General @ Saturday July 12, 2008 10:15 pm by WunderKraut
UPDATE: Wow, the ticket is only $89. I’m shocked. Happy, but shocked.
Yeah, I got pulled over tonight. I was doing 75 in a 55. I don’t know why I was going so fast, I usually go much slower on that road for the very fact that it’s heavily patrolled.
We were coming back from my sisters house, so I blame her 
Anyway, the cop was very nice and there wasn’t anything I could say so I’ll call Monday to see what the damage is. I can’t imagine it’s going to be cheap.
*sigh*
Tonight was the first time I’ve ever been pulled over. It’s never happened before. I’ve been driving for 19 years and tonight I’m not paying attention and *wham* my perfect record is ruined. Oh well.
It did jar a memory of something funny. I could not find who or where this joke originally came from. I could’ve sworn Lewis Grizzard used it in one of his stand up routines, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I did find several variations of it, but I remember it being about two guys from up north driving through Alabama:
Two men are driving through Alabama when they get pulled over by a State Trooper.
The cop walks up and taps on the window with his nightstick.
The driver rolls down the window and WHACK, the cop smacks him in the head with the stick.
The driver asks, “What the hell was that for?”
The cop answers, “You’re in the great state of Alabama, Son. When we pull you over, you better have your license ready when we get to your car.”
The driver says, “I’m sorry, Officer, I’m not from around here.”
The cop runs a check on the guy’s license, and he’s clean. He gives the guy his license back, walks around to the passenger side and taps on the window. The passenger rolls down the window and WHACK, the cop smacks him on the head with the nightstick.
The passenger asks, “What’d you do that for?”
The cop says, “Just making your wish come true.”
The passenger asks, “Making what wish come true?”
The cop says, “I know that two miles down the road you’re gonna say to your buddy, “I wish that a**hole would’ve tried that sh*t with me! ”
5 Responses to “I Get A Ticket”
Sorry the chief can’t get you out of this one…hope it’s easy on the pocket book…hey did Nate get any b-day money?? Small interest loan…..
Hey. Both of your posts from this weekend reminded me of the past. Your ticket post reminded me that the last ticket I got was on Virginia Avenue and you were with me after eating at Jerry’s Cafeteria. Remember I was thinking I shouldn’t stop on the bridge over I-85 sinceI thought it might foul up traffic, so pulled on across it and pulled into McDonalds. Seems like the College Park Police Officer wasn’t very happy about that. Thankfully he didn’t didn’t hit either one of us upside the head with a night stick.
And concerning your post about Nathan’s birthday, I remember you telling me that y’all were expecting.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Nathan and have a good week Wunderkraut & Family.
Dave, I remember that. He was upset because he thought you were going to run or something when you were only trying to find him a safer place to pull you over.
Man, that was a long time ago.
I just got popped a couple of weeks ago myself. My last speeding ticket was probably about 10 years ago, if not more. And that one was kind of bogus. This one was earned, 66 in a 45. Same thing, I just wasn’t paying attention. Mine was $94. I was also happy that it wasn’t much higher.
Man, up here those things are twice that… they usually “knock it down” or something similarly bogus, but it’s rough. They have double fines for work zones, double fines for 65-mph zones, double fines for “safe corridors” (like it’s OK to run people off the road once the signs say so?)… And recently the MVC has decided to add to the fun: “merged offenses,” where one pleads guilty to the worst (read “most expensive”) of the tickets, ALL count towards points on your license, and thus the next insurance bill. Previously the state only assessed the points from the guilty offense.
According to what I’ve read, the state still has to prove you guilty on the other offenses for that to happen, but often when the prosecutor goes through the docket in traffic court, the implication is that you plead to this and the other ones go away - NOT that you only pay one but are guilty for everything.