Have you ever gotten a ticket of any kind?

[Pam]

I got my first one yesterday. I was doing 40 mph in a 25 mph zone but just going with the flow of traffic. Somehow I was singled out. This is my first ticket EVER and I am 59 years old. My co-workers told me today to make a court appearance and plead my case. I am not trying to get off, but just pleading for them to drop my points. Any advice?

[sammy101]

I get my drivers license in December and i'm going to try very hard not to get a ticket,especially a speeding ticket. Here they are around $200 and theres no way i would be able to pay for it. So no, i havent gotten a ticket yet.

[cmayer31]

I've had both kinds. A speeding ticket a few months after getting my license and a parking ticket as I was standing at the meter.

I just payed the tickets and went to traffic school for the moving violation. No points, and a waste of 8 hours.

[caseysmom]

I got a ticket once after my father had a triple bypass and I was up all night working graveyard and up all day with the surgery and turned left on a right turn only. I got a speeding a few years after that, this was when I was in my 20's.

I then went 20 years ticket free and last year got a camera ticket running a red light Its really not as bad as it sounds I didn't realize all the cars were coming to a stop and I got caught in an intersection. Boy am I careful about that, that was a $400 lesson.

If you can do driving school to keep it off your record its probably worth it.

[Karen]

I only get warnings for speeding, but I have gotten parking tickets in my lifetime - living in the Boston area, it's nearly inevitable.

[Vette]

I havent...

but my mom and dad has been pulled over while i was with them...
he pulled them over cause my mom wasnt waring her seatbelt properly.
she wares it,, but she sticks the strap part that goes across your chest
under her arm,, because it rubs on her neck and drives her up the wall.
and if you look at it from the outside. it looks like she doesnt have it on.

but she managed to talk the guy out of it,, saying there waas no law saying 'how' you had to ware it..

[sasvermont]

I take this poll personally.

I just got a moving violation (ahemmmm speeding) about three weeks ago.

$144 dollars and three points later, I am on the road to recovery and of course, cruise control is mandatory nowadays.

Thanks for reminding me of my lead foot.

[Sirrahsim]

I got the most retarded ticket EVER. I came to a complete stop at a stop sign, but according to the MP I didn't wait for a full 3 seconds before proceeding. *3 SECONDS* That is some kind of bologna!

Seems to me when you are stopped enough to have your car roll back slightly and you look both ways you have stopped plenty
It was just a military police ticket so all that happened was my husband's commander told him to tell me not to do it again

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I've never gotten a ticket, I was with Justin when he got one though. It was in an area we had never been in before and they had a "speed trap" set up.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I've never gotten a speeding ticket, but I have had quite a few parking tickets.

[lizbud]

Yes, I have, both speeding and parking.Last ticket was going 35mph in
a school zone.I was hurrying back to work after a DR appt & honesly didn't
see the school zone sign.Forgot there was a high school in that area.

Although I too wasn't going any faster than anyone else, I was the one
who was pulled over. I just paid the darn thing.

[Jessika]

Nope, never. I was pulled over once for speeding in a construction zone (I was passing in the passing lane and going the normal speedlimit, wasn't even aware it was a construction zone) and he let me go with a verbal warning because I was polite. See, it pays to be polite to police officers.

[jenluckenbach]

Nope, and I will hold you personally responsible if this answer jinxes me. (LOL)

[Lady's Human]

I plead the fifth!

Sirrahsim, I know your pain with the MP's. Thankfully, I now outrank most of the MP's who patrol.

[KYS]

I have had three in my life time.
(one was a bogus one for a Calif. Stop when I was 18 years old.)

I have gone to traffic school on all of them so I would not have
any points against my driving record.
(I have not had a ticket in 10 years so I am not sure if that has
changed.)

Good luck in court and let us know what happens.