Back in high school (8-9 years ago...Jr. or soph yr), I got pulled over by a cop, but not just any cop. This cop looked just like Benjamine Bratt (the dreamy actor in River Wild, Miss Congeniality, etc. etc..). It was a nice Sunday and I was in my sunday dress, scriptures were on the seat next to me and I was only going 5 miles over the spead limit.As this dreamy cop came up to me I whiped the drool away and did everything he told me in a calm, cool, inocent fashion. I didn't get a ticket, I liked and still like this cop.
This last Monday however, has put a dark shadow over my previous cop/semi speeding experience. I was heading to my in-laws to drop off some items and a cop, a not so cute cop, decided to pull me over. I was cooler and calmer than ever because I knew I wasn't speeding. I complied and did everything he asked in a nice I am totally inocent way. Nevertheless, this cop decided to be as rude as his looks and gave me a ticket for going 9 miles over, yeah I agree, LAME! I swear I wasn't even going that fast, for I had just turned the corner (granted, I may have been in a elementary school zone where one can get a $100 fine for going 1 mile over!!!!!) and even put on my breaks for a woman opening her car door! Needless to say this second cop bites and I hate him for making me go to traffic school in order to avoid this ticket going on my insurance. Oh, I don't have to pay the ticket if I go to traffic school ($100 ticket) but traffic school does cost $100! What gives!
I miss my Benjamine Bratt cop...and my ticketless driving record.
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Are you SERIOUS? Is this story real??? WHa??
Too bad about driving school. How does Lyndon feel about you and Benjamine Bratt?
I didn't know we had cute cops in TF. Especially Benjamin Pratt cute. We do feel your pain in the ticket thing. It always bites doesn't it? Of course you could be me and use up one of Jared's good will favors the instant you drive him into town...come to think of it that cop was kind of cute. Too bad you didn't have him and too bad you don't work for a judge and live in a small town.
I can't believe that dumb cop didn't go easy on a pregnant lady! He must have been trying to fill his end-of-the-month ticket quota. Boooooooooo.
Oh, and yeah, I used to have a crush on B.B. back in the day.
Sorry to hear it, Missy. That's no fun. Does the cost of driving school end up being cheaper than increased insurance costs? One of my roommates once got a ticket for going 70 mph in a 50 mph construction zone. His ticket was around $400 and that's because the cop DIDN'T double the fine for speeding in a construction zone. He gladly did driving school.
Missy,
Don't go to traffic school. I got pulled over on my way to Springville when I was at BYU and I went to the judge and asked about traffic school. He said that one ticket shouldn't affect my insurance and that they weren't likely to check to see if I had just received a ticket. He said you can only go to traffic school once and that I should save it for a time when I had more tickets. Pay the $100 bucks, which you would do anyway and then stay home and watch TV. If I am right, you only get to go to traffic school once, don't waste it on this one. Or go and challenge the ticket. You can do it yourself.
Also, I got a ticket for $1,200 in Spokane for speeding in a school zone, driving with an expired out of state (Idaho) license, in a truck registered in Utah, without current insurance. I mitigated it down to about $300. Save traffic school for a doozey like that one.
I will mull over the advice. Such hard decisions.
Lyndon knows about B.B. it was a High school crush, Lyndon beats him by far.
Holeeee cow! You guys know how to rack up the ticket charges! Wowzah! $1,200 ticket?!?! (Watch, now that I said that I will get a ticket or something.) The only ticket I have had so far is speeding on my way home from USU. I was going 90 mph. So was Tony Traveller. We both got pulled over by the same cop. I thought the cop just caught him, so I went on my merry way. The cop caught up with me though, and was pretty nice to me. The next day at church, I found out it was Tony that had been my partner in crime. He said the cop had told him, "Wait here, I am going to catch up with her, she was going 90."
Missy,
Did you find your keys?
Dad
PS To Everyone Check the Mr. Gnomer blog
I have yet to have any sort of pleasant experience getting a ticket...you shouldn't have started your ticket career so well--it's all downhill from the BenjiCop, you know. Sorry, dude. P.S. Something I remember from traffic school was that we lose the same amount of people every year to drunk driving that we lost during the entire Vietnam war. (p.p.s. don't go to the comedy kind of traffic school--not funny.)
Does anyone have a metal detector? I checked my keys at Lyndon the other day because I was mad and then he kicked them into the snow somewhere.....we made up, but still can't find the keys.
Chucked my keys, not checked them...
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