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I was 16, ( the license is not official until you get the first ?), speeding, 58 Ford, city cop, $16 fine.

Any care to tell about the first offense?

Speeding , 17 yrs. old -never paid it ..

Minor in possession way before I got a drivers licence. I think I was 12.

It got worse once I got a licence.

30 something in a 25 on my way to work, caught a lot of people that day. Speed trap instigated by some [bleep] city official that lived near by. Crowded courtroom with a slightly pissed judge, $10 for everybody.

16 yo for me, too. Tiny town speed trap where the cop sat at the leaving end of town. If you went through town dutifully at the 30 limit, but sped up before you actually passed the 40 limit sign, he lit you up. Had to appear before the town mayor/justice of the peace. That was 1963, and so far it has been my only traffic ticket.

At 17 me and a buddy of mine went to see an away football game.
Coming home I was hitting those "singing strips" that they put on the berms of a ramp.
I was driving at the speed limit, and someone was tailgating me pretty closely. I had a big block Monte Carlo, so when we got to an open road, I dropped the hammer.
'Bout then the bubble gum lights come on. 65 in a 55 zone. Fine was 72.50, which I paid with a money order, and made sure I got the receipt and notice of points on my license out of the mail so Dad wouldn't find out!
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First ticket back in '74 was for "speeding and eluding" in a residential zone, Judge threw it out because I Quote "had he eluded like the officer claimed, he would not be standing here in court" Judge then told the officer in front of court to next time fine for "attempted" to elude. I drove real quite like for the next several months in our little one horse hick town, you tend to draw alot of attention when you drove a Meyers Manx.

rolled through a stop sign at a highway off-ramp - $35 back in 1984. It was a State Police town nearby and the bastids needed something to do in between trips to the bakery.

minor in possession 15 years old


we wouldn't tell the cops who bought us the beer, other guys in car were 17, 16,16


one of the 16 year old's dads came to the station, dad took him outside, heard some muffled blows and he told dad who told the cops who had bought the beer for us.

Speeding ticket, 27 years old..... bought a corvette

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I've gotten two speeding tickets, both 36 in a 25 here in the town I live in..... last one in '84.

I've gotten away with a lot since..

17 years old, 41 in a 25 zone.

That one hurt.

I don't remember my first one.

I remember my last one.

I hired a lawyer, went to court and beat it.

As I was walkin' out a pretty women sitting in the audience smiled and winked at me.

I winked back.

It was fun.

Side track. At 93 we talked to my dad about giving up his drivers licence.....

Why he asked....

No tickets or accidents in The 80 years I been Driving....

I couldn't say the same.....

First of many beginning at 18, 72 in a 55, HWY 213 bypass in Oregon City when it was all new, in my dad's 76 Chevy 3/4 ton. I thought he'd be pissed but he didn't give a chit. Had a girlfriend with me and she had all my attention. Lady deputy said she had the lights on for about a mile before I noticed. Always a lover.

My momma has never gotten one, bless her heart.

Had a Honda Trail 90 back in the 70's. Got a ticket when I was 14 because a cop caught me driving it in an ally in town... How else was I supposed to get it home?


Got my last ticket in 1980 on IH10 outside San Antonio. Going 65mph in a 55 mph zone. DPS had a plain car parked on the side of the road, and when you crossed over the hill, there was about 10 DPS there waving people over, giving them tickets.

1964. 18 yr. old. 37 in a 30 zone. $25.00 fine.

I got pulled over the day I got my licence for running a red light.

One of the two grumpy cops looking at my temporary licence yelled at me, "How long have you had a licence, A MONTH!!??"

I could have said, "One day, can't you read?"

But I said something else and they let me go.

That was the beginning of 50 years of talking my way out of tickets.

I think I was 17, driving to high school and came around a corner to see a cop with a radar gun pointed at me. 42 in a 25.

Got the first one in nearly 25 years this summer. Pulled into the left lane to get around a string of slow traffic and didn't notice the slow line was due to a cop. 80 in a 65.