Lame excuses for getting off tickets

[DinnMuzz]

I replied to a thread with this story but thought well why not start a thread with stories of how some of us have gotten away with it.. Lame excuses reason given and successes.:Pokey:

So I will start,,
When I was 16, long time ago I got pulled up on my XL100 for exceeding 50kms,, I said str8 away to the officer the biker had been running rough and I had to run it at higher revs to keep it going, on the way home of course. I said I would show him,, having flicked off a concealed kill switch I kicked and kicked using heaps of throttle of course, then pretended to fiddle with carb, putting kill switch on and hey presto it starts and runs rough as a pig, flooded of course, he noted it on my ticket, wrote in and got off... lol:banana:

Look forward to hear any interesting stories that worked, share them around.

[JimO]

i have got off several tickets over the years by not being a smart arse

[Drew]

A while back, I was hooning around the basin reserve on a VF750, I heard a cop siren so shot up a couple side streets and parked between a couple cars.

The cop screeched up blocking me in, got out of his car screaming his head off at how I am a temporary kiwi. He got within an inch of my face and went apeshit, I honestly thought he was gonna smash my head in. After about five minutes of abusing me, he yelled he had neither the time or the inclination for the likes of me, got back in his car and fucked off.

I stayed there and had a smoke, and pondered what had transpired, to this day I dunno what the hell made him leave, I think perhaps he realised he was gonna hit me and I aint worth his job.

[megageoff76]

he yelled he had neither the time or the inclination for the likes of me, got back in his car and fucked off.

Was that because you were riding a Honda mate?

[Drew]

Was that because you were riding a Honda mate?

Good thinkin, that's probably it.

Good job I've got another one now, it makes me impervious to the law obviously.

[marty]

I got stopped last night on SH1. Told the cop I passed the car on the inside cause it was going too slow, and was hogging the centreline.

He was fine with that.

[awayatc]

I have been lucky quite a few times, each time I got away was because the police officer decided NOT to write out a ticket......eventhough he most certainly would have been entitled to.......:clap::Police:

[roadracingoldfart]

I got pulled by a cop on a bike in the Hutt and the dude was just checkin me out. I had snuck to the garage to get fuel on a quiet Sunday and didnt expect to see a cop. I got a ticket for not being able to present a licence on demand and he told me if i presented it to the Hutt cop shop in 7 days id get off it.
Well now i was a little bit clever then cause i went to the Hutt cop shop and sat my licence on the next Wed and thankfully got it . Then the next day i went to present my licence at a differant time of day to get other than the staff that gave me a licence the day before.
I got a letter saying that i had complied to produce my licence within time so all was forgiven , no further action taken.
Praise be they didnt have computors in them days aye.
Council cops , pffttt dicks. They used to ride CB360s in them days so my 400/4 was always too fast for them .

[firefighter]

ok this will sound like bullshit but I had just brought a MK5 cortina, and wanted to see how fast it would go...... and on the straights between ngatea and paeroa I had it up to 150.......and was catching upto another car.....now just as I started slowing I saw a cop car.....shiiiit!!!!! slowed down and of course he turned around and pulled me over, and couldn't stop telling me how lucky I was that because of the car in front of me he couldn't prove who was doing that speed! My excuse was I was trying to get my radio to go and didn't notice what speed I was doing......and he just told me to pull my head in, and that i was a lucky SOB!....so it wasn't the excuse but the car in front I guess......

[skidMark]

COP "what was going on with that stoppie!"

ME "ummmmm"

COP "well go on, i just saw you rip a stupidly high 10 metre rolling stoppie explain why you did it"

ME "New discs and pads, just come from the bike shop down the road, pulled them in like my old brakes and she flew up"

COP "why didn't you put it down"

ME "didn't want to slam my rear shock, so just kept it up until i had it stable the eased it down"

COP "oink oink blah blah i ride a zx7r blah blah it takes alot to do a stoppie"

ME "not on a 250 it doesn't"

COP "Right, ride safe, don't let me see you do it again"

ME**rides away laughing his arse off**

Skid. :whistle:

[Patrick]

COP "what was going on with that stoppie!"

