Thanks for ruining the whole category, Bullitt. I’m well aware how this game works.
Below is the PM I was going to send you in reply to your reply of my PM to you:
No, you did not rephrase my message; I was using your term. But you did add number 1 to my message explaining why I wasn’t posting to the category myself. If I’d wanted that explanation to be the first entry I would have numbered it myself.
If the category had sat languishing for a while I would have ended it and posted a new one. And I know it is usual for the poster to give the first example, but more than one cat has been started without one.
Like I said in my earlier PM to you: Please do not rephrase my posts again.
Well, okay, I did not rephrase your post, I actually rephrased mine*. Five others jumped in and contributed, so I think the category went well enough.
- – I changed my post to add the words ‘high school’:
I was never in a band. I played violin in the orchestra. My early high school job was as a paper boy for the Hartford Courant.
That was my rephrase. I explained this in my PM to you. Again, I did not rephrase your post, I rephrased mine.
What’s wrong with you? You obviously didn’t read my whole post (61659). I said you did not rephrase my post, but you altered it in a way that made the category open to anyone. I wanted posters who had actually been in bands to reply, but you ruined that by numbering my explanation and then posting that you had not been in a band either as no. 2, thereby making it seem like that is what the category was about. Almost every post after parrots the phrase “I was never in a band”.
As for rephrasing your own post, you didn’t leave up your original post so it doesn’t matter that you rephrased it; no one saw the original phrasing anyway. Then you added three more posts at odds with the category, to hurry it along, no doubt. I know many posters reply with posts that don’t strictly follow the category, as you did, but it doesn’t make the game any better.
From now on just leave my posts alone.
I tweaked your post to make it a play, but I won’t do that again.
What was your job in the garage band you were in during high school/college?
- I was never in a band so I can’t participate, but I thought this might be an interesting category.
- I was never in a band. I played violin in the orchestra. My early high school job was as a paper boy for the Hartford Courant.
- I was never in a garage band. My high school responsibility was to periodically clean the garage at the angry insistence of my father
- I was never in a garage band. After I turned 16 I worked as a busboy at a steakhouse and quit my paper route.
- I also was never in a garage band. I was in Latin Club and on the Debate Team. My best friend had a band, though, which only got to play at youth church functions for free. He was the drummer.
- I was never in a garage band. The busboy job sucked, so after a couple of months I quit and went to work at McDonald’s, the one that used to be on Asylum Ave, downtown Hartford, across from the Civic Center.
- I played drums in high school but I really wasn’t that great. I almost had a gig once with a couple friends but I wasn’t able to go because we never actually practiced.
- I was never in a garage band. The downtown Hartford McDonald’s was far from home, so after a few months I transferred to the McDonald’s in West Hartford on Prospect Ave. That was my last high school job.
- I, too, was never in a garage band. I sang in my church choir, took (and hated) piano lessons through elementary school, and learned (and loved) to play alto sax in my middle school and junior bands.
- I was never in a garage band. After graduating H.S. I moved to San Francisco with my family. To establish California state residency I worked before entering college. I went to work at the McDonald’s in the heart of downtown San Francisco, at 609 Market Street, in the FiDi.
- I was never in a band. My husband was, as a backup guitarist, and his best friends played lead and bass guitar. Hubby’s sister was the vocalist. Another friend who they all disliked was only tolerated as part of the band because he had the money to provide amps and such.
- I was never in a band. Before going to college, I quit McDonald’s and joined the Marines.
- I was in a high school band of sorts–ie, extracurricular musical performance before an audience, but we rehearsed in my parent’s basement because my Dad’s garage was locked (among other good reasons). I had no job at the time, but in fact our performances on Fifth Ave NYC were done with an open guitar case for toss-ins, so that’s a two-fer as to “jobs.” (I actually thought that was the OP on this
Baroqur recorder duos (soprano and tenor and I think baritone recorders) as well as continuo recorder sonatas (I was a recorder player and harpsichordist). We were raising cash to buy a virginal.
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Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
Wow, just a verbal warning for going 130+ MPH. I’m impressed, Bullitt!
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
- Partying in Hull, Quebec for a night, got pulled over for a broken tail-light. After pulling us out, searching the car, sobriety testing, etc… All good. Gave me 24 hours to return to their local police station with the tail-light repaired or they would issue a ticket in the mail… I didn’t want my parents to see it or pay the fine so I did as I was instructed, it was good excuse to go partying in Hull the next night anyway!
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[6. Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.]
What were you arrested for (the charge)? Interesting sentence…the judge came up with that (different) charge?]
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
- Partying in Hull, Quebec for a night, got pulled over for a broken tail-light. After pulling us out, searching the car, sobriety testing, etc… All good. Gave me 24 hours to return to their local police station with the tail-light repaired or they would issue a ticket in the mail… I didn’t want my parents to see it or pay the fine so I did as I was instructed, it was good excuse to go partying in Hull the next night anyway!
