joecool3426
United States
Today, I got a ticket for speeding in a school zone. The school hasn't even been built yet. FML
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randinosaur
United States
Today, a cop rear-ended me. Then I received a ticket from him for driving too far under the speed limit. We were in a school zone. FML
anoynomous
France
Today, I got a ticket. The officer's daughter is my ex. He gave me a ticket for 31 in a 30 mph zone. FML
Wick
United States
Today, I got a speeding ticket while driving to my court date for a prior speeding ticket. FML
Joel
Today, I got a ticket for doing 38mph in a 45mph zone. Apparently you can be cited for "impeding traffic" even when you're the only car on the road. FML
Anonymous
Culpeper, United States
It never rains, it pours
Today, I got a speeding ticket in the mail, at the same time as my car was getting towed. FML
Blake
Mexico, Mexico
Fake plates
Today, I received a traffic ticket by mail, presumably for speeding. Not a big deal, if my car hadn't been totalled three months ago. My driver's license is expired, too. FML
donny31459
United States
Today, I got a ticket from a cop for not riding my bike in the bike lane. I wasn't riding in the bike lane because I was avoiding construction work. FML
annoyed
United States
Today, I got a ticket. From my dad the cop. FML
Anonymous
United States
Today, I was on the way to traffic court for a $340 speeding ticket I'd got. My mother called me and I wasn't paying attention which caused me to speed. Right past a cop. When I told the cop where I was going, he started laughing at me. I now have another $300 ticket. FML
ZThirteen
United States
Speed racer
Today, I got a speeding ticket. My speedometer got busted a few weeks back, rendering it useless. My father, a former mechanic, decided it's not worth the trouble of going in and fixing it. "Just keep with traffic when you're on the highway; you'll be fine." This $150 fee says otherwise. FML
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Welshite 39
Were there signs?
Welshite 39
Most officers I know are reasonable and respectable. The few who aren't ruin the reputation of the rest, similar to the idiots who ruin it for those who have some small amount of common sense.
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hockey7468 7
OP I voted YDI on this, because 1) if it's not a school zone it's a construction zone 2) you should get used to not speeding in that zone
mcnick 4
you can probably fight to get sppeding in a school zone to just speeding. there goin to make you pay regardless. they need money
Shade1982 20
Why? And to what purpose? Op purposefully ignored a speed-limit, whether it is a useful or correct speed limit is not up for discussion. If you don't agree with a speed limit, you go to city hall (or wherever you would go in other countries for such a thing), you don't go speeding...
jfaucher31 4
So what was on the citation, how fast were you traveling and what was the alleged speed limit?
mcosio 1
so you were speeding in a construction zone?.
BabyrooKid 11
Sorry, YDI. School or no school, read the goddamn signs.
HighasaCloud 46
And the 'goddamn signs' always read "during restricted hours." A driver can do 35 on 35-limit street through a school zone in the middle of the night, and also during the day on weekends. If the school isn't in session, there is no school zone.
salic77 11
OP got this fml idea from an old tv show where at the end of one episode buck Owens plays "I got a tiger by the tail". Episode is buck trying to get out of a speeding ticket for driving through a school zone speeding and yet no school was there.
Wakachulak 22
You were speeding. End of discussion.
Shade1982 20
So? You still either ignored a speed limit, or you were in a construction zone...
pinchepriscyla 9
How did you not talk yourself out of this one?
escobar07 10
Take pictures of the area and take it to court. The time also plays a major role if the ticket is legit. It would need to be either in the morning or afternoon when the children are present to be a legit ticket. Trust me i work for the california courts. Fight it, most likely the officer wont show but either way take your evidence in.