ME "ummmmm"

COP "well go on, i just saw you rip a stupidly high 10 metre rolling stoppie explain why you did it"

ME "New discs and pads, just come from the bike shop down the road, pulled them in like my old brakes and she flew up"

COP "why didn't you put it down"

ME "didn't want to slam my rear shock, so just kept it up until i had it stable the eased it down"

COP "i ride a zx7r blah blah it takes alot to do a stoppie"

ME "sniffle snuffle brown nosing bullshit...not on a 250 it doesn't"

COP "Right, ride safe, don't let me see you do it again"

ME**rides away laughing his arse off**

Skid. :whistle:

Amended, for us coppers delight....

[owner]

I flat with a copper(the enemy) and when he did traffic his mentor told him he doesn't bother pulling sports bikes as the rider will be dead soon. So thats whats he sticks to.
I got let off a big one heading back to holeshot on a test ride I just explained I was test riding it he understood so sweet

[Colapop]

I've never been warned... I just get tickets... Dammit!

[martybabe]

When I was young and stoopid,as opposed to old and stoopid,I overtook a suzi 380 smoker with it's headlight on,rare then.It was the natural law,500 overtakes 380 init.So I'm winding it up a bit,cause I'm late for work and this upstart small capacity suzi's headlight is glaring large in my,oh so shite mirrors.Cheeky beggar,so I wind it up some more teach the kid a lesson. :rolleyes:

It was odd that this crappy Suzi wasn't falling back, odder still when he put blue and red lights on and started nee naring. mystified I pulled over and turned round to see a very nice copper on a very nice Norton. :Police:

"Wheres the fuggin fire" says he, as the Suzuki smokes it's way gently by :scooter:.I was racing that twat there,was what I wanted to say :lol: what I actually said was,I dont know yet. I showed him my licence as requested in my nice fire brigade wallet and explained,I was late for my shift at the fire station,hence the speed and I wouldn't know where the fire was till I got there.Thats kinda funny isn't it mr nice policeman sir.

Hardy fugging ha, piss off I know your bike now and if I see ya again I'll throw the book at ya. I wasn't worried, if I didn't see his bloomin great bike I'm hardly gonna notice a book being thrown at me eh. :rolleyes:

oh and I sold my bike 2 days later anyway. musta done me some good cause I don't speed anymore.

[Cruisin' Craig]

Well I reckon the best way to go is to pull over straight away and not try to bullsh!t your way out of it. Unless your speed was stupidly fast they'll probably be reasonable. At least, that's what my own experience has shown.

[skidMark]

Amended, for us coppers delight....


He bought the ubllshit story, i rode away license and bank balance in tact...

It was a good day.

PS: FTP :devil2:

[flyingcrocodile46]

When I was living in Labrador (Qsld Oz) and working in Surfer Paradise back in 81, I went whizzing past an unmarked Leyland P76 with bacon at about 200 km (didn't notice him). He followed me to Surfers where I had pulled over to park. He came up along side with a big hand held sign... (WTF) got out and told me that he followed me past Sandspit and that I musta been going over 160Km as he was going at least that fast trying to catch up, and I was leaving him behind. (was doing that in third gear through the lights... Lol). He walked around my old GS1000, spotted my expired Queensland rego and pointed it out... I acted surprised and said I hadn't realised (Tuis). Then he moved in on my balding front tyre.. (Damn!.. I had to be a bit more convincing now). Then he asked for my License and I handed him my South Australian license only to hear him say "did you know that your license is expired?"... Well!.. My jaw dropped a foot in genuine horror (as I didn't know)... he looked at me, tilted his head a little and said.. "you are in a shitload of trouble son, but I don't think you deserve that, so I'm gonna let you off".

Couldn't believe it... I was going well over 200kmph and he let me off cause I would have been in too much trouble. Goes to show that they can step up a couple of rungs of the social ladder and have the occasional human moment.

