Crazy traffic citations

I got a ticket once (I think I was 18 give or take a year) for turning right on red coming off the highway. Got to the stoplight, left is home, right was gas that I didn’t want to get in the AM. It was a Saturday night, 2:30ish. Cop comes in hot into the gas station angled beside my hood lights flashing. Whole thing of why I pulled you over blah blah. 

He lightens up a bit and let’s me pump and pay. Then issues the ticket. I decide to fight the ticket — even though I clearly broke the law — on principle. Won. Judge said the policeman needed to use common sense and staying at the intersection at that time of night was more dangerous. The no turn on red sign was replaced 8 days later with a giant neon light up one with turn on red permitted after stop etc. 

The cop was definitely hoping to get a drunk, underage drinker. But I was stone sober that night. 

Court costs sucked, but getting the sign changed and no ticket was a big enough win for me.

^^^I have to ask--did your dad help you out on fighting the ticket?

posted by vball10set

^^^I have to ask--did your dad help you out on fighting the ticket?

No, he had a friend do it. 

Got a ticket for throwing water (intentionally) on my cousins boat when I took off a jet ski. The officer listed the offense as "wetting down." 

When I was new to driving, I didn't know about the annual license tag renewal. So I drove around for about ten months with expired tags. I was finally caught driving home from my girlfriends house at like 2am. Pulled over, got a ticket, told me to fix it and send in proof of insurance when I mail in my ticket payment (I couldn't find my insurance card at the time) and that was that. This was about 15 miles from my house. So I'm driving home and another cop starts following me closer to my house til I'm about a mile from home then he proceeds to pull me over. He says weren't you just pulled over for expired tags, which I was, and then asks why I'm still driving the car then. The first cop didn't tell me not to drive it home. It was 2am, what the fuck was I going to do? But this cop makes me call my dad to come pick me up and don't move the car until tomorrow when the tag had been fixed. Fucking slow ass night in Miami county. 

posted by friendfromlowry

When I was new to driving, I didn't know about the annual license tag renewal ......The first cop didn't tell me not to drive it home. It was 2am ...  But this cop makes me call my dad to come pick me up and don't move the car until tomorrow when the tag had been fixed. 

Wow - they're grumpy on the night shift after Jolly Pirate closes!.

I was more fortunate.  Had a lady cop pull me over 25 years ago, said my tag had been expired for two months.  I was stunned, kept mumbling to myself that I knew I'd paid the renewal.  I happened to have my checkbook with me, and sure enough, there it was in the register - paid it three months prior.  The cop saw the entry and said "I believe you, I know you wrote the check in plenty of time.  But the fact is, you don't have the sticker right now, and you need to take care of this ASAP", and she gave me a courtesy warning to rectify immediately, which I did.

P.S.   I found the check a few weeks later.  I'd signed the original registration and sealed it with the check, put a stamp on the envelope - and filed it away with the bills that had actually been paid.  Just call me a flouter.