Ever Get A Warning Rather than a Traffic Ticket?

[straightshooter1]

Four times in thirty five years.

All for speeding, most just a few miles over the speed limit. One was a bit more, just "forgot" the speed limit dropped to 45.

Florida does not have a penalty for being five or less MPH over the limit, except don't ever do that in a school zone 'cause it will get you an expensive ticket. I didn't do that!

Never asked for a warning or a break.

Thank Heaven for thirty five years plus of teaching at the Police Academy and being in Court as a prosecutor and, most importantly, for having an easily remembered face. (And for cops with a good memory).

Bob

 

[itslucky]

A motorcycle cop stops a driver for running a red light. The driver is a real jerk, steps out of his car and comes striding toward the officer, demanding to know why he is being harassed by the "Gestapo". The officer calmly tells him of the red light violation. The motorist instantly goes on a tirade, questioning the officer's ancestry, sexual orientation, etc., in rather explicit offensive terms. The tirade goes on without the officer saying anything.

When the officer finishes writing the ticket he puts an "AH" in the lower right corner of the narrative portion of the ticket. He then hands it to the 'violator' for his signature. The guy signs the ticket angrily, and when presented with his copy points to the "AH" and demands to know what it stands for. The officer says, "That's so when we go to court, I'll remember that you're an *** hole!"

Two months later they're in court. The 'violator' has a bad driving record and he is in danger of losing his license, so he hired a lawyer to represent him. On the stand the officer testifies to seeing the man run the red light. Under cross examination the defense attorney asks;

"Officer is this a reasonable facsimile of the ticket that you issued to my client?" The officer responds, "Yes, sir, that is the defendant's copy, his signature and mine, same number at the top."

Lawyer: "Officer, is there any particular marking or notation on this ticket you
don't normally make?" "Yes, sir, in the lower right corner of the narrative there is an "AH," underlined."

"What does the "AH" stand for, officer?"

"Aggressive and hostile, Sir."

"Aggressive and hostile?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Officer, are you sure it doesn't stand for *** hole?"

"Well, sir, you know your client better than I do."





How often can one get an attorney to convict his own client?

 

[labworm]

I can actually recall 3 times I deserved a ticket.

But when the man with the badge pulls me over, I know how to behave. I never lie and challenge his intelligence.

 

[BearBio]

I have to say that every time I've gotten a ticket from CHP, it was deserved. And I didn't get a few that were also deserved. Local cops.................different story.

 

[steveno]

I just got my drivers license when we lived in Minden the first time. 50 years ago there was a cop for days and one for nights. the night cop lived to doors down from us. my dad would ride along with the cop sometimes at night so he got to meet some of the state patrolmen passing through. these patrolmen seems to think that their soul mission on patrol was to make sure that when I got a ticket that they made sure my dad knew about it before I got home.

 

[Old TexMex]

One I almost didn't get

I would've gotten a warning .... Except.... the motorcycle patrolman outside of New Orleans pulled me over, and when he stepped up to my window ( this man looked like he'd played offensive line for Grambling) he said "Sir, ( observing my Naval Air Station pass sticker in the windshield of my Grand Marquis) if you'd been goin 1 mile-a- hour slower, I coulda let you slide...but that black box on back of my Harley has o-ficially recorded you in excess of 80, so I'm kinda stuck with writing you up."
I accepted the ticket, said thank you, and wished him well. He did the same. I actually didn't mind

 

[walkinghorse]

I was stopped for doing 50mph in a 35mph and while I was waiting for the Officer to finish checking Me out on the Radio His Backup arrived and just sat there behind Him. As I watched Him in My rear view Mirror I saw Him throw up His Hands and get out of His Car and came up to My Window,I was ready for a big ticket as that City gets most of it's income from Traffic Tickets but He just said that I could go.
I never found out why.

I got stopped on IH80 in Iowa coming back from a site inspection in Illnois. With me was a former LEO, now electrical engineer, and a young woman architect on her first field trip. W were in a red ford bronco II. The IHP car was pulled over on the right with a car in front of
him. He got out of his patrol car walked into the lane on I80, and started waving his arms. I slammed on the brakes (bronco II's could be squirrely), and managed to get stopped about 5' from him and he motioned me to pull behind his car. Rick the EE
, former cop, said watch out for this guy, he is knownmamong other LEO as being stupid, loud, and prone to fabrication. The HP guy told the woman in his patrol car n tomget out and go to her car. He told me to get in his patrol car. I got my registration, insurance papers, DL, and got in his car. He was running my plates on his computer, turned to me and said you are a blue chevy something! I looked at his computer, and he had runmthe plate #, one number off of mine! I told him that, and he yelled at me to stop looking at his computer, keep my eyes straight ahead, and to shut the **** up! I told him to look in the mirror, and find a blue chevy? He started arguing with me. I simply said he was lucky that he had not got run over standing in the middle of a freeway stopping traffic. I also told him I was recording the conversation (remember the warning from the former LEO with me). Also that I was leaving his car, calling the HP headquarters, and reporting him.
His look got even stupider, and he said nothing, as I got out and left his car. My former LEO buddy was obviously laughing as I got into my bronco II, saying this was funnier than any stop he had ever seen. He would be calling his buddies still on the force and relating to them the incident. We never figured out why I was stopped, but my buddy said it probably had something to do with the woman reporting something about a husband, boyfriend, girlfriend or ??????.
No ticket, no warning, no nothing except for my buddy! If now instead of 20 years ago, obviously the situation could have been much more tense?

 

[Skootertrash]

I've had several warnings. The one I should have been issued a ticket was when I was on the bike on I-10 just outside Junction Tx. The nighttime speed limit at the time was 65. I was doing 80, flying around everybody. Turned out the DPS guy was also a biker. We ended up sitting on the side of the highway BSing for about half an hour. It probably didn't hurt that I had a class A CDL.

 

[johngalt]

1 ticket and 1 warning in 32 years of driving. The warning I was stopped for doing 52 in a 35 on a rural road. Officer asked why I was going so fast. I didn't want to lie and make something up, so I told the truth, which was pretty lame - I was getting hungry and was heading home to get dinner. He looks at me, tells me to watch my speed and let's me go.