[BBzz]

I flat with a copper(the enemy)
I’m doing a survey, can you ask the enemy sorry “Flat mate” what speed his “co workers” would top out at on an open road when they are in “Hot Pursuit”
Just interested

[scumdog]

I’m doing a survey, can you ask the enemy sorry “Flat mate” what speed his “co workers” would top out at on an open road when they are in “Hot Pursuit”
Just interested

Well I haven't managed to get to 300kph......yet

[skidMark]

Well I haven't managed to get to 300kph......yet


We can always play a wee game of chaseys when i get a toy down souffff scummy :banana:

Just keep the sirens off k, dnt wanna wake the neighbours.

[Owl]

Many years ago, I got pulled up for speeding in town by three officers at about 1.30am. My pillion and I dismounted and I took off my helmet. I talked to the female officer while another one was on the radio doing a rego check. After the check, the cop did a walk around my bike and I knew I was sunk. I didn’t take a rocket scientist to realize this guy had all my details and was going to see how honest I was. His first question to me was “what size is this bike”? I answered with “it’s a 750”. Then he asked “and what license do you have”? I replied “restricted”. He then proceeded to calmly lecture me about the infringements and said each one could add 6 months to my restricted (2 ½ years total). He asked me where I lived and then told me I should take my bike home. His final words were “you have a good night”.
Usually honesty, not bullshit, is the best policy!

I hope a non-bullshit story is ok in this thread?

[Patrick]

Well I reckon the best way to go is to pull over straight away and not try to bullsh!t your way out of it. Unless your speed was stupidly fast they'll probably be reasonable. At least, that's what my own experience has shown.

Damn... Our secrets out..... Ferris and Cruisin Craig - keep it quiet, we like tormenting the ones with shit attitude!!! Makes our day do faster...

[Patrick]

He bought the ubllshit story, i rode away license and bank balance in tact...

It was a good day.

PS: FTP :devil2:

Nah... just better than the usual crap... Still crap, just better, is all...

FTP?? I don't want to know you have a fu#*ing tiny penis... See a doctor, or a hooker.... Unless it was one of those K Rd she men that made it go that way in the first place....:devil2:


Well I haven't managed to get to 300kph......yet

Yeah, the old Common Whore gets a bit rattly at them speeds....These new ones aren't as bad though...

[Owl]

Damn... Our secrets out..... Ferris and Cruisin Craig - keep it quiet, we like tormenting the ones with shit attitude!!! Makes our day do faster...

I've had my share of infringement notices (deserved) and I've been let off quite a few. In all my years I've only ever had one I didn't deserve, so I think overall I'm on the winning side.:2thumbsup
To this day, I've never met a nasty cop, just cops doing their job.

[Sanx]

Damn... Our secrets out..... Ferris and Cruisin Craig - keep it quiet, we like tormenting the ones with shit attitude!!! Makes our day do faster...

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Oh ... sorry. Was that not meant to be a joke?

[scumdog]

Damn... Our secrets out..... Ferris and Cruisin Craig - keep it quiet, we like tormenting the ones with shit attitude!!! Makes our day do faster...

And don't ya just cringe when their explanation starts with "we wuz JUST..."

[skidMark]

And don't ya just cringe when their explanation starts with "we wuz JUST..."


I always starts with a firendly smile and how hows your day mate? at which point thier reply/ look on face instantly tells you if you are fucked or not.

ie, ran late every day for a week, went flying over hill every morning doing 120 ish....

This particular morning i had to slow down dude to a truck... it pulled into a construction site and off i went, came over the rise of the hill at 94kph in a 50...

:Police: ....followed by :shit:

Turns out they had had a call about me and an undercover was waiting at the bottom of the hill for me to come flying over.

I rode away that day with a ticket for i think 72kph? putting me on 95 demerits.

And a $600 fine for driving in a manner liable to cause damage.

Better than walking for 3 months...

:headbang:

Put it on my tab. :eek:

Word is me and my bike are on "the wall" at auckland central, apparently theres a wall with piccys of nawty boys.

Dunno how much truth there is to that though.

I know they take pictures of the boy racer cars at drags, from subaru foresters with tints etc etc.

