Should I ask a lawyer to deal with my case? My insurance may increase a lot right?

6/19/2012 4:30:34 PM

shoot, go to court and talk to the assistant district attorney (ADA). Ask to have the ticket reduced to 9 over (if this is your first offense they will probably do it). One ticket on your record for 9 over the speed limit has no impact on your automobile insurance. If the ADA will not reduce the ticket ask for a continuance and hire a lawyer to get the ticket reduced. Paying a lawyer a few hundred dollars up front is way better than 3 years of increased insurance costs.

6/19/2012 4:35:05 PM

My friend got the speed changed from 15 to 9. But no impact on insurance, you sure?

6/19/2012 4:59:59 PM

9 over carries no insurance points

6/19/2012 5:15:14 PM

Only ticket:

Driving left of center (i was going 56 in a 45).
Unmarked car following me
Dodge Dakota
Rural highway
Ticket (reduced later to improper equipment)
Johnston Co.
White
16 or 17 at the time
none

I was coming home from a friends house late at night on a poorly lit road. It's a winding, curving, fairly narrow road. I didn't realize it was an unmarked car behind me, but he was tailgating me hard. So I sped up a little to get the car off my ass (again, didn't know it was a cop) and I came around a sharp curve...crossed the center line in the process. Not sure why he gave me a left-of-center ticket instead of a speeding ticket. I barely crossed the center line and it was a pretty sharp curve...it's not like I was on a straightaway or anything. The fact that he was tailgating me so badly (even before I was speeding...I started speeding to get him off my ass) makes me think he was running my plates and then just looking for a reason to pull me. Lawyer got it reduced to improper equipment. I wanted to ask him why he didn't give me a speeding ticket...but I didn't wanna say anything else to the cop lol...I was only 16 or 17.

That's the only time I've ever been pulled.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 7:42 PM. Reason : damn...two 81s in a 70 on this page. that's lame. ]

6/19/2012 7:41:13 PM

not speeding (well, sort of), but there is a stretch of Virginia Ave in ATL that connects two popular bar areas and cops have been out full force the last 2 months along that stretch. I was pulled three weekends in a row. Two of the times I hadnt had a drop and they claimed they pulled me for a rolling stop. First time I was guilty, second time they just pulled me to pull me. Didnt get a ticket either time.

One time though I had a few adult beverages with some friends beforehand, nothing crazy, but like 4-5 beers and 2 shots over 4 hours or so. Knew I was fine so I got out did the tests, then he asked me to blow (thats what she said) and I blew a .04... then the guy saw my UT licence plate so we chit chatted about Dooley for 20 minutes (he was a UGA fan). He admitted he had pulled me for going 2mph over the limit , not ticket.

6/19/2012 8:24:29 PM

shoot is my favorite new user

6/19/2012 8:54:25 PM

Quote :

"9 over carries no insurance points"

I'm almost positive you get points for any speeding conviction.

6/19/2012 9:18:31 PM

^^Why?
^U sure?

6/19/2012 9:25:13 PM

I'm fairly certain 9 over doesn't hurt insurance, since I got 12 reduced to 9 so that it wouldn't hurt at all

6/19/2012 9:27:24 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/legal_services/legaldocs/Trafficpoints.htm

It looks like the points don't apply for some of the minor speeding infractions if you've only had one moving violation within a three year period. But then if you got another moving violation I think the points would kick-in retroactively.

6/19/2012 9:35:27 PM

^yeah, esp if your previous violations were reduced tickets (like mine). That's when they all come back and hit your insurance

6/19/2012 9:36:44 PM

^^^^^ Correct; in NC, a conviction of 9-over results in 2 insurance points (not to be confused with license points). All companies are regulated by law to not raise your rates for less than 3 total insurance points. Therefore, a single 9-over conviction within a 3-year period doesn't affect your rates. If you get any other moving violation within a 3-year period, you will then break that 3-insurance point threshold and be charged for both of them (i.e., if you get two 9-over tickets within a 3-year period, your rates will increase to reflect your total of 4 insurance points. If you get a 9-over and, say, a 15-over, I believe that would be a total of 5 insurance points, and your rates will increase slightly more.)

