Getting out of traffic tickets- how far have YOU gone?

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<p>DES MOINES, Iowa – An investigation concluded that a Des Moines woman faked her own death to avoid paying traffic tickets.
Polk County investigators said Kimberly Du, 36, faked her own obituary and forged a letter telling a Polk County judge she was dead.
Du is spending time in the Polk County Jail in connection with a forgery charge. <a href=“http://www.kcci.com/news/7541510/detail.html[/url]”>http://www.kcci.com/news/7541510/detail.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I once told a police officer I was going to pee my pants because I had a bladder infection and thats why I rolled through the stop sign… Didn’t work…</p>

<p>Have you told a whopper to try and get out of a parking or traffic ticket?</p>

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<p>my dad actually pulled the slickest one i’ve heard to date:</p>

<p>he was on the New york state thruway, and very obviously speeding. There was no traffic at all, the roads were dead. Needless to say, he passed a parked police officer at high speed. A minute later he was being pulled over. Wonderful.</p>

<p>Upon walking up to the front window, the officer stated “Boy, have I been waiting for you all day!!!”</p>

<p>To which my dad replied “I know, I got here as fast as I could.”</p>

<p>My dad got away with nothing more than a slap on the hand. Brilliant.</p>

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<p>LOL!! I actually just laughed out loud at my desk at work – brilliant indeed! </p>

<p>The only speeding story I have didn’t even result in a stop, but on the stereotypical trip to the maternity hospital, me in the back seat in a very curious outfit, husband in front, I did tell him I’d barf on cue if he got stopped for speeding. Luckily he evaded any speedtraps that day.</p>

<p>Oh wait, I remember one! A brand new motorcycle cop (and I mean total rookie: he missed the court date because he was in training :)) aged about 19 stopped me nervously a few years ago in my original Toyota Prius, claiming I was driving 80MPH. I laughed and said, “This is a <em>hybrid</em>, I don’t think it can even <em>GO</em> 80MPH!” Still got the ticket.</p>

<p>Then there was the time when I considered saying something very rude and inappropriate about whether his quota was unmet for the month, when a cop pulled me over, four young boys in school uniforms in the car, and informed me that I had just traveled for more than 200 feet in the bike lane before making a right turn. (He was wrong, by the way: I went nowhere near 200 feet in that lane.) The only reason I didn’t say something is that I had four schoolboys in the car and didn’t want to set a bad example.</p>

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<p>A grad school classmate was from the south and feigned ignorance when stopped for going 70 mph on I-70 (in the midwest). She started crying, “But I was just doing what my momma always told me to do. She always told me to follow the signs, and the signs said ‘70’!” The state trooper explained that the signs weren’t speed limit signs but the number of the interstate and let her go.</p>

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<p>hehehe</p>

<p>we have 101, so don’t think I could pull that off</p>

<p>My H was driving and crossed a solid white line to get out of the way of a crazy driver, and H was pulled over by a rookie, he went to court to fight the ticket, but his work pulled him away</p>

<p>I had to take the online class for him…sssshhhhh</p>

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<p>mootmom: My friend actually ticket for 80 mph in a hybrid Civic!</p>

<p>citysgirlmom: That’s very funny, you taking the online class for him. I hadn’t thought of faking my own death to get out of my parking tickets. Hmmm…</p>

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<p>One of my Uncles has quite lead foot and was pulled over by a state cop … when the cop got to the window my Aunt was laying into my Uncle from the passenger seat … the cop let this go on for about 5 minutes … and then the cop told my Uncle his penalty would be plenty even without a ticket and let him go.</p>

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<p>When I was in grad school, I drove an old clunker. When it got up to 55 miles per hour, you knew it just from the noise and rattling. One trip to Florida, we borrowed my wife’s sister’s new Oldsmobile. At one point in the trip I noticed a police car behind me with his lights on, pulling me over. I quickly looked down at the speedometer and I was doing 110 in a 55 mph zone :eek: </p>

<p>When I explained the situation to the policeman, about how in that Oldsmobile you couldn’t tell how fast you were going and that with my car, I was used to knowing without looking at the speedometer, he actually believed me! He wrote me up for doing 70 in a 55-mph zone, which was a fine, but not the hanging or death by injection I would have gotten for 110.</p>

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<p>someone i know who works at a pizza shop got pulled over going about 15-20 over. the cop recognized him and decided to let him go because he “makes good pizza”</p>

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<p>I’ve gone as far as being honest — </p>

<p>but, that’s because I’ve never been offered a traffic ticket.</p>

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<p>A friend of my mom’s… got out of a traffic ticket thanks to the language barrier.</p>

<p>When she was stopped, she asked the officer to “Look at me once, look at me once” in a thick Korean accent. The officer, puzzled, just gave her a slap on the wrist and let her go because of the language difficulty (and figuring she was relatively new to America).</p>

<p>Now, you might ask, why “Look at me once?” – the Korean phrase for “spare me/give me another chance” is the same as a compound version of “look at me once.” Makes me want to fake language difficulty next time I get pulled over, but I’d take great pains not to get stopped in the first place.</p>

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<p>My parents did actually get stopped on the way to the hospital. Drove through a school zone too fast. What the police never knew is how close he came to helping deliver a baby. My sister was born 20 minutes after Mom arrived at the hospital!</p>

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<p>Two other examples:</p>

<p>In the Philippines, my cousin’s husband got out of a ticket by flashing his NY license (he actually had a Philippines license) and claiming that he was just visiting and had gotten confused. He does the same thing in the states by using his overseas license.</p>

