i still remember years ago i was riding my 10 speed to the junior college which wasn't far. I was riding on the sidewalk and there were no pedestrians around. A cop pulled me over and wrote me a ticket for riding my bicycle on the wrong side of the road. It was five dollars. I asked him, are you kidding me, no he said. I remember staring at him as if he was from mars.

Reminds me of the one and only ticket I ever received.

I used to pick up my daughter from school and at the time I drove a 5 series BMW (a long car by UK standards). I parked my car perpendicular to the kerb which was the norm for residents of that street. Parking like that also allowed more vehicles to park so it was nothing unusual but this particular day a police car stopped nearby and the policeman got out and looked at the back of my car. I asked if there was a problem and he told me that as my car had an overhang of 6” he was going to issue me with a ticket! I couldn’t believe it and started laughing. He just looked at me and wrote out the penalty notice and handed it to me.

By the way, I continued parking the same way for another 6 months and wasn’t fined again.

When I was stationed in Little Creek, VA I was on leave at home in PA.
We were drinking and riding dune buggies at the reservior.
My buddy and I were riding paths and one path crossed a 4 lane road (no divider).
When the buggy popped onto the road surface a 12 pack of beer flew out of it and busted open on the road. I pulled over and my buddy was picking up the cans (there were no cars on that stretch of road).
A cop was sitting down the road a bit as a speed trap on the crest of the hill.
Lights, siren and that cop was right on us.
Since the buggy was stopped on the road surface, I got a DUI in a homemade dune buggy. He was going to take us to jail but when I showed my military ID he let us off with tickets.
My buddy got a ticket for public intoxication.
I got a DWAI (Driving with ability impaired), No registration, No seatbelt, No proof of insurance and No valid inspection sticker. Since I actually got out of the buggy and stepped on the road, he was going to ticket me for public intoxication as well as driving barefoot.
We went to court and fought it and won. Lickily, we got a judge who realized the cop was harrassing us. All charges were dismissed.

My most recent ticket (knock on wood) was 3 years ago when I forgot to wear my seatbelt going to the local store (1 block away).
Get this, my seatbelt ticket was $84 and I had to sit thru court before I could just pay it. That's a pretty expensive brain fart.

I had a '72 Malibu I was moving some furniture
from one rental to another.

A very nice copper pulled me over.
He looked a wee nervous.

"Whatcha doing?" he asked.
"I am moving furniture, I said, "did I do something wrong?"

"No, no, but who is helping you?"
I said, "No one, it is pretty easy."

We were standing in front of the trunk, he is eyeballing all
the furniture.."It is hanging over, you should have a flag.."
..and he goes back to his patrol car and returns with a red
flag which he attaches to a chair leg.

"So, do I get a ticket?" I asked politely.

"No, I would be too scared to give you one."

I am all over confused..yet pleased.
He asked for my phone number and we parted ways.

Turns out, he thought the 2 chairs (upended) were actually
a couch that I had miraculously lifted all by myself ;-)

I didn't get a ticket for it.
But, I did get a stern lecture from
Deputy Fife, because he didn't like
the sunglasses I had on, while cruising
town on my Indian.

On Pismo Beach in California where it's legal to drive a vehicle on the beach. My group got pulled over by a cop. Our truck had lost the muffler on the highway somewhere in the middle of the country, and the truck was too loud. The cop said, maybe that's ok where you live, but not here.

I was moving down I-65 near Columbia, Tn. doing about 80+. I was riding, middle of October, it sprinkled all day. I was about 450 miles into a 534 mile trip. It was getting late, I wanted to get there. I went flying past a Tennessee state cop hiding in the median. He nailed me, I knew it, so I climbed on the brakes. He goes right past me about 250 feet. First thing he said, I stopped so fast, he got caught off guard. I freely admitted I was doing 80. He was really decent, wrote me up for 71 in a 55. I asked him if I could call in, plead guilty. Yes, I could, then get my fine then.

Once I got home, I called, $121 fine, due in 6 weeks. And I promptly forgot about it. I found the ticket 2+ months later, Nuts! I forgot to pay it! So I called again. I apologized for forgetting it. What's my fine? $82 dollars. I ALMOST asked why the fine went down. But why tempt fate? So I said I'd send it. And I forgot about it AGAIN!! Then in May, I found it again. Call again, because I didn't need to get stopped and have that outstanding ticket show up. What's the fine? $34 bucks!

I immediately paid it that time! I got a receipt back saying I paid the ticket. I began to wonder if they would have forgotten it altogether had I not done anything about it. But I didn't want to trust my luck.

that last one reminds me of a guy in california years ago got a parking ticket and forgot it...10 years later therabouts he gets pulled over for something and the ticket with interest is like 10 k and that is in the 70's ....someone tells a dj on the radio and it is making all the radio stations with people asking questions and what not....the guy was in jail and the released because of all the calls the police were getting on it...

think i have heard something similar about library books until recently when the fines could not be more than the cost of the book.

I remember one of mine distinctly. I was going one way and the cop was driving another. He looked at me then he turned around, pulled me over and said "you crossed over a white divider line" and then wrote me a ticket. I couldn't believe it.

Years ago I was on a road trip through Kansas. Riding a sport bike on a long haul gets a little cramped after a few hours so occasionally I'd stretch my legs out and put my feet on the front turn signals, (I was a lot more limber back then). Trooper pulled me over and said somebody called and claimed I was burning down the hyway steering with my feet. Now this was pre cell phone days. So whoever "they" were "they" would have had to pull over and use a pay phone, (remember those?), to call it in. Some folks in Kansas have waaaay too much time on their hands. Trooper was a good guy. After I showed my military I.D. he let me go.

I once got a ticket for an air freshener hanging from my rear view mirror.

People on bikes I see riding against traffic are in the wrong. Supposed to ride bicycles with traffic. Bicyclists should follow the rules just as much as anyone on the rode.

Yeah I love cycling a lot and I tend to obey the rules always haa!

Years ago got a fine in the mail as my car had been photographed when running a red light in town X at such and so time.

My then hubby and I were rather taken aback as we'd never even been in that town at all. We informed them about that and... never heard a thing of it again?

I once recieved a ticket for driving with out my headlights, while my headlights were clearly on. officers notation was that I turned them on after being pulled over.
the charges were dropped by the judge. but it still cost me a days pay.