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I was just thinking about that (based on a conversation I had with someone in the office).

I've never even gotten a speeding or parking ticket, personally. :goodboy:

This needs an "I should have a record" option.  ;)

Quote from: Tonitrus on September 01, 2009, 12:28:12 PM
This needs an "I should have a record" option.  ;)

In that case the poll would return no useful information.  :blush:

Not yet.

I was arrested for reckless driving but the judge reduced the charge.

Speeding tickets are NOT a criminal record, as the offences are not criminal in nature.  :contract:

I think you'll find the misdemeanor/felony distinction to be very US-specific. :contract:

And no, I do not have a criminal record. :goodboy:

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 01, 2009, 12:32:39 PM
I was arrested for reckless driving but the judge reduced the charge.

What did you do?

Don't come at me with that lawyer shit Bee Bee, you knew what I meant :P

I had a point on my driver's license for speeding a couple of years ago, but that should be gone by now (I think they only keep them if you reoffend during the next two years).

Other than that I am a law-abiding citizen and obviously do not have a criminal record. Or rather, I do have one like every German, but it is blank.

Quote from: DGuller on September 01, 2009, 12:36:28 PM
What did you do?

I cut across somebody's lawn in an attempt to escape traffic(there was a train stopped in the middle of the road and had been for a while.)

 :lol: Awesome.

Quote from: Caliga on September 01, 2009, 12:36:57 PM
Don't come at me with that lawyer shit Bee Bee

I am what I am. :mellow:

Quote from: Barrister on September 01, 2009, 12:35:13 PM
Speeding tickets are NOT a criminal record, as the offences are not criminal in nature.  :contract:

You are:  Wrong.

Quote from: TITLE 40.  MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, CHAPTER 6.  UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD, ARTICLE 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONSO.C.G.A. § 40-6-1  (2009)

§ 40-6-1.  Observance of chapter required; punishment for violations generally; maximum fines for certain offenses

   (a) It is unlawful and, unless otherwise declared in this chapter with respect to particular offenses, it is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this chapter.

(b) Unless a different maximum fine or greater minimum fine is specifically provided in this chapter for a particular violation, the maximum fine which may be imposed as punishment for a first offense of violating any lawful speed limit established by or pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 of this chapter by exceeding a maximum lawful speed limit:

   (1) By five miles per hour or less shall be no dollars;

   (2) By more than five but not more than ten miles per hour shall not exceed $25.00;

   (3) By more than ten but not more than 14 miles per hour shall not exceed $100.00;

   (4) By more than 14 but less than 19 miles per hour shall not exceed $125.00;

Further code sections make it clear that up to 1 year's imprisonment can be imposed for traffic offenses.

Yeah.

Silly story.

I was present when someone that is not me but a close acquaintance was spraying water-soluble black hair spray on a wall.

Apparently said proximity, and the fact that I took pictures of the event (which I planned to use to let him know how fucking retarded he'd been on the sauce) meant I was an accessory.

Mostly, though, I think they went after me out of spite when he jumped the border back to Sweden and the crime was too petty to pursue internationally.

$1000 fine and camera seized as evidence for a crime I did not commit.

Fucking Norwegians.  <_<

Other than that, only parking tickets.

That is to say, they never caught me. :ph34r:

No, I'm Canadian. My tickets aren't criminal.

Quote from: Slargos on September 01, 2009, 12:42:23 PM
Yeah.

Silly story.

I was present when someone that is not me but a close acquaintance was spraying water-soluble black hair spray on a wall.

Apparently said proximity, and the fact that I took pictures of the event (which I planned to use to let him know how fucking retarded he'd been on the sauce) meant I was an accessory.

Oh yeah, never heard that one before. :lol:

Quote from: Barrister on September 01, 2009, 12:44:41 PM

Quote from: Slargos on September 01, 2009, 12:42:23 PM
Yeah.

Silly story.

I was present when someone that is not me but a close acquaintance was spraying water-soluble black hair spray on a wall.

