I have to admit I’m confused by the scenario and what you’re asking in that case. If someone did that to me I’d assume they were trying to bribe me. But then I’m not of the American ilk and you guys do things differently over there… 
In retrospect, I slightly misremembered my Illinois ticket adventure. The ticket was for $75 and I had to surrender a bond card, my drivers license or $75 cash as bond. The idea being that you would pay the ticket by default with the $75 bond if you didn’t show up in court.
So while you were essentially “paying the ticket on the spot” if you wanted to treat it that way, you weren’t waiving your chance to contest the ticket. There was also a paper trail since you now had your ticket with the box ticked saying you had a cash bond.
i have never heard of such a thing, and would love to see the statute that requires out of state drivers to supply a credit card.
It doesn’t make sense, since out of state drivers get ticketed for stuff all the time and there should be universal mechanisms for penalties for non-payment (along with getting points on your license for out of state infractions).
Actually this happened to me in the 70’s some time. I was driving a semi across some midwestern state and apparently exceeding the speed limit. I got pulled over and since it was pretty cold out, the Trooper invited me to join him in the front seat of his patrol car. He asked for a credit card to pay the fine. He had one of those mechanical swipe credit card imprinters with him. I paid my fine and went on my way. I felt pretty safe that the money was actually going to the government, since it was charged on a credit card.
I also remember the Trooper being pretty pleasant about the situation. It made getting a speeding ticket a bit more fun than you’d expect. I also got to ogle all of the special equipment in the patrol car.
J.
The French cops who stopped us under similar circumstances and who offered a reduced fine for 25% of the full one (they could even take CCs) or the Spanish cops who can’t take roadside payments but whose fines are 50% of the total if paid within 30 days (via DGT’s webpage, or in person at an appropriate police station or at DGT’s offices) would in all likelyhood still inform you more or less politely of the existing discounts and how to get them.
Depending on which specific police body was involved, the “more or less politely” could involve frowns, eyebrows trying to fly above the cop’s own hair, or a growl.
And if you had 100€ notes, that would in itself be considered suspicious. ATMs don’t deliver anything that big in either country.
Speeding tickets can be very inconvenient in Thailand, if you’re far from home. The cop’ll take your driver’s license and you’ll need to appear in person at the police station after his shift to retrieve it … assuming you can’t “take care of it right here in Brainerd.” OTOH, speeding tickets are quite rare: they seem to be awarded at only a very small number of fixed-location speed traps. (Locals know where they are; if you see the other cars slow, you should slow too. )
Foreigners are generally let go, especially if you can’t speak Thai or if you babble some plausible excuse. But one cop wasn’t taking my babble, so I tried to “take care of it right here in Brainerd,” or rather the Thai language equivalent. “What did you say?” the cop asked roughly. Realizing that offering a bribe is a much bigger crime than speeding I recanted in babble and, tired of talking to me, he let me go with a warning.
:smack:
I don’t have a cite, but, I’ll bet that if you go through your own state’s statutes, you’ll find one. If not a credit card, at least some source of payment, bond, etc… would be required. Loosely interpreted, a traffic violation/ticket is an offense that requires some sort of bond. *Loosely *being the operative word.
That is one of the reasons that AAA cards were/are also bond insurance cards.
The last time I received a ticket, about 15 years ago, the Highway Patrol officer explained to me that I needed to pony up some sort of bond, check, cc, etc… I lost my breath, and was stunned. Of the 5-10 tickets I had received in my lifetime, I had never heard of such. He told me that if I signed ‘line X’ or somesuch, he would release me on my own recognizance. I’m pretty sure that most officers would release anybody, unless acting like a real prick, without a bond of sorts.
Of course, with the Internet nowadays, an authority in one state can pull your license in another state, or whatever, without any real work at all, so I’m not sure how it would play out now.
BTW, for the OP, I would also ticket the driver for “Inattentive driving” since he was so anxious to spill his guts about not paying attention.
Also say that you want to be in compliance.
In my state, your ass would get a ticket.
In Virginia, you’d be shot on site. (Kidding, sort of. That’s the LAST state you wanna get caught speeding in, though.)
Still can, and they sometimes insist if you’re from out of state. I had it happen once and the cop actually made me drive to the next town and get $40 out of the ATM.
In Wisconsin (our neighboring state), you HAVE to pay the fine on the spot if you’re from out of state. But they’re going to want a credit card. It’s either that or an immediate trip to the county court house where you can pay it by other means.
In Minnesota, you’re getting the ticket. Unless the cop is corrupt, where all bets are off.
When my dad got pulled over in Ohio (the speed trap state) back in the 80’s, as an out of state driver the cop gave him two choices. One the cop takes his driver’s license and the court would mail it back after payment of the ticket was received. The other option (which my dad took, no way was he giving up his license over a speeding ticket) was follow the cop to the court house and pay right then and there.
So I can definitely see such a thing evolving into cops asking for credit cards on the spot.