Oh and on topic... I was pulled over a few times as a teenager and let off with warnings. For the most part I did not tell my parents. Why bother? Only time I did is if I was pissed b/c I felt I was pulled over for no reason.... then I vented to them. Otherwise I typically didn't say anything.

 

This thread is all lies. You are fcked. Consider moving to Mexico.

 

consider yourself lucky, Sometimes we only learn from mistakes.

 

If I were in your position, that never happened.

Speeding tickets when youre a teen sucks. Ive gotten 8 tickets between the ages of 16 and 20 (only 4 stuck), which resulted in 4 suspensions (because Im fucking retarded). Ive gotten lucky a few times; I should've been arrested at one point but the officer allowed my passenger to drive the car home. My insurance rates are absolutely rediculous, and as of now the only things showing on my record is one administrative suspension and one speeding ticket - 85 in a 65 in Jersey, but I maintain that that incident was pure BS as I had to speed up going down hill when a truck was trying to occupy my passenger seat.

 

Seriously, you got off the hook. You're pretty lucky. I got pulled over for going about that same speed in a 30 MPH zone as well. However the cop was really a dumbass and said I was actually going 50, when I was really going also about 40-42 or so (I checked my speedometer when I saw the cop on the side of the road, let go of the gas almost instantly, so there's no way I could have reached 50..)

Anyways, I got a speeding ticket, despite that being the first time I had been pulled over for any violation at all, whatsoever. Not saying I should have been let off the hook, but just letting you know how lucky you are that you got off with a warning

 

Especially these days when cops in my area seem to use traffic violations as added revenue in this economy.

 

Yeah the guy who tinted my windows a few weeks back said he had been getting a lot of people in the shop who got pulled over and penalized for having too dark of a tint. So yeah I'd say they're just looking for extra revenue.

I can't wait to hear someone complain that they got ticketed for not using their turn signals in this town... I know people have been pulled over for it over here...

 

I know, I truly felt like the luckiest person on earth when he told me. But thank you. I love my TL more than anything else.

Yes. This.

I felt like I came close to doing that last night.

I'm very well aware of the consequences, and 43 in a 30 is certainly not a habit of mine. At all.

Haha very funny. I live in a suburb of Indianapolis that's just out of Marion county. Hendricks. Nice try though!

I'm very lucky...no doubt about it. But thank you! I try not to typ al dyke dis on uh teh intranets nd sites. Bad grammar is a pain to read and comprehend.

Thank you. I think I'm just going to let this one slide by..and not tell him. I guess I really don't see much benefit in telling him if it was only a verbal warning.
But yeah speeding tickets aren't going to please my old man. He told me how much my insurance is a year with my age and the car I drive- I about fell over.
Yep that's what I plan on doing. I won't forget this incident though. I like your TL, btw. Too bad you live in Texas and I live in cornfields.

Yeah. I plan on telling my mother, who is divorced from my father, about it since she won't be too mad as she's not the one who paid for my car and insurance. I really would tell my dad, but I've got a pretty good feeling his reaction wouldn't be the same as yours. At the very least, the AEM CAI I planned on installing this spring most likely wouldn't be happening. Allowing performance mods after knowing about last night? Yeah not so much.

Will do. I hear the police there are especially friendly.

 

Its not like you got pulled over for racing someone or something along those lines, it was a honest mistake that your father probably does every day along with most others.

 

Your dad sounds like a smart man

 

If you do go to Mexico, stay away from the drug runners and police. They're killing each other (and tourists).

You're fortunate, and I like your plan of telling your Mom. I got pulled over as a teenager. Doing donuts in the parking lot of a Burger King while my friends were drinking heavily in the back seat. Lesson: never throw beer bottles out the car window. I was not drinking, so it worked out with dumping the beer and telling the cop where the party was (drinking age then was 18).

 

You're a bad man (heh, heh).

Thanks for the correction an shame on me.

 

I also have two daughters and with them, as with me and my brother when we were being raised, honesty, not stealing, and not telling lies was most important. We insisted on this as parents and so did my parents. I like to think this was the right way.

 

Seriously?!?!!?? There had to be a thread for this.

 

Ah, a very smart man actually. Haha.

Geez. Don't you love getting in trouble on someone else's behalf? That's always the best. Did that get you a ticket?

And there really had to be a post for that...
I'm 16. Shared my experience and remorse for getting pulled over.

 

Your fine, its no big deal. The deal is exactly what it is, so until that day where u receive a piece of paper with a court date, your fine. Do the speed limit until your 18.

 

 

This, and stay away from donkey shows, too.


Unless that's your thing.

 

i told my dad about my verbal warning (for 47 in a 35 exiting a 7-figure neighborhood...maybe the cop took pity on me in the 94 camry?) and he seemed amused, so from this i would agree with the earlier statements on honesty.

i said "i don't normally speed i prefer to go the speed limit" to which he replied "so the car i saw flying by me in (month, 2 years prior) on (highway) with (my license plate) wasn't you then?"


:surrender

Oh and OP, having your car taken away for a ticket isn't so harsh. My dad's stated policy on tickets is "If you get a speeding ticket, you shall be lynched in the backyard."

 

Honestly OP, I wouldn't take the chance. You really have nothing significant to gain, and your car to lose.


The thing is, threats like that many times end up being met with less harsh punishments than when they say "I'll take your car away." Your dad is never going to hang you in your backyard

 

I know my dad wouldn't ACTUALLY lynch me in the backyard, but still, very bad things would happen....

 

You're insurance rates must be orbiting the earth!!

Thank you for using proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling correctly. I don't know how some of the idiots I know ever graduated high school. It's actually a little scary.

 

No, we got a warning and I knew my dad would know. Small town, and everyone know everyone. He just wanted to hear from me what happened, and be sure I was not drinking (which I wasn't). So I couldn't drive for a week, but that was just going out, not work.

Honesty FTMFW....

 

I was in your shoes when I was 16. My parents were out of town and I took my dad's 1997 Jaguar XJ6L out for the night. I got pulled for going 47 in a 35. Considering my dad never let me drive the car, even if he was sitting shotty, I knew I was fucked. The police officer knew I was scared shitless so he let me go with a verbal warning. He said "Son you've gotta slow down. I know you have a nice car for your age, but nobody is impressed. Just take your time getting around town. Take this as a lesson learned, go on home."

I ended up telling my dad and he wasn't too happy to say the least. But he soon got over it and appreciated me telling him the truth and not hiding it from him.