Apparently said proximity, and the fact that I took pictures of the event (which I planned to use to let him know how fucking retarded he'd been on the sauce) meant I was an accessory.

Oh yeah, never heard that one before. :lol:

I swear to fucking god.

We were both drunk as all fuck, and I should probably have taken control of the situation and simply grabbed the can out his hand, but for some reason I found documenting it more appropriate.

He got to spend the night in the slammer and was given an on-the-spot fine of $1000, but I was only fined 6 months later when they realized he wouldn't be paying up.

Been in bother with the law but never got as far as court let alone being prosecuted.

Of course I don't have a criminal record.

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 01, 2009, 12:39:59 PM

Quote from: DGuller on September 01, 2009, 12:36:28 PM
What did you do?

I cut across somebody's lawn in an attempt to escape traffic(there was a train stopped in the middle of the road and had been for a while.)

If you did that to my lawn, I'd track you down and thrash you.

As for the question: no.

Quote from: Caliga on September 01, 2009, 12:27:11 PM
I was just thinking about that (based on a conversation I had with someone in the office).

I've never even gotten a speeding or parking ticket, personally. :goodboy:

Speeding or parking ticket I got, but that doesn't give you a criminal record, unless maybe you don't pay the fine?

Anyway, no criminal record.

Quote from: viper37 on September 01, 2009, 02:58:58 PM
Speeding or parking ticket I got, but that doesn't give you a criminal record, unless maybe you don't pay the fine?

:face:

I put "No".

Never ever really been pulled over for traffic infractions, except once, and that was on a military base (thus, no fine/court involved), and was total bullshit on the part of the SP.  Air Force cops are probably the biggest criminals in the Air Force anyway.

Cited for causing an accident, which I believe is a misdemeanor in NC.

No criminal record.

I was caught by two cute young cops when jaywalking once, but I cajoled, whined and made up excuses long enough they let me go with a warning.

Pity it didn't go like in all those porn movies.

Just some speeding tickets (and a red light) in the past.

While women cannot resist the smell of "Ode Felonious" I preferred having a career, family, and life to a criminal record.

I got a ticket for jaywalking in front of a police car.
I was: absent-minded  :Embarrass:

I got a speeding ticket in 2001.

Cops actualyl stop you for Jaywalking in Poland?

No criminal record here.

Other than that little incident in Asia Minor when trying to round up Mithridates, my record is clean.

Quote from: HVC on September 01, 2009, 04:40:01 PM
Cops actualyl stop you for Jaywalking in Poland?

We live in a police state. :(

Quote from: PDH on September 01, 2009, 04:41:46 PM
Other than that little incident in Asia Minor when trying to round up Mithridates, my record is clean.

:D

Quote from: Ed Anger on September 01, 2009, 02:19:33 PM
If you did that to my lawn, I'd track you down and thrash you.

You have to take a number, the Muad'dib has dibs.

I also once shredded a guy's lawn with my car, but I never got caught. It was also during a blizzard so I would have just said I slid off the road. No record.

3 parking tickets, no speeding tickets, no drunk driving.  Failure to register my car, paid a fine.  Canuck border guards sniffed out my bag of weed, strip searched me and told me to to leave and not come back to Canada for a while.  Pensacola part time cop spotted a smoking roach in our parked car as we were walking away; frisked us, wrote our names down, told us not to get in any trouble that night.

Quote from: Razgovory on September 01, 2009, 04:37:42 PM
I got a speeding ticket in 2001.

same.

I have a Minor in Possession of Alcohol.  From when I was 20 and a cop demanded to look in to the paper bag I was carrying that contained 2 beers.  Ended up paying $200 for that.  Fucking bullshit.

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 01, 2009, 04:57:04 PMCanuck border guards sniffed out my bag of weed, strip searched me and told me to to leave and not come back to Canada for a while. 

That must have been a while ago.  I can't imagine them responding like that this last decade or so.

Quote from: DisturbedPervert on September 01, 2009, 05:14:11 PM
I have a Minor in Possession of Alcohol.  From when I was 20 and a cop demanded to look in to the paper bag I was carrying that contained 2 beers.  Ended up paying $200 for that.  Fucking bullshit.