- Our 18 year old got a $100 parking ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. He put it away and by the time we found it (a few days after it was due) the late penalty fine doubled it to $200. We had to pay it because it was issued by our local town which has very zealous enforcement :mad:
I don’t remember the exact charge, but after cursing at the cop, another cop came up behind me and cuffed my wrists behind my back. I suffered some physical abuse in their holding cell, e.g. they just assumed I was gay, even though I didn’t tell them. The issue of cursing in the presence of minors didn’t come up until the judge and the fine. I did see a lawyer about the physical abuse and extreme homophobia of the cops, but the lawyer said it would cost me lots of money to challenge them, so I dropped it.
The funny thing was, there was actual sex going on back in the stalls, and they didn’t even notice it.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
- Partying in Hull, Quebec for a night, got pulled over for a broken tail-light. After pulling us out, searching the car, sobriety testing, etc… All good. Gave me 24 hours to return to their local police station with the tail-light repaired or they would issue a ticket in the mail… I didn’t want my parents to see it or pay the fine so I did as I was instructed, it was good excuse to go partying in Hull the next night anyway!
- Our 18 year old got a $100 parking ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. He put it away and by the time we found it (a few days after it was due) the late penalty fine doubled it to $200. We had to pay it because it was issued by our local town which has very zealous enforcement
- Getting numerous, increasingly nasty notifications that we were overdue on paying a parking ticket…obtained on a car months after we’d sold it. It took ages to straighten it out. I still half-expect to get more.
Yeah, I was really sweating bullets – at that speed I could’ve been hauled into jail. But there were extenuating circumstances – while in the Bonneville Salt Flats area of I-80 I witnessed an accident on the other side, west bound, while I was east bound heading to SLC. It was a Chevy Suburban towing a long Airstream trailer, and they’d rolled over, both Suburban and Airstream, a few times before coming to a stop.
This had to be mid-1980s, thereabouts.
I’m trained in CPR and First Aid, and had some basic field medical training, and so I crossed onto the median (broad stretch of salt flats) to assist and render aid if needed. Fortunately the occupants, an elderly couple from Ohio (and if memory serves their names were Bill and Edith Hock (Hoch?)) were unharmed. She had minor abrasions on her scalp, so I applied a clean gauze and some pressure. Possible shock so I laid her down and her husband got a blanket to keep her warm. The husband, he was fine other than being shook up.
And I waited with them. And waited, and waited. No cell phones back then. It took a good half hour for Utah Highway Patrol to show up. And as the UHP guy was walking towards us he said, “I’m so sorry but I’m the only one on duty near here.”
With Bill and Edith (IIRC, it was many years ago but they did give me their business card and thanked me profusely – nobody else stopped)… with them in good hands and not in any danger I left.
And since that guy was the only UHP on duty then I knew the coast was clear. I hauled ass and was having fun! But you gotta be VERY safe and careful, passing cars with such a high speed differential. It was the afternoon on an overcast day, and I had the bright lights on and people were moving over. Fun!
But then the salt flats ended and I was in the rolling hills west of SLC. Probably in another jurisdiction but this was so fun!
And then I saw him, UHP on the other side of the freeway. I thought I was toast.
I explained my delay, and I think he radioed it in to confirm my story and I believe that’s why he let me go. That, and the fact he didn’t get a chance to clock me.
It takes FOREVER to slow from 130 down to 55! I was driving a Plymouth Conquest TSi, a pretty fast car for those days.
Anyway, back to the game…
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
- Partying in Hull, Quebec for a night, got pulled over for a broken tail-light. After pulling us out, searching the car, sobriety testing, etc… All good. Gave me 24 hours to return to their local police station with the tail-light repaired or they would issue a ticket in the mail… I didn’t want my parents to see it or pay the fine so I did as I was instructed, it was good excuse to go partying in Hull the next night anyway!
- Our 18 year old got a $100 parking ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. He put it away and by the time we found it (a few days after it was due) the late penalty fine doubled it to $200. We had to pay it because it was issued by our local town which has very zealous enforcement
- Getting numerous, increasingly nasty notifications that we were overdue on paying a parking ticket…obtained on a car months after we’d sold it. It took ages to straighten it out. I still half-expect to get more.
- Pulled over for an illegal U-turn in downtown Mountain View, CA. Vehicle Code 22102 was what she cited. I didn’t have my CA Vehicle Code book with me but I was pretty sure that I could make a U-turn in a business district at an intersection, as long as that intersection wasn’t marked No U-turn. I explained that to her (she was pretty cute too) but she insisted it was a ticket. Ticket issued, arrived in mail, and I checked my law book and sure enough I was right. Fortunately I argued it in the mail and never had to come in. Ticket dismissed.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
- Partying in Hull, Quebec for a night, got pulled over for a broken tail-light. After pulling us out, searching the car, sobriety testing, etc… All good. Gave me 24 hours to return to their local police station with the tail-light repaired or they would issue a ticket in the mail… I didn’t want my parents to see it or pay the fine so I did as I was instructed, it was good excuse to go partying in Hull the next night anyway!
- Our 18 year old got a $100 parking ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. He put it away and by the time we found it (a few days after it was due) the late penalty fine doubled it to $200. We had to pay it because it was issued by our local town which has very zealous enforcement
- Getting numerous, increasingly nasty notifications that we were overdue on paying a parking ticket…obtained on a car months after we’d sold it. It took ages to straighten it out. I still half-expect to get more.
