Oh No - Another Speeding Ticket.
By Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
United Kingdom
May 12, 2016 3:13pm CST
This morning I received a letter with the ominous words 'Norfolk Constabulary' on the back of the envelope. We spent last week on the Norfolk coast and had a great time, but it seems that whilst I was there I was a naughty girl.
Apparently I had been caught on camera doing 36mph in an area where there was a 30mph limit.
How I long for the old days when there were no cameras and you could usually spot the police in time to slow down.
Even if you didn't manage to evade them, for an 'offence' like this (only 6mph above the limit) the officer would usually just caution you and tell you to be more careful in the future.
But there is no compassion from a camera, so now I expect that I will get a £100 fine. Sheesh.
I drove for 40 years with no convictions, but in the last 15 years I've collected 4, including this one. All due to those sneaky cameras.
I know you will probably say that I shouldn't have been speeding, but 36mph at 10.30pm when there was no other traffic? Hardly the crime of the century.
Have you ever been caught speeding?
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71 responses
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
13 May 16
I have fully expected to get caught by the cameras in England but we never have. Here we really don't have speed cameras in our area. I have never received a speeding ticket but have been stopped a few times, I usually cry and don't get a ticket!! I know, my bad!!! But it works plus I know a lot of people so that helps too!! including police officers.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
13 May 16
@jaboUK the crying worked the first time when I was 16 and so I figured why not!! lol
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 May 16
@BelleStarr It's a lot easier dealing with real live people, isn't it? I never actually cried when I was stopped, but I may have been guilty of fluttering my eyelashes a bit! (I was a lot younger then!).
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@Dragonairy1 (1722)
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
15 May 16
@BelleStarr this reminds me of a friend she was stopped with no mot or tax, and got of with just a warning, I'm sure the fact she's a pretty blonde had nothing to do with it 
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
12 May 16
Once, several years ago a new freeway opened on the westside of LA, the 105. It was huge, wide and empty the morning it opened. There was no frame of reference for speed without looking at the speedometer, which I did not. I was flying according to the cop who pulled me over. He warned me and let me go without a ticket, because he found it funny. Whew.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 May 16
@ElizabethWallace That just illustrates my point - a real policeman can exercise his discretion. You were very lucky.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
13 May 16
@jaboUK And I knew it. I was really confused as to why he pulled me over. I had no sensation of going fast, let alone as fast as I was.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
13 May 16
@jaboUK You don't think the policeman following me was undeniable? Lol. It was he who suggested I write to be excused from my offense, considering I had a clean license so far and was very sorry. I did that and was excused without a warning and no points loss. So i wrote again when several years later the camera caught me. Same result.
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@LadyDuck (470441)
• Switzerland
16 May 16
I do not drive, my husband has been caught several years ago in Italy, on the toll road from France to Italy. He was really speeding "a lot" and another time in the United States on a freeway. We thought the speed limit was 60 mph while it was 55.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
13 May 16
mercy, seems those camera's jest 'bout e'erywhere these days. i'm knockin' wood 's i've ne'er been issued a citation, nor pulled o'er fer speedin'. i've been pulled o'er fer more ridiculous schtuff. i could write a few chapters jest'n that, lol.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 May 16
@crazyhorseladycx Glad this hasn't happened to you, Crazy. Why don't you tell us about some of your experiences?
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
14 May 16
@crazyhorseladycx Just jot a word or two down to remind yourself. I've always got a notebook next to my computer and that's what I do.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
13 May 16
@jaboUK the hubs used to get tickets quite frequent when we first got together. he was pushin' his luck when he got his last'un, leavin' only one "point" 'fore they jest took his license 'way. i told him he was gonna regret his led foot when he'd the need to either saddle'p a pony 'r ride his bike the 38 miles to his workplace'n back :D
now, ya know that i'm prone to fergettin' to dribble 'bout such, don't'cha? lol i'm still tryin' to recall the last thingy ya told me to dribble 'bout :D
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 May 16
@boiboing I'm only at the first stage, they've just sent me the letter for me to confirm that I was driving. Then they will give me the option of the awareness course, at least they did last time. However you still have to pay for the course, and last time I decided it was easier just to pay the fine.
@paigea (36320)
• Canada
23 May 16
I have been caught speeding a handful of times in my life. Once by a camera. I am awaiting a letter with a ticket for running a red light! Can't believe I did that! It has been two weeks, maybe there was no camera there! I better count myelf lucky and smarten up!
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@celticeagle (165740)
• Boise, Idaho
13 May 16
Never caught on camera. I got a speeding ticket after an appointment and my grandson gave me a speech. I won't do that again.
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@celticeagle (165740)
• Boise, Idaho
13 May 16
@jaboUK ....It's pretty bad when your grandson gives you a lecture.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
13 May 16
@celticeagle I say that every time - 'I won't do that again', but I'm afraid I do. I get careless and forget to check the speed. It's not like I'm doing 60 in a built-up area.
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@slund2041 (3314)
• United States
25 May 16
I think the cameras should be illegal.
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@crazzydolphin (3636)
• United States
23 May 16
I have gotten 1 speeding ticket in my life and that was the 1st time of me ever driving home from my parents house 3-4 hours away. I entered a town but there was traffic. The highway is 55 but as soon as you hit that sign it drops to 35 just like that and since I missed the sign I was told to be going 54 mph when he clocked me. Now I do have my own feelings about the ticket because I did not have plates on my car (i was legal and had the pass but no actual plates on the back of my car and was pulled not 2 min before this one where he gave me a ticket) - glad nothing real serious came form it but it was hard for me to pay all the court fees and the ticket fees!
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@crazzydolphin (3636)
• United States
23 May 16
@jaboUK Yes it is the plates with the numbers. I had to get a 10 day pass which now is nothing more than a peice of paper that you show the officer when they pull you. The 1st guy pulled me for that and I showed him he was happy and we went on our way within 2 minutes we were pulled again and we believe he gave us the ticket as he couldnt get us for the plates on the car as I