Busted "Speeding Ticket"
Road Master
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From: Cave Creek, AZ
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
Just gotta learn when and where to speed. Get enough tickets, go to enough traffic schools and you'll learn when and where you can get away with it. Gotta pay up in the meantime.
Cruiser
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RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
I've been hearing the "Professional Coutesy" line for some 28 years. PC exists in a lot of professions, I've seen Lawyers and Doctors do it, Dealers do it it with other car dealers and such. But one thing has changed alot, it's just not happening the same way it used to.
If I'm pulled over, there is a reason whyI let that officer know I'm armed, thatsnot PC, but just good common sense and tactics, I don't want to reach for my wallet or papers and get shot. Now if that gets me out of a ticket after a good tongue lashing than call it what you will. Just that these days, a lot of LEO's still write paper and it's way different for me than you. Along with the ticket, comes a report to my department explaining the unfavorable contact with the outside agency, that can be dealt with on a punitive level. So believe me, most of us try to stay inside the same boundaries as everyone else... My 2 cents.
Mike
If I'm pulled over, there is a reason whyI let that officer know I'm armed, thatsnot PC, but just good common sense and tactics, I don't want to reach for my wallet or papers and get shot. Now if that gets me out of a ticket after a good tongue lashing than call it what you will. Just that these days, a lot of LEO's still write paper and it's way different for me than you. Along with the ticket, comes a report to my department explaining the unfavorable contact with the outside agency, that can be dealt with on a punitive level. So believe me, most of us try to stay inside the same boundaries as everyone else... My 2 cents.
Mike
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
I got a speeding ticket 6 mos. ago. 78mph in a 55 zone. Cost $215. Set in a money order for $220! Have not seen any report on my driving record or insurance. And if I get a $5 refund Do NOT cash the check! ! ! ! ! There will be NO record of it.
Tourer
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: NE CT.
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
Personal Cars? 
Yea right. In Ct. their State car is their personal car. Use it for every thing, from food shopping to dropping the kids off at school (and get special at the door parking), to going to the town dump allon the tax payers dime. Hell even their wives drive the damn things. No problem with being pulled over because their brothers recognize the vehicles and just watch'm go by and wave. LEO in Ct. get away with what ever trffic laws they want to break. Friggin free pass. I know there are several LEO on this site, oh well, that's the way it is here. And you wonder why people talk bad about LEO. It's not just the few either who are the bad examples and the rest get blamed. Hell it's all of the CT. State Police.
JMO
Ratkiller
Yea right. In Ct. their State car is their personal car. Use it for every thing, from food shopping to dropping the kids off at school (and get special at the door parking), to going to the town dump allon the tax payers dime. Hell even their wives drive the damn things. No problem with being pulled over because their brothers recognize the vehicles and just watch'm go by and wave. LEO in Ct. get away with what ever trffic laws they want to break. Friggin free pass. I know there are several LEO on this site, oh well, that's the way it is here. And you wonder why people talk bad about LEO. It's not just the few either who are the bad examples and the rest get blamed. Hell it's all of the CT. State Police.JMO
Ratkiller
ORIGINAL: quackhead
leo's do get special treatment. a guy i work with is an leo at nite here in town. he got pulled over in his personal car just an hour ago by a state trooper oninterstate 74 doing 18 over the limit. i asked if he flashed his badgeand he saidhell yeahand it worked....no ticket!!
leo's do get special treatment. a guy i work with is an leo at nite here in town. he got pulled over in his personal car just an hour ago by a state trooper oninterstate 74 doing 18 over the limit. i asked if he flashed his badgeand he saidhell yeahand it worked....no ticket!!
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From: Union County
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
Speed doesn't kill its the sudden deceleration that kills.
As far as overpaying tickets...
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ticket.asp
As far as overpaying tickets...
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ticket.asp
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From: Charleston, SC
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
ORIGINAL: ssc89
I got a speeding ticket 6 mos. ago. 78mph in a 55 zone. Cost $215. Set in a money order for $220! Have not seen any report on my driving record or insurance. And if I get a $5 refund Do NOT cash the check! ! ! ! ! There will be NO record of it.
I got a speeding ticket 6 mos. ago. 78mph in a 55 zone. Cost $215. Set in a money order for $220! Have not seen any report on my driving record or insurance. And if I get a $5 refund Do NOT cash the check! ! ! ! ! There will be NO record of it.
lp
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RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
I only was speeding a little over the speed limit is in some ways like being a little pregnant. Either you did/are or did'nt/are not. If the law bugs ya, seek to have it changed...whatever the law.
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Road Master
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From: New York
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
ORIGINAL: bdaug50
My friend doesn't call them speeding tickets, he just calls them a fee to use the road faster than everyone else.
My friend doesn't call them speeding tickets, he just calls them a fee to use the road faster than everyone else.
As for the LEOs, which I'm definitely not one, so they get a pass now and again for tickets and such, fine with me. A small price for those stepping up to deal with all the **** in our society.
That doesn't mean I agree their job gives the right to be an azzhole.
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Joined: Jun 2007
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From: NW Arkansas
RE: Busted "Speeding Ticket"
yes most cops exceed the speed limit.........why would they do that????......because they can. You too can join this fraturnity and speed, recieve low pay, work sheety hours and all the holidays, have people hate you for no particular reason but call you for help at the drop of the hat over the stupidest crap. Should they speed????......No....But don't you speed freaks sit here and act like you wouldn't do it too if you knew you could get away with it.......cause I ain't buying it for a second!!!!!!!!!!!!!