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In reply to the discussion: How many traffic tickets have you received (lifetime)? [View all]Hotler
(11,420 posts)All on a motorcycle, speeding, no DUI's. How about one for 95 in a 55 back when the national speed limit was 55mph. Oh man that cop was pissed. While he had me pulled over his car over heated and blew the radiator a puked water and transmission fluid all over and then the engine started knocking and quit. That was the ticket I lost my license with (points). That was the start of my amateur roadracing hobby, you don't need a drivers license to race. It helped I friends with a van and a truck that raced also.
That was the only time I lost my license. The last one was about 12-yrs ago for a 75 in a 45 while pulling wheelie on the entrance ramp to I-25 North bound not knowing that the old gray haired guy in the blue sedan behind me was a high up Denver cop on his was to his desk job. The ramp emptied right into the left fast lane of the highway. He pulls up beside me on my right and yells, "PULL THAT FUCKING THING OVER.", and I had ear plugs and a helmet on. I look over and all I see is a dark blue uniform sleeve with a shit load of strips on it. The bike was a 400cc dirtbike set up for super motto with street wheels and tires so, it wasn't a monster, just quick. He writes me a ticket and walks back to his car, stops, turns around and starts walking back. I go shit, he's going to write me up more. He comes back, walks around the bike looking at it all over, says, "nice bike" and goes back to his car. Went to court on that and got it down to 2-points.
I got out of two tickets by the same motorcycle cop 2-yrs apart because at one point in my schooling I learned the capital of all 50-states.