These Are The Worst Traffic Tickets You’ve Ever Gotten – Jalopnik

From possession of an unlawful radar detector to failure to cease at an intersection on a bicycle, the individuals who go to Jalopnik do not get pulled over for run-of-the-mill causes. We requested our readers earlier this week for the worst site visitors tickets they’ve ever acquired. While one individual jokingly thought we had been able to rat him out to his insurance coverage supplier, the feedback part was nonetheless filled with tales of how our well-behaved readers ended up on the fallacious facet of the regulation.

Some commenters totally admitted they had been within the fallacious, whereas others argued that the law enforcement officials of their misadventures had been simply fishing for a quotation. A couple of folks had been holding grudges over tickets that had been written many years in the past. Thankfully, nobody admitted to committing a criminal offense that they weren’t caught for or did not present sufficient data to incriminate themselves. Without additional ado, listed here are the worst tickets you have ever gotten behind the wheel:

Driving by a small city in Nebraska the place the velocity restrict modified seven occasions inside a one-mile stretch (I went again and counted), more often than not with out warning and the indicators partially blocked. It was undoubtedly intentional on their half.

Submitted by: cwheels

Cop lower me off pulling out of a enterprise driveway onto the primary road. Didn’t should “slam” on the brakes, however undoubtedly needed to gradual aggressively to keep away from hitting him. Then he pulled over to the facet of the highway about 100 ft later, let me go, then entered the highway once more behind me and pulled me over. Wrote me a ticket for failure to keep up a secure distance.

Got it thrown out. But it nonetheless makes me mad twenty years later.

Submitted by: CanadianTireKicker

I used to be heading residence from work just a little after midnight in Scranton. I used to be making a left flip and the site visitors mild turns yellow mid-intersection and a cop is to my proper. He gave me a reckless driving ticket. I fought it and it received diminished to a $36 parking violation. The finest ticket I did not get is when my brother and I had been on Interstate 380 coming residence from work and we simply wished to get residence. I used to be doing 96 mph after I look within the rear view and see a PA Trooper inches behind me in his Crown Vic. He pulls alongside me, seems to be at us for a couple of seconds and simply speeds off. My brother mentioned it is quitting time and he did not need to fill the paperwork out on that one. I used to be by no means so relieved and confused and the identical time. True story, swear to God.

Submitted by: Bruno

I used to be driving to work after I had a comparatively low-speed collision with a truck. My head hit the entrance of the automobile and I used to be bleeding a bit from my brow. My entrance finish was crunched, however drivable, with fluids spewing. I used to be a couple of blocks from work, and drove at low velocity on empty residential facet streets, assuming that when I finished, I won’t have the ability to begin the automobile once more.

I rolled by a cease signal on a abandoned residential road one block from work. A cop pulled me over. I defined what occurred (did I point out I used to be bleeding from my brow?) and he nonetheless wrote me a ticket.

Submitted by: MidwestCarMan

My freshman yr of faculty, using my bike to class. Approached a 4-way cease. The automobile going my path had stopped moments earlier than I arrived, so I simply proceeded with that automobile as a protect by the intersection. A cop was close by and turned on his lights and siren. I could not fathom it being for me, so I ignored it. As I’m pulling as much as class, the cop activates his loudspeaker, “You on the bike, pull over.” Got a shifting violation ticket that jacked up my insurance coverage for years.

Submitted by: Kade Baird

In true stereotypical “don’t speed in Virginia” trend, in 2014, I received a reckless driving cost for doing 45 in a 20. I used to be pulled over on the backside of a hill simply earlier than crossing an intersection at about 8 pm. On the opposite facet of the intersection, I knew the velocity restrict was 45, however I did not drive a lot on the facet I used to be on. I might even see the 45 mph signal from the place he pulled me over. He did not give me an opportunity to inform my story both (I used to be getting off work late from a shift on the hospital taking good care of sick youngsters and was going to choose up my cat from the vet who was dying of most cancers earlier than they closed in a couple of minutes, significantly). He simply gave me the ticket and instructed me to seem in court docket. My response was “WTF,” which he used for instance that I used to be being impolite through the cease.

