What was it like getting your first traffic/parking ticket?

[ilovethescudo]

So what was it like getting your first traffic/parking ticket.

I searched the forum for a while but could find anything on this particular topic, other than a topic about some guy getting a speeding ticket, but thats only a speeding ticket, and i'm talking about any traffic ticket in general.

I got my first parking ticket a few months ago at my high school. I had to park illegally because the entire parking lot was full on the first day of the 3rd trimester(When all of the sophomores get their licenses). I parked BESIDE the parking stall, along with about 10-12 other cars parked in the same manner along other parking lanes. I got a parking ticket, along with the other 10-12 cars.

My mom told me, on the day that i got my license, that if i get a ticket of any kind, she would take away my drivers license for one year. As you can imagine, i was going nuts, since at the time, i hadn't even had my license for a year. Then I went to the school office to ask how much the ticket was(It wasn't written on the ticket itself): $10. Thats it. Ten dollars. So my mom gave me $10 and i paid it. She didn't take away my license(^_^), because the fine was so ridiculously small, plus the fact that it was practically unavoidable, because it was either park in the packed parking lot, or park at the mcdonalds stalls half a mile away, which were "For mcdonalds customers only."

Tell your stories.

And if a mod does happen to find a thread about this subject, then the search function must need a MAJOR overhaul.

 

[nd 4 holden spd]

Don't have one yet, and I'd be pissed if I did, because it would not be my fault, I don't park in the wrong places.

 

[Joey D]

I've gotten more parking tickets than I can remember, probably 10-15 a semester. I like to park on end caps but move over into the crossed yellow lines so I don't get door dings. The only place I've ever seen cops care is at the university. The one time I had to park in our large parking lot in a middle road I had someone smash the glass out of my wing mirror on my Blazer. I assume it was an accident, but still cost me $150 to replace it. Cops did nothing, by the way.

I've gotten smart now, this past semester I put a pink piece of paper under my windscreen wiper with "Hey Joe, nice car, <3 Jessica" or something to that effect on it. Our tickets are pink and typically we won't get another one if we've been cited that day. I'm not putting fake tickets on my windscreen or even old one, so I see nothing illegal about it, if the cop checked he could clearly see it was a note from a girl who knew me. But since our officers are so lazy they won't even get out of their cars to look, so I'm capitalising on that.

I've gotten two impeding traffic tickets, one recently for an accident and another for an accident long ago.

I've gotten a warning about my radio being to loud, even though I was listening to an AM talk/news station trying to get the weather. I thought that was funny. I've also been warned that my former truck was to low, which I proved to the officer it wasn't. Other's include mistaken identity (my truck fit the bill of someone who robbed a K-mart), mistaken seat belt infraction, and for having a brake light out.

Been pulled over for speeding a couple of times but always let go.

 

[homeforsummer]

I've been driving for 5 years. I've racked up three parking tickets, all in the same year and all in different places. Got one parked in a space on a main road, was only 2 mins before the wardens went off duty. I saw them walking the other way, so I parked and chanced it. They must have seen me and come back because when I got back I had a ticket. £30 if paid within 14 days.

Second ticket was in a multi-storey, was a Sunday, wasn't one of the modern ones where you take a ticket on the way in and pay on the way out. As it was a Sunday I assumed I didn't have to pay, came back to the car for another £30 ticket.

Third was outside my student flat. There were workmen blocking the entrance to our secure car park, so I parked in front on a very wide section of pavement, as did a number of other students. Forgot I parked it there, came down a few hours later and another £30 ticket. Damn!

All sucked

Only been pulled over once, I pulled out of a well-lit car park at night and only switched on my lights when I got on the road, unfortunately a Police van spotted me turning them on late, pulled me over just for a warning and a breath test, which I passed.

 

[AntonioDaFly]

First speeding ticket I got was one of those camera vans that we have on the side of the road and you never know where they might be, got me doing 76 in a 60 zone, but you don't get the ticket till two weeks later.

So at the time I didn't think anything of it, then when my dad stormed into my room with a speeding ticket, I felt a bit sick.

It been five years since my last speeding fine, after the last one, I have tried really hard to not get in trouble since at that time I had only one point left on my license

 

[exigeracer]

Never anything ever. I've never been pulled over, warned or given any sort of disciplinary infraction of any kind.

 

[Der Alta]

One ticket in my life (20 years of driving). I was late to my Grandfathers funeral. Cop reduced the fine. Ticket was $46. That was 4 years ago.

No accidents, no tickets, no parking tickets. I've paid insurance for how much, for how long and for what?

 

[FoolKiller]

Well, my first speeding ticket, I was running so late I didn't even think about what it meant. But since then I have gotten my fair share.

I used to constantly do 20 over, half the time not even realizing it. I have been speeding ticket free since I got cruise control.