<p>Also in the Philippines, my mother has a driver who is deaf. (She’ll be 94 in May, so she can’t drive.) We’ve been in the car with him several times when he’s been pulled over, but as soon as the police officers realize they can’t talk with him, they just let him go!</p>

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<p>My father got a ticket for speeding on his way to pick me up from my first semester of college at Pittsburgh.</p>

<p>Well…this ticket would be bad…very bad…suspended license bad…</p>

<p>So, he had a few tricks up his sleeve to fight this ticket…</p>

<p>Yes, he was on his way to pick me up from college, but he was also trying to beat a big ice storm that was coming our way. You could counter that he could have waited or stayed in Pittsburgh for the night if the ice storm beat us…</p>

<p>But, we had plans…big plans for winter break…we were also trying to beat the clock to get back home, pick up the rest of the family in Lancaster, PA and then down to Washington, DC to make our flight that was leaving at 5 AM (or something ridiculously early). </p>

<p>So, where were we going that was such a big deal??? We were going to Calcutta, India to complete a short-term missions trip for Mother Teresa’s charities.</p>

<p>When we got back from the missions trip, my dad set a court date to fight the ticket. All he wanted was the points to be taken off of his license so he wouldn’t loose it, didn’t care as much about the fine (since he was indeed speeding).</p>

<p>At court, he told the judge about our story of our family needing to make it to the airport in time to spend our Christmas helping out the poorest in Calcutta (what he dubs his “Mother Teresa Defense”). </p>

<p>After he told his story, the judge called him to the bench. My dad was worried he was going to get reemed by the judge for his defense. However, he was pleasantly surprised by the judge saying something to the effect of…he had made the judges day with the wonderful story and he wasn’t just going to take the points off, but he got rid of the fine as well. </p>

<p>This outcome was doubly surprising…if anyone knows anyting about the PA Turnpike, my dad received the ticket on the most notorious section of the turnpike where truckers even slow down because it’s known for its horrible speed traps (Breezewood)!</p>

<p>Another aside…yes, we did beat the ice storm to the airport, but not by much…our plane was delayed leaving Ronald Reagan to JFK…we missed our connecting flight in JFK and spend the better part of the day rescheduling our flight through the aircarrier. It worked out for the better! Our new plans included taking SwissAir (the best airline I’ve ever encountered) rather than the original KoreaAir (not so good airline…).</p>

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<p>10-12 years ago when my kids were young, I was returning home from a long, hot day at a zoo in an adjacent state. W was riding shotgun and the 3 kids were in the back of the minivan. I had driven over 90 miles on the interstates, most of it in heavy traffic, but was pulled over for speeding in my hometown, 10 blocks from home. I admit it, I was speeding, probably 50 in a 35 zone. As the cop handed me the ticket, oldest S (he may have been 8 at the time) chimes in from the back seat “Dad, just give that ticket back to him and let’s go home!”</p>

<p>The cop broke out laughing, but explained that he had already written the ticket. He strongly advised me to show for the court hearing. I did and when they called my case, he was nowhere to be found in the municipal building.</p>

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<p>Well, when you get 6 marching band people (in uniform) in a car with their instruments…and they’re in a hurry to get to the state championship game…</p>

<p>The cop wasn’t that friendly, but once we explained the hurry we were in, he just told us to slow down. :)</p>

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<p>My Aunt Janie (actually I think she’s my mom’s cousin, anyway, she’s always at family reunions and we just call her Aunt) told a story of how she gets out of parking tickets. The cop tells her that she was speeding, she gets very flustered and says “yes, officer, and my license is expired and my plates too.” She continues for a little while listing all sorts of things…every time the cop eventually says “Listen Ma’am, just slow down from now on.” And then she tells us “Works every time.”</p>

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<p>Ive only had one ticket, for no seatbelt. I explained that I was jerking on it too hard, and it was locking up, but he wrote the ticket anyway. I purposely took forever to get out my license, registration, etc, and he said something along the lines of he was an investigator, and didnt usually do traffic duty. So I figured he woulndt show up in court, and he didnt case dismissed. Good thing too, insurance is already a *****, and there’s no breaks till I’m 25.</p>

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<p>Many years ago, my grandfather was pulled over for speeding on the highway. Upon being pulled over, the police officer did a double take when he realized that he had just pulled over his much loved former teacher and school principal. He told my grandfather that there is no way he would write him up for the ticket. My grandfather, a stickler for ethics and honesty, insisted on being written up nevertheless!! Made a big impression on his kids (and grandkids). </p>

<p>The only time I was ever pulled over was one day when I was late to nursery school dropoff. It had been one of those mildly harrowing mornings of getting a preschooler and infant out the door that we all remember. I was pulled over on a well-known speedtrap on the same street as the school. The officer had me pull into the nursery school lot where ALL my friends (just leaving from dropping off) were free to gawk at the spectacle of me being lectured to by the officer. Apparently, said officer realized this and took pity on me, citing the perfect installation of my two child safety seats as the reason he let me off the hook. Unlike my grandfather, I didn’t argue!!</p>

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<p>I got out of a ticket a few months ago by THANKING the officer for stopping me because “I hadn’t realized I was going so fast” (37 in a 25).</p>

<p>But the best story I know is the former student who went to court five times for speeding tickets and got the tickets expunged all five times “because he had no previous record.”</p>