re: WWYD- teenager, new driver, and speeding ticket

Are you in Texas? Louisiana juvenile speeding tickets are automatically expunged when they reach 18. Also, 100% of tickets for juvenile tickets are sent to their home parish DA to adjudicate and manage. They're all technically mandatory court but it's usually at the discretion of the DA.

Edit: - Also, little known fact, juvenile records in LA are confidential so insurance doesn't typically know unless there's a claim.

Also...any activity that would require me to bring him to because he couldn't drive himself would be paid in reciprocity. In other words...if I had to do something like bring him to practice and/or pick him up...he'd have to do something for me....additional chores etc.

good list, if the grounding includes hard labor

Take your belt off Is my suggestion

The first speeding ticket I received I was on foot for a few months. I did not learn my lesson though because a few weeks after that I was arrested for 127 in a 55. I was able to sit in jail for 24 hours. No one was coming to get me because my parents called everyone that I would call and told them to not bail me out. A few months later (crooked LA small towns) I was handed my license back with a slap on the wrist. Even after all of that I didn't learn my lesson. I had to get my own insurance which was very expensive.

I didn't learn anything until I attended a funeral for three cousins the same age as me that were all killed in a high speed crash. Had I not been grounded at the time, I more than likely would have been in the vehicle with them.

I haven't received a ticket since.

Tigernurse, how old is the child? And if under 18, in what Parish do you reside?

I would say that actions have consequences. It's a blessing that in this case the only consequences are financial. And I would let him bear all of those consequences, from the ticket, the court cost, and any insurance increase, if that occurs. I think the grounding and the electronic stuff is fine for a month or so or maybe until the ticket is adjudicated.

Stay strong, TNurse... Lessons learned now can be vv valuable.

In full truthfulness:

-He/she pays for the ticket

-You take the car away for X amount of time, and not just up until the court date

-You see if there is a program and/or individual that, regretfully, either killed someone in a high speed crash or lost a loved one in a high speed crash will talk to him/her. If your kid isn't a sociopath, he/she should have some empathy

-You have an honest, serious, heart-to-heart talk with him/her. They weren't just going 10 over....they were going nearly 30 mph over. That's extremely reckless and dangerous and a complete disregard to others' safety, including his/hers. He/she has had the license for barely a month, and to pull this ... I'm not saying he / she should be 10 and 2, white knuckling it, but that's wholly unacceptable. Who knows what he /she did and wasn't caught in that short amount of time.

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Talk to him like an adult and explain why it's not acceptable to get speeding tickets going that fast.

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frick that. 85 in a 55...any dipshit knows that is reckless behavior. He obviously doesn't "stay out of trouble." He's had the license a month and go popped going 30 over.