What is the silliest reason you got a ticket for?

PF52 said:
The city got increasingly threatening towards us if we didn't pay the fines ASAP! Finally we convinced them to send us actual Xerox copies of the tickets and it was at that point we discovered they were issued to a car with the same license number - but with Maryland plates. We sent the city a very snarky and condescending letter and never heard from them again.
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I had a similar experience but fortunately it was a photo ticket, albeit a somewhat grainy, B&W photo. It was clearly not my vehicle or my plate.

I sent a letter and also never heard from them again.

I understand they're busy but not too busy to send out tickets, so I truly believe there should be law/regulation that they MUST respond in these situations and say they're dismissing it or at least reviewing it.

As a citizen/taxpayer we're entitled to that. Otherwise you never know until years later you find out they've just been tacking on fines or your license has been revoked.
 
I got pulled over at 10:40 PM for having a "broken license plate light." Arizona law is your plate must readable from 50' and the Jetta has two license plate lights, so it could still be read. I called my wife and told her I would be delayed because I got pulled over for DUI. When the cop brought the warning ticket back I told him, "I know why you pulled me over and there is no alcohol on my breath." He responded, "You can't be too careful."

I later discussed it with the chief of police and I think the cop got a little chewing out.
 
I got one about 15 years ago for a legit reason but the situation was dumb.

I was driving on a divided four-lane road to work one morning, one that connects a bunch of office parks and apartment complexes. I was already infuriated by having to stop twice for school busses who seemed to be in absolutely no hurry so I was now about 15 minutes behind schedule. The road has a slow 30mph limit, so why was everyone now in just the left lane and going only 25mph?! I moved into the empty right lane and sped up out of frustration... only to see the motorcycle cop at the bottom of the hill with the radar gun. I think I got like a 37 in a 30 or something. I was cool with the cop (hey, I was guilty) but inside I was absolutely raging.
 
slo town said:
I got caught on radar doing 37 in a 25 while commuting to work - on my bicycle - but guilty as charged.

Scott
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Good point, once on the Death Ride we got pulled over dropping down Molas into Silverton. A road bike (bicycle) can easily descend that faster than a car.
 
gman2304 said:
Yes, in High Point, N.C. I live roughly 1 mile from where I got that ticket 56 years ago!
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That’s neat. I think the police have more to do these days than write tickets for loud exhaust. It’s funny, I feel like my 1968 Firebird is too loud these days with turbo mufflers and full tailpipes! I drove to high school without mufflers on my 1964 Malibu 327 for several weeks until I earned enough money at my part time grocery store job. I liked the racket back then….
 
When I drove a truck between 1998-2002 I would often be driving home in my old pickup all hours of the night. I got pulled over for no reason at least 2 x a week.

Cop always said His reason was that I had a license plate light out. Funny that they never let me get out to see it.

Whenever I checked the lights they worked.

One day I mounted a KC Daylighter off road light on my bumper and pointed it at my plate. It lit up the whole back of my truck.

Got pulled over that very night/ early morning. Cop said that my license plate light was too bright..

After that I walked into the local sheriff's station and had a talk with the Sgt He was able to see all the records of me being pulled over and said he would put an end to that.

Never got hassled by them again.
 
It was right out of Seinfeld (the one where Jerry took the bread from an elderly woman). On W 8th St. and Ave of the Americas, I got a summonses for giving elderly ladies a hard time. It truly was sitcom worthy. In the end, the two officers and I shook hands (it was another era, yes, people shook hands and looked one another in the eyes) and they took back the summonses. We could google to figure out what year or approximately--Alan Hevesi was NYC comptroller. I think it was like 1995.
 
D60 said:
Good point, once on the Death Ride we got pulled over dropping down Molas into Silverton. A road bike (bicycle) can easily descend that faster than a car.
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Yes they can, and easily! Fastest I ever hit was 53.8 mph 😲 and the road wasn't even straight - but it was steep! And congrats on your Death Ride exploits. Rides like that can be spirit killing, leg destroying beasts that require lots of grim determination to simply finish.

Scott
 
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It wasn't me, but a friend of mine. It was the day of my high school graduation and I will point out that it was a small town. We were young and dumb. (I still got half of those qualifications :cool: )
About 15 of us guys were riding around on the back of a pickup truck and we had dozens water balloons with us. We were driving around and throwing water balloons at classmates and underclassmen. It just so happened that there was a county deputy who saw a classmate throw a water balloon and the guy got written up for LITTERING!
My classmate went to court and it got dismissed because the deputy never showed up in court. The cop was just on an ego trip.
 
1977 Penn State Harrisburg dorm parking lot. Ticket for driving out of the in side of the parking lot. No other vehicle in the lot was occupied, and no other vehicles on the remote road. Dead flat ground with plenty of visibility.

The campus police man ( Officer Paul ) was an FBI reject and liked to ride the students any way he could.

After working in Pittsburgh J&L Steel Mill in the summer to earn my tuition, I thought it ironic that with all the dangers I worked with, that boared man ticketed me for driving out of an in side of a parking lot that did not have directional traffic flow in that small lot, on a day with good visibility and no other moving vehicles in sight.

It became a joke about how he was handing out tickets for extremely small things.
 
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My wife got pulled over late one night on her way home from work . She had passed a Deputy sitting in the median with no lights on . After she passed he pulled out and followed her for a little while . When she turned off of that road he lit her up . She asked him why he stopped her and he said she was " slow to dim her lights " . Seriously , dim your lights for a parked vehicle not even on the roadway ? He was trolling for DWI's obviously . When he saw her " Deputy Sheriff's Mom " sticker on her back window it was over . Have a good evening , drive safe ....
 
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