Apparently they all get put on a wall but i dunno, sounds like the usual bullshit really.

[awayatc]

Word is me and my bike are on "the wall"


You will know for sure once you get a blindfold....:eek:

[spudchucka]

He bought the ubllshit story, i rode away license and bank balance in tact...

It was a good day.

PS: FTP :devil2:

Ubllshit aye??? The whole story sounds like Ubershit to me.

[spudchucka]

And don't ya just cringe when their explanation starts with "we wuz JUST..."

Followed by "Its booked in on Monday"...

[Subike]

Traveling up east coast past Kaikora
Christmass tree lights
Fawwk!
Pull up as quick as I could, get off bike, remove helmet.
"any reason for doing 117kph?"
"Just comming down that hill and around the bend, late apex corner and powerd out, you got me just as I was about to back off""
"mmmm, you stopped pretty quickly"
"good brakes"
"Licence?"
Hand over licence, class 2 only, bugger
" Bike WOF & Reg?"
"yes"
" where you heading"
"mitai valley ralley nelson"
"keep the speed down and get your proper licence"
Officer hands back licence, gets into car, waves and drives off.

Total conversation

Moral, dont give shit, you dont get shit, fewer words said, quicker the time on side of road.

[madbikeboy]

A few years ago (well, more than a few), we were sitting in my Holden wagon, coming back from a dawn mission at Pakari, my mate Luke driving. Six of us in the HQ, no reg, no wof, and it was leaking trans fluid, sticky starter solenoid, no back window. Six surfboards. You get the picture.

So, we're cruising back and we hit some overtaking lanes Luke, for whatever reason, sticks to the right lane - i guess he figured there were no other cars, so WTF.

Plod is sitting at the end of the overtaking lane, pulls us over.

Cop walks up to the window, asks what we were doing in the overtaking lane, when there are signs to keep left.

Luke says we were overtaking.

Cop says, overtaking what, we were the only the car on the road?

Luke says - holy shit, strangest thing, we were overtaking this car, and just like on star trek, it dematerialised...!

Cop, obviously human, starts laughing so hard that he walks back to his car without another word.

Oh to be 18 again. :wari:

[ynot slow]

Doing about 115km going home from work yesterday,pulled over asap.
Any excuse for speeding sir?No not really I replied,but the guy who asked me to work for him this morning will get the bill.

Cop just about pissed himself,and said so you were'nt sposed to be at work today.No I replied,and when I get home I have to help my wife set up for her sons' wedding,she wasn't happy I went to work as I was supposed to be off and help her etc at the hall.Which I said work was lesser of two evils.

Also what happened was a car in front of me was doing about 110km or so,and as I stopped and the other car saw me stop,he obviously thought shit hot and carried on.I had his rego so would have told the cop if he wanted to issue ticket,but he just said ride safe and enjoy the day.

He was happy to chat about the bike and other stuff,generally a nice guy,as he said the attitude they get from the speedster towards them helps,especially in tight situations,he could/would have given me a ticket if I was a wanker towards him.:woohoo:

[saltydog]

Not even worth saying a thing these days. Unless you were justifably correct in your actions, the coppers will 9 times out of 10 slap you with a fine. That's the way they work these days.:yes:

[scumdog]

Not even worth saying a thing these days. Unless you were justifably correct in your actions, the coppers will 9 times out of 10 slap you with a fine. That they way they work these days.:yes:

You must talk yourself into them then.

With me it's about 4 warnings for every 5 or 6 tickets I write out.

Deserving people get tickets...are you one?

[MVnut]

You must talk yourself into them then.

With me it's about 4 warnings for every 5 or 6 tickets I write out.

Deserving people get tickets...are you one?

So have ya heard this one SD...."I was going flat out because last month my wife ran off with a cop...I thought you were him and you wanted to give her back":sweatdrop

[fireliv]

Heard this excuse the other day

IN explaination the defendant said he was speeding as he was heading to the petrol station to get condoms as he had a naked female in his house waiting for him.

