re: Has anyone ever gotten out of a ticket that you deserved.

Yes, my relative used to work in the St. Landry Parish DA's office. I still had to pay if it was out of parish, just didn't go on my record.

I was speeding and I deserved the ticket I was going way too fast.

I had just got off work on the Saturday of the iron bowl and was in a hurry to make it to a party to watch it.

The cop asked me why I was going so fast. I just said :

“Instead of a ticket Can you just take me to jail? I’m late for my mother in laws birthday party and I can’t tell you how bad I don’t want to go and my wife is already mad at me for being late.”

He just laughed and said “yea i understand…get out of here. Sorry I couldn’t help.”

Just a little thing I do every time that kinda puts the cop on the backfoot is after getting pulled over i take the keys out and jangle em while looking in the mirror to make sure he sees then I set em on the roof of the truck. I've had all kindsa responses to this from "you a felon?" (im not) to "whyd you do that" and I tell em the same thing every time.

"You've got a thankless job and you never know what youre walking up on so im just letting you know I'm not gonna take off on you"

Its gotten me out of more shite than I can calculate.

I dont surrender firearms however and more than a couple of cops have gotten pissy with me about that. If I was honest when i answered your gun question thats not gonna escalate this bullshite. The guns where it needs to be and if he's in my truck he's where he shouldn't be.

Many years ago, my 69 Chrysler 300 convertible had been at a shop for a long time (the shop, we'll call it Larry's, was notorious for slow turnarounds). My wife and I are coming home from a trip to Dallas. Its raining, and the damn convertible is outside in the rain with the top down. It is around midnight at the time.

So, had my wife drop me off, got the extra key, and started driving home. The convertible had been at the shop so long that the tags and inspection were expired. I had a license that I had not yet renewed, so it was expired. The windshield wipers were inoperative.

So, a cop seems me and pulls me over. After a short initial information check (it was still raining), cop says "why the hell are you driving a car in the rain with the top down with an expired license plate, license, inspection sticker AND no wipers?"

I stammer and say "well, it has been up at Larry's ..."

Cop interrupts me and says "i fully understand, get going."

I was on my way back to college after visiting family in GA just after Katrina. I passed through some construction and saw an officer had pulled somebody over. I figured I didn't have to slow down since he was already occupied, but he thought otherwise and ran me down. He took a look at my DL, and, after seeing I was from the MSGC, he said he'd done relief work down there. He then told me to slow the hell down and let me go.

Several times

Talked my way out of a few in my life by just being honest and polite, a couple speeding and a couple for inspection stickers/tags. Never gotten out of one in a smaller town though

I stopped habitually speeding once I had children so it's been a while for me

Got pulled over speeding late one night in Highschool. Speed limit jumped up right after a light and the light was on sensors that late so it was staying on green unless someone drove up to cross it.

So everyone speeds up early, but technically still speeding. Town had a curfew which is what the cop was really enforcing.

Now the amusing part. For some reason, my younger brother was obsessed with police and had a police scanner, so right when I got pulled over he came running upstairs telling my parents. It made his year.

Cop called my dad from his car. My dad answered “I know, listening on the scanner, just send him home.” They had a good laugh about messing with me and cop sent me home.

All 5 of them. Dont lie, show cops respect, be polite and you will see 90% of police are good hearted people.