:pinch: If that were me, I'd be more pissed off about being labeled a minor when I was 20, rather than getting a record and a fine.  Some things about US are just pathetic.

Let's just say I'm not terribly eager to get a car again.

- Unsafe operation of a vehicle (reduced charge from speeding), in September 2005
- No-point violation because an accident where I was "at fault" wasn't "my fault", January 2006
- License suspended for a year, big fine, for driving uninsured when I had an accident in November 2007 which totalled my car anyway.
- :blush: The day after said accident, I was in court about an hour from here for a speeding ticket. I had to take it because in NJ, if you accrue 3 no-point violations in 5 years, you get 4 points added onto your license. I figured I'd just have to eat the 2 points, even though they offered to downgrade the ticket.

You use :blush: in some of the oddest places.

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 01, 2009, 05:26:42 PM
You use :blush: in some of the oddest places.

That goes back to a thread we had on the old forum about how you incorporate smileys into grammar (I believe it was one of sask's threads). Basically, it was the fact that I totalled my car, got myself in a crapload of trouble, and was in court the next day for a totally unrelated ticket. That kinda looked bad. Editing for clarity now.

No. Nothing at all.
I am a model citizen.

Quote from: Jacob on September 01, 2009, 05:17:20 PM
That must have been a while ago.  I can't imagine them responding like that this last decade or so.

How do you imagine them responding now?

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 01, 2009, 06:33:20 PMHow do you imagine them responding now?

I'd imagine some sort of prosecution for being a drug smuggler.  Certainly, that's what I'd imagine going the other way.

Are you barred from entering Canada?

Quote from: DGuller on September 01, 2009, 05:18:56 PM

:pinch: If that were me, I'd be more pissed off about being labeled a minor when I was 20, rather than getting a record and a fine.  Some things about US are just pathetic.

I see nothing wrong with calling a twenty year old a minor. Their brains aren't fully developed anyway.

Quote from: Jacob on September 01, 2009, 06:46:24 PM
I'd imagine some sort of prosecution for being a drug smuggler.  Certainly, that's what I'd imagine going the other way.

Are you barred from entering Canada?

No, I've been back since. 

Keep in mind I'm talking about a half smoked quarter ounce bag, not a couple bales.

No.  I've been stopped by police several times in various places in the world, but I've never been cited or fined. 

Quote from: Monoriu on September 01, 2009, 08:31:54 PM
No.  I've been stopped by police several times in various places in the world, but I've never been cited or fined. 

Awesome. You are just like me.

Got into a very stressful situation at the Detroit-Windsor border going into Canada as a result of the driver's ill-thought out claim that we were going to "visit a friend" in Canada without thinking of said friend's name or address.  When all we really wanted to do was drive the less-touristed parts of Southern Ontario and then see the Falls.  :(   

:Canuck:  "Where ya headed in Canada?
:)   "Waterloo, sir."
:Canuck:  "So what's in Waterloo?
:)  "Just visiting a friend, sir.
:Canuck:  "What's your friend's name?
:unsure: "Umm.... Jeff.  :)?
<_<   "Jeff what?"
:unsure:  "Jeff.... Moore?"   :blush:
<_<   [attaches pink slip to windshield wipers]  "Why don't you boys just drive on into that garage and they'll take care of you there.

Got the car torn apart completely, the fat "bad cop" agent tried to get us to admit that we were trying to illegally move to Canada because of all the clothing we had, and because we were acting so nervous. 

The worst part was that I had a fake Ontario driver's license I had bought in Times Square a couple of years before, specifically because it wasn't a US state. Had brought it along so we could hit the bars in Cleveland (I was 20 at the time).  Didn't even get carded anywhere in Cleveland, and then had to be possessing it in the single worst circumstance for having a fake Ontario DL.  (HVC: it listed my residence as Hamilton ON, per my choice.  :Canuck:)   Thank Christ they didn't find it between the pages of the 1990 Oldsmobile '88 owners manual where I stashed it at the last moment.   :worthy:

Never asked us a thing about drugs, never asked to search our overcoat pockets, but the "bad cop" looked extremely pleased as he pulled up a piece of weird electronics and confronted us smugly:

^_^  "What is THIS?" 