If you got, say, a 15-over ticket, then a year later got a 9-over ticket, you would only then have to wait 2 more years for your rates to go back to "normal" (assuming no other infractions)--the 15-over ticket would not be chargeable after 3-years, and the single 9-over ticket would be non-chargeable because you would be below the 3-total point threshold.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM. Reason : ^^ correct]

6/19/2012 9:38:14 PM

mdozer73, you left out the time we got pulled in your mustang in Garner at about 130am for going through that intersection at speed limit and catching air after hitting that bump in the road.

6/19/2012 9:39:21 PM

i stand corrected.

i guess i was thinking about improper equipment. that's what i got my 70 in a 55 knocked down to.

[Edited on June 19, 2012 at 9:45 PM. Reason : but i hear wake county won't do improper equipment anymore]

6/19/2012 9:43:35 PM

69 in a 55
rear-facing radar (in motion)
chevy malibu
264 just outside Manteo
ticket
lol
lol
late 20s
1 passenger

Cop pulled out in front of me, plugging away at about 75. I sped up a bit, but he was still slowly pulling away from me. He then slammed on brakes and pulled onto the shoulder, I slowed down and drove by, he pulled back out behind me and pulled me over.

Ended up going to court, was essentially just the Asst. DA sitting at a desk reducing tickets to 9 over. All they care about is the money.

6/19/2012 9:49:39 PM

I've only been pulled over once as the driver.

42 in a 25
radar
88 Ford Bronco II
back road, 3 blocks from my house
got away
USA
white
17 years old
0 passengers in the car

Basically I was on my way home from school. I left early because I had the flu, and had thrown up in school. Unfortunately, on my way home, my stomach started telling me that it was about to come out the other end. Being less than a mile from home, and thus, a toilet, I went as fast as I could while still trying to be reasonable about it. When I saw the lights behind me, it just made things twice as bad. I literally thought I was going to shit my pants. I was making exit strategies to just hop out, drop trow, and make ass gravy all over the pavement. The cop luckily hurried up in approaching my vehicle, at which point he noticed that a) I was pale as a ghost, b) I was sweating profusely. Before he said much of anything, I held up my ID and said "Officer if you have to give me a ticket I completely understand but please follow me to my house and do it there so that I can get to a bathroom!"

He shook his head and said "where do you live?" At which point I told him, "three blocks, I promise."

He told me he was going to follow me there to make sure I wasn't shitting him (pun fully intended, I suppose). Off we went. I got out of my car, made a b-line for the bathroom, and when I came out (feeling much better, I might add), the cop was nowhere to be found.


Interestingly enough, about a week later there was a knock at the door. My Dad answered, and it was the cop. He was off duty, and he had his rod with him. He was asking permission to fish the lake on our property. He did, and caught the largest bass (about a 12 pounder) that ever came out of that lake.

6/19/2012 10:47:17 PM

Quote :

"i guess i was thinking about improper equipment. that's what i got my 70 in a 55 knocked down to. [Edited on June 19, 2012 at 9:45 PM. Reason : but i hear wake county won't do improper equipment anymore] "

True statement. Wake County hasn't done improper equipment in at least 10 years. I don't know how much longer before that.

Improper eq is a non-moving violation--it's more akin to a parking violation or some other city code violation. Certain things, I believe, can be written up as either moving or non-moving. Other times, they'll reduce moving violations to non-moving stuff even if weren't doing the non-moving violation.

People have this idea that they need to prove their speedometer was off or something to get the improper equipment, but usually that has nothing to do with it. It's just a catch-all non-moving violation that they can give you where you don't get insurance/license points, they make a quick buck and move on to the next case, and the lawyers cash in a little. Everyone is, if not happy, at least able to live with the outcome.

Hell, I've actually gotten a big speeding ticket reduced to a seatbelt ticket, even though I had my seatbelt on. Nobody gives a shit, it's not about justice or upholding the law or whatever...it's a money-making operation.

6/19/2012 11:08:40 PM

Pulled over: 10; Speeding Tickets: 4; Seatbelt Tickets: 1; Expired Registration Tickets: 1; Warnings: 2

~60 in a 45 on High Point Road in Greensboro, Guilford County Sheriff
Age: 17, Vehicle: 1979 Chevy Malibu
Result: Nothing, really. Before the cop even got out of his car, he put it back in gear, rolled back up alongside me, shouted out his window "got another call, you're free to go" and sped off.

~51 in a 35, Greensboro (forget what street now), Greensboro PD
Age: 17, Vehicle: 1979 Chevy Malibu
Result: Verbal Warning. He mentioned that because I hadn't had a ticket before he'd let me off.

