Dumbest ticket?

[GFresh]

Looking around I see plenty of tickets for speeding and reckless driving, but what's the absolute DUMBEST ticket you ever got. Here's a long story, but kinda funny...

I was on a 100 kmh (60 mph) highway, and when I exited i noticed my brake pedal sink. I pulled into a gas station and bought brake fluid to top it up. I travelled for a few minutes down the road but was still 60 km or so from my destination, when i approached a light that turned yellow. Not wanting to test my failing brakes, i pushed through. Unfortunately, I didn't notice the cop that pulled in behind me at the intersection and followed me. So I'm driving along an 80 kmh (50 mph) road now, smoking a cigarette, and when i finish it, i flick it out the window (habit). Ten seconds later the cherries come on. (Note: this is all within a 30 second time frame). He pulls me over for "not stopping for a red light". After I explain my case, show him the receipt, he takes my license and insurance to the cruiser. Five minutes later he comes back, gives me a warning to fix the brakes and a $110 fine for hitting his windshield with my cigarette butt... called it "Litter Highway". I cry bulls**t but X-COPPER (local ticket busters) tell me I had no case. At least it wasn't a moving violation...

[fredjacksonsan]

Sux to get busted for littering. Two of my brothers had the dumbest ticket ever on a family vacation.....he was driving down the road with our (wonderful) sister in the passenger seat, another brother following. Turns out sis was holding the radar detector in her lap, so of course it didn't go off when they were zapped by radar. They still tell the story, and it's 10 years later.

[victimizati0n]

if you read the driving book you got when you got your permit, you would of ntcied that it says throwing ANYTHING out of the car is littering. even cigerete ashes.

Hell... i think everybody liters though.

[Skateforfood]

What about ice? I do that all the time when I dont want the interior getting wet. Oh and Im still reading my permit book

[93rollaracer]

loud exhaust...cop lied on the report, i got screwed over. my car isn't half as loud as the muscle cars and harleys around here

[s4fanatic27]

Originally Posted by Skateforfood

What about ice?

I agree, i thought that the rule was that if it is Biodegradable then it was ok, I can understand a cig butt because of the fire hazard( the cops perspective..lol) But if you can get a ticket for throwing ice out of your car then there is something seriously wrong with the law.

[r8erz4life]

i was driving behind a cop doing everything perfect. he switches lanes and stops at the red to turn left. i stop, then turn right. like i said everything perfect. next thing i know i see lights i pull over in my girlfriends neighborhood which was really embarrasing. he walks up and says he saw me w/o my seatbelt (not true) i told him i had it on, and he says it is improperly on (under the armpit, not over the shoulder)

that is my ticket

i wonder if i had it on "properly", if he would have still pulled me over(im 17)

[alphalanos]

that sucks. well i havent gotten a ticket while driving yet, but i got when i was riding my damn bike. i was crossing a street on the bike, then i went into a mcdonalds parking lot. all this time i see a cop car sitting in the intersection. so i circle the parking lot, maybe 30 seconds time, and right as im leaving, he pulls up in front of me and flashed the lights. im like "what the hell?" he puts that bright ass spotlight right on me, i stop and put down my bike. he asks me a ton of idiotic questions such as "why are your eyes red?" (chlorine from swimming) "why are you all wet" (swimming again) "did you steal this bike?" (yes i stole a bike when i have a fucking car at home, idiot) "why were you looking at that car for so long?" (there was a broken down POS in the parking lot, that i glanced at for maybe 10 seconds at the most. somehow he comes up with 15min, which is not possible in any way) so i end up getting a ticket for no lights on my bike. wow fuck off buddy i hope you die while chasing someone. also my bike is a specialized 415 which means disturbing the peace in cop code, maybe he didnt like that....lol

[bumpinneon]

the dumbest ticket i have ever gotten was when i came up to a red light and slowed down to like 1 maybe 2 mph, made a right turn and next thing i know lights are flashing behind me, the cop tells me to get out of the car and step back towards him, so i did, he didnt say anything to me except let me see your license and registration and i told him that it was my friends car that was in the backseat so he didnt care for the regristation. im sitting there for about 45min to an hour while hes in the car, he finally comes out and says ok your first sitation is for no headlight (the headlight was out), then he says your second sitation is for no seatbelt (at this time im thinking ok 2 small tickets i can handle that), then he tells me your third sitation is for not coming to a complete stop at a redlight (which was a $80 ticket) and the worst part of all is i had just got a ticket a week before for speeding but he let me go with failure to follow traffic device, which was another $80 ticket, so now i had 2 $80 tickets to pay and 2 $46 tickets to pay.

[Igovert500]

I got pulled over doing 105mph in a 55, the cop was going the opposite direction and the radar detector didn't go off soon enough. He caught up and pulled me over on the exit ramp I was taking. Says he clocked me at 83mph, I knew it was BS, so i wouldn't admit to it. So he gives me a $20 seatbelt ticket because I didn't have teh lap belt on, only the automatic shoulder harness. The way I see it...if you are going to let me go, then let me go, if you are going to give me a ticket, then give me the ticket( he didn't need me to admit to it, to issue it). But did the township really need that $20 that bad? I mean the damn postage for the payment almost cost as much as the fine.

