# Add additional dollar to speeding ticket fine = no points (urban legend?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-additional-dollar-to-speeding-ticket-fine-no-points-urban-legend/33235 "2000-09-14T21:03:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-additional-dollar-to-speeding-ticket-fine-no-points-urban-legend/33235/1 "2000-09-14T21:03:27Z")
Got the letter today! Boo-yeah!! I managed to successfully contest the speeding ticket I got a few months ago. Actual dialogue in my house today: “You know, you WERE speeding, Ink.” “Entirely beside the point! Radar is unreliable, the cop was rude to me, and besides, I didn’t like his little mustache”. So folks, it does pay to take it to court. Anyway, back when I was asking friends how I should deal with the aforementioned ticket, somebody feeds me this scheme: “When your paying off the ticket, add an extra dollar to the check. That way the state sends you a check reimbursing you for that extra dollar. Until you cash the one-dollar check the case technically remains unresolved, and the state can’t report it as a conviction to your insurance provider. Voila! No added points.” Has that “Hmmm…Sounds plausible --in theory at least” vibe that makes for a good Urban Legend. Anybody heard of this? Couldn’t find anything about it at the Snopes site. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-additional-dollar-to-speeding-ticket-fine-no-points-urban-legend/33235/2 "2000-09-14T21:16:42Z")
[It’s a UL.](http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ticket.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-additional-dollar-to-speeding-ticket-fine-no-points-urban-legend/33235/3 "2000-09-14T21:25:36Z")
_Sigh_ If it sound too good to be true… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-additional-dollar-to-speeding-ticket-fine-no-points-urban-legend/33235/4 "2000-09-14T21:50:52Z")
Inky- it only works if you send the extra dollar privately to me†. Contact me via e-mail and I will instruct you on the payment method. I take Visa, Discover and MasterCard. † I have my contacts at the DMV. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-additional-dollar-to-speeding-ticket-fine-no-points-urban-legend/33235/5 "2000-09-14T23:48:05Z")
The whole UL is based on a faulty understanding of computers and programming. Yes, a program _could_ be written to do just what the the UL says but that would be the most clumsy and error prone way to write a program. It’s not impossible that somewhere there is a court system database that has such a foolish construct but I consider it highly unlikely. More likely that establishing points on your driving record and fulfillment of the fine are independant functions.