Ever get a ticket for something really stupid?

[silverlib]

I have gotten a couple of tickets for stupidly speeding.

My seventeen year old got a ticket today. She rolled down her car window while driving down the street and an empty plastic bag flew out and landed on the windshield of a police car. Yep, she got a ticket for littering.

Is that just bad luck? Should I be upset? I just told her I was going to play "Alice's Restaurant" all evening.

[Broken_Hero]

1. I got a seat belt ticket

for putting my seatbelt on while the car was in motion...this is what happened, the short short.

My friend Angel and I get into his car, he starts it, and starts backing out of the parking spot, I am putting my sealt belt on, and Angel is putting his on...he backs up, and as he pulls forward, there was a Highway Patrol men right there, and he hits his lights...we stopped, and the cop gave us both seat belt tickets, because we didn't have them on, while the car was in motion....

[silverlib]

2. That's really bad...

I got one (way back in my younger days) for not wearing a seatbelt, but I didn't wear it on purpose. I was protesting the new law on the basis that laws were to protect us from each other and not from ouselves. Oh, thoses were the days. The ticket back then was a $25.00 fine.

[Broken_Hero]

9. mine was 35 bucks

this happened in Sacramento, CA...I have had bad luck with the Highway Patrol there...:( Seems like I have a magnet for those guys...

[XemaSab]

3. Got a fix-it ticket for a busted headlight

I was driving during the day with my lights on, and I didn't know the headlight was out.

Somehow the signed ticket saying we fixed it musta got lost in the mail, 'cause 2 years later the next we heard it was a 1000+ dollar fine and was about to go to warrent.

We contested it successfully, thought. :D

[astonamous]

4. Got a ticket for "parking"...

steamy windows and all!

Trudy
www.richardpryor.com
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[silverlib]

6. Well, I guess the question is

Was it worth it?

[astonamous]

8. Yes indeedy! ;- )

[LeftyMom]

5. Unsafe crossing

Half a dozen witnesses said that I'd done everything right, the lady whose car plowed into me and my bike swore that she hadn't seen me, on a clear day at an unobstructed intersection after making eye contact with me. I didn't try to get her to pay for my bike, I didn't play up my injuries, I did everything right. I got a ticket in the mail.

The really horrible thing was that I was stuck-to-the-toilet sick the morning to fight it in court and couldn't reschedule except in person so I had to send somebody to pay it to avoid a warrant.

[silverlib]

7. That's just plain wrong...n/t

[deadparrot]

10. I was driving down a four-lane highway,

two lanes in each direction. I was in the right lane, and there was a police car on the side of the road with its lights flashing, pulling over a car. It was mid-December, icy and snowing, so I was paying more attention to the road, going about ten miles under the speed limit. Suddenly, this police car shoots out, turns on his siren and comes after me.

Apparently, if there's an emergency pulled over with its lights flashing, you have to change lanes. And these police officers did a nice little business by sitting on the side of the road (having "pulled over" an empty car) waiting for college students coming home for Christmas break to *not* pull into the left lane. Of course, I only learned this *after* the $150 ticket. It's a class B misdemeanor. I, by not pulling over and going ten miles under was apprently more dangerous than the idiots going 100+ on the ice. :banghead:

[silverlib]

12. And...

waisting his time doing this instead of taking care of traffic that was really endangering other drivers.

I'm normally a huge backer of our police in uniform, but this is not what should be happening in icy weather.

[mark414]

11. sleeping outside when i was homeless

though this is stupidity on the part of law, not me...i got a lot of these...the worst offenders were the San Francisco police

"what do you think you're doing here?"

"i'm sleeping what the fuck do you think i'm doing?!!?"

i never paid a damn one because where the hell else was i supposed to go?

[silverlib]

13. Now that is really wrong...

When I read the subject line, I thought - not stupid "crime," stupid law. I'm glad you didn't pay the fines.

[mark414]

14. most alarm clock cops are none too friendly

but i would like to thank the few who woke me up gently, some even apologizing for waking me up, but having to explain that they had to do their jobs since they had gotten calls - some of them even said you can keep sleeping for a little while but just get out of here soon. but i never slept out in the open, in doorways or on park benches or anything like that - i always found nice hidden spots, and i never understood for the life of me why someone would call the cops and say "hey, there's somebody sleeping! help!"

but thank you to those good cops - i'm sorry there's so many that give you dudes a bad name.

[swag]

15. Loverboy w/Quarterflash. Comped tickets.

Can't get much stupder than a Loverboy/Quarterflash bill.

Not even the Molly Hatchett or Def Leppard comps I got can match Loverboy/Quarterflash for stupidity.

[Richard Steele]

16. She's 17? Don't be upset! It's a learning experience.

Sure it was just an unlikely accident...but the TICKET
turned it into a VALUABLE LESSON
in "you can't be too careful 101", y'know?

[leftofthedial]

17. every damned one of them

(four)

[izzybeans]

18. I got a ticket for following the flow of traffic. During rush hour

after I pick up my son from daycare there is a two lane road that is just wide enough for eastbound traffic to form two lines. Just before the highway exit there is a right-hand turn-lane where cars would merge back into one lane before exiting onto the highway. Well I was on line on the right side and when I came to the right turn I merged left into the left line of cars; well just past the intersection Township police were stepping in front of as many cars as they had time for who had pulled this very maneuver. I was one of them. I got a ticket for unlawful turning; because my car entered into the right turn lane and merged left.

The officer actually told me he wouldn't show up to court if i wanted to contest it. That they were there covering for a complaint from a prominent resident about the two lines of cars. He told me what to say in court. He said he does the same thing during this time of day on this very street; plus I had a 7 month old in the back seat that remined him of his son. I like an idiot forgot about the ticket and had to pay it at the last minute. He tried to help me out and I f'd it up.

[marzipanni]

19. I got a ticket from a park ranger for having my dog off his leash

The funny part was, in order to receive the citation, I had to get out of the pond in which I was skinnydipping with a friend. There are deer in the area, so dogs are supposed to be leashed.
That was 27 years ago, I don't know if that place has nude swimming anymore, but I imagine the ranger rather enjoyed that part of his job!

[Luna_Chick]

20. No, but my ex BF once got one for drunk walking

Years ago when he still lived in Delaware, he drank too much at the bar and had the good sense to leave his car there, walking home instead.

He was weaving a bit on the sidewalk, but a cop still saw him and gave him a ticket for walking home while intoxicated. Didn't matter when my ex tried to explain he left his car behind to avoid driving drunk!