I Got My First-EVER Traffic Ticket!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:59pm

I wish it could have been for something exciting (you know, memorable)...but I was just a lowly passenger who actually did forget to put on his seat belt.

Even so, this is getting framed and put on my wall!

Crazy, much?

[Anakela]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:07pm

Hee- ok, i would never start my car unless the passengers all had seatbelts on, but that ticket is still pretty funny...

You wanna talk lame tickets, though? I've received two parking tickets in my driving career:

- one for not paying the meter (I'd locked my purse in the car and had no money to pay the meter, and was waiting for AAA. Then to make matters worse, the officer that wrote my ticket then slim jim'd my car open for me!)

- one for parking on the streets of Beverly Hills between 2-5am (or 2:30-5am, whatever those lame BH overnight parking hours are).

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:15pm

I just received a parking ticket, and I am actually going to court to dispute it! I knew I was parked legally, and I was so incensed that I walked to a nearby conveniece store, bought a disposable camera, and took several photographs to document the parking signs. My court date is in two weeks. Wish me luck!

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:16pm

Yankee, do you usually put your seatbelt on?

edit: madbrian, if you actually went to a convenience store to buy a camera to take pictures, there had to be a part of you that felt that parking there may be illegal. Why exactly would you do that?

Updated On: 8/7/07 at 02:16 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:19pm

I went to the convenience store AFTER I had returned to my car later in the day to find the ticket.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:22pm

SweetQ, yes, I always put my seat belt on, when I'm driving and when I'm in the shotgun seat.

There goes $90 down the drain.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:34pm

ah, I understand now madbrain.

Yankee, that stinks but don't worry about it. Pay it and then let it go; it's a learning experience. Think about it this way- in your lifetime, I bet you have thrown away more than 90$ worth of food.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:37pm

Yankee- that's already 1 Broadway show...ouch !.. sorry to hear that

J*

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:43pm

my car starts screaming if someone doesn't put on a seatbelt

[James885]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:48pm

Here's a lame ticket for you: The other day I got stopped for having an "illegal licence plate cover". The officer claimed that he couldn't read the plate through the cover and wrote me a ticket for 60 bucks! I'm thinking of going to traffic court to dispute it because when I got out and looked, I could clearly read the numbers on the plate with the cover on and so could my mom, my dad, and my 2 friends, who happened to be with me when I got stopped.

Talk about a lame ticket....

Updated On: 8/7/07 at 03:48 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:51pm

James, take a picture of it, and go to court. You'll most likely get out of the ticket....obviously he had a quota.

[James885]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 3:59pm

Elphaba, that's exactly what my friend said about the police having a quota. They must have not had anything better to do that day.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:02pm

exactly, and you must be a good guy, as your birthday is the same day as my mothers.......

go to court.....it's bogus that a cop did that. Here in the desert the heat tends to make plastic fade, so often they can't be read...and they don't get ticketed.

[DG]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:13pm

In California, any license plate cover is illegal - even though they are sold all over the place (even WalMart!)

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:18pm

really? I didn't know that...there are so many of them here.

[DG]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:20pm

Elph - most people don't. And really, why would anyone think it's not OK when you can literally get them everywhere!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:23pm

true, no cover here, just U of Oregon frames. Since my last car had so many damn stickers, this time, just the frame covers and a very small sticker on the back window......"ah feels so durn elegant"

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:28pm

Yeah, in S.C. License Covers are illegal as well.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:01am

Updated On: 8/8/07 at 12:01 AM