jniamehr

ranger4277, I almost really would like to try that... Im lucky an employee of my fathers, is a retired detective and works for the dept of treasurey part time. He gives me those cards, they help you get out of it 7 out of 10 times (it works for my dad all the time) and also gave me the sticker... Im working on getting a badge...

Magar

All I can say is I'm glad I'm not the only one. No school...just money and Insurance...maybe..

nf9648

Hope I can keep the tickets away, cops outside fort hood are very ****, esp. with military guys, and the fact Im 22 doesnt help either.

stangmatt66

Got my first one in the RX. I'm good for a speeding ticket every 18 months or so...kinda funny...

I was doing 60 on a 3 lane road in Buena Park, CA that is marked 35mph, yet everyone drives 55+ (Beach Blvd.) I guess the cop just wanted to stop the hot guy in a kick a$$ sports car...

Bail + Traffic school free = $225 and a day wasted sitting in court, Orange County doesn't offer online traffic school

DisneyDestroyer

I've learned waaaaaaay too much about tickets. 9 tickets in 10 years driving (only 3 went on my record, only 1 still there). Let's see if I can remember them all:
* Speeding on the way to the ACH (now SAT-II). Got perfect 800 on the math portion after that, I guess I should speed more often. Was a minor. SEARS traffic school (boring).
* Speeding on the way back to college from Big Bear at two in the morning. Was actually overtaking an officer, but he "allowed" me to take a regular ticket instead. Comedy traffic school (not that funny)
* Speeding on the way home from work (was actually unsafe lane change, but since he was going 95 and I was going 70 he only gave me the speeding part). Comedy traffic school.
* Running a stop sign. Online traffic school.
* Speeding on the way up to LA. Comedy traffic school.
* Speeding on the way to Phoenix. Took the point.
* 101 on the way to Vegas. It's a San Bernardino county racket - they ticket you for 101 which the night judge can't waive, then when you go for your day in court the day judge offers you max fine + 1 point instead of 2 points, so I got a point here.
* Lane change in the wrong location (after the "right lane must exit sign" ARGH). Requested traffic school, was given "level two traffic school for repeat offenders" a 16-hour, two-day course.

Well, remembering 8 isn't too bad.

They don't have a choice. When you get the approved list, you can ask for the state-approved list instead of the county-approved list. They need to provide it to you, and must also accept anything on that list - including a bunch of online traffic schools.

HOW IT WORKS IN CALIFORNIA

For most people and most tickets, you get a letter telling you that you can choose to convert the fine into forfeited bail and attend traffic school (for which you pay an additional processing fee, plus the traffic school fee).

If you choose to fight the ticket, you can write a letter requesting adjudication-by-mail. You send in your account (I would recommend saying nothing besides "I did not do it") and if the cop doesn't send in his, you win. If the cop sends in his account, a judge reads both letters and decides (against you, almost 100% no matter what you say in your letter). If that happens, you can then go before a judge in person and demand a second trial. You go to that trial and hope the cop doesn't show up or threw out his notes after your letter, in which case you win.

At any time when you appear in person you can request traffic school, and the judge can choose to allow you to go, even if you're not technically eligible. I know some people who have gone to traffic school 3-4 times in a single year, it's supposed to be max once every 18 months.

If you're really good (or have the right info) you can actually fight the ticket. I got a ton of great information from http://www.tipmra.com it was worth the money.

Any other Cali ticket questions you can ask me - I'm practically a professional now as it is.

Squidward

that tipmra site is really interesting, but i'd be a little nervous doing all that... weren't you?

xocsida

Who's gotten a speeding ticket since they've picked up their RX-8?

:D

Trx8

There is a similar thread here:
RX-8 Forum > General Topics > RX-8 Discussion > Tickets Anyone?
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ng+AND+tickets

Rotary Titus

got a ticket doing 90mph on a 70mph highway in washington state (see my thread in NW section of this forum for the run around washington state police gave me).
which city are you in forever young??? he pulled you over for doing 57?! AND he SWORE at you???? AND he left afterwards???

zoom44

hahaha Trx8 swoops in for the kill! i thought i was the only one around here doing that.

no tickets here.

jniamehr

Ive had my car for about three days now (wooohooo!!) and the only run in I have had with a cop was for him to ask me to move in front of him so he could see the back of my car, and then he proceeded to tell me that i have a nice car over his loudspeaker.... me and my friend were dying of laughter.

Rotarian_SC

I would b cracking up as well. The only thing that happened to me is that a cop flashed his lights at my car, and I wasn't speeding at the time.

Texas 8

Only a month and none yet. Notice, "yet" is the key word

Monique

i was pulled over the day i got mine, but he let me go! hehe
yes, touching wood!

youngpit

ya got stopped for 92 in 65 and 5% tint but he ket me go guess why????

Chevy

I have 2 warnings and 1 ticket.

1 Warning was in my 8 and was failure to yield, The officer told me I had to stop at the yield sing for 3 seconds, Gave me warning because I told him I would fight it and tell the judge he was harassing me because he was. He also told me 25 in the 25 was a little fast for the conditions, was a dry road with in little 5 inch ice spot.

Warning 2 was in my truck The officers weren't inpressed by the exhaust pipes with the engine runing at 5,500 RPM, Earlier the day the same officers pulled my firend over and ask me to get out of the vehicle because I looked like someone that were looking for.

The Ticket was also in my truck I made a U-Turn in main street and some idiot wasn't watching the road (They were watching the football game instead of the road) so the guy hit me. Was cited for Failure to Yeild.

Everyone in this town has a failure to yield ticket to their name. If you ever go through kemmerer, wyoming follow the traffic laws very closely, ecspecially if you have out of state plates.

Rotarian_SC

cause u r a cop

how does that work, do u just like show him your badge and the cop goes, well i'll let you off this time?

bubble

I get DWYs all the time.

Rotary Titus

you put your licence in a place where you have to dig out next to your badge wallet :p
but I never do that cause different agencies have different attitudes towards "professional courtesy"

DisneyDestroyer

Yeah a bit, but as long as you have the conviction and bring along all the paperwork to back you up, it works out fine.

livitup

The one time I was pulled over while I was on the job (I'm no longer an officer) I was on a road trip. I had packed a number of my department's shoulder patches in my glove box. When I got pulled over I opened my glove box to "get out my registration" and there was a half dozen patches in the way. I asked the cop who pulled me over if he traded patches and he asked me if I was on the job. I forget who gave me that tip but it's an excellent way to break the ice without flashing your badge and demanding professional courtesy.

Of course there was the time I pulled over what ended up being a secret service officer. He was holding his badge out the window before I even exited my car.

---Andrew

mikeb

7 months later and NO tickets for me

If I get one my insurance company will probably take my first born