09-23-2003, 09:11 PM
Oh yeah... I should include this because it's funny.
I did get one ticket while driving that I deserved but it wasn't my fault.
A few of my buddies and I had gotten together and ordered a case of bottle rockets. We all had cars so we got ourselves gunners and drove around suburbia shooting bottle rockets at each other.
Now here's where getting caught isn't my fault.
I was pulling up to a stop sign behind my friends car and I saw a cop had pulled a speeder over across the intersection. I figured this was a good time to play it cool and not get busted. Unfortunately, the idiot in the car in front of me had already lit his bottle rocket before he saw the cop car. Not wanting the bottle rocket to go off in the car, he dropped it out the window as the car pulled away from the stop sign.
I pulled up to the lit bottle rocket and hoped to crush it under my tire. As luck would have it, when I got to the bottle rocket, it shot out from under my car and flew directly towards the officer issuing the ticket.
It blew up less than 10 feet from the cop.
I casually turned the corner and then the next corner in hopes that the cop would drive by. No such luck.
I ended up getting a $75 dollar ticket for some stupid fireworks bylaw and he confiscated all my bottle rockets as well (which were worth another $75 or so).
The loser who dropped the bottle rocket rather than pulling the fuse wouldn't pony up any money for his mistake. He said I should have driven away faster. I said please meet my fist and proceeded to pound the snot out of him.
Not a speeding ticket but still a tale worth telling.
I did get one ticket while driving that I deserved but it wasn't my fault.
A few of my buddies and I had gotten together and ordered a case of bottle rockets. We all had cars so we got ourselves gunners and drove around suburbia shooting bottle rockets at each other.
Now here's where getting caught isn't my fault.
I was pulling up to a stop sign behind my friends car and I saw a cop had pulled a speeder over across the intersection. I figured this was a good time to play it cool and not get busted. Unfortunately, the idiot in the car in front of me had already lit his bottle rocket before he saw the cop car. Not wanting the bottle rocket to go off in the car, he dropped it out the window as the car pulled away from the stop sign.
I pulled up to the lit bottle rocket and hoped to crush it under my tire. As luck would have it, when I got to the bottle rocket, it shot out from under my car and flew directly towards the officer issuing the ticket.
It blew up less than 10 feet from the cop.
I casually turned the corner and then the next corner in hopes that the cop would drive by. No such luck.
I ended up getting a $75 dollar ticket for some stupid fireworks bylaw and he confiscated all my bottle rockets as well (which were worth another $75 or so).
The loser who dropped the bottle rocket rather than pulling the fuse wouldn't pony up any money for his mistake. He said I should have driven away faster. I said please meet my fist and proceeded to pound the snot out of him.
Not a speeding ticket but still a tale worth telling.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.