Worse ticket

[matthewt]

OK, lets hear it.

What's the worse ticket you've had and what was the outcome.

I'll start, Got pinged on my fireblade doing 166 on the open road. Perfect bluesky day with only two vehicles on the stretch of road. Me and HIM. Thought about running but I'd never been down that road before so decided not to add insult to injury. Coped an instant 28 day suspension and then was left with the problem of what to do with the bike (I was at least 20k from a town). Cop's #2 & #3 arrived soon after in another car and with my permission rode the fireblade back to the station where they left it for me to get picked up the following weekend. The cop that rode it remarked how hard it was to keep under 100 (gee, imagine that). The police I dealt with were nice guys, they even dropped me at the train station afterwards

Then got a letter from the court regarding it. Decided rather than waste time and turn up I'll write in:

Dear Sir,


RE: CRN 0035xxxxxxx


I wish to enter a guilty plea in this matter.

While I was aware that I was exceeding the legal limit, I was honestly unaware to what extent.

I operate my own business, which relies on me being available 24 hours a day and being able to work well after public transport stops. I also have a wife and two pre-school children so the instant 28 day suspension has put severe stress on my business and family with my wife having to arrange child care and undertake driving duties.

I now realise that the speed I was travelling was too fast and advise that the 28 days during suspension has refocused me on the important issues in life. I plea for your leniency in any further action relating to this matter.

Yours faithfully

Matthew Thompson

The outcome was 0 demerit points, a $450 fine and no further suspension of license.

Of course I had to write another letter like this one 2 months after I got my license back but that's another story...

[Motu]

Does it have to be only bikes? that narrows it down to only a few hundred.They are always a giggle arfterwards eh?

I had one of my bikes down at the beach over summer - that was the summer they made mirrors compulsory,so it didn't have one.We went down and brought her home...around Ohaupo I notices a bike cop following me,then he finaly pulled me over (the missus went past in my ute) No mirror he says...''no''....no WoF....''no''...got rego....''yep''...no speedo either...''1948,so I don't need one''....looks like a 54 Goldflash to me.... ''um,yeah but,um,I got it registered under the year of the motor''...so that's cool,I just get a ticket for no Wof and I get to bugger off

A bit further on I see the missus parked at a stock pile,so I pull in,and although the bike has a side stand,by force of habit I just lean the bike against the truck.While we are catching up on events we see the cop go screaming past,then a huge squeal of brakes as he does a panic stop and a Uee.OOOKKAAAAY he says,whats the plate off?....'' 1964 Rickman Metise I say''....that's right he says,not many of those around,so I'll assume you are legal owner - is this your truck too?....he points to my little pick up,which has no WoF or rego either ...''yes''....right put the bike on the back and get it home that way,while you do that I'll do a bit more writting.

So the prick watches as we haul this heavy British bike up onto the tray,with no ramp and lay it on it's side and tie it down.Then he gives me another ticket for displaying the incorrect plate and watches us go away.

We were laughing (quietly) because he'd just missed another 100 bucks with my totaly illeagal pick up

[Sharkey]

My one and only ticket, was driving my dad's car. He was in the passenger seat and mum was in the back. Same old story - we had been stuck behind someone travelling at 85 on the open road for ages. It was a long weekend I think, and so the traffic was heavy and there had been no opportunity to pass. First passing lane comes along and I'm off. Get past the person and drive for maybe a minute and a copper coming the other way pulls over to prepare for a u-turn, turns around and whacks me for doing 130 or something. All the cars go past, and so I'm stuck behind this person again. Grrr.

My parents thought it was a great joke.

[Lou Girardin]

I was a bit late heading to work in Penrose. I was in my car this time, Did the anti-social thing and shot down lane three of the Northwestern and grabbed a slot in the queue for the South M/Way at Newton. Traffic cleared on the viaduct so I got up to 130 ish, few lane changes, etc. Exited at Penrose and as I turned into Gt South Rd a mufti Commodore barrels around behind me and pulls me over. The cop did a spiel about doing 150 to catch me and went on about doing me for careless when I merged with traffic earlier. Only wrote me up for the speed though.
Being a bolshie type, I wrote to the infringement dept. In my best injured innocence manner, I said that I was so worried that he threatened me with careless driving for something I had seen a patrol car do the next day that I was too scared to deny the speeding offence, blah blah blah.
And they waived the bloody ticket!
Lou

[bungbung]

Not the most expensive, but probably the funniest. Riding a 1974 FR50 I found in a skip bin, got pulled over in town. Just stopped for a wof check supposedly.

