Dang It, Dang It, Dang It.
There’s a small stretch of road by our house where the speed limit is twenty. Twenty. That’s pretty dang slow if you ask me. There’s no school around. There are occasionally people walking dogs and what-not, but regardless, the speed limit is twenty.
Yesterday I ran out to do some things, and was on the way back not really paying attention to the posted speed limit signs. Typically I slow down in this area to at or below twenty, just to be annoying to everyone around me, and to, in my mind stick it to the man. Well not today. I accidentally was coasting down the road at a still very reasonable speed of thirty-four. How do I know that I was going thirty-four you might ask? Well, because that’s what the nice officer told me I was going.
Here’s the kicker. I’m pretty bad about keeping track of papers and stuff, and it turns out I have lost our registration papers, I have forgotten to change my address on my license from when we moved and the insurance card that I had in my wallet was from a car we don’t even own anymore. Ouch. There is a silver lining though. Come to find out that we have been paying for insurance on that car that we no longer own and now we have a good sized credit with our insurance company.
So anyway, I am headed to traffic court on April first, to somehow try and talk my way out of this one, but from now on I may get out and push my car through this section of road. Can you get a ticket for that?
I feel ya on this bro…I’m about ready to write a letter or start a petition on the twenty mph thing…uuuugggghhhhhh.
Ouch!
I got my first ever ticket this year for not coming to a complete stop before turning right on red. A 450 dollar ticket plus another 100 dollars for traffic school. Joy.
I make sure to tell everyone to come to a complete stop before turning right on red now.
I got caught by a camera…I hear they are now effectively using cameras for speeding too.
Yeah, not to add insult to injury or anything (’cause I know how bad traffic court stuff stinks), but…Um, How sadistically awesome would it be to be the judge on April fools day.
lol, start getting buff ^_^
I have been convinced that speed limits are completely arbitrary ever since the time I saw an official 10 1/2 mph limit sign. Just go out there with some black tape and turn it into a 30. No one will notice.
You just have to turn on the charm and offer to make the judge a nice blog (:
Bummer.
You know. The only ticket I ever got was when I was driving a band around in the KSBJ van that has GOD LISTENS plastered on the side of it.
I cried.
Yes I did.
The band guys assured me their wives would have cried too – then they treated me to Papasitos.
All is good.
I hope you get out of the ticket…
I’ve known you less than two years and this is the THIRD ticket. You’d better hope that’s one hefty credit on your insurance ’cause you’re gonna need it young man!
Beth
A ticket? Depends on if you are naked or openly urinating while you are pushing the vehicle.
I still haven’t changed my drivers license from Missouri to… anywhere else. I lived in Missouri 10 years ago.
Ouch. Good luck in traffic court. My best friend just got out of a ticket in court, so there’s hope! I like Raquel’s suggestion haha.
On campus, the speed limit is 20 everywhere. And since the University has their own police department, those guys have NOTHING better to do than pull everyone over early. They really like to pull over people on bikes.
I don’t know if you can get a ticket for pushing your car along, but you can get one for speeding on a bicycle.
Lindsey –
Here’s a simple lesson in life: Guys don’t get out of tickets. It just does not happen. However, Brody may break even here because of the insurance credit. That’s nice.
Hi all-
My mom shared she got a ticket for driving slow, below the speed limit!
April fools???
I just returned from traffic court this morning where a man who was driving a Lamborganini made a U-turn at an intersection where a sign prohibited him from doing so. He paid the fee but had a smart lawyer get the court to agree to change to violation to something that wouldn’t effect his driver license/insurance.
Now Brody, I tried to play a trick on Crowder or Phil when you were driving through town but you never called me. So I called the po-po in your town and had them waiting for you in this area.
In california, speed limits are set by the 80th% of speed in that area and for it to be anything else there has to be a reason. I might fight that there is no reason for a 20mph limit.
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