Well just got a speeding ticket....

[Altimus]

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I had a 110 in a 55 drag racing in 98. Then had one for drag racing and reckless driving. Sold all the fast cars and had no tickets for 5 years but I got 2 this year. ............my last two make ticket # 14 and 15 since I have been driving. My lawyer sends me a Christmas card every year. :y4:

You're a great customer.

[PlayaHataSupreme]

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REASONABLE traffic violations only last for two years tops on your driving record, and in most cases won't even affect insurance unless they are in a close time span.

What if the tickets are, say, 25 months apart? Is that a close enough time span for affecting insurance???

[Heelfan71]

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What if the tickets are, say, 25 months apart? Is that a close enough time span for affecting insurance???

all tickets make your insurance go up. After 3 years they drop. But if you sign up for new insurance, they usually check back 5 years.

[ehh]

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Hire a lawyer and they will get it off.

Hire a lawyer? That's gonna cost 10x what the actual ticket amount is!

[JohnnytheSkin]

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That statement couldn't be any more wrong.

Well my two tickets, one as a minor and one a year later didn't affect my insurance. I had State Farm and an old car (early '90s) at the time and my insurance didn't fluctuate one iota. Granted both were plea bargained down for fewer points, and both were 5-15 mph over violations, but still, in my experience, it didn't create a problem.

My wife however had three tickets in an 18-month span, and her insurance did go up...but only by $100 or so for the annual premium (through Geico).

[Beantown]

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Hire a lawyer? That's gonna cost 10x what the actual ticket amount is!

Shhh!

[sportsdude]

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Next time....***N!

definitely not a good idea...take my word for it.

[Chaos81]

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Hire a lawyer? That's gonna cost 10x what the actual ticket amount is!

If your lawyer is charging you 10x the ticket cost to get it changed, he's ripping you off. :wink:

[mjb2124]

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If your lawyer is charging you 10x the ticket cost to get it changed, he's ripping you off. :wink:

True. Nothing against lawyers (my girlfriend is one!), but I see no reason to pay one $200 on a $100-$150 ticket when I have just as good of a chance to get it reduced as the lawyer does.

With that said, if I had a "hit and run" or tried to outrun a cop, I'd hire a lawyer. For a speeding ticket going 25MPH over the speed limit? Nah. Already talked my way out of those.

[Heelfan71]

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For a speeding ticket going 25MPH over the speed limit? Nah. Already sucked my way out of those.

fixed :wink:

[mjb2124]

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fixed :wink:

Heh... I'm not BK!!

[SoMiss2000]

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Personally i'd be a man and pay the full amount. There's a time for accountability in life and that's one of those times.

Or do the driving school thing, either way be a man about it.

[Knight165]

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Yeah, I was out of control. I even had an '88 Honda Hurricane 1000 that was factory race prepped that never lost. I was going down a 2-lane highway between here and Fresno, speedometer was at 176 but I was still twisting the throttle. I have no idea how far I got it, since my eyes got oblongated and my helmet was wanting to tear my head off in the wind, and I was cruising down a double-yellow divider into oncoming traffic at almost 200mph. I never got a ticket on my bikes, though. At one point I saw a CHP getting on the freeway, turned on his lights...I dropped it to 5th and gunned it, and I could just see his lights turn off. They'd rather let you go, call ahead, and not have you kill yourself so I used that to my advantage. It was like some bizarre traffic mission impossible; had my garage door opener in my leathers, I'd zip around and pop it at the end of my street, pull in and shut it like the bat cave.

My problem was highway racing and dragging in my car. Funny part of all of my traffic infractions: on the two that I was supposed to be taken to jail on (the 2 over 100), I was racing 1 or more cars, and each time one of them was a DUI. So they let me go and called in a partner to deal with the drunk.

Yeah...I should be dead now. Good news is I haven't had a ticket in like 10 years, and I downgraded cars to something that won't go faster than a tricycle. My wife's a smart woman :y4:.

Well at least you smartened up!
But as a former Police Officer I can tell you one thing. The reason Highway didn't chase you(besides the fact they couldn't really catch you with that bike) was NOT that they did not want YOU to kill yourself running ....but THEY wanted to go home in one piece after the tour. That and they didn't want you jammin' up some innocent civilian just trying to get home. Mind you I wasn't Highway(BOOORING!!! who wants to chase a bunch of clowns around the five boroughs? ..sorry if any of the Highway crew is reading this) but that's pretty much what was the thought process.
He figured sooner or later he'd be picking up your pieces up the road a bit.

