What's your worst ticket?

[The Bacon Junkie]

IZ tried that at DIMBY West last year...

Ask Sac Duc or DanTheMan what ended up happening to him.   

[lethe]

IZ tried that at DIMBY West last year...

Ask Sac Duc or DanTheMan what ended up happening to him.   

Hobbits aren't as good at being devious

Ok, now that any badness is buried by a page, back to tales of being bad people. 

[Ducatamount]

I am much older and a little smarter now but when I was younger I owned a '67 GTX 440 (six pack) and racked up a dozen or so tickets going to work at the Quincy shipyard on RT.128.Lost license for 6 months.
Have run from cops 4 times,twice on bikes,twice in cars.Lost them on the bikes,caught in the cars.
Like I say,this was a long time ago and I have wised up a little.

[MendoDave]

DUI many years ago.

Don't get one, they really suck.



I also got arrested for swimming across the Mississippi river. Had to get bailed out behind that and spend some time with the murderers and father rapers.

I was the only one on central lockup with a yellow wrist band, just about everyone else had red wristbands (Felony). One dude is using the collect call only phone to threaten his b*#!h to come down there and get him out. Two other guys are having a reunion. They havent seen each other since the last time in jail. One of them claims "He shot the dude in the head" The other one says "Oh man you bad! You probably get maslaughter fo dat" Lots of back slapping all around

I'm sitting quietly by myself on the bench still pretty damp in tennis shoes and shorts.

Then Some big guy comes over and gets in my face and says "What you in here fo"? I say "swimming across the river" He say "The river! What river"? Me "The Mississippi river" He gets out of my face and goes back to his corner with all his buddies. (BTW I was one of the few white faces in the room) I hear him talkin "Man he must be some kinda marine or somfin, he was swimmin in the river"

So they left me alone after that, and a couple hours later the wife shows up with bail.
About 2 weeks later I went to court paid a fine, had to promise not to do it again. Of course I got a parking ticket at the court house because they kept me in there about 10 minutes too long for the parking meters. When your in there you can't just run out and feed the meter, and the parking enforcement people are circling the block like sharks. The run a real racket in NOLA

[swampduc]

So, I'm walking along the river in NOLA right now, and it doesn't look like a good idea to swim it 
I gotta know what led to that decision.

[MendoDave]

So, I'm walking along the river in NOLA right now, and it doesn't look like a good idea to swim it 
I gotta know what led to that decision.

Well My first wife and I lived in Algiers point, right at 335 Delaronde st. just a short walk to the ferry. So one day we decided to take it over to the quarter and just walk around and stuff. I was life gaurding that summer and had been swimming lots of yards at the pool. I think I had been doing like a mile and a half most days. So on the way over I mentioned that I could probably swim the river. Later on that afternoon when we came back to the ferry, we had to wait a while because it was going over to the Algiers side. This gave me time to look at the river again and I said that "I could swim it" or something to that effect, and she says so why dont'cha Dave.

So after that there was no backing out. The Ferry came back, she got on, and I climbed down a ladder at the end of the car loading dock and slipped into the river. I got about halfway across when the "Cotton blossom" came steaming toward me and got right along side. I tried to evade it by going under water, but that was useless, and you cant see your hand in front of your face.

They threw one of those styrofoam life rings on my head and insisted that I swim over and get on the boat. Then we went over to the canal street side where I was met by the harbor patrol and escorted to central lock up. And that about it.

Oh, and Gina was always ribbing me about the Cotton blossom after that.

[NAKID]

Why exactly is it illegal to swim the Miss?

I mean, I can't see why you would want to, that's a dirty freakin river....

[Buckethead]

Besides it being a huge shipping channel, I'm guessing it's a public nuisance measure. Bubba don't swim as good as he drunk thinks he does, and it costs a lot of gasoline to go out and get him.

[NAKID]

Too bad we don't embrace Darwinism more...

[MendoDave]

Besides it being a huge shipping channel, I'm guessing it's a public nuisance measure. Bubba don't swim as good as he drunk thinks he does, and it costs a lot of gasoline to go out and get him.

They mentioned all these things to me at the time. Shipping lane, coast guard on standby, Public nuisance. I wasn't thinking about Bubba can't swim at the time. The people on the boat that "rescued me" were whole heartedly convinced that they had really saved me from peril.

[muskrat]

that current is strong there. 

[MendoDave]

You are quite right. A little bit stronger than the current experienced when diving in among the rocks off the Northern CA coast generally speaking.

I figured on going with the current around that bend in the river and making shore well up stream of the Naval Support Activity base.

[ab]

All tickets are worst!  :-(

[AmongTheLiving]

On my zx-10 i got a 99 in a 40+wheelie exhibition=$900+ ticket.

Ticket was from a cop in the city i work for... so he gave me my keys back and wrote the ticket. fought it via trial by written declaration and won. happiest day of my life.

Good thread by the way

[fastwin]

Talimena Scenic Drive (Oklahoma), Spring 2008. The road is a park road, 50+ miles of double stripe/no passing/55mph limit. It's my personal race track. Been riding it since 1980. During the week there is no there and it is not patrolled on the OK or AR side. Only on the weekends. I was told this by a LeFore Co. Sheriffs Deputy who swore me to secrecy!

So I'm up there with some local DFW/DMF hooligans heading toward Arkansas on a weekend. We get stuck behind an ancient S-10 Chevy pickup puking out oil smoke and running maybe 30mph. He refuses to pull over at the scenic turn outs to let us and the stack of cars get by him.

I say screw it and light him up on a clear strait away and blow by him with a couple of buddies in tow. I'm humping along through the great bends and turns and notice that no one is behind me! Damn, I'm not riding that fast. Where did everyone go? I thought, oh shit someone fell or broke. I come to a complete stop on a long straight and wait... and wait. Nothing. Zippo. Crap, something happened. I turned around and headed back.

Well, there they all were. Safe on the side of the road accompanied by several screaming Park Rangers with hands on their guns. Not good.

I pull over and am greeted by one of the screaming Park Rangers with a hand on his gun. I take off my helmet and since I am older than his Dad his blood pressure goes down a little. Seems as if they saw us "sport bike hoodlums" pull onto the park road off the highway and decided to follow us to see what we were up to. They had orders from the boss to shut down sport bike nonsense on the drive... similar to what happens on other popular scenic drives around the country.

Well, they were at the back of the pack behind the smoking S-10 and I never saw them in my mirrors when I took off. As soon as I passed the S-10 they hit the party lights and pulled everyone over but me. They claimed I was running from them (though I didn't know they were even there!) and had called in an armed road block down the road to stop and arrest me! My friends tried to convince them that I would return and wasn't running away. They were right.

Well half of us got tickets for basically passing in a no passing zone on a park road. When I called the court clerk she asked if I had been racing on the road and had caused a serious accident. WTF? I said no and that the Park Ranger had said we were all getting "passing in a no passing zone" tickets. She said that's not the way the Ranger wrote up the tickets and that would be $254 please. Or you can drive the 250 miles back up here, get a lawyer and fight it in court.

Ahhhh... no thanks, check is in the mail. Point of story, don't ride the Talimena Scenic Drive on the weekends!