HOORAY! 81 in a 65 = $170! You play, you pay.

[MichaelD]

Well, tomorrow, I get to make my yearly donation to our fine city. I get nailed for speeding about once every 12-16 months, on average. Got nailed two weeks ago on the highway that I take home EVERY DAY>>>>>by a cop sitting in a spot that is WELL know to me for being a trap. I was honestly under the weather (sick...not drinking!) and just wanted to get home after work.

Instant-on radar is a bitch. I was doing about 85-87MPH. Saw him, slammed the brakes, radar detector went nuts (it was dead silent until I came around the curve. He hit the lights, I pulled over before he was doing even 30MPH. Daylight, hands on the wheel, window down, radio off, look of remorse on my face.

"Your brakes work REALLY well!!!! I'm impressed at your reaction time. I'm sure you were doing more than 81, but that's what I got you at."
*Me smiles* Well officer, what can I say...my insurance is in the glove box...I'll be reaching for that now."
"You do that"
*Goes back to car and begins furiously scribbling*
*Comes back*
"Sign here and slow down"
"Yessir."

Prick wrote it for 81 too!.....no break at all.

You play, you pay. I look at it this way; I speed 365 days a year. I get caught once every 500 days or so. I"m ahead!!!!!

You play, you pay.

Now I can't speed for 60 days. (Probation) Damn.

You may laugh at me now.

 

[tontod]

Your insurance must be sky high.

 

[NetworkDad]

Ha...i must get pulled over roughly every 12 months on I-5 for speeding...and i have yet to receive a ticket. My most recent one was only 75 in a 60. No tickets yet, age 25.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: tontod
Your insurance must be sky high.

Note the "probation."

This ticket will probably never see his record.

Viper GTS

 

[LOLyourFace]

speeding is not worth it. it doesn't save you much time at all despite what it seems like.

I did some testing due to boredom of night commuting.

My home to my work: about 20 miles.
driving avg speed of 70mph = it takes me about 30 mins to get home

driving avg speed of 90mph = it takes me about 28 mins to get home

not worth it at all for that 2 mins.

 

[snooker]

Originally posted by: tontod
Your insurance must be sky high.

I bet it is.

 

[dolph]

the law's the law. even if you were going 66 mph, you were still technically speeding (depending on where you were driving). sucks about the instant on radar thing, though. i can't even imagine why radar detectors are even legal in the first place... the sole purpose of them is to avoid getting speeding tickets from cops. but that's for another thread.

 

[tontod]

But does he get probation every time? Somehow I doubt it.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: tontod
Your insurance must be sky high.

Note the "probation."

This ticket will probably never see his record.

Viper GTS

Viper GTS is a very smart man. As am I, if I do say so myself. We won't get into the morality of speeding, OK? He is right. Check this out and believe it or not!

In the past 8 years, I have 15 speeding tickets, all in the same city. NONE of them ever saw my insurance. Why? B/C where I live, as long as you can pay the fine IN FULL on the day of your court, you can request "deferred adjudication" aka "probation."

Here's how it works..very simple, actually.

I respectfully request probation. They say "can you pay the whole thing today?" That's ALL they care about! (money-grubbing leech bastards that they are!). I say "yes Sir."

You go to the cashier's window. Cash/check/money order/major credit card, they dont' care. You get a receipt. It says it on the receipt and the cashier tells you as well:

"You are on 60 days probation. Get no other moving violation within that time period, and this ticket goes away. Get caught and TWO tickets go to your insurance."

That means until November 24th, I have to drive like grampa.

I don't do 100MPH (unless I'm on the bike, but that's a different story) I move w/traffic. It's like the herd of Gazelles being hunted by the lion; one will always get picked off. That was my turn.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: tontod
But does he get probation every time? Somehow I doubt it.

Yep, I do. All they pull up is your driving record for the 60 days prior to the date of the ticket you're in court for. My last ticket was in 2000, actually.

 

[Ime]

I drive the speed of traffic, and haven't had a ticket in a few years. *knocks on wood* Just you wait, I'm gonna get a ticket tommorrow for doing the speed of traffic!

 

[tontod]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: tontod
But does he get probation every time? Somehow I doubt it.

Yep, I do. All they pull up is your driving record for the 60 days prior to the date of the ticket you're in court for. My last ticket was in 2000, actually.

Damn. I've never gotten a ticket before, but something to keep in mind if I do, I suppose.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: tontod

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: tontod
But does he get probation every time? Somehow I doubt it.

Yep, I do. All they pull up is your driving record for the 60 days prior to the date of the ticket you're in court for. My last ticket was in 2000, actually.

Damn. I've never gotten a ticket before, but something to keep in mind if I do, I suppose.

