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Yeah, but I try not to use my job to get out of tickets, free meals, or special treatment. If I have to do something unsafe, IE reaching near a weapon, or expose one, then I will let the officer know. I rarely tell people what I actually do in person.

I prefer the cover of a trash man. It sort of fits.


$500 is speeding in a construction zone w/workers present. No DD course available for that. I went before the judge in plain clothes, and he cut the fine in half for a good driving record.

gigag04 wrote:Yeah, but I try not to use my job to get out of tickets, free meals, or special treatment. If I have to do something unsafe, IE reaching near a weapon, or expose one, then I will let the officer know. I rarely tell people what I actually do in person.

I prefer the cover of a trash man. It sort of fits.


$500 is speeding in a construction zone w/workers present. No DD course available for that. I went before the judge in plain clothes, and he cut the fine in half for a good driving record.

Unfortunately, it was a couple hundred miles away from home and she didn't feel like taking the day off to go.

It wasn't my first car but I paid $100 for a '63 Fairlane SW in '73. I was working night shift in Philadelphia and wanted something that "fit it." 3 speed stick on the column, manual steering, manual brakes. It was quite a rust bucket but I drove it a year, got $100 a month to be a "regular driver" and sold it a year later for $100. I had to put a little money into it to keep it running but no where near what I got back from the monthly payments.

My last speeding ticket was in 1980. Wheeling WVA (I was a PA resident at the time) 32 in a 25 and it cost me $28. I had to post the ticket cost before I left the State.

I keep thinking that you guys with the lead feet could end up with more money to spend at the gun show if you could figure out how not to stomp down so hard.

rdcrags wrote:

Ouch! Some people on the forum didn't pay that much for their first car.

$100. Do I win for the lowest?

Honestly, If I received a $500 ticket, my wife would kick me out of the car and make me thumb my way home.

$75 in 1973 for a 63' Chevy Belair that ran on 5 of the 6 cylinders. But to give a comparison, in 79 I got my second speeding ticket - $27 in a rural county in Ohio.

Since we are talking about old times, when I was 17 my father sent me up the hill with his car to buy some ice cream. When I got to the boulevard there was a California Highway Patrol motorcycle jock, parked against the curb, chatting with three teenaged girls, dressed for the swimming pool. I noted him and went on for the ice cream. Coming back, there he was again. I turned and proceeded on. Quickly he was on my tail with lights on. Stopped, he said I had made an illedgal left turn, not from the turn lane but from a traffic lane. I knew I hadn't, argued with him--he was smoking and blew smoke in my face to try and get me but nothing would work. I told him I had seen him talking to the girls, that he was there when I had passed him twice, and there was no way he was paying attention to anything else, so write the ticket before the ice cream melts and I would see him in court and let the judge decide. I left without a ticket.

I'm 44 and never had a speeding ticket. How that has happened I do not know.

$1 for a 1967 Colony Park Woody Mercury Wagon in 1971 when I was 16. Belonged to a friends parent's and had over 150K miles on it (they used it for towing their travel trailer all over the USA). It had a bad rear wheel bearing and was taking up space in their driveway. Spent about $15 in parts and fixed it in an afternoon in their driveway. Drove it for a year before the tranny blew.

Almost my worst speeding ticket... over 130 mph on a motorcycle outside Laredo in 1985. Yeah... I know. Anyway the DPS officer wrote the ticket for 120 in a 55. Told a young guy that worked for me about it when I got to work about 15 minutes later. Turned out his favorite uncle was a DPS sergeant and worked at the DPS academy. Ticket was fixed (I mean corrected... er.. retracted?) in 30 minutes. Whew!!!! I suspect that would have been VERY expensive.

Have only been stopped once for speeding since I got my CHL in '99 and that was in 2001. Very young officer who seemed very nervous. Was very polite. Seemed the nervous type. Wrote me for 40 in and 35 (a well known Webster speed trap) and I was on my way.

Reminds me I have to take Defensive Driving this weekend. :(

wrinkles wrote:Yep, still 169.00. We had been in Midland buying Xmas presents. Mine was in the back, after the wife saw the amount she said "turn around we're taking you present back." I think she was joking.

Well, you can eliminate a new gun as your present .

Unless maybe it's a Jimenez. Ouch.

Just 10 years ago I got a speeding ticket in southeast Iowa. 70 in a 55. Wrote me up for 65. I don't know what that might have meant in a dollar difference. Didn't ask.
I thought for sure it would be about $150. Along a straight country road in the middle of no wheresville on my way to DesMoines.
When he said it was $65 I said, show me where to sign.
C Ya!!

By the by, my first REAL car was a $500 74 Pinto in 77.

Must have been the going rate at the time.

Ahhhhh, those were the days my friend.....

All you guys tempting fate by saying you haven't been pulled over since the previous century.

That's tempting fate? Nah. This is tempting fate. I first drove a car in 1961, and have never been involved in any kind of moving accident. Cars have been dinged twice while sitting in parking lots, so that does not count. I won't count the close calls either. There have been a few, or maybe several........

PappaGun wrote:

wrinkles wrote:Yep, still 169.00. We had been in Midland buying Xmas presents. Mine was in the back, after the wife saw the amount she said "turn around we're taking you present back." I think she was joking.

Well, you can eliminate a new gun as your present .

Unless maybe it's a Jimenez. Ouch.

I had given up on a gun this year already. Here's how it went down.

Wife: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

Son: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

Mother: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

Mother-in-law: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

wrinkles wrote:

PappaGun wrote:

wrinkles wrote:Yep, still 169.00. We had been in Midland buying Xmas presents. Mine was in the back, after the wife saw the amount she said "turn around we're taking you present back." I think she was joking.

Well, you can eliminate a new gun as your present .

Unless maybe it's a Jimenez. Ouch.

I had given up on a gun this year already. Here's how it went down.

Wife: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

Son: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

Mother: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

Mother-in-law: "what do you want for Xmas, besides a Glock 26?"

"Um, maybe a 27. Honey."