I have only ever had one parking ticket when I was at college. $20 and I moved on with my life, all because I was 25 cents short on getting the meter to hold me through class. After that I started just putting all my spare change in a plastic bag in my glove box.

 

[xXSilencerXx]

I've gotten smart now, this past semester I put a pink piece of paper under my windscreen wiper with "Hey Joe, nice car, <3 Jessica" or something to that effect on it. Our tickets are pink and typically we won't get another one if we've been cited that day. I'm not putting fake tickets on my windscreen or even old one, so I see nothing illegal about it, if the cop checked he could clearly see it was a note from a girl who knew me. But since our officers are so lazy they won't even get out of their cars to look, so I'm capitalising on that.

That's slick. Great thinking.


I haven't gotten a ticket in the 2 years I've been driving. I've been pulled over once, for weeving and not using my signal. Didn't help I accelerated up to speed very quickly neext to the cop . Anyway he gave a big shpeel about I'm driving a 3,000 pound bullet and should be more careful, then called my dad and let me go cuz he thought my dad was going punish me enough. My dad just said he was picking on me cuz of my car

Oh before anybody says I'm stupid for giving the car half throttle next to the cop, I had been at the intersection for 5 min and the traffic was not letting up, so I jumped in a hole and gave it some gas to not get in a accident or impede traffic.

 

[Sage]

No accidents, no tickets, no parking tickets. I've paid insurance for how much, for how long and for what?

Never gotten a moving infraction (never even pulled over), but I&#8217;ve gotten about $200-worth of parking tickets in high school and university.

I don&#8217;t know how anybody could stand being a parking police person. If you&#8217;re a highway patrol officer, at least you&#8217;re occasionally saving lives and stuff&#8230; if you&#8217;re a parking police, the only thing you do is make people miserable for a living.

 

[ilovethescudo]

here in utah if your going exactly 9 mph over, the cops don't give a crap. go 10 over, and they are on you so fast. I havent been pulled over yet, but it seems like i should have been pulled over and given a hefty fine cough*115mph*cough

 

[the Interceptor]

I think it would be a good idea for everybody to add how long you've been driving. Kinda makes sense in terms of juding how badly you got it.

I've been driving for over 10 years now, and I never ever got any ticket, not even for parking (cause I don't park where I'm not allowed, I'd rather walk a mile). I once got into a universal traffic control, but everything was fine, so they just let me pass.

 

[Keef]

I've gotten a warning about my radio being to loud, even though I was listening to an AM talk/news station trying to get the weather. I thought that was funny. I've also been warned that my former truck was to low, which I proved to the officer it wasn't. Other's include mistaken identity (my truck fit the bill of someone who robbed a K-mart), mistaken seat belt infraction, and for having a brake light out.

Please remind me to never go wherever you go. I thought the West Carrollton Militia's recent attacks on license plates and window tint were wastes of time. I never even realized you could get pulled over for your car being too low.

 

[FoolKiller]

Please remind me to never go wherever you go. I thought the West Carrollton Militia's recent attacks on license plates and window tint were wastes of time. I never even realized you could get pulled over for your car being too low.

General rule is, can it clear a speed bump without scraping. If it can you are likely to be legal.

I think it is basically to prevent possibly damaging the road or dropping shrapnel.

 

[Joey D]

Please remind me to never go wherever you go. I thought the West Carrollton Militia's recent attacks on license plates and window tint were wastes of time. I never even realized you could get pulled over for your car being too low.

Your headlights have to be X distance from the road, you get ticketed for being to high as well. I can understand why they do it, but at the same time low cars really don't pose a risk while lifted ones do.

 

[Kylehnat]

What was it like getting my first ticket? Awesome. So Incredible. It was everything I thought it could be, and more!

What's even better? How about going six years between tickets, with the same insurance company, and still getting a $20/month increase in premium! Everybody off the road...I'm dangerous!

Washington State Patrol is a revenue-seeking chicken-🤬 organization who takes advantage of an already-timid driving public. You can easily get pulled over for doing 65 on the freeway...because everyone else is going 58.

 

[ilovethescudo]

now wait a minute. Is the speed limit on said freeway 65 or 58?

 

[Kylehnat]

60.

 

[Bones Brigade]

my girlfriend lives in olympia and constantly warns me about thurston co, but i have seen a state trooper maybe twice, waiting in hiding. ive been up and down I-5 from oly to tacoma many many times in the past 4 years and i see the most cops right over the pierce co line. im generally comfortable with anything under 70 but my girlfriend is also adamant about staying at 65 and under.