It depends on where you live, my friend. I forgot one thing. Most of my tickets were via the CITY cops. Probation is easy with them. I got one ticket from a county mounty. We have Sherrif's down here as well as city cops. I went to that little tiny court, with the little tiny old judge man that you could barely see his comb-over from down where you stood. He made me take defensive driving. :Q I'd rather have root canal with a hangover on a Monday morning than take DD. But, it kept it away from my insurance.

NO court will tell you that you can request deferred adjudication. I had a buddy tell me about it. Next time you get nailed, ask. You might be surpirsed at the results. Some cities, it's 90 or even 120-days. In mine, it's 60.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Wow, that's eerie. Yesterday (Sunday) I was with a buddy driving home from Bowling Green U, and he got busted for driving 81 in a 65 on the Ohio Turnpike I-80.

By the way, the ticket was for $87 total.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Wow, that's eerie. Yesterday (Sunday) I was with a buddy driving home from Bowling Green U, and he got busted for driving 81 in a 65 on the Ohio Turnpike I-80.

By the way, the ticket was for $87 total.

Please tell your buddy that he sucks big, hairy, sweaty, swollen monkey nuts. He owes me, man!!!!!! j/k

 

[TrueBlueLS]

When I had gotten my first speeding ticket in the beginning of the year (it was March or April), it was interesting what the judge told me. She had said that there was no "probation" anymore, but gladly changed my 15 over (officer originally told me 52 in a 40, but wrote 55) to an impeding traffic, no points, and a $90 fine. My insurance through AAA would have went up $8 a month (I doubt for that ticket), but I switched cars.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Please tell your buddy that he sucks big, hairy, sweaty, swollen monkey nuts. He owes me, man!!!!!! j/k

I will tell him.

 

[IBuyUFO]

I commend you for taking responsibility for your action and not trying to get out of it like some of those ball less morons in this board. You know who you are!

 

[Lucky]

big money for 16 over. in ohio its only about 85 bucks for up to 20 over, something I've gotten 4x in the past 5 years. hasnt affected my insurance a bit.

heres a laugh:

I was on a road trip with two other friends in a red turbo plymouth duster from Ohio to D.C. about 3 years ago. Friend 1 was driving (this was about 1AM), got pulled over somewhere in virginia for 7mph over. Got a ticket. She was nervous, so I took over driving. Bout 3AM I'm going 105 in a 55 (no traffic whatsoever) and radar starts going beserk. Instantly brake but sure enough, I get pulled over. Cop says he clocked me at 31 MPH over, but he said he was gonna be a "nice guy" since the roads were clear and that he just wanted me to slow down to something a bit more reasonable.

BTW, friend 1 was very pissed at me.

 

Originally posted by: IBuyUFO
I commend you for taking responsibility for your action and not trying to get out of it like some of those ball less morons in this board. You know who you are!

Nod. You are my hero!

 

[pillage2001]

Just a curious question. When would you be ticketed?? Going 10 above or going 5 above?? I've gone 10 above and was not stopped as the other cars were travelling that fast too when the police was by the road.

 

[Lucky]

Knew a guy who was ticketed for 56 in a 55 in granville ohio.

 

[BurnItDwn]

hmmm ... Your state rips people off. In Illinois, the fines aren't over $100 unless its a school zone, construction zone, or if you are going at least 20+ over the speed limmit, even then they rarely pull over people on the expressways unless they are driving like an idiot or a maniac (tailgating, going over 100mph, cutting people off, playing pole position) usually the speed of traffic in the 65 zones it between 80 and 90 ... and people just tap the brakes a bit when they see a cop, just a slight sign of respect i guess. There are some Chicago suburbs that are picky, but most are pretty leniant here. And i like that

 

[GoingUp]

Best I ever did was get pulled over for 82 in a 65 by a state trooper, pulled over to the wrong side of the road, had wrong registration in the car, and was missing a liscence plate.

Got off with only a warning. Didn't even beg or anything. Just told the guy I was hurrying back to southern wisconsin for work.

Boy was my dad pissed when I told him I got pulled over, but no ticket which was lucky. I still can't believe it.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Why? B/C where I live, as long as you can pay the fine IN FULL on the day of your court, you can request "deferred adjudication" aka "probation."

How quickly do they give you a court date from the time of the ticket? The last few tickets I got in FL it took >6Mo's to get a court date. The ticket gets filled out and sent in stating not-guilty, and that has about 2wks or so before it needs to be done. Then when you finally get the notice for the courtdate it's another couple months away.

That's ALL they care about! (money-grubbing leech bastards that they are!). I say "yes Sir."

Yes, it's a tax on speeders. You help pay for the police to patrol the highways and have a presence to keep the slow folks staying slow and the insurance companies happy to collect your money.

"You are on 60 days probation. Get no other moving violation within that time period, and this ticket goes away. Get caught and TWO tickets go to your insurance."

So this is where I'm confused does your 60days start from the time of the ticket or from when they tell you this? Assuming you go to court even 1-2wks after the ticket, it might make a difference.

Lastly what state (and optional) city is this? Just curious.