when you got pulled over by police for speeding
or wreckless driving
or not having your seat belt on
or rolling on stop sign
you get my drift.
Re: Creative excuses that have worked...
Well save your self some trouble, ppl who deal with ppl on the job has seen it ALL.
unless you are completely out of the place(like pak in a town where no one has seen a paki before) chance are they will know what you are going to say after hearing first 2 words or so.
Also ppl in those job, when get together with their colleagues, talk about that stuff and laugh.
How ever their are ways you can get officer little more friendly towards you.
They too are scared in side dealing with a person they don't know. So always put both you hands on staring wheel. that make them feel safe. That you don't have gun or some thing in your hand.
Save them some effort and admit you made a mistake AND then start talking and Bring on your charms.
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come on JK - you have said something to police officers that has worked to get you out of a ticket
Creative excuses are unnecessary. The Irish Gardái don't accept any and the Pakistani police don't require any.
come on JK - you have said something to police officers that has worked to get you out of a ticket
yes.
Buy not playing smart. I always get the best treatments.
3 times I got ticket and officer gave me his card too, to do "this" "this" and "email me I will make ticket disappear."
I area I lived in even police was fed up of lying nature of desis.
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For your reading pleasure:
Excuses, excuses. He's heard them all
By Steve Pepple
March 24, 2008, 7:31AM
ALAN WARREN | THE ANN ARBOR NEWS
"So many people are obsessed with a two-point ticket. They have an informal hearing. If they lose that, they go hire an attorney for a formal hearing. It is an irrational reaction to getting a ticket." - Ann Arbor Assistant City Attorney Bob West.
By TOM GANTERT
The Ann Arbor News
There were 27,410 traffic violations written in the city of Ann Arbor in 2007.
And Robert West, the Ann Arbor assistant city attorney who prosecutes the cases, will tell you there's probably a story attached to every one of them. He's heard them all from the motorists who come to Washtenaw County's 15th District's "traffic court" to fight traffic tickets.
Like the University of Michigan doctor a few years ago who argued that he was speeding home after "emergency" heart surgery. West found out he was a plastic surgeon. No deal.
As the one man who can offer a deal, West seldom gets a breather from the earful of excuses and rationalizations from motorists and their attorneys.
West can dismiss the ticket and erase the fine with the judge's approval. The only thing he can't do is take off points from the driver's license.
On a recent day, West would hear some compelling tales: One woman was speeding to the library to pick up a sick child. A man was speeding home after visiting a sick child in the hospital.
During a break in court, attorney Valentina Lucaj makes a pitch to West for her client: It was foggy. Her client wasn't familiar with the area. That's why he was driving down the wrong side of the road.
West listened.
"The problem I have," he told the attorney, "is everyone has a particularly interesting story how their particular infraction came about."
Want to fight
a traffic ticket?
• Odds are against you. You have less than a 9 percent chance of winning, according to statistics provided by the 15th District Court.
• In 2007, there were 27,410 traffic violations written in the city of Ann Arbor by city and University of Michigan police. Just 2,410 were dismissed.
• And don't hold your breath the cop won't show. That happened just nine times in 2007. One rough estimate by the Ann Arbor Police is that it will spend $375,000 a year in overtime having their officers in court.
That is traffic court, where people bring a story and a checkbook, in case the former falls flat. And they usually do.
Last year, about 9 percent of the people who were issued traffic violations had their tickets dismissed.
One of the first cases to be tried that day before Judge Julie Creal was West Bloomfield's Bruce Cousin. He was caught driving 51 mph in a 35 mph zone on Plymouth Road.
His story: His daughter is a senior at University of Michigan. She had a very serious blood disorder. She was in the emergency room. He said he didn't sleep for 36 hours.
"I was very tired, judge," Cousin told Creal.
Creal asked what Cousin wanted.
"I don't know what I want, sweetheart," Cousin said.
The bailiff approached and told Cousin not to call the judge "sweetheart."
Creal explained that the city doesn't have to prove it was a motorist's intent to speed.
"My daughter being in the emergency room doesn't matter to you?" Cousin asked.
Creal told Cousin he wasn't swaying West, either.
"He's not jumping up here," Creal said.
Cousin turned to West, "If your daughter was at the hospital ..." and Creal cut him off.
West did refund a $35 late fee to Cousin.
