another speeding ticket story :)

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enfield

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Okay friends! I got pulled over yesterday in the Infiniti for doinbg 75 on a 60 kph zone. Officer was polite and asked me whether I knew why he stopped me. My usual answer is to say that I don't have the foggiest and then I always seem to get a ticket.

This time I did not do the usual. I instead told the officer that I had hit 75 kph & that I was sorry and was aware that the speed limit was 60 kph. He asked me for my license, registration and proof of insurance. I gave him the stuff and he returned everything except my license and took that to his car. Came back a minute later and asked me to keep it slow and to have a nice day! I thanked him and wished him a good day too!!

This telling the truth seems to be a good idea specially if you haven't done anything stupid like racing etc.

Do others have stories of telling the good officer the truth and being let off??
 
enfield, you make an interesting point. I have little personal experience as I have not had a ticket and have not even been stopped in over 25 years. That said I have always heard that you should not admit to speeding as that can be taken as a confession. That advise might be a bit dated as I don't think today you get stopped very often unless they have or think they have soild proof that you were speeding for example. Therefor being polite and honest might be the way to go.... :thumbsup:
Actually being polite is always the way to go regardless... :)
 
My dad was a police officer and that was the advice he gave me many years ago. I was stopped last july for doing 45 mph in a 35 mph zone. (not in the Z4) I admitted to speeding and told the truth that I didn't even look ad the speedometer until I saw the poilce car. He let me go with a smile. A week later my wife was doing 41 in a 25 zone gave the officer an attitude and denied knowing why she was stopped and received a $120 ticket. Way to go enfield! :thumbsup:
 
From my experience, it's best not to admit fault for the reasons WLH stated especially if you plan to fight the ticket at court.
 
Been telling people that for years, including you enfield :roll: . It's not kissing ass, it's just not being a smartass and giving the officer the credit that he's not a moron. Kissing ass would be the many times I'm begged by drunk or scared men to let them off!! :rofl: Big difference in having manners and kissing ass.
 
Of my 32 years of having my Driver’s License, I have been a pretty good boy, No Tickets, No Accidents, No DUI’s (just have not been caught yet, LOL)….with the exception of one incident way back in 1991….

I was taking my son, whom was 6 yrs. old at the time to school. I was driving down these so called back roads through businesses that no one regularly takes, and vehicular traffic was always very minimal.

Anyways, as I was driving down this one major road, with no one in sight, and I knew that I was going a little bit faster than the posted speed limit, I passed this one driveway entrance to a business, and from the corner of my eye I see a black and white, thinking to myself, was that a police car? Then as I am proceeding further down the road, I see this black & white car quickly pull out of the driveway and turning on flashing lights, in pursuit of me…
I then realized it was a City Police vehicle, so I pull over. The officer approaches the car, and presents me with the usual question of did I know how fast I was going? So, I replied that I knew I was going a little bit fast, and unaware of the posted speed limit, and that I was much in a hurry because my son was going to be late for morning mass & regular class at his Catholic School.

The officer had paused, and it was looking like I was going to be let off. Now imagine this, my 6 yr. old son, leans forward, looks directly at the police officer, and says, “I’m not late, I don’t have to be at school until 7:30!”…There was brief moment of silence, and I knew I was done, because it was only about 7:00, and his school was only 10 minutes away.

While the officer was writing me up, I turned to my son and just looked at him, and I was speechless.
In the end, I sighed with relief when I saw that the officer had only given me a Traffic Warning instead…

Up to this day, my son and I laugh about it, but I will not deny that I was at fault….
 
fire-n-ice said:
Been telling people that for years, including you enfield :roll: . It's not kissing ass, it's just not being a smartass and giving the officer the credit that he's not a moron. Kissing ass would be the many times I'm begged by drunk or scared men to let them off!! :rofl: Big difference in having manners and kissing ass.
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But...but....but there are soooo many morons and so little time.


Hmmmm, this thread has some potential. :fuelfire:
 
I was driving with my girlfriend from my town to the capital last summer because i had to give some exams there, the speed limit in the highway is 100km and i was doing about 140km with the family Alfa 156. There was a patrol car stopped in the hard shoulder with a pair of policemen and one was holding a radar gun. I tried to slow down but couldnt in time and they waved me to stop. OK so i stop a bit further on and the guy comes and asks if i know how much i was doing.. I told him i know i was speeding but i had an exam to give in Nicosia (the capital) and i was a bit late.. (i wasnt) He said i was doing 137km and started writing the ticket and as he was writing it he just says without even lifting his eyes off the PDA thingy they use: "Well you would have gotten there 10 minutes earlier and it's going to take me 10 minutes to give you this ticket so it's the same thing"

:headbang:
 
Aebous said:
Haha 1stKnight, I bet the cop was laughing his rear end off when you pulled away.
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I am sure of that too...may have been a story in the police station at then end of the day....

Lesson learned.. :headbang: ...No passengers or witnesses in the car, when breaking traffic laws....
 
I had a near miss with a cop. I was through seeing my mate who hadnt seen in ages, driving down a road which is notorious with street racers. Came up behind 2 tricked up cars doing like 10mph next to each other, talking. So after a bit of this I was very annoyed, dropped a couple gears and went flying past, they tried to accelarate to stop me but had no chance but this did mean I was going way faster than had planned. As I swing back in, blue-and-white lights up ahead! The cop swerves onto my side of the road and I have to slam on the brakes(dangerous driving IMO).
I am really nice to him, owning up and explaining the situation. He sayd he can see im not a boy racer but he has to treat everyone the same and he will be sending off the video-evidence and Im looking at a ban!
Never received anything about it, think he was just trying to scare me into not doing it again. But im sure it was my politness that got me off!
 
I was driving through my hometown (a little market town down near Cambridge) some years back in my 1970 MGB GT late on a friday night, and was in a really bad mood so I was really pushing it... then a beat police man step into the road with his torch (flashlight) and signalled me to pull over... so I did.

He says "what sort of speed were you just doing round that roundabout, son?" I say "I know, I'm sorry I was going a bit too quick...". So he looks at the car and says "It's kicking out time, so there's a lot of drunks about... this is a very nice car, you don't want to get a dent in it, so just be careful!" and let me off with a warning! :thumbsup:
 
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