"Does this thing have a current Wof?"

I think so sir, oh perhaps not.

"Does this thing have a current Rego?"

yes it does... not have one.

"Are you the owner?"

no I am not (this I know)

"Who is the owner?"

I don't know

"Why not?"

I found it in a rubbish bin

"hmmmm"


The cop went and checked the plate, turned out that it was last registered about 6 years earlier.

Played yes sir thank you sir three bags full sir and got done for $150 no Wof.

I loved the look on his face when I told him it came from a bin.

[boris]

On my way to work one morning I was booked for 110kph in 50 zone.I had slowed down. The cop had been after me form Paekakariki  and got me in paramata.(about 20km) . He said if he had pulled me over a minnet later i would have lost my licence it was 6:29am and about 1985  ,on my Yamaha RZ250. I got a fine of $150.00 ...Two weeks ago I got pinged in my car, 2am on the motorway ,124kmh which cost me more $170.  

[aff-man]

As most of you have already heard about this fine but here goes ...again.
Got done on the motorway at a supposed 133km/h . I know i was only doing 100 when i saw the cop cause natural reaction is to look down at speedo. Got pulled told him i was only doing 80 when i went passed him which was true due to me slowing down heaps to let him go ahead of me. He got pissed off read me the riot act and said i was doing 133. I asked where he had got me and he was vague and didn't answer. He then decided to give me a ticket for not having an L plate WHEN I AM ON MY RESTRICTED. his reason was that he he had talked to his senior seargent and they agree that i was on an intermidiate phase of my licence so require an L plate. When the pink fine things came they had changed it to "riding with a passenger without an accompanying licence holder (3 people on a bike????) being so fishy we decided to send heaps of letters requesting where the officer got me.They cancelled the other fine but not the speeding one. Turns out he was lying about where his car was positioned seeing as i clearly saw him coming onto the motorway via an onramp whereas he said he was parked on the side of the motorway like 500m from the onramp. And if what he says happened he must have an f-16 engine strapped to hit vehicle that i must have missed. they finally told us to piss off the courts would handel it so we queried the courts. They got pissed off with the police f*$king around so sent me a letter saying that the fine for me speeding in a 50km zone was wiped off thier books. The police then send me another letter saying pay up. So we are going to court in a couple of weeks after recieving the fine i like january or feburary i forget .

[riffer]

Numerous in my cars, including an excellent speed camera ticket of 147 km/h with smoke clearly visible (coming from back tyres) as I tried to slow down in my 83 VH SS (4.2L V8)

Worse ticket would have to be at 18 years old, borrowing a friend's damn near new GPZ750 and passing my gf's house in Oxford St, Naenae.

Had to impress her and her friends so pulled the front wheel up and did the most amazing wheelie all the way past the unmarked police car parked just two doors up.

Needless to say, this involved a visit to Lower Hutt District Court for a Dangerous Riding charge, namely 95km/h in a 50km/h zone - on one wheel.

My luck was in - Thursday morning, in front of the JP's (Justices of the Peace) where I went into a long and lengthy discourse about stripping the carburretors on the bike that morning to try and cure a sticking problem which had (unfortunately) occured again as I test rode it.

To ming (and my mates) astonishment the charges were dropped and I walked away from the court room.

Needless to say, the incident cost me a few beers that Friday night and my friend was not too keen to lend me the bike again...

[marty]

my best (non) ticket was when i was driving my very fast 1982 skyline turbo north between hunterville and taihape. i crested a hill which has a slow vehicle lane on the left, and crests quite hard, at about 180km/h, the radar detector went ballistic, and there was a black and white subaru sitting facing the other way. i just laughed out loud, as i was in the process of passing 2 semi's which were in the slow lane! i kept my foot in all the way to taihape, as i knew the cop would have to wait for the trucks to clear before he u-turned, then overtake them. in taihape i backed into an alleyway next to the BP, and ran over to the burger bar. the turbo timer though was set to 3 minutes, and the drainpipe exhaust was reverberating in the alleyway.

i couldn't believe it, the car shut down, and 3 seconds later the subaru slowly cruised up the main street. he eyeballed me, but didn't stop.

later on, when i was climbing the windy hill out of turangi/tokaanu, i blew out the L/R tyre going full noise, and put it into the ditch. no damage, i reckoned it was summary justice....

[Nouseforaname]

111kph in a 50k zone.................