Unfortunatly it didnt fly with the copper

[scumdog]

So have ya heard this one SD...."I was going flat out because last month my wife ran off with a cop...I thought you were him and you wanted to give her back":sweatdrop

Oh, only about once a month...

[MVnut]

Okay so my jokes are crap...............

[Goblin]

I've had a cop make up an excuse for me. Was riding by myself but a mate was driving with my kids in the car. I got in front of them and was going a little fast as a cop was coming towards me. immediately put his lights on and did a U-ey. I stopped to beg for mercy but he asked if I was catching up to the bikes further up the road so all i could do was nod and agree. He told me to slow down as the cops closer to Tauranga wouldnt be so forgiving. I thanked him and took his advice and slowed down.

[blossomsowner]

was travelling between hamilton and paeroa in the car complete with family on the back roads doing a mild 120 or so. Cop appears coming the other way.....lights go on and sirens and he does a screeching u turn behind. Doesn't quite make it round in one go (i'm watching in mirrors as i slow down) and needs to back up a bit .....but he had overdone it and the front of his car was just off the road and bumper was getting pinged on electric fence.

i stopped and reversed back to him..he is out by now and looking pretty pissed...

long story shorter.........it ended with my wife driving the cop car and me and him and another passer by pushing to eventually get it out.....it had nothing to hook a tow rope onto either. He was suitably embarrassed but rather than thanking us he mumbled something about "can't really give you a ticket for speeding after you helped me out of there....mumble blah goodbye"

it made our afternoon.

[blossomsowner]

one more story........riding from napier to taupo on my gsx750 (long time ago) and weather was beautiful but cold so i'm in a hurry to get into taupo and stop to warm up a bit. Problem is bike was not running properly due to some problem with the electronic bits.

Anyway ahead in the distance a copper is heading this way and as he flashes past all his lights come on and he spins it around. I see this in my mirrors and stop and park nicely to wait for him
c thanks for stopping
m no problem (not telling him that if my bike was running right I would have been safely sitting in a warm cafe in Taupo before he finished turning round)
c did you know you were speeding
m no, i have no instrument panel but the traffic I was overtaking did seem to be going slowly
c you were doing 151kmh
m oh dear
c do you have a warrant of fitness
m no, no speedo so can't get one
c registration
m no, don't have a warrant so why bother
c why don't you have instruments
m crashed bike and broke them and thats the last piece to still get, 2nd hand set is $700
c ok i will ticket you just for speeding and forget the rest..........


that was a long time ago before the loss of licence thing came in. Had to go to court to collect fine but when the incident happened the cop was genuinely good about the whole deal.

[DingoZ]

Highway Patrol sitting on the side of the road with radar gun at the ready
...
Slow day...not many punters
...
Up in the distance appears a fast moving "boy racer car"
....
Woosh...past the highway guy at 150km per hour
...
Highway guy throws gun down and gives chase
....
Pulls said boy racer over..
...
Walks up to window, ticket book in hand...
...
Boy racer winds down window..
...

Highway officer.." I've been waiting for you all day"

Boy Racer.."Well I got here as fast as I could.."

Highway officer..:thud::killingme..."On ya way son" ( No ticket )

[Timber020]

Hows this for unbelievable, my wife demanded that she get a ticket because she didnt want to be let off just because of her job at the time.


I drove like a madman when crossing the US, I was on a airport mission from Chicago to St Paul with my friend in her mildly worked camaro. I was nailing it all the way and got pulled up alot. Luckily most cops would ask for my "real" license when they saw my international one, of course back then we had the paper type ones, "You have got to be shitting me boy" was the common comment when I handed them my paper license.
I tried a few excuses. I told a couple that we had autobahns in NZ so were used to speeding, and that I thought the speedo was in KM per hour. But found the best thing was when they started taking down my details I would say I was from rewewhakaitu st, Ngauawahia county in Whakatane (as whakatane was on my license) You should have seen the cops trying to get there heads around those placenames.
One got REALLY pissed when I insisted that we didnt have zip codes. Had to show him a postcard to my mum and dad to prove it, which was addressed "sean and marilyn, rd1, Atiamuri, NZ" Yeah not even a last name!
So far I havent got the warrant for my arrest for not paying the $3500 worth of tickets.