[YukiHime]

Originally Posted by s4fanatic27

I agree, i thought that the rule was that if it is Biodegradable then it was ok, I can understand a cig butt because of the fire hazard( the cops perspective..lol) But if you can get a ticket for throwing ice out of your car then there is something seriously wrong with the law.

But throwing a piece of ice is pretty much like throwing a piece of stone...because it can really cause damage to the cars following you.

[3000GT_Formula_350]

hmm Dumbest Ticket...ummm let me think, so many i dont remember some...OH yeah stop sign ticket, I was following my friend out of his neighborhood onto the main road, he blows the stop sign completely and speeds off, and even though I had to follow him I slowed to a "rolling stop" 1 or 2 mph, and there was no one on the road either way, so I went...no clue where the cop was but he waits a mile later to pull me over. Two cops come up and the one is like, "you know why i pulled you over?" and I thought it was for speeding b/c I was like 15 over the limit, so i'm like "was I going too fast?"...and hes like "No, you ran that stop sign" And I hadn't thought twice about coming out of the neighborhood b/c my friend blew through it and I pretty much stopped right after him, so I'm like "What stop sign?!" and then he started getting all piggish on me askin if im on drugs and said "dont try to lie to me"...so im like "wtf I don't remember when I ran a stop sign"(cuz it was a mile before hand) then he told me the street and I was like "well wtf why didnt you pull over my friend who blew it completely?!" So then he goes and writes the ticket up and my friend drives by and beeps so I flick him off lol. $110 (I think that was my first ticket that I had to pay a fine for) They don't care for the law, as long as SOMEBODY pays a fine.

[94accordVTEC]

I've had 2

1. Equipment violation for having superwhite turnsignals on the car...he said they were blue i said "no the light on the top of your car are blue...these are white" he didn't like that to much so he was an a$$ from then on. BTW the law says they can be from white to amber. He also tried to cite me for the rear side marker lights but i knew that he could not b/c the law only applies to lights that flash. They pull you over to see if you are F-ed up and if you are not they give you tickets like this.

2. reckless driving...i was stopped turning right on red and got a little wheel spin b/c it was wet...he pulls me over and acts like i just robbed a bank or something...he sat there until another cop got there (i'm 5-6 145 does he really need a buddy?) and then acted like an a$$ to me i assume b/c i have a custom honda or something...anyway i looked it up in the law book and went to court and had it dismissed...

[Bouv442]

I was probably doing about 50 in the right hand lane of a 2 ln hwy. I needed to get over, so I signaled, and merged when I found space. A woman behind me in the lane I just merged into hit her horn, I guess to say she thought I cut her off. Next thing I know she's following me on my way to work. I get there, she parks behind me so I can't get out and calls the cops on her cellphone. Next thing I know, they show up, and give me a $200 ticket for reckless driving. Even though they weren't even there. I took it to court with a witness who saw the whole thing, and still lost.

[RandomTask]

LoL, alpha, that has to be bullshit, that cop was being a dick.
Igovert, be glad you got off so easy! :P He was being nice!

I just want to clarify, flicking off a cop is the same as assault on a police officer you can get arrested and or have the living $hit beat out of you.

My contributions:
First ticket, going down a highway, about 11 oclock at night. Was going the EXACT pace as this truck next to me, (i was in left lane, he was in right) next thing you know I have this tail lights RIGHT on my ass, no joke, no more than 8 feet behind me. So I speed up to pass the truck, put my right turn signal on, switched lanes, and started slowing back down, next thing you know the car dives behind me and throws on his lights. Gotta ticket 66mph in a 55. Had to do 11 hours community service

Another one:
Decided to speed on this backroad. It was 3 oclock at night, on the way to my GF's. No-one on the street, so I started to speed up, (theres this hilly part of the road that real fun to go fast on) Must have missed him, so I slowed back down to 60mph (it was a 55mph road) Then I see these tail lights in my rear view gaining ground on me quick, I figured it was someone doing the same thing I did so I moved out of my lane to let him by, next thing you know, blue light special. He was explaining to me "This is a summons, It does not say your guilty, you just promise to appear in court on this day"... trying to be a smart ass I said "I don't know if I can make it?" he then said, "Oh, well I can arrest you now and take you to the majistrate if you want..."

I signed it...

And to top it all off. A guy a go to college with this guy who has a Suzuki GSXR 1000. Was doing 183mph in a 45 mph work zone. (it was an interstate, but they were doing construction). Slows down, sees a cop trying to catch up to him so he takes off again. (The cop was close enough to get his license plate). But he jumps on an offramp, is racing around trying to get away, in the process wrecks his bike into some corn field. Farmer hears this and runs out with his shotgun to find this guy I know, bloody with a broken arm. He calls the cops, and the first one to get there is the one that was chasing him. Oh, and his bike is totalled. I think some of the offenses are:

reckless driving
reckless endangerment
driving with the intent to kill
evading arrest
138mph over posted speed limit
destruction of private property (for the corn that his crash tore up)
and don't forget the part the speeding was through a constuction zone, 'fines doubled'