Later during a break between sessions, Greg Huxley approached West for a short discussion about his ticket. West said Huxley was caught going 13 mph over but had it reduced by the police officer to 5 mph over.
"Five over?" West asked in amazement. "It's five over. You are going to argue about five over? Don't be afraid of two points."
Huxley was hoping he could coax West into turning it into an "impeding traffic" violation. West has the authority to amend a speeding ticket, which carries a $130 fine and two points on the driver's record, to an "impeding traffic" violation - it's still a $130 fine, but carries no points.
West said in some traffic courts, plea negotiations are the rule, not the exception.
"In some jurisdictions, everything becomes blocking traffic," West said. "It's not on the driving record. You pay the fine. Just line 'em up."
But West doesn't like to broker that deal. As he says he told one attorney: "I see bad driving everyday. It doesn't break my heart your guys just got caught."
And he won't broker that deal with Huxley.
"We don't get that creative," West told Huxley. "I try not to look at good records or bad records. If you did it, you did it."
Still, West told Huxley to stick around as the police officer, who already missed an earlier case, might not show. Huxley waited, the police officer didn't show and the ticket was dismissed.
According to court data, that happened less than 10 times in 2007. It would happen three times this day in the 27 cases heard.
West said his pet peeve is that some of the objections are overreactions.
"So many people are obsessed with a two-point ticket," West said. "They have an informal hearing. If they lose that, they go hire an attorney for a formal hearing. It is an irrational reaction to getting a ticket."
Stephen Chaikin disagrees. He was in court arguing a ticket for improper backing. He had a trailer attached to the back of a minivan and hit a car while backing up. Twice.
His defense? The car he hit was illegally parked. And he wouldn't have hit the car if the owner hadn't opened the door. It was the door that was damaged.
He had one-hour hearing with witnesses. Chaikin realized his chances were slim when Judge Creal ruled it irrelevant if the car that was hit was illegally parked.
Chaikin tried to interject, "Let me state _"
"You don't get to state anything," Judge Creal shot back. "Thank you."
After losing his case, Chaikin explained outside the courtroom why he went to such great lengths to fight the $130 ticket. He estimated he spent as much as $700 fighting the ticket and another 10 hours researching traffic laws and taking pictures of the accident scene.
"It's never the fine," he said. "It is the insurance premiums."
Tom Gantert can be reached at [EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected] or 734-994-6701.
A friend of mine got out of a speeding ticket by working at a pizza place but not right away.
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you guys are boring
I told the police officer the reason I was speeding was that there was a wreckless driver behind me, flashing his lights and being obsence so to away from him - I was trying to speed and get out of lane (that worked)
My friend told the police officer that it was his wife's birthday or their anniversary and if he came home with a ticket - she would throw him out of the house.
I am poor and I have kids to feed
I didn't have DL once - and went to the court and said that I did have it - I just couldn't find it so they let me get away with court fees.
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i was with my friend who happened to be a owner of 7-eleven ..and officer was
“hey raaz whats up dude,.. sorry man. you can go”
i was wtf?
and i asked him later on what was that, he said he gave free coffee to police officers 
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I think they take care of their own and people that know.
I have had friend put stickers on their car that says "I donate to the so and so chapter or precinct" and they get away with warnings.
You are so right. For last 12 years I have been donating money for Police charity and they send me that sticker.
I have never gotten a ticket or warning for last 12 years. 
Or is it that I follow all the rules of the road ? 
The one time I got pulled over - I apologized profusely, acknowledged my mistake and did the whole “woe is poor lil pathetic me” (imagine Scarlett O’Hara’s voice) with a coy batting of the lashes.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work - do you think the southern accent was overkill since I live north of the Mason-Dixie line
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I got stopped once because the police officer saw me talking on the phone. I quickly put my phone down but too late, he had already seen me. He was really nice as he didnt say anything apart from " please next time dont talk on the phone whilst driving, you could cause an accident". I just apologised, smiled and drove off. End of story 
The best thing to do is to accept your mistake. There’s no point in digging holes for yourself.
a friend of mine told me that one of his friend;s dad was pulled over and said he was a Free Mason..and the cop let him go.
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There was a story of a guy who got pulled over for speeding. His excuse....."My wife had left me for a cop...and I thought you were the one trying to return her back to me." Guy got let off...big time!