Have you ever talked your way out of a ticket?

[Tom_Foolery]

I did once, but it didn't take much talking. I had gone to a really small town in Tennessee to visit my grandmother in the hospital. Late that night, I was pulled over for speeding. The officer asked me why I was out so late. I explained about my grandmother. He asked me her name. As it turned out, he knew her. On top of that, his wife was a nurse at the hospital; and she was the one taking care of my grandmother. He let me go.

[Heyo]

1. I talked my way into a second one once....

does that count?

[TrogL]

2. Being chased down the highway by a pickup truck

and blew threw a speed trap.

I was so rattled the cop had to calm me down.

[ET Awful]

3. I have a few times. . . . .

Back in my days in the National Guard. . . . driving like a bat out of hell when I was late for a drill :).

You'd be surprised how quickly a cop lets you go if you're in uniform or even if you're in civilian clothes, but have a uniform on a hanger in the back seat :).

[WVhill]

7. I got out of one that way too.

As I reached into my wallet to get my driver's license, the trooper saw my military ID card. No ticket! Just a caution to slow down because of the little old ladies out driving.

[Commendatori]

4. Never been pulled over (n/t)

[tsakshaug]

19. That is my line

Never got a ticket or been pulled over. This upsets my wife when she complains about my driving, and I point out her 3 tickets and two talked out of

[RoadRunner]

5. I got stopped by a cop that was my best friend in high school

Hadn't seen him in years. We had a nice chat, caught up on old times, it was fun. He still gave me the ticket.

[Kahuna]

6. No. But I've found it very useful to make sure I'm wearing lipstick..

while driving. I think cops have an unwritten rule about women wearing lipstick. :D

[Exultant Democracy]

8. I have never gotten a ticket

I have been pulled over 5 or six times, but I always managed to get off (I even got a New Jersey State Trooper to let me off the hook for going 80, and from what I hear they are the worst.)

[northernsoul]

9. a few tips:

1) If they ask if you know how fast you were going, SAY NO
2) You don't have to roll the window all the way down, just low enough to speak through
3) Be polite, but don't brown-nose

[EndersGamer]

12. Actually, I have found that

just the opposite is true.

Generally, the first thing I say is "You got me!"

When he asks if I knew how fast I was going, I answer "yes, 85 mph."

Then he asks if I know what the speed limit is - "yessir, 55 mph."

Then he usually gives me a warning and lets me go.

Remember, that everytime a statie or traffic cop stops you, he doesn't know who you are, or what you are going to do. Every stop he makes is filled with tension for him. Often the best thing that will happen to him on a traffic stop is an extended argument from a civilian, the kind that would give anyone a headache.

Do yourself a favor, admit your guilt, show you are willing to take your punishment (after all, you really did know that you were speeding, didn't you). That takes the potential tension out of the confrontation for him, and you are likely to reap a benefit from that.

No, I'm not a cop, not related to one. I have been stopped a time or two.

[Norbert]

10. Yes

There is a stretch of US 50 nearby that the local villiage always sets up for radar. I usually set my cruise control for 48mph below the 50mph speed limit.

One day I set the cruise control and went through there on Christmas eve. Sure enough radar was set up and as I passed he started his cruiser and pulled me over. He said I was clocked at 60mph. I told him about setting up me cruise control to avoid going over the speed limit on US 50. He ended up saying have a nice holiday and keep it slowed down.

When he was clocking me another car had passed me up. I'm thinking his radar caught the other car instead of me. I'm pretty sure the trooper was aware of that too. He really didn't give me much of an arguement.

[amazona]

11. maybe

I've never gotten a ticket, knock on wood, even though I've been pulled over many times. I am not a smooth talker, but I am a blonde so there's that. Another friend of mine, also a blonde, says it works if you cry, but I don't know how to cry on command. I just sit there sort of cringingly. Maybe they feel sorry for me. I am quite socially awkward around LEOs.

[mulsh]

13. not quite

when I was around 12 years old I was clocked riding my bike down a steep hill at 55 mph. Right past my grammar school. A cop clocked me, met me at the bottom of the hill and started writing out a ticket. I started to whine about it but he said," kid you'll be telling people about this for the rest of your life." my folks were so amused they didn't even make me work off the ticket. it was the only ticket I have ever recieved.

[Plaid Adder]

14. Yes.

Actually, what I did was fess up immediately and admit my guilt. Apparently he was so impressed by my honesty that he only gave me a warning instead.

