speeding ticket

[OleMsVa]

i went to the madison county court court today to get a date for driving school (im under 21) and i ended up getting 10 hours of community service, driving school and the judge took my license, gave me a copy of it and told me i can not drive anywhere unless i have someone over the age of 25 in my truck. i wont get my license or all driving privileges back until im done with driving school and community service. has anyone ever gotten this much for a simple speeding ticket? this is my first ticket.

Brotha you ain't got no idea how good you've got it. When I was 17 I got a ticket back home in Virginia for doing 80 in a 55 after picking up some of my buddies from a party.

The judge issued the following verdict:

1) Suspended license until the completion of the following...
2) Driving school (30 mins. from my house, to be attended with my mother/father)
3) An HOUR of community service for every mile per hour I was traveling...that's right...80 hours of community service.
-please allow me to expand on my "community service"

I spent my entire winter break at the county dump. Shoveling household/human/wild game waste (it was deer season) that fell out of the compactor before they could reseal it everytime a truck came to take a load away....

Do your 10 hours, learn or don't learn your lesson and be thankful your winter won't be spent like mine years ago.

[CW]

All the stop and yield signs in Silver City....yep, put up by yours truly when he was 16 years old (for doing 50 in a 35 on Orange Beach)

Both of them? Coudn't have taken too long

[tunica]

All the stop and yield signs in Silver City....yep, put up by yours truly when he was 16 years old (for doing 50 in a 35 on Orange Beach)

Both of them? Coudn't have taken too long

Without instructions it hard to figure out the top from the bottom on those signs...

[blackhawk0718]

I think i would have just paid the ticket

[Bonecollecter1111]

i was trying to remember stop and yield signs in silver city, i think i remember 2 stop signs, but my memory fails me of the yield signs, i used to hunt down there, but its been several years, got a water turkey lease given to me in perpetuity, but it nice to know i will always have a place to go

[donia]

I found reform and so can you.

hey, i know where that is....just over the state line in alabama on hwy 82....they'll put you in the slammer in reform alabamer, yes they will!

[tombstone]

I think I would have just paid the ticket too.

I am not too far removed for my teenage yrs to remember driving fast. I think it was excessive,.

Driving school on Saturday and the ticket should have been enough for a first offense and before anyone says something about having children and I will change my mind.. blah blah blah. I have 2.

Wanna race Outlaw Josey Wales????

I got an 84 gt to go up against that ss.

[Hambone]

Driving school may keep the ticket off his record. I expect that is pretty important to the person paying for insurance...Dad!

[Deltaquack]

Wreckless driving back in the day was 20mph over. Did they change it to 15? If they did he's letting you off pretty good. They usually do force community service to get out of those. I remember my buddy having to wash police cars at the station.

[LostBoy]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. It is a hard life being an outlaw.

[Jordan River]

hmmm. Not too far removed from teen years w 2 children. I answered a call one night to a one car wreck. Got there. Found 3 teenagers laying peacefully. Thought they were asleep... oh yeah, it's a wreck. That's why I saw that car split in half from hittin' that tree. All three dead. Cause... speed. I think about that scene all the time. I'm far removed from my teens and have teens. Hopefully it will never happen to mine, yours, or anyone elses... but we know better, don't we? The most insignificant decision we make sometimes becomes the one that affects the rest of our lives. We raise our kids to make good decisions knowing they're gonna make bad one's and just pray the bad decisions don't kill them. Blah, blah, blah...?

[Click]

It is what it is. Get it done and move on.

[Bonecollecter1111]

"Good judgment comes with wisdom, wisdom is learned from bad judgment", Author unknown

[Roach]

Got my first speeding ticket when I was 19. I had slowed down to 72 in a 55 when he clocked me. Called the Judge cause he was in Sunday school class with my mother...he told me that I had to pay it, so I did. Thought he was teaching me a lesson and it would have.
State Farm was who taught me a lesson. My insurance went up to $7800 per year!
Do your time and learn from it.

[quack_a_tack]

I say if you knew you were speeding and obviously you indeed did, just take it as a blessing. I have paid a wreckless driving ticket, and it is worse on insurance than a DUI. Had the Judge been a real hard booty he would have made you pay it and it would have drivin your insurance up to were you couldn't afford to drive anyway. If you didn't get dropped by the Insurance provider.