We got stopped on the way into work this morning by a motorcycle cop that was standing in the middle of the road tagging people. He let us off with a warning. Whew! The problem is, we have no idea how fast we're going because our speedometer is broken.
When's the last time it happened to you? Did you get a ticket or a warning?
squash / 13199 posts
Wow how do you manage to drive with a broken speedometer?
Last time I was stopped was over a year ago, I didnt have my headlights fully on
nectarine / 2797 posts
Back in October or November I think? My phone froze up while driving so I was pressing one button on it to reset the GPS and got ticketed because we are a hands free state.
coconut / 8854 posts
I originally thought when I saw that picture....Holy cow you are going fast!!!
I was pulled over probably about a year ago going 80 in a 55 on the highway by a Sherrif. Needless to say....it was one hell of a ticket.,..
coconut / 8498 posts
A little over a year ago. I took a ridiculous "official use only" that hundreds of people (including DH) use every day. I'm just lucky enough to take it when a cop was camped out there.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
I think maybe 2 years ago now? I've got a couple speeding tickets under my belt 
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
In July, I was on my way to work after our first ultrasound. I don't remember how fast I was going but the guy let me off with a warning. Lucky day!
bananas / 9628 posts
In October 
shortly after my nana died. I had sympathy flowers in the passenger seat but I was in such a funk I didn't even say anything to the cop. He was just pulling everyone over. He even told me to contest the ticket and it'd get thrown out, but I forgot to do that in time so now I have my first moving violation in over 10 years! DH was like, 'why didn't you play the dead nana card?!' I just couldn't say anything. I sat in my car and cried for a while after. It sucked.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
@Mrsbells: We just go with the flow of traffic... unfortunately today, the person in front and behind us were also speeding so they got pulled over as well.
pineapple / 12802 posts
I was pulled over once, and only once, on my wedding day for not wearing my seat belt correctly. I had the arm piece tucked under my arm because I didn't want it to wreck my hair.
That cop was probably never so sorry to pull over someone in his entire life. He asked me why I was so upset, people get pulled over all the time. and I told him I'd never been pulled over and it was my wedding day. He asked "It's your wedding day?" like he didn't hear me the first time, pffft. I whined/bawled "MY HAIR AND MAKE UP WOULDN'T LOOK LIKE THIS IF IT WASN'T MY WEDDING DAY".
He backed away from the car and let me go. lol.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
@.twist.: LOL!!! That's awesome (well, except for the fact that you got pulled over)
papaya / 10560 posts
The week I had LO 4 months ago! I was hugeeeee prego and wasn't paying attention speeding coming down a bridge in a construction zone. It would have been an insane $ ticket. He must have felt really bad for me because he let me off!
pineapple / 12802 posts
@BabyBoecksMom: haha I was waving my hands in my face trying not to let the tears wreck my make up and all my bridesmaids in the car were telling me "don't cry. don't cry." that poor cop didn't really know what to do. Lesson learned, don't drive on your wedding day!!! Let someone else! HAHA.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Ugh I just got stopped in a speed trap when I was on maternity leave, I have to take stop class this weekend! (And thanks for this reminding me, I think I would have completely spaced it...whoops!)
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6581 posts
Not for over three years. I got pulled over twice in 2 weeks, and the last time was because I 'didn't stop' at a stop sign... which was BS because it was one of those where you had to stop... and then pull forward to make sure people weren't coming 
I argued it and got off with a warning... no tickets so far!
cantaloupe / 6800 posts
Last week! It was the first time I got pulled over, too. I drove in the grass a little because it was a two lane road that split off at the stoplight with a really short right-hand turn lane that is only big enough for one car, that light gets SO backed up in the mornings, so I had my passenger side tires in the grass and my other two on the road. I just got a warning.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
@.twist.: that image made me laugh.
Last time we got pulled over was a few days before I delivered. DH turned right on red when he wasn't supposed to (none of us saw the sign!). The cop was really nice and super apologetic but said there'd been a lot of accidents there lately.
It wouldn't have been so bad but my mom was in the car. DH said having his MIL in the seat next to him was 10x worse than the ticket itself.
grapefruit / 4582 posts
Forever ago but DH got one two weeks ago when we were driving into Charleston for our vacation lol
pomegranate / 3716 posts
About 2 years ago when I made a U-turn. I seriously forgot that U turns are technically illegal... oops. But he let me off with a warning!
pomegranate / 3809 posts
About 3 years ago I think. 4 troopers randomly stopped the entire highway to move something big in a work zone and I was the LAST car that didn't make it through. So when they finally let us through, I jet out of there like a bat out of hell and was going 80 on the one lane off to the side that was rerouted. The cop was on the main highway trailing right behind me and pulled me over when the lane rejoined the main road. I could have been nailed bad for 80 in a posted 55 work zone and doubled fines, but he let me off with a warning. Thank goodness!
honeydew / 7917 posts
I've only had one ticket 6 years ago for speeding on the highway. It was a speed trap, and the officer said I was going 80... speed limit is 55. I'm pretty sure it registered at 80 because I was going down a hill. The officer was nice and only recorded it as 9 miles over speed limit. Ticket was less than $60, and now I rarely ever speed.
pomelo / 5132 posts
Almost two years ago, on the week before our honeymoon, I got pulled over in my hometown for "not yielding" for pedestrians in a crosswalk. They weren't even in the crosswalk! I was so mad because I had never gotten a ticket, but the cop was rude. I went to the police station to ask about it and they agreed he was a jerk, but I still had to pay/take traffic school. The cop seriously turned around to follow me to pull me over! Grr.
coconut / 8305 posts
Almost 3 years ago. Got a warning so I've still never had a ticket!
@BabyBoecksMom: My first car didn't have a working speedometer. I drove along side my dad at various speeds "marking" my rpm. Pretty accurate for the main speeds I needed (35, 50, 65, 70).
pomegranate / 3204 posts
DH and I got pulled over about 3 weeks ago, he was driving. He was speeding and got a warning only. We got lucky!
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
A couple of months before I got married, I was in a Chik-Fil-A drive through in my (now) husband's car. A police officer pulled in behind me (I assume to get lunch). Before I knew it, he put his lights on WHILE we were in the drive through line and wrote me a ticket for expired tags . . . I probably don't even need to mention that the parking lot and restaurant were *packed*. It was literally the first of the month (June), and DH's tags were good through May. DH had the new stickers in his office and had forgotten to apply them. : / I was oblivious because it was not my regular car. Talk about humiliating!
grapefruit / 4712 posts
I got pulled over driving home after work a couple summers ago. I was going 45 in a 25. I didn't get a ticket because I was a hot mess from work. This little boy cut his head way open and had to go to the hospital. I was so upset about the whole thing that the police man just told me to slow down and go home.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@FutureMrsMcK:
"DH said having his MIL in the seat next to him was 10x worse than the ticket itself."
I totally feel for your DH!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
@MsLipGloss: Yeah, and I'm sure having a pissed off 9-month pregnant wife in the backseat didn't help any!
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@FutureMrsMcK: *jinkies* That was some seriously bad juju!
pomegranate / 3580 posts
About a month ago. It was bad, too. I was on my way to the gym and didn't grab my purse/wallet so not only did I get caught speeding 9 mph over, but I didn't have my license AND our registration card was out of date (I forgot to put the new one in the glovebox). Luckily, he was really nice and let me go!
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