So, I talked my way out of a ticket by not talking my way out of it.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[ronnykmarshall]

15. Welllllll sort of .......

I did use my mouth. :evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

16. Yes, at least three.

Long stories, but it does help to be a blue-eyed blonde.

[Lorien]

17. Yep. Pulled the dumb blonde thing

when I was 24. Fortunately, I'm busty and was wearing a little nothing pink dress, which added to the effect. I pleaded ignorance of the law, and the cop believed me (who wouldn't in that getup?)and let me off with a warning.:spank:

[phillybri]

18. My wife's done that a couple of times...

Used the old "undo 2 buttons while the cop is approaching" routine...

Brilliant...

[geniph]

20. No. I've only been pulled over twice

and both times, I was caught dead to rights and told the truth, that I hadn't really been paying attention to my speed, just keeping up with traffic. I got a ticket both times (20 years apart), but the magistrate knocked both of them down, so one ticket was $30 and the other was $33.

They did screw up my insurance rates a lot for awhile, though. Thankfully, that second one was five years ago, so my rates are back to (relatively) normal now.

[KinkyDem]

21. No Officer, you may NOT search my car ...

I got pulled over for passing an unmarked car in OBX MANY years ago. It was Park land and Park Police that pulled me over.

Cop one comes to the car and asks how fast I was going. I tell him honestly "A little too fast." He apprciated that. Get's us out of the car, looks around (never got in) tells us to get back in and roll up the windows as the bugs are pretty bad.

I suppose I should mention the two bags of grass in the glove box .. :eyes:

So Cop 2 (hence forth refered to as Gomer) walks up and ORDERS us out of the car. Starts asking all sorts of stupid questions that noone in their right mind would answer honestly. And finaly starts this mantra of "Are you or are you NOT going to let me search your car."

Well, at that point I had pretty well had it. I was busted. I copped to it. I was ready and able to pay the fine before I lef the island ... oh and the fact that I had two bags of grass in the glove box I stuck to my guns. "No officer, I am not giving you permission to search my car. I was speeding. You caught me. I'm happy to pay the fine before I leave the island but I would really just prefer to be on my way now."

Welll ... Gomer had other ideas.

So Gomer says to me "What I can do is called an arms reach search and that's what I'm gonna do." So he starts to search around uder the seats and such.

At one point he calls out to us "I found what I believe to be a roach." Well, I KNEW there was NO roaches in the ashtray. I pitch them to the good karma faeries to help ensure my stash in times of need. SO I say "Well, why don't you bring that out here so we can ALL see it 'cause I'm telling you whatever you found is NOT a raoch."

Gomer grumbles ... what an amature.

A minute goes buy and he stands up with my ashtray in one hand and the other hand clenched. He stares me right in the eye ... holds out his hand and opens it ... and says in his toughest voice "I found a seeeeeeeed!"

OK, like I said, grass in the glove box and I was pretty high (yeah, I know boo me for driving) but I'm starring at his hand and that seed and all I can think is "That ain't a pot seed." and I knew better than to say it. So my buddy, who incidentaly is a foot taller than Gomer and standing LITERALY right behind him, looks over his shoulder and says in his best stoned college student voice, "Oh ... Maaaannnnn ... that's an apple seed."

And no shit, that cop said "D'oh!"

Then! Get this! He goes back into the car to try to put the ashtray back and SPILLS it all over the floor. There we are two big dudes crowding behind this cop on all fours with is ass sticking out of the front door of a 77 Olds Delta 88 picking cigerette butts up off of the floor board of my car saying "Oh .. maaann ... you spilled ashes all over my floor ... oh ... mannn."

We were alowed to leave.

It is the only time in my life I was able to so shame a cop in doing his job so badly that he just walked away.

Cop 1 came back. Gave me a 65 in a 55 cause I had simply passed him and was bringing my speed back down to just above the SL. I wrote a check and dropped that thing in the mail before I left the island.

[Mick Knox]

25. Many times

I would have to say at least 10. 3 in the past year and a half. DOnt know why, but I get out of them.

[SarahB]

22. I've never gotten one

I've been pulled over about 5 or 6 times in the course of my 16 or so driving years and not once. :7 I never said anything, so I don't know.

[RPM]

23. Change the topic

I got out of the ticket by acting very, very lost and changing the topic to how to find where I was going. Cop completely forgot why he had pulled me over and wound up giving me directions.

[Spirochete]

24. I tried

the cop said I was going 53 in a 35 zone. I told him I was dyslexic. He kind of laughed, then said "here, sign on this line with the x on it. either forward or backward - whichever's easier."