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State cops got me on the interstate. Wrote it up as 100+. Said he knew it was faster. Don't remember the fine but it was big I never paid it and should have lost my license but there was a huge flood at the state capital that year that destroyed all the records.

Sometimes you get lucky.

Cited for open container in a motor vehicle-illegal in Ohio. If I remember right, it cost me $35.00. We were sitting in the parking lot waiting to go into a nightclub.

Speeding about a week after I got my license.

My licence was suspended at least half of my first few years of driving.

I bought a sweet Chevy Nova SS my senior year but my girlfriend had to drive me to school in it most of the year.
For some reason the court let me drive to work and back but not to school...priorities were different back in those days.

I've turned over a new leaf though.....haven't had a ticket or accident in over 35 years now..........knock on wood.

69 and never had a ticket. That does not mean I haven't deserved 100 or more. It just means I have never been caught.

Can’t remember the details, but I was 16,speeding.
Have gotten probably 15 since then, in th past 50 years.

Reckless driving, 16. Haven't had a ticket since 1990.

1st was "careless driving" -I don't even remember what I did in that '63 Scout 1/2 cab Age 15.
Last time that was even close - in '92 or 3 - I'm cruising to work, pass oncoming state cop at somewhat over the speed limit. Hit the brakes and pull over - knowing I'm being cited. Cop does the high-speed U-Turn through the median, and almost passes me (parked on the shoulder). He comes up to the window, asks for paper - then I ask if it would have been proper for me to chase him down for the ticket I earned - he said you saw that, huh?" 78 in a 65 - and a written warning No points! (I honestly had NO idea how fast I was moving, but I'll take his word for it.)

Mark
Those old scouts wouldn't go fast enough to get a speeding ticket. Must of swerving or something

1967, 16 years and one week old, 33 mph in a 30 mph zone in Chicago. I went to court and the judge blew his top on the officer for wasting his time. Told the prosecutor to explain to the cop what a "null pros" was (spelling? unprecedented prosecution). Prosecutor told the judge it was up to the defendant to mount a defense - the judge chewed his ass out along with the cop's. Apparently, in Illinois at that time, you had to be ten over to be prosecuted except for school zones and the like. I believe that part of Nixon's 55 mph national speed limit regime included challenging such limits in many states to allow prosecution at five over?

That one was a pass but I spent most of my teen years with my license on statutory suspension or some such thing for too many convictions but no serious ones so it was like high stakes supervision. Chicago cops always wanted to pull over teen drivers to see what was up and they would write you up to make quota no matter how cocked-up the charges were, but if it was such a BS stop they usually wouldn't write that fourth ticket that would cost you your license.

Eventually I noticed that virtually everyone in traffic court that had a lawyer got dismissed, so I have hired a lawyer and fought virtually every ticket ever since. In those days the lawyers couldn't solicit in traffic court but they were allowed to hang out in one little closet-like space where you could go to hire them. It was usually about $35 and worked like a charm.

16 speeding, had my license suspended for 6 months when i was 19 for racking up 19 speeding tickets in between.

Speeding, age 15, driving to pick up my girlfriend to take us to school. After the cop stopped me, both of the school buses rolled by, and I knew most everyone on both of them.

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While my poor, old 4 cyl couldn't, - those V-8's could scoot!

1976 late for a date when I went sailing past the radar gun on the outskirts of town. I told him how fast I thought I was going and he told me EXACTLY how fast I was going. Wasn't going to talk this auxiliary cop out of anything.
Funny thing was, a couple years later, he had been hired on by the force when he caught me on my motorcycle without an endorsement. He seemed to believe everything I told him and let me off.

Driving without a license. 15 on a moped. $50-60?

Drove 35 miles to grandparents house, went to court with grandpa, and then drove back home in dads Toyota Celica.

Muffler ticket at age 17 with a 1960 Ford convertible in 1967............ Don't recall what the fine would have been but they let me slide when I showed the court my receipt for a new muffler that I hadn't even put on yet but I didn't mention that fact.

Oh hell why not......first....and still my only....ticket was a good one. I was a 22 year old kid fresh out of a 4 year stint in the Army as an Infantryman. I knew it all and had seen even more and came home with a pretty big chip on my shoulder. I was on my way home from a girls house and got pulled over by a county deputy for not using a turn signal. Went from bad to worse from there. I blew a .12 and was arrested for drunk driving. We live in a very rural community and its a long way to town, about a 40 minute ride. I gave that poor deputy hell the entire ride. Looking back, I would have pulled over and worked me over. But, he didn't do that. I give him some credit because I sure would have. The rest of the story after that only involves money. Been working for a lot of years since as a Paramedic in both ER's and out on the road and have ran into versions of my old self quite a few times and now I have sympathy for combat vets. I'm not condoning drunk driving at all, I don't mean that, but when it comes to my job I've hauled quite few vets to the hospital for everything from suicide attempts to car accidents and I have a soft spot for them. So there you go, there's my story on my first and only ticket. .

Getting busted while driving for 'minor in posession' at age 12!!! wow, I was socially retarded, you are my new hero.



mike r

Age 14 for shooting my pellet gun inside the city limits, that ticket got dropped as the officer was mistaken about where the city limit lines were actually located. At the time I had no idea there were laws against it or where the city lines were. We lived on the very edge of town and we could walk a half a block and be in miles of farm fields chasing sparrows, that was a fun summer.

I don't call him, Sir Big Jim, for nothing.

Been so many, I don't remember which was first.......