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How mnay speeding/parking tickets have you gotten?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by noize, Aug 26, 2004.

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  1. oomp

    oomp Member

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    When I graduated High Scool, I lived in League City. I went to San Jac Central before transferring to my 4 year school.

    Red Bluff and me were a bad mix.

    I got something like 10 tickets in two years. I was close to having my TXDL revoked.

    Rode a bicycle at 4 year college and cleaned up my record. Haven't had one since.
     
  2. Fatty FatBastard

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    Just watch yourself.....

    Both times I just parked downtown, went to work, went back to the car and BAM!, A boot was on it. And they'll make $100 into $500 to get that boot off, and you have no choice but to pay the fine.
     
  3. Manny Ramirez

    Manny Ramirez The Music Man

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    I got one parking ticket when I came back to campus at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) for a talk with the math department on some math topic (I can't even remember what it was about). I was in grad school, and I told the math department about it and they said don't worry about it as they would take care of it.

    Meanwhile, I have gotten pulled over at least 25 times in my life since driving in 1989 - I really have lost count. Out of all those times, I have only gotten 3 tickets. I consider it a talent.:p
     
  4. Manny Ramirez

    Manny Ramirez The Music Man

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    Or you could do what Homer Simpson did when that happened to him in New York...drive with the boot on.
     
  5. ArtV

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    In 28 years of driving:

    3 Moving Violation tickets -
    1 was a careless and imprudent driving - aka - exhibition driving. Hey when you own a hot 69 SS/RS Camaro in HS it's lucky that that's all that I got.
    1 was running a stop sign. More of a didn't come to a complete stop at 4 in the morning - he had his lights out at the end of the street.
    1 was a speeding ticket in Umble - excuse me Humble, TX - 35 in a 25.

    Parking tickets:
    If you count college parking tickets (I still owe Iowa State $425 for my first year - I have no idea how many that translates to). 1 UofH. Otherwise only, 1 city.

    No tows.
     
  6. IROC it

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    That stuck? 1 in 16+ years (that 1 that stuck happened over 18 months ago.)


    Probably 3 that were warnings, and about 4 (including fender benders) that I defensive driving coursed away.

    btw- all of the warnings and tickets for speeding were WHILE using a detector. :rolleyes:
     
  7. darkwarrior

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    been driving for like a year so tickets :D I don't know if los angeles is known for their ****ed up drivers, but pretty much everyone aren't
    "good" drivers. I go like 45 on 40mph zone and they tailgate my like hell. I go like 30 in a school zone (25mph) and they do the same. I don't want no tickets :(
    And on the freeways i don't even think people care about max limits. I had to go 75mph on the freeway just to stay with the flow.
     
  8. giddyup

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    Been driving since 1970.

    Got speeding tickets in 1971, 1985, 1998, 2000 and in 2004.

    The last one was the worst (going 83 in a 65 speeding down a mountainside in Virgina at night with a patrolman waiting for me at the bottom of the hill around the curve. I got to enjoy an ENTIRE Saturday in Galax, Virginia at the Driver Improvement Program.... $460 later.
     
  9. bamaslammer

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    When I was in ATL at a strip joint with some friends, they put a boot on the car of one of the buddies I was with. One of the Marines with us was a welder and he had his rig in his truck. He cut the boot off the car without any damage. Bet that was a surprise when they came back and found their boot cut in half!
     
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    1 speeding ticket.

    2 parking tickets (both at UT Austin, 1 just last night).
     
  11. Isabel

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    Pulled over three times, never gotten a speeding ticket. So far.

    Parking tickets (from universities), on the other hand... too many to count. :(
     
  12. tierre_brown

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    3 traffic tickets: 2 speeding (1 on Gessner; 1 on the beltway (I PAY TO SPEED, DAMNIT, LET ME SPEED!); 1 rolling through a stop sign (Sugar Land).

    1 parking ticket that set me back $300...I hate UT police/parking and transportation.
     
  13. meggoleggo

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    I'm 22 now, and I got a car when I was 17, so over the past 5 years,

    On my driving record: none.
    Times I've been pulled over and got away with speeding: 3
    Tickets I've taken defensive driving for: 4
    Tickets I've gotten since April 2003: none.
     
  14. Preston27

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    Only been pulled over once when I was 15, got away with a warning.
     
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    I drive about 30K miles every year and have been for the last 8 years. I used to get 1-2 tickets a year, because i am a speeder. However, after being on the road so much, I've learned when to and when not to and where and where not to speed. Haven't received a ticket in about 5 years.
     
  17. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    At least 10, but none are on my record.
     
  18. Fatty FatBastard

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    Yeah, I should've figured out about attorney's a looonnnggg time ago.
     
  19. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    I've actually never used attorneys either. I was lucky enough for a while not to get tickets in the same county. That was a little loophole in the whole "can't take defensive driving more than one time a year" thing. Not sure if that would work these days, though.
     
  20. Fatty FatBastard

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    As far as I know, it still works. Be happy you didn't grow up when I did, where you could only take DD once every two years.
     

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