Thread: So I got a ticket yesterday...

I got pulled over passing someone 80 in a 70 mph zone. This was my second ticket in 3 months, looks like I need to stop speeding. Now here is the good part...

The Texas State Trooper who always pulls me over is Officer Donald Johnson. I'm not making this up. Humorless SOB as well. So, knowing I was going to get a ticket I wait until he gives me the ticket to sign and asked him,

"Hey, Don, where is Detective Tubbs today?"

He gave me a look, told me that he didn't know a Detective Tubbs, and told me to drive safely.


Do any of the rest of you have a ticket story or how you got out of a ticket story?

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

I got pulled over passing someone 80 in a 70 mph zone. This was my second ticket in 3 months, looks like I need to stop speeding. Now here is the good part...

The Texas State Trooper who always pulls me over is Officer Donald Johnson. I'm not making this up. Humorless SOB as well. So, knowing I was going to get a ticket I wait until he gives me the ticket to sign and asked him,

"Hey, Don, where is Detective Tubbs today?"

He gave me a look, told me that he didn't know a Detective Tubbs, and told me to drive safely.


Do any of the rest of you have a ticket story or how you got out of a ticket story?

Two words. Military ID.

Originally Posted by BigDaddyBronco

I got pulled over passing someone 80 in a 70 mph zone. This was my second ticket in 3 months, looks like I need to stop speeding. Now here is the good part...

The Texas State Trooper who always pulls me over is Officer Donald Johnson. I'm not making this up. Humorless SOB as well. So, knowing I was going to get a ticket I wait until he gives me the ticket to sign and asked him,

"Hey, Don, where is Detective Tubbs today?"

He gave me a look, told me that he didn't know a Detective Tubbs, and told me to drive safely.


Do any of the rest of you have a ticket story or how you got out of a ticket story?

Ive only got one. My bish sister in law used my radar detector without telling me. I was going like 20 over. SOB had me dead to rights. I even went to court to fight it, 3 times, and the pig,,,,, I mean Cop didnt show, and they still made me pay, but tacked on some court fees. the SOB's......

Originally Posted by Davii

Two words. Military ID.

That actually works against you In Clarksville TN!

Originally Posted by claymore

That actually works against you In Clarksville TN!

There's quite a few places it does, you just have to know where, and where not, too hand it over with your license.

Near a military base? Keep it in your wallet, and if asked, deny.

Originally Posted by claymore

Ive only got one. My bish sister in law used my radar detector without telling me. I was going like 20 over. SOB had me dead to rights. I even went to court to fight it, 3 times, and the pig,,,,, I mean Cop didnt show, and they still made me pay, but tacked on some court fees. the SOB's......

Did you "BLOW" your way out of the others?

Originally Posted by cswil

Did you "BLOW" your way out of the others?

No, One time the dude had the same last name as me. Theother was a few weeks ago, and it was a brother, so I talked jive to him, and he let me off. And the other was the kidnapping thing. and they didnt care how fast I was going.

I didn't get out of a ticket as much as I bought my way out. A Mexican cop took 300 pesos(30 bucks) and let me go on my way.

Originally Posted by Slick7

I didn't get out of a ticket as much as I bought my way out. A Mexican cop took 300 pesos(30 bucks) and let me go on my way.

When I was stationed in Yuma that was almost an every weekend occurence. We'd drive down there all the time, and if you;re driving around in Mexicali or any other border town with american plates, expect to get pulled over.

Originally Posted by Davii

When I was stationed in Yuma that was almost an every weekend occurence. We'd drive down there all the time, and if you;re driving around in Mexicali or any other border town with american plates, expect to get pulled over.

For sure. I've still got Colorado tags on my truck. I constantly get stopped at military checkpoints. They're always cordial. I think basically they are looking for guns and drugs. It helps that I can speak just enough spanish to get me through it.

Cry like a baby!

Haven't been pulled over for a really long time. I was probably 21 or so and it was late at night and I was hustling down Wadsworth to go pick up the ex from his job at Coors. Arvada cop nabbed me....gave him a good story and a few tears and he let me go with a warning. Being a woman is good!

Originally Posted by GEM

Cry like a baby!

Haven't been pulled over for a really long time. I was probably 21 or so and it was late at night and I was hustling down Wadsworth to go pick up the ex from his job at Coors. Arvada cop nabbed me....gave him a good story and a few tears and he let me go with a warning. Being a woman is good!

I have a few poilce officers as clients.

One day, one of them is in paying his bill, and he asks to speak with me. I come to the front and he tells me that I owe him big-time.

I was totally confused and asked him why.

He tells me that a couple weeks ago he pulls over this young lady for failure to yield at a stop sign and she started giving him this sob-story of how it was an accident and she wouldn't do it again, and how her husband would just kill her if she got a ticket. . .. because he was an insurance agent.

Of course, she hadn't mentioned any of this to me, so I had a fun time later asking her about when the last time she got pulled over was.

I was a little disappointed in how skillful she was in trying to hide this. She turned beet-red when I told her that the cop that pulled her over was my customer.

I don't have good got a ticket story. I did write several tickets one Christmas day. I would say most of the people didn't like me telling them to have a Merry Christmas as I handed them the ticket.

Originally Posted by Davii

Two words. Military ID.

Bingo. I've gotten out of a few tickets for that very reason...one of which was 126 in a 65 in my '94 Cobra with a 408 and KB 2.2 Blowzilla twin screw blower on the 101 and 75th Ave in Glendale, AZ. I was actually driving back to my house from my future ex wife's because my dad's ex wife slipped in the shower and knocked her head on the tub. My dad wasn't home and the ambulance was taking its time (she couldn't drive herself, obviously). I handed him my Military ID, told him what was going on, and was escorted back to my house by the DPS officer.


In Abilene though, the cops don't care. They suck.

Originally Posted by yardog

I don't have good got a ticket story. I did write several tickets one Christmas day. I would say most of the people didn't like me telling them to have a Merry Christmas as I handed them the ticket.

I got a speeding ticket on Thanksgiving day once. For FIVE over. Like I said, don't let cops around military bases know you're in the military.