[awayatc]

Many years ago my uncle told me this one, he reckoned it happened one night in Germany when he was on shift...

All vehicles had to stop for the drivers to be breathalised at a checkpoint, boozebus and all.....
The line of slow moving cars came to an unexpected halt a hundred or so meters away from the actual checkpoint....
Some officers went over to investigate the reason for this interuption, and saw 2 elderly gentleman, very obviously intoxicated, sitting in the back of a mercedes.

"Does this vehicle belong to you ?"
"Yes" replies one of the fellows....."Is Mine"..
"who was driving?"...
"no idea, " says the old fellow, giggling away....

(More and more cars are still lining up behind this vehicle...)

"What do you mean, no idea....?"
"Well" goes the guy, "we were in the pub having a few drinks, and are well over the limit. So we want to leave the car at the pub, and call a taxi......
This nice young fellow in the pub hears of this and offers to drive us home in our own car....
Said he lived nearby, said he had a licence and looked sober........
So we get in the car, he drives us till here, untill we stop for your checkpoint......at which point he got out of the car for a piss.........."

No officer, never seen the guy before, don't know his name...

Police officer drove car out of the que (quite long by now)
Old fellows pissing their pants laughing in the back....

No fine......

[skidMark]

Highway Patrol sitting on the side of the road with radar gun at the ready
...
Slow day...not many punters
...
Up in the distance appears a fast moving "boy racer car"
....
Woosh...past the highway guy at 150km per hour
...
Highway guy throws gun down and gives chase
....
Pulls said boy racer over..
...
Walks up to window, ticket book in hand...
...
Boy racer winds down window..
...

Highway officer.." I've been waiting for you all day"

Boy Racer.."Well I got here as fast as I could.."

Highway officer..:thud::killingme..."On ya way son" ( No ticket )


Laughing to hard need water.

How fucking legendary LOL

[Forest]

The 'best' lame excuse I've ever heard was in the Herald a few years ago...

Officer: Is there any particular reason why you were traveling so fast?

Driver: The low-fuel indicator light has just come on and I want to get home before all of my fuel runs out.

[vifferman]

I've never been warned... I just get tickets... Dammit!
Yeah... that's me too. :blank:
I've been pulled up while riding a bike a total of 6 times in the last 34 years or so, and got a ticket every time. I did get a reduced fine for my very first ticket ever (41 mph in a 30mph zone) by writing in to the court - $10 fine and had to do a Defensive Driving course. ($10 sounds like ferkall, but when you allow for inflation, it actually works out as a couple of hundred shekeldollars).
I also got a free Road Code once - that's when I argued with a bike cop in Cambridge about whether I needed a mirror on my MT250 or not. Apparently, the law had just changed, the cop just wrote me a ticket, gave me the Road Code and said, "Here - look it up yourself".

[vifferman]

With me it's about 4 warnings for every 5 or 6 tickets I write out.
Yeah, but you're a Top Bloke, Mr Scumdog, Sir. Can't necessariuly say the same for some of the cops around here.


Deserving people get tickets...are you one?
Yes. I've deserved EVERY ticket I've had. But I would've liked to have been let off the one I got where I was following a diesel fume-belching 4WD for about 15 minutes, and when I finally got to a passing lane and got by him, I was so pissed off that I gave it too much throttle. However, I was so flabbergasted when I got pulled over and ticketed, that when the cop asked me why I was speeding, I couldn't think of anything to say.
But... it was actually a treasured memory, because I had the vifferbabe on the back, and she said nothing, just gave me a big hug. :hug:

[marty]

Many years ago my uncle told me this one, he reckoned it happened one night in Germany when he was on shift...

All vehicles had to stop for the drivers to be breathalised at a checkpoint, boozebus and all.....
The line of slow moving cars came to an unexpected halt a hundred or so meters away from the actual checkpoint....
Some officers went over to investigate the reason for this interuption, and saw 2 elderly gentleman, very obviously intoxicated, sitting in the back of a mercedes.

