How to beat Speeding Tickets

I'd like to hear what excuses you've given to police officers that actually worked and convinced them to let you go without a ticket. I've basically run out and need some good ones to keep in reserve(not that I need them that often).

The last one I used was that I was speeding because my neighbor called at work and said someone was breaking into my house. The officer volunteered to follow me home. I told him the police had been called and he let me go, luckily without following.

There was a Bee in the car, officer. I just washed my car and I was drying it. The guy behind me was in a HUGE hurry to get around, so I was trying to get out of his way. My speedometer is acting funny...it said 60.

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'83 SC

The best way I've found to beat speedign tickets, at least in new York, where I live, is to show up in court. In New York, they pretty automatically "reward" you for doing so by changing the speeding ticket to a considerably lesser charge--taillight out, or something like that. There's actually an informal session before you're called to plead, during which you meet with the arresting officer and you make the deal--i.e. you'll plead guilty, he'll request a lesser charge. It also helps to ask for postponements two or three times, stretch out the time between the arrest and the court date as long as you can. There's always the chance the trooper will have been reassigned to another area, gotten sick, retired, whatever. And of course if he or she doesn't show up--another reason to go to court--you're entirely off the hook.

Stephan

Here is one that works, I got pulled over for speeding and I told the officer that I was trying to fallow a friend because we were going somewhere that I haven't been before. I told him now that I got pulled over I won't be able to find my way there. So the officer gave me directions there and let me go with nothing at all. The thing is, it wasn't even an excuse. I really was trying to keep up with a friend.

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Porsche, Through and through
Tim
'83 944

http://community.webshots.com/user/strayer15

AS on as you were just trying to keep up with your friend and not trying to pass him.

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Robert Stoll
83 SC
83 944

First of all if you want to speed on the freeways in California,
join the 1199 Foundation. It's a Foundation that supports the widows, orphans and children of CHP officers that have given thier life in the line on duty. For $1800.00 you get a license plate frame with 1199 Foundation printed on it, a CHP ID card and a small gold CHP badge. When you are speeding they will drive up on your side and wave you to slow down. If you are going 120 mph, they will pull you over and ask...ask you to PLEASE slow down. No ticket!
1199 Foundation = Teflon

I would like to tell you how to get out of a ticket in your home town, but I can't. There might be some law officers reading this BB. Lets just say, make an officer your freind.

IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN NEW YORK STATE!!!!!!!

I was pulled over some years ago while coming home stag from a buddies wedding. At the time I was recently divorced and had just gotten into a fight with my girlfriend of the moment. I was reveling in the solitude and going quite a bit over the speed limit.... nobody else on the road for miles.

All of a sudden... the red lights... a 5 liter Mustang and I pulled over. The cop came over to the car and asked me if I knew how fast I was going and I told him that I wasn't sure since the car was very old. I told him I must have been doing about 75 or 80 and he told me that I wasn't even close... can I have your license and registration. I complied and I asked him to be gentle since I have a clean license and I truly didn't realize I was going that fast. I apologized and he went to his car.

He came back to me and said, before I write up a ticket, could you please tell me why you were going so fast. I told him that I was recently divorced, just got into a major fight with my girlfriend and I met a woman the other night that told me if I could make it back into the city by 10pm, I would be treated to the best sex I ever had. The cop was cracking up and he told me to take it easy for the rest of the ride home... he wasn't going to give me a ticket.

I got about five miles down the road and all of a sudden the red lights were behind me again. I thought, crap.. he had a change of heart! He just wanted to know if the car was for sale and we stayed in touch for years and he finally bought it.

Moral of the story: Cops are people too and they can use a good laugh.. I guess my story was good enough... unfortunately, it was true. The cop... just a nice guy doing his job. Me... a guy going way to fast!

Marc