 

[Pupik]

In retrospect, getting my first ticket was for going in 53mph in a 35mph. The stop took 30 minutes, it was near midnight in a town that was notorious for writing tickets. I had two friends in the car, they'd never had tickets before, so it was an experience for them. Then they each dated girls from the same town where I got my ticket, so they eventually met the same crew for road-side chats and autographs, courtesy of being the only cars on the road at the time.

I had a bad habit of assuming 20 over the limit was the real speed limit. I played it as cool as an 18-year-old would, meaning I was trembling like the Loma Prieta Earthquake on the inside, looking stupid as usual on the outside. But I kindly asked the officer if he'd give me a warning, to which he did not. It think it cost me $124 back in 1992.

After my twelfth ticket, I'd learned my lesson when the monthly insurance payments were more than the car payment. I've had only one speeding ticket in the past ten years, though. I've mellowed out.

 

[Thirdeye]

Luckily I've never been pulled over in my 5 years of driving. Probably because I never speed, I like to try to get good fuel economy.

 

[harrytuttle]

The first time was overly dramatic. Not from the event, but the [thankfully fleeting] thought that I should never drive again. I was trying to get back to the high school having taken what could be considered a "long lunch". I was going 60 in a 30, one block from the school grounds. One more left turn and I would have made it. Learned to pay more attention to where cops hang out after that.

In more recent years, as my transportation of choice grew potentially faster, so did my accumulation of tickets. In the last 2 years I've had my license suspended twice. I'm one ticket away from that even now. I think I've had perhaps 8 or 9 tickets since getting interested in the racier side of Subaru, with a gap of 10+ years of no tickets before then. All my moving violations have actually been for speeding and usually 20+ MPH over the limit, on the highway.

After the 2nd suspension, although for more reasons than that, I bought a used Civic. I now drive that most of the time. It actually takes effort to speed with this thing. To my insurance's benefit, of course. The STI sits alone most of the time, but it gets out when needed.

And I'm a little more careful when and where I decide to be a little...foolish.


Parking tickets? Bah. I live in New England. It's a tax on those who have vehicles.

 

[Philly]

I've only been pulled over once. And that was because my genius friend decided it was a good idea to scream out the window at all the people at the Park and Ride at midnight. Other than that, nothing. There are times where I probably could have gotten pulled over but didn't. I've kind of learned to watch where they like to hang out, and watch the speed limit there and where they never are, where I get to have a little fun.

However, now I usually drive a little slower now that there are a lot more cops out on the roads than usual and since discovering the average miles per gallon feature on the car.

 

[Boz Mon]

Heh, I think I was the guy that the OP was referring to when he was talking about his search results. That was like 4 years ago when I was pulled over for going 70 in a 55. Since then I have gotten many warnings, and one more ticket which as of the 4th of july, I am off my 3 month court supervision.

 

[ilovethescudo]

Well, I recently got my first traffic ticket.

I was driving a little too close to these runners in a marathon. It was very early in the marathon, and I was just driving casually.

Then I see flashing lights fill my rearview mirror. My heart dropped like a rock.

He gave me a ticket for "Not giving due care to pedestrians on the road."

He probably would have given me just a warning if I wasn't blaring Kottonmouth King's "Where's the weed at," when I passed the cops.

 

[JCE]

Racing with 2 hot girls in my 3000GT VR4. Got a ticket for going 76mph in a 35mph zone. It was worth it. The ticket back then was only $100, since street racing wasn't a sin like it is now.

 

[Jim Prower]

I...don't really remember. I may have gotten one in high school, but I can't think of the way I felt.

 

[bennyrrr]

I got two speeding tickets in the last 2 weeks from motorcycle cops. The same cops who ignored kids spinning donuts in the parking lot of in n out and they got me for 10 over both times. I think theres more important things to do than hand out speeding tickets. Like DUIs or wreckless endangerment.

 

[Steele_obsidion]

I got a ticket for blowing a stop sign once. got it reduced to "hindering traffic" no points. then a few years later i turned.... the sign said no turn on red.. BOTH signs, said no turn on red.. i just wanted to get home i was sooo tired. then i got pulled over a week after that for speeding, but i honestly thought it was 35 instead of 30, i was doing 12 over. so in my 8 years of driving, ive gotten 2 tickets, and 4 parking tickets.


One of the parking tickets was stupid though, The neighbors called on us because i was parked partially ON MY OWN LAWN. people tear through my subdivision, and it bugs me because kids like to play in the street.. and these people are driving like 90 down our sub, (only one way in or out) and ugh anyways.

I thought i was a bad driver but i have seen a few worse off people.

i wont lie. I do have some get up and go in my little Fiero (which teh previous owner lowered btw, im at 42 inches from floor to ceiling) so when im at stop lights and no one is in front of me i WILL hit the gas. and take off.

 

[1X83Z]

76 in a 35 gents. A great experience for sure. The cop wrote up 26 points...