"Does this vehicle belong to you ?"
"Yes" replies one of the fellows....."Is Mine"..
"who was driving?"...
"no idea, " says the old fellow, giggling away....

(More and more cars are still lining up behind this vehicle...)

"What do you mean, no idea....?"
"Well" goes the guy, "we were in the pub having a few drinks, and are well over the limit. So we want to leave the car at the pub, and call a taxi......
This nice young fellow in the pub hears of this and offers to drive us home in our own car....
Said he lived nearby, said he had a licence and looked sober........
So we get in the car, he drives us till here, untill we stop for your checkpoint......at which point he got out of the car for a piss.........."

No officer, never seen the guy before, don't know his name...

Police officer drove car out of the que (quite long by now)
Old fellows pissing their pants laughing in the back....

No fine......

this very thing happens quite regularly at checkpoints in NZ.

it's why there is usually an unmarked car parked 100m up from the checkpoint - to catch turners, people parking and running, and people getting into the back seat.

[marty]

was travelling between hamilton and paeroa in the car complete with family on the back roads doing a mild 120 or so. Cop appears coming the other way.....lights go on and sirens and he does a screeching u turn behind. Doesn't quite make it round in one go (i'm watching in mirrors as i slow down) and needs to back up a bit .....but he had overdone it and the front of his car was just off the road and bumper was getting pinged on electric fence.

i stopped and reversed back to him..he is out by now and looking pretty pissed...

long story shorter.........it ended with my wife driving the cop car and me and him and another passer by pushing to eventually get it out.....it had nothing to hook a tow rope onto either. He was suitably embarrassed but rather than thanking us he mumbled something about "can't really give you a ticket for speeding after you helped me out of there....mumble blah goodbye"

it made our afternoon.

been there done that - on Swamp Rd near Paeroa funnily enough........:first:

and another time on SH1 south of Cambridge - powered out of a u-turn in the commie, got the back onto the grass in a big power slide, right round she went.........:second:

[moT]

if the cop is definatly gonna give you a ticket try hipnotising him

[Ryan432]

I find that if you are a young male you ALWAYS get the ticket no matter that the 50 something guy driving a BMW in the lane next to you must have been doing at least 20kph more than you. You must clearly be a "boy racer" (in you mums 1.3L Corolla) and are therefore the bigger danger to society

[scumdog]

I find that if you are a young male you ALWAYS get the ticket no matter that the 50 something guy driving a BMW in the lane next to you must have been doing at least 20kph more than you. You must clearly be a "boy racer" (in you mums 1.3L Corolla) and are therefore the bigger danger to society


So how old are YOU?
(And how many tickets have you had?)


BTW: I COULD give you a list of 16 to 24 year olds who have NOT got tickets they could have.
And 50+ that HAVE got tickets.

Generalisations can be misleading...

[pritch]

Hey SD,

Got any "better work stories?" :whistle:

[barty5]

Not relly an excuss but got off any way. Few years back brother take my courier van to move house gets pulled up for speeding and failing to slow down enough comin off the off ramp. Cop comes up to van asks to name see name on van door (mine of course) says nothing more turns before he could reply gose back and runs van and my name comes up clean no tickets in past five years. Comes bak and say just mind yah speed next time on yah way. Took brother half a day to work out he had run my name. Laughed or head off if he had got brothers details would have done him for every thing he could have givin his speeding ticket record.

[Ryan432]

So how old are YOU?



BTW: I COULD give you a list of 16 to 24 year olds who have NOT got tickets they could have.
And 50+ that HAVE got tickets.

Generalisations can be misleading...

Im 19 and I've had three speeding tickets, all in my car and all less than ten k over the limit, I wish I would have been pulled over by coppers more like you :first:
BDW I think that 3 tickets (ok 5 including stationary cameras :wink: ) in four years is a pretty good record for someone my age! AND ive never had one on the motorbike!! (touch wood) Im proud to be a mature and responsable young rider. Peace