I used to think that being pinned in a car was worse than laying the bike down and getting ripped up. I actually came up on a drunk driver who was speeding(big time) hit a utility pole....killed his passenger and was pinned so badly and in such shock that he tried to yank himself out of the car as we pulled up to the scene.....he ripped what was left of his legs off in the process....until this year when some numbskull tried doing over 100 MPH on the Cross Island Parkway and lost control of his bike. He skidded about 40 feet until he came to an abrupt stop on one of the posts holding up the guardrail, where he proceeded to explode into pieces. Lucky me....I found the guys head(his helmet was shattered and all over the road) and the only reason I could tell it was his head was a little bit of hair left. Otherwise it looked like a gigantic meatball covered with sauce.
Happy speeding!

M.K.
Knight165

[skitch]

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Personally i'd be a man and pay the full amount. There's a time for accountability in life and that's one of those times.

Or do the driving school thing, either way be a man about it.

How does saving yourself money make you less of a man? I really don't see your reasoning behind that statement. Yes, you should be held accountable for your actions, but paying the full amount and being a man have nothing to do with each other.

[TCrouch]

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Well at least you smartened up!
But as a former Police Officer I can tell you one thing. The reason Highway didn't chase you(besides the fact they couldn't really catch you with that bike) was NOT that they did not want YOU to kill yourself running ....but THEY wanted to go home in one piece after the tour. That and they didn't want you jammin' up some innocent civilian just trying to get home. Mind you I wasn't Highway(BOOORING!!! who wants to chase a bunch of clowns around the five boroughs? ..sorry if any of the Highway crew is reading this) but that's pretty much what was the thought process.
He figured sooner or later he'd be picking up your pieces up the road a bit.

I used to think that being pinned in a car was worse than laying the bike down and getting ripped up. I actually came up on a drunk driver who was speeding(big time) hit a utility pole....killed his passenger and was pinned so badly and in such shock that he tried to yank himself out of the car as we pulled up to the scene.....he ripped what was left of his legs off in the process....until this year when some numbskull tried doing over 100 MPH on the Cross Island Parkway and lost control of his bike. He skidded about 40 feet until he came to an abrupt stop on one of the posts holding up the guardrail, where he proceeded to explode into pieces. Lucky me....I found the guys head(his helmet was shattered and all over the road) and the only reason I could tell it was his head was a little bit of hair left. Otherwise it looked like a gigantic meatball covered with sauce.
Happy speeding!

M.K.
Knight165

That's insane. I'm glad I'm not one of those stories...once I had kids, it was time to back off some. I don't think I go more than 80, 85 once in a blue moon now. But I also moved about half a block from work. Remove all temptations and thou shalt not go apesh*t (or something like that).

When I think about the crap I did in my vehicles as a kid, I have no idea how I survived. My old 1968 Mustang California Special (kind of like a Shelby, but a coupe instead of a fastback) was a deathtrap. It was running a little 289 block but had 351 Cleveland heads on it, bored .040 over, 14:1 forged TRW pistons, Nitrous on a wide-open throttle switch...press it to the floor and the nitrous kicked in, etc. Had to have the engine rebuilt more times than I can count. It was so tough to keep cool I had to have a bigass GM truck radiator welded into the frame to attempt to keep the engine temp down.

The aerodynamics on the old cars were so bad...once I got it near 150 or so, it would actually try to TAKE OFF like an airplane. The aerodynamics were backwards; instead of squatting down on the road, it would just lift up and get loose like a sloppy Brooklyn whore. My girlfriend at the time loved going fast, but she hated it when the car would lift off the road at huge speeds and just shift a few feet in any direction repeatedly. It was like trying to drive something where you only have control for a split second (when it touched down again) every few seconds before the steering wheel goes loose in your hands again, it was insane. Absolutely insane. I even had the hood of the car rip off one time at those speeds and go flying over the cab.

Man, I'm glad I have a little 93 Toyota Pickup that I don't have that problem in anymore