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Re greatest traffic ticket...
When I was in college, I helped a gal in my dorm move a small refrigerator to her room. In doing so, I parked my vehicle on the yard outside one of the entrances. Campus police left me a ticket for illegal parking. It was a few bucks.
I went down to the campus police station to pay the fine and the officer on duty told me to just write something up as a justification and they would probably just quash it.
Went back to the dorm and for the life of me couldn't come up with a good excuse.
So I wrote a letter saying that as a good and patriotic American I would never knowingly violate the law, so I must've been temporarily insane when I parked on the yard to deliver a refrigerator to the dorm.
A month or two later I got a letter back stating that I would not have to pay the fine, but if I ever did so again, I'd be liable for both offenses.
I may the the only person to ever have gotten off a parking ticket for a "temporary insanity" plea.
I often wondered if that would come back to haunt me later on during my background investigations and security clearances while working as a federal LEO.
From a friend:
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Years ago I was driving home at zero dark thirty after a very long day of work at an out of state customer. I was pulled over by a CT trooper for speeding. I had my license, registration, proof of insurance, windows open and interior lights on when the trooper approached. Our conversation went something like this:
Trooper: I'm going to have to write you up for speeding unless you can think of something else.
Me: Ah, what?
Trooper: I'm going to have to write you up for speeding unless you can think of something else.
Me: Do you have any suggestions?
Trooper: When I walked up to your vehicle I noticed you were not wearing your seatbelt.
Me: Yes I was.
Trooper: Okay you're getting a speeding ticket.
Me: Oh! Wait! You were correct I didn't have my seatbelt on. (after my brain finally kicked in and I realized what was happening)
Trooper: You are getting a seatbelt ticket. A non-moving violation. $35 fine. No points on your license.
Me: Cool.
Then as I drove away it dawned on me. I'm driving a company vehicle. We have a seatbelt policy. Was I worse off with a seatbelt ticket vs. a speeding ticket? That really bugged the crap out of me. Especially since I was wearing a seatbelt and I worried it was going to comeback to bite me in the ass if work pulled my driving record.
So I wrote 'Not Guilty' on the ticket and mailed it in rather than pay the fine. I got a court date. (which in CT means you get to see a prosecutor who usually tries to cut a deal.) I told the guy exactly what happened. He told me to get lost. Nolle.
A couple cops I knew at the time were pissed at me. They said the trooper cut me a break and I threw him under the bus. Honestly after the fact I could never see how the resolution of one ticket could ever make its way back to that trooper.