Cost me $300 + $130 court costs and 6months loss of licence

And guess what, i get it back in 1 month and 2 days, not that im counting down or nothing


Other than that i got arrested for "unlawful interference with a motor vechile" once.

I put a "I Love Cops" sticker on the back of a paddy wagon but failed to notice the copper standing behind me

I got a night in the clink and a $400 fine for that........ bastards

[Big Dog]

My worst is either $78 for 62 in a 50 or $68 for 64 in a 50 or $75 for 60 in a 50.
Go figure the logic on that.

But the best (worst I ever talked myself out of was $1000+ dollars.

No reg.
No Wof.
Running a red light.
140 in a 50.
Not carrrying a license.
Dangerous driving / Reckless nuisance.

How?
I explained I was just got out of bed at 3am to pick up four drunks who otherwise planned to drive. (helped I was wearing a leather jacket over pyjama pants).
He breath tested them all and when they all blew more than four times the limit let me go with a warning.

[750Y]

driving back from paekakariki I see 5 or 6 cars ahead travelling at legal speed & double yellow lines with a truck in the oncoming uphill slow lane so I floor the holden out over the doubles at over the ton and back in with heeeeeaps of room, then the guy at the front of the cue who's now behind me starts speeding up like he wants to race & i'm in the mood for it so I push the pedal to the floor, he falls way back so I'm happy and start slowing down again, when he catches up again the lights in his grill come on, i saw my license flash before my eyes... he let me off, gave me a warning about slowing down. I couldn't believe it.
Only my closest friends know the best ones, which I can't share on here.

[Motu]

I don't do much speeding,but I tend to have too many bikes and not enough regos to go around,so most of my tickets are along those lines.Just a couple more funny ones eh.

I had just got my little Guzzi Stornello going after being off the road for 18mths with a busted crank - so I went for a little blat on it.Well,the little Italian got me kinda stirred up and when I stopped at an intersection I find a rather excited cop behind....''been sitting here waiting for ya mate''....being chirpy didn't help and after he gave me one for no WoF,no rego,speeding and failure to keep left (straightend an S bend) he made me push it home,tagging along in his car while I pushed it uphill,prick,but I kept my license on that one.

One year I did a rally sprint on my XR 200,that was fun and I didn't do too bad,beating things like a 2 litre MKII Escort rally car by a couple of tenths - but the little XR was kinda rung out all the way,so next year I thought I'd do the V8 thing....using my XS1 650.Stripped her down and started experimenting with tyres and stuff,doing a bit of illicit practice on the road they used.The area was down a dead end road with scrub farms,and one day as I turned into the road I saw the cop Landcruiser at the turnoff,looked behind and yep,they came in too.(a description might help here - a black bike with open pipes and big flat track bars,rider all in black leathers,black helmet and dark glasses,grey beard and ponytail flying) I stopped to wait for them to get out of my way,but they stopped for a talk....whatcha doing?.....''going for a ride''....this road goes nowhere,must be a reason to come down it....''just trying to get away from people who pester me''....got Wof and rego?...''yep''....so they go and run me through the computer and give me my license back,looks like I'm all clean eh? I take off quietly and go home.

A couple of days later there is a big drug bust down that road,lots of little patches growing in the scrub.I must of looked like the kinda guy who would grow dope on the side of the road,shoulda sued them for harrasment I reckon.When I went to scrutineering with the bike they said I couldn't run a bike this year - pricks...I bet some of them saw me practicing - top gear wheelspin and sideways at 70mph (1971 speedo eh) musta looked a bit scary.Bet I coulda got times close to a V8 modified.

Oh,and the plate was off my 81 lime green Honda C50.

[Marmoot]

My worst ticket(s.....2 of them) would be $40 each for NOT DOING ANYTHING........errr, that includes not putting any coins into the damned parking meters......


My second worst after that would be caught 145kph around meremere at 9am in the middle of the fog (I thought they wouldn't be able to spot me in the thick fog....). $510 for that, and 50 demerit points gone.

(and, while you're reading this thread, I will try to copy and paste matthew's letter into my computer for future reference....in case I get another parking ticket.....)

[What?]

My worst was my first - 146K on the Mamaku hill when the open road limit was 80. Funny thing is, if I was going 26K slower, it would have been an instant fine which would have cost me more... Like Big Dog says, go figure.

Second worst was a parking ticket in Lower Hutt. Blindingly atrocious weather, only one in every fourth car park occupied (maybe less - the weather was REALLY bad) and I get a ticket for being 10 minutes over.