My friend had to humiliatingly explain that it was a small theremin.

:blink:  "Theremin?  What the hell is that??"
:bowler:  "A, uh, musical instrument, sir.." 
:mad:  "What kind of 'musical instrument' looks like this???"
:blush:   "Well, sir..." all three of us tried to explain simultaneously, "it was, uh, invented by the Soviets in the early 20s, and it, um, gives off radio waves and you play it by just holding your hand nearby and moving it around and.... :cry:  "

Thank god he found the instruction sheet that came with it, giving us some sliver of credibility.

Totally embarrassing, but we made off okay.  Had a good night out on the town in Waterloo, ON when we made it there, and then saw the majestic Falls from the Canadian side.  Ate at a great luncheonette in Niagara Falls, ON where you could get chicken salad either with just white meat or "with whatever," as the waitress put it.  I picked the with-whatever option and got plenty of bones, tendons, etc in it, but it was a sizable plate for a fair place.  Great decor and service, and great old time revolving cloth towel roll in the bathroom, too.  I forget the name.

Going back through the border, just told the US border guys we were a bunch of artsy fags on winter vacation, that story worked much better, and we got through with just a cursory inspection.  Popped the trunk, he poked around.  Then:

:alberta:  "What's in that cigar box in the backseat?" 
:Embarrass:  "Umm... arts and crafts supplies" 
:alberta:  "Would you go ahead and open it for me?"

[opens box to reveal no Cuban cigars, but plenty of glitter, popsicle sticks, feathers, gay polaroid photos...]

:rolleyes:  "Ok you boys just go on through."   
:blush:  "Thank you, sir"

That was awesome.

Are you really gay?

Nada

Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on September 01, 2009, 09:43:34 PM
Nada

that means no, right?

I'm a perfect little angel.  :goodboy:

I've only been pulled over twice and that was for driving without my lights on. I just got a warning though. ^_^

Quote from: Korea on September 02, 2009, 12:45:13 AM
I'm a perfect little angel.  :goodboy:

I've only been pulled over twice and that was for driving without my lights on. I just got a warning though. ^_^

You are still my favor girl in Languish.

You very sexy. (Hoep my wife aint readin tis)

The police once suspended my license for speeding, and I got several tickets for speeding and parking, but nothing more serious than this.

L.

Got a parking ticket at my college because I parked overnight in the meter lot (they don't check after 10pm or before 9 am) and my brake line froze, so I couldn't release the parking brake the next morning. Had to catch a ride to work, and got a $20 ticket. :angry:

Other than that, nothing. I'm well overdue for at least a speeding ticket.

Nothing at all, would be different if jaywalking was illegal in the UK  :bowler:

Quote from: DontSayBanana on September 01, 2009, 05:22:42 PM
Let's just say I'm not terribly eager to get a car again.

- Unsafe operation of a vehicle (reduced charge from speeding), in September 2005
- No-point violation because an accident where I was "at fault" wasn't "my fault", January 2006
- License suspended for a year, big fine, for driving uninsured when I had an accident in November 2007 which totalled my car anyway.
- :blush: The day after said accident, I was in court about an hour from here for a speeding ticket. I had to take it because in NJ, if you accrue 3 no-point violations in 5 years, you get 4 points added onto your license. I figured I'd just have to eat the 2 points, even though they offered to downgrade the ticket.

It's amazing that I, with my clean-as-a-whistle driving record catch far more flack over this stuff than you do.  :lol:

Quote from: Siege on September 02, 2009, 12:48:35 AM

Quote from: Korea on September 02, 2009, 12:45:13 AM
I'm a perfect little angel.  :goodboy:

I've only been pulled over twice and that was for driving without my lights on. I just got a warning though. ^_^

You are still my favor girl in Languish.

You very sexy. (Hoep my wife aint readin tis)

You scare me, drunko.  :blink: