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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
Today, I bought a car off my aunt, then I got 7 speeding tickets. Apparently my aunt forgot to tell me the speedometer is faulty, so while I thought I was doing a safe 28 or 29 mph in the 30 zone on my way to work, I was probably doing closer to 35 or 36. FML
Today, I was pulled over and given a ticket for a broken tail light. On the way to the mechanic. To get my tail light fixed. FML
Today, I was pulled over and was given a $300 ticket for going 90mph on a 70mph highway. The cop swore he saw my silver car darting in and out of traffic. A couple of minutes earlier that exact car had passed me while I was following the speed limit. FML
Today, I got a speeding ticket while driving to my court date for a prior speeding ticket. FML
Today, I got a ticket for "suspicious driving" because my total shit of a mother kept tugging on the wheel to annoy me, and I still had to pay it. FML
Today, after giving my husband a ton of crap about the speeding ticket he got last year, I got a speeding ticket. FML
Today, I got a speeding ticket. I wrote a check, and on the way to deposit my fine, I got another one. I put both fines in a box down town, and I turned around to see a cop putting a parking ticket under my wind-shield wiper. FML
Today, I got a ticket. From my dad the cop. FML
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McA513M 0
YDI for not getting it fixed, regardless what your father said.
WonderBlunder 0
What if you're the only car on the street, on a school zone?
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Comments (89)
pawpaw_fml 0
Thanks dad.
missgreenday 0
Nice dad.
twixbarlover 0
YDI for not keeping with trafic like he said. i drove around for a weekend without a speedometer and was just fine!
lans4 1
They probably did and the person in front was speeding, or they were alone.
your_face 15
Yeah - you could have (well, really should have) gotten another fine for driving with faulty equipment.
kukopia 0
Even a current, good mechanic can't fix a speedometer. It takes highly specialized tools and skills to work on speedometers. OP should buy a cheap GPS, they show your speed. Cheaper than having the speedo fixed.
alleyes 0
BULL SHIT!!! A simple swap out takes less than an hour with basic tools and average mechanical knowledge, cheeper than $150 too. I'm not the type of person to make a claim unless I've done the work personaly. Granted I've never worked on high end stuff like lambo's and ferrari, etc..
kukopia 0
IF it would be a simple swap... IF he had a good speedo to swap... plz... If you had half a brain...
thekillercure21 0
You must suck at driving then, or at least getting out of a ticket, because my friend has been pulled over about 4 times with a busted speedometer and they all let him go.
con1303 0
exactly! The speedometer on my car was broken (still is actually but I don't drive it much) and I was fine. I drove it like that for a long time. You must suck at driving because it isn't that hard to go the right speed. And because cops generally have a certain leeway, you were probably really speeding. Telling the cop its broken doesn't mean shit. Its just too bad for you. I took a gps for a long trip and it worked fine too. If for some reason you can't judge your speed, you should have either gotten it fixed, or gotten a gps. YDI I got a ticket for going 80 in a 55. But I obviously knew I was speeding, and I didn't try too hard to talk out of it. The cop didn't care my speedo was broken. And my fine was only 125. So how fast were you going?
orangefish_65 8
my dad drove for ages without his speedometer working. we've now got a new car.
Silentknight 0
judgment fail.
usernamesarehard 4
Your dad was right, you just didn't hear the 'D' ;)
jazzyk 0
Well, I agree FYL. My fist car was a used car and when I started driving it the speedometer stopped working. I ended up getting it fixed but it cost me the price of a mechanic going in, finding that he couldn't fix it, shipping me to the dealership that charged me 700$ for the piece, plus the cost of labour. If I would have known, I would have avoided getting it changed too.