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How to Get Out of Traffic Tickets

How to evade getting traffic tickets


I have a friend who's been pulled over more than ten times. She says that all the Utah PO-lice she has encountered have been jerks; self-absorbed, stoic, and sweetly-disrespectful.

The last time I was pulled over, I tried to make the situation less foreboding by stepping out of my car with my hands in the air. The officer didn't show any signs of amusement, but in the end, he let me off with a warning for making a protected right turn from a "non-protected" lane. I attribute my not-getting-a-ticket to changing things up on the cop/thrown' him a curveball. My hypothesis is that many police officers are so sick of the same old routine that if you do something to respectfully shake them out of it, they might just let you off the hook.

(If you can't think of anything creative in time, be sure to remember to take your key out of the ignition and put it on your dashboard. That, in and of itself, is a unique thing that my Uncle Ed does and it gets him out of tickets ALL THE TIME!)


Personal Sob Story


The first time I was pulled over in Provo the dummy cop made me sit in my car for and eternity [15 minutes] before he approached my window and ticketed me. The whole ordeal took more than 30 minutes and the cop didn't say more than 20 words the whole time. It took me over a year and a half to finally overcome the anxiety I felt while driving. In hindsight, I probably needed therapy.

In the future, I wouldn't mind being ticketed by uncreative officers if they would make an effort at helping me feel more at ease.

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  1. Julie TFri May 15, 06:41:00 AM MDT

    I had an officer in downtown Redmond who caught me only half stopping a (new) Stop sign and followed me into the Arco where I was headed to fill the tank. Once I had started the pump, I felt some hot air and an obnoxious whisper an inch from behind my ear.. "Are there any extenuating cicumstances why you didn't come to a full stop back there?" He scared me so badly and was so awful, HE should have gotten the ticket, and I should have received therapy!

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  2. NoelleFri May 15, 11:26:00 AM MDT

    I think I was with you mom. That guy was creepy.

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