80 in a 65, I-40 East in Orange County, NC Highway Patrol
Age: 18, Vehicle: 1979 Chevy Malibu
Result: Seatbelt ticket. I was wearing my belt, but the trooper told me that because I hadn't had a ticket before, he'd change it to something that wouldn't raise my insurance. I thanked him.

51 in a 35, Buck Jones Road, Raleigh PD
Age: 25, Vehicle: 1996 Lincoln Mark VIII
Result: Citation. Reduced to 44 in a 35.

62 in a 45, 401/70 North, Raleigh PD
Age: 26, Vehicle: 2003 Mercury Marauder
Result: Citation. Reduced to 54 in a 45. Stupid to not get a lawyer for this one as my insurance went up with 2 9-overs in 13 months.

Exipred Registration, Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh PD
Age: 28, Vehicle: 2003 Mercury Marauder
Result: Citation. Thrown Out after I got the car inspected & updated the registration.

81 in a 65, I-40 East in Wake County, NC Highway Patrol
Age: 28, Vehicle: 2003 Mercury Marauder
Result: Citation. PFJC filed to keep off record.

Pulled over from a stoplight @ intersection of Kent & Western, Raleigh PD
Age: 29, Vehicle: 2003 Mercury Marauder
Result: Nothing. Officer explained that she ran my plate while at the light and it was flagged as stolen, but she realized she had entered one of the numbers wrong. She apologized.

Expired Registration, Merrie Road, Raleigh PD
Age: 30, Vehicle: 2003 Mercury Marauder
Result: Written Warning

77 in a 60, Wade Avenue, Raleigh PD Motorcycle Unit
Age: 30, Vehicle: 2003 Mercury Marauder
Result: James Crouch

6/20/2012 10:18:21 AM

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"mdozer73, you left out the time we got pulled in your mustang in Garner at about 130am for going through that intersection at speed limit and catching air after hitting that bump in the road."

I forgot about that one. WCSD asked me if my car was running ok after I crossed 401/Fayetteville Rd. on 10-10 Rd. going 45 in a 45. I guess he didn't like the fact that the lanes were wavy and my car bumped going through the intersection. He followed us almost all the way up Lake Wheeler before pulling us.

I also got an expired registration and inspection ticket in Goldsboro 4th of July weekend 2 years ago. I got it tossed after I showed the DA proof of correction.

6/20/2012 10:27:43 AM

^^ haha, how do you remember all that?

I'm more like:

Pulled over: probably triple digits
Tickets: I don't know, a dozen or two. Mostly for dumb shit, and most of them dismissed, with almost all of the rest reduced to something very minor.

6/20/2012 9:09:36 PM

Quote :

"90-100/55 they didnt catch me 1977 Pontiac Trans Am every kind of road you can think of no citations, but this one cop from Texas chased me across the country I went from Texas to GA white i was in my early 30's I picked up this semi-attractive run-away bride on the way"

winner lol

6/20/2012 10:31:38 PM

85 in a 55
Cop car parked on the other side of the highway
199x Camry
19-23 in Asheville
Verbal warning
United States
Cracker
16 at the time
0 passengers
Cop knew me, said "You're a good kid, don't do it again."

6/20/2012 10:39:45 PM

Driving 85 on a 55 is still a good kid?

6/20/2012 10:44:06 PM

It is when it's in the country and the cop works at the same skating rink as you do.

Check out this wikipedia article, especially the third paragraph. Basically, we were in the rural south, the cop knew me, and he didn't give me a ticket because he liked me.

6/20/2012 10:48:23 PM

if the court time on your ticket says "between 745am and 3pm" does that mean everyone has to show up at 745? or if i get there at say 9am, is that okay?

5/9/2013 12:31:05 PM

one time i was driving faster than the speed limit and I got in trouble and had to pay money

5/9/2013 12:34:34 PM

........

5/9/2013 1:22:41 PM

cause i'm young and i'm black and my hat's real low

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5/9/2013 2:04:50 PM

Quote :

"between 745am and 3pm"

It means you need to get there between between 745am and 3pm

5/9/2013 3:36:42 PM

^^ do i look like a mind reader, sir? i don't know.

5/9/2013 3:43:18 PM

Whoa. So is this whole section in this song just to make this pun?

"We'll see how smart you are when then K9s come - I got 99 problems but a bitch one"




I hope not because thats literally like half the song.

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5/9/2013 3:49:01 PM