I drove that size of highway once more to search for an indication, and there wasn’t an indication posting the restrict from the place I turned on the highway to the place I used to be pulled over. The decide did not need to hear that, although. I employed an legal professional who instructed me it was pointless to rent him as a result of he knew what the decide was going to say in that jurisdiction. He was utterly proper, too. Lost my license for every week and paid the fantastic. I requested about exceptions for driving to work. He mentioned that was a factor, however that it might be three months if I selected that. I ended up bumming rides for every week. The worst half is that I’ve a misdemeanor on my file completely and I’ve to report it any time I alter jobs.

Submitted by: JJ

For not sporting a seat belt whereas driving a tractor-trailer after I was sporting a seat belt. The crooked Cop was engaged on I-30 in Greenville, TX. The huge truck I used to be following was additionally cited for a similar offense. From that day ahead, I’ve at all times boycotted all issues from Texas.

Submitted by: George Z

I used to be going about 80 in a 75 zone, which by no means will get consideration from the state patrol right here. But an olive inexperienced Hyundai zoomed by me and some minutes later, I used to be getting pulled over. I occurred to be driving a vivid crimson Veloster N. I could not determine why I used to be pulled over and he was making an attempt to pin me down on my velocity. Finally, he accused me of [going] 98 mph and I merely identified the automobile that zoomed by me, which was the one one going quicker than everybody else. He was startled as a result of he very clearly realized I used to be proper and he’d pulled over the fallacious car. I did not get a ticket for dashing, however I received a “wasting environmental resources” ticket as a substitute. What an ass.

Submitted by: Robot impurity

In Alberta, received caught for 95 in a 50 zone – obligatory court docket look, this was again in ’96 or so, I present up in court docket and so they change the cost to ‘dashing past an inexpensive restrict’ or some such phrases. So I depart with a $550.00 fantastic and no license for 3 months, went to satisfy buddy on the bar however nope they need some ID, no beer for me.

Submitted by: E M Griffiths

It appears that me and radar detectors appear to draw tickets. For instance:

When I used to be nonetheless in school (Go Musketeers!!!), I did the drive from Cincinnati to the Philadelphia suburbs frequently by way of the PA Turnpike. And it was nonetheless 55 at the moment. I additionally gave buddies a experience with me if their journey residence might undergo Philadelphia. One buddy really helpful use of his radar detector to help in getting by PA faster.

We’re on the Turnpike, exiting one of many tunnels, after I understand that an unmarked automobile is behind me and he received me leaving the tunnel doing 70 in a 55. He arms me the costly ticket and begins strolling again to his automobile. He then walks again to my automobile, faucets on the window, factors on the radar detector, and with a smirk says, “You know son, you live by the sword, you die by the sword!”

A couple of years later, I’m residing in NoVA. Radar detectors are unlawful there, however I nonetheless had my PA plates and license so possibly I might play dumb. I pull right into a principally empty financial institution lot and head in. When I exit, there’s an officer standing subsequent to my automobile. He yells over, “Is this your car? Do you know that’s illegal in VA?”I had my new Escort on the windshield. I overlook how a lot the fantastic was, nevertheless it was very costly. After that, I saved it hidden till I left the state on highway journeys.

In the tip, 2 years later, my automobile was damaged into and the Escort was stolen…

Submitted by: Xavier96

Coming right into a small city in west Texas, the velocity restrict goes from 75 mph to 55 mph. I’m slowing down coming as much as the 55 mph signal, go it, however the sheriff lights me up and I pull into the gasoline station – takes my license, checks my insurance coverage, then goes to his automobile and comes again with a ticket for me going 57 in a 55. I not often argue, however tried to affirm that I used to be slowing down and was properly below 55 not lengthy after I’d have handed the 55 [sign] as a result of it then went to 35 possibly 1 / 4 to a half mile later. He agreed that I used to be slowing down, however mentioned it did not matter as a result of I used to be dashing and that the regulation’s the regulation.

Submitted by: Ryan Brenn

I’ve solely gotten two tickets in my life (I’m 62), each on the identical day, in Grayling, Michigan. The first ticket was for “going through a yellow light.” The second ticket was for going 4 mph over the restrict on M-72. I had a cousin who labored for the native court docket there and she or he instructed me that a lot of town’s revenue was based mostly on ticketing “out of towners.”

This was 25 years in the past, and I’ve by no means pushed by Grayling since.

Submitted by: Kevin Forth