- Pulled over for an illegal U-turn in downtown Mountain View, CA. Vehicle Code 22102 was what she cited. I didn’t have my CA Vehicle Code book with me but I was pretty sure that I could make a U-turn in a business district at an intersection, as long as that intersection wasn’t marked No U-turn. I explained that to her (she was pretty cute too) but she insisted it was a ticket. Ticket issued, arrived in mail, and I checked my law book and sure enough I was right. Fortunately I argued it in the mail and never had to come in. Ticket dismissed.
- Was driving to class, which passes by a school, on the first day of class for that school. Got fined $160 for doing 35 in 25 mph zone. Cop explained the judge ordered them to increase patrol that day for the safety of the children. Something to put on his re-election bona fides. Asshole.
Most annoying ticket or minor eventually-settled interaction with The Man (cop, IRS, DMV, etc.)
- Getting (and beating) a $150 Dog Off-Leash ticket as I was putting on his leash and halter after he took a crap in a private enclosed area behind a fence.
- Pulled over in Jackson County, NC for going down the mountain too fast. Instead of giving me a ticket, the cop took me into the station to meet with a magistrate to get fined and a hearing date.
- Pulled over in Cabo San Lucas because I’d pulled out of a parking lot and was starting driving the wrong way on a One Way road. I’d gone maybe 5 feet, and there were no signs nor any obvious markings for One Way. I “bribed” the cop, she accepted $5 and let me go on my way. There’s a little more to that story but that’s essentially it.
- Stopped in a shopping mall because I resembled someone on the local police’s Most Wanted list. I showed the officers my ID and credit cards, but they didn’t wanna believe I was me. I finally took my dentures out and showed them my name on the dentures. That convinced 'em.
- I was doing 130+ MPH back in the days of the double nickle across the Bonneville Salt Flats on I-80. Daytime, good visibility, running my bright lights and cars were pulling right to let me pass. I was in a critical rush. I was passing cars like they were standing still. Pulled over. Sweating bullets. After a brief discussion with Utah Highway Patrol, I was let off with a verbal warning.
- Arrested for telling a cop that he’s “a fucking douchbag.” It was in a rest room of Grand Central Station, and he was hassling two teenagers who were checking each other out at the urinals. The judge agreed with me, but fined me $5 for cursing in the presence of minors.
- Ticketed for parking late one night in a “no-parking zone” that was unmarked. What am I, a mind-reader? Ticket voided when I contested it.
- Partying in Hull, Quebec for a night, got pulled over for a broken tail-light. After pulling us out, searching the car, sobriety testing, etc… All good. Gave me 24 hours to return to their local police station with the tail-light repaired or they would issue a ticket in the mail… I didn’t want my parents to see it or pay the fine so I did as I was instructed, it was good excuse to go partying in Hull the next night anyway!
- Our 18 year old got a $100 parking ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. He put it away and by the time we found it (a few days after it was due) the late penalty fine doubled it to $200. We had to pay it because it was issued by our local town which has very zealous enforcement
- Getting numerous, increasingly nasty notifications that we were overdue on paying a parking ticket…obtained on a car months after we’d sold it. It took ages to straighten it out. I still half-expect to get more.
- Pulled over for an illegal U-turn in downtown Mountain View, CA. Vehicle Code 22102 was what she cited. I didn’t have my CA Vehicle Code book with me but I was pretty sure that I could make a U-turn in a business district at an intersection, as long as that intersection wasn’t marked No U-turn. I explained that to her (she was pretty cute too) but she insisted it was a ticket. Ticket issued, arrived in mail, and I checked my law book and sure enough I was right. Fortunately I argued it in the mail and never had to come in. Ticket dismissed.
- Was driving to class, which passes by a school, on the first day of class for that school. Got fined $160 for doing 35 in 25 mph zone. Cop explained the judge ordered them to increase patrol that day for the safety of the children. Something to put on his re-election bona fides. Asshole.
- Years ago (1970s/1980s), parking tickets in San Francisco would be followed up with a letter stating, “A parking ticket was affixed to your vehicle…” (emphasis mine). Aha! I realized I might avoid the fine if the ticket wasn’t placed. Fast forward to me, still a young 20 y.o. kid, parked illegally on Market Street — I needed to run in quickly to where I worked. When I come out a meter maid is writing a ticket. I talk to her but there’s no dissuading her as I get in my convertible. She’s still writing away. I start the car as she finishes writing, I turn on my windshield wipers and she has no place to put the ticket. I drive away. When the ticket arrived in the mail I wrote back, “No, it wasn’t affixed to my car, it never was” and I explain what happened (well, not every detail. Parking ticket dismissed. Many did this kind of thing. The laws were changed to make the ticket valid once the meter maid starts writing (or some such) — the first thing they then wrote down was your license plate.
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Laws You Like
- 80 MPH speed limits in parts of Texas. God Bless Texas!
Laws You Like
- 80 MPH speed limits in parts of Texas. God Bless Texas!
- Recreational marijuana laws. Should smoking a joint be criminal?