Glad it was just a ticket. I got my first ticket after 33 years of driving for the same thing. I swear I stopped. My 24 year old dtr got stopped last summer for speeding, they cop let her go with a warning but ticketed her for not having her proof of insurance in her car. She worked for our car insurance company! First I knew was when she got a letter in the mail saying they were going to suspend her license for not having insurance. She never went and showed her proof. She assured me she would take care of it. 3 weeks later she got a notice saying they were going to suspend her license plates too. Once again she said she would take care of it. NOT. 2 days before Thanksgiving we get a call from her, not her cell # with that somber MOM, can you come down to the police station and bring 300.00! I am what happened, just come please. So my husband and I drive the 45 minute drive with my heart in my mouth wondering what was going on. On her way home from work the cop ran her plates and saw the suspension and arrested her. This town has nothing better to do, she wasn't stopped for any other reason. I was so mad at her. All she had to do was go to the court house when she was first stopped and show her proof of insurance. She has always had insurance. So we had to get an attorney and went to court twice. Once to show her proof if insurance to reinstate her license and plates and the other for the suspensions. We got a real tough prosecutor and he wouldn't drop the charges but if we paid a bigger fine he would reduce it to driving without her license on her and 3 months supervision. The fine alone was 500.00. Now I am so worried she will get a ticket during the supervision period. She has never been in trouble before but now I am on her all the time! lol |
Patti: wow, what an ordeal. It is so frustrating when good kids make an honest mistake and then they are made an example out of when there are bigger problems, and real criminals out there to deal with. |
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My first and only ticket was for "running a red light" which was wrong, wrong, wrong. I had started into the intersection on greed, it blipped yellow for a split second and then red! Anyway, the officer came to court and agreed that they had checked and the light was faulty. I gave him a very big smile. |
I was 17 when I got my first ticket. Speeding down the highway. I was going 77 in a 55 and got a $170 ticket. This was 17 years ago. I have never got a speeding ticket again, but I did get ticketed for an unregistered vehicle (I had NO idea my registration ran out) and 2x for an expired inspection sticker, in MA. (those are $50 tickets). None of those were moving violations and come on, who really LOOKS at their sticker to notice it expired? At least in NH its the same month as your birthday for everything so you know to do it. HAHA I have had nothing in almost 10 years ... hoping to keep it that way!! :) I do have a bit of a lead foot though! |
I got pulled over when I was 16 for an illegal u-turn (even though I didn't do a complete 180*, I just went around a median!) but got a warning. I got pulled over again when I was 20 for speeding. He hadn't actually clocked my speed so he wrote it for 10 over (I was actually doing 25 over! :eek: I was late for work.) so I didn't argue w/ him. :D Been clean since then (4 years). |
(knock on wood) I've not gotten a ticket yet, (well parking ticket, but that doesn't count). I'm 22 and if I were your daughter I would also not appreciate the giggles :p I think I'll have a heart attack the first time it happens. lol I remember several of my mother's tickets though... heheh |
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