What excuse or technique has gotten you out of a traffic ticket before?

Question

What excuse or technique has gotten you out of a traffic ticket before?

Answer 1

ok rule number one : admit it!!! say i know i just burnt a red...but with all do respect i got to the light when it had turned red. so i did nt want to jam on my brake b/c i thought my car would skid and make a very unsafe situation...my sister said this to a cop and he said ok!!!

be very open and honest ...unless u know u can lie for example like talking on a cell phone in same places is not illegal and some places it is illegal! so when u get pulled over say ure not from that place and proove it and say u did not know it was illegal and ure used to talking on the phone!!!

Answer 2

Sorry, but never been in one

Answer 3

The first time I ever got pulled over, I actually had my grandmother in the back seat. She kept fidgiting with a rosary and whispering, "Oh dear, oh dear." The kind officer gave me a warning and sent us on our way.

Answer 4

cry if you're a hot girl

Answer 5

Being honest and polite has worked for me.

Answer 6

Telling the male officer i just started my period. He escorted me to a bathroom

Answer 7

I told him I work for Motorola. I service his departments radios.

Answer 8

Once I was driving to a friend's house and cut across a couple of lanes.  There was an officer behind me and when he asked me why I did that, I replied I had never driven on this road before and was disoriented because the directions I'd been given didn't match what I was seeing.

He suggested I pull over, call to get new directions and be more careful in the future.  It took me a while to live down the disoriented excuse with my friends, but no points and no ticket, baby!!

Answer 9

knock wood...only 2 speeding tickets -

I was on my way to some kind of appt and at the bottom of a short downhill, I was stopped by the County Sheriff and since my Dad kind of worked with them as an arson investigator for the volunteer fire departments, I did not fight it.

I was on my way thru an unfamiliar area, on a SUNDAY, in a my speedometer said maybe 3 or 4 miles over the limit in that area. The police officer claimed I was going over 10 over - and I went to the traffic court... very interesting the excuses you hear there...

I admitted that I was going maybe as much as 5 mph over and since the # of mph difference was within the +/- tolerance of the radar gun, he lowered it to the next lower offense.

Half the fine, less impact on my driver record\insurance, too.

Answer 10

I got popped for 93 in a 65. Ironically enough, I told the truth; "It's late, I'm tired, I just want to get home and I was following the guy in front of me."

I've explained 45 in a 30, during my college days, by pointing to the boisterous drunk in the bed of my pickup.  He'd been throwing anything he could lay his hands on out and I was trying to get him to his dorm before he got to the grappling hook, (don't ask, it was college,) the tire iron or my spare.

I've hired an attorney. $60 compared to a 20% increase in my insurance seemed like a good deal.

Oddly I got out of one by asking to reschedule. The court never sent me anything.  When I finally went back to ask, they said it had been put on hold. When I wanted to straighten it out, they gave me a court date the next week. (6 months after the citation.) And the cop didn't show up.

And I once asked the girl at the counter for a payment schedule.  At some point, about 5 years ago, I stopped making the payments and everything seems to have gone away.

My girlfriend in high school used to claim she had just started menstrating, had no cash and was hurrying home for tampons. Her response if the officer questioned her was "Do you want to check?"

My, at the time, 81 year old grandmother's response to getting nailed for 70 in a 35, (must've been a surprise day for chicken livers at Luby's,) was to open her pocket book so the officer could see her stash of cash and simply ask how much it was going to cost.

And, even though you didn't ask, possibly the worst beating I've ever suffered was in a 3 way argument between my mother and father about a ticket. Int the heat of the moment, I accidentally let slip that the reason she'd blown the stop sign, thereby incurring a ticket, was because she was too busy looking a shirtless, college aged jogger, to notice the sign.  Jeez, I swear, she keeps rocks in that purse.

There are also things not to say, such as "Bad Cop, No Doughnut!" or "I'm sorry, I didn't realize my radar detector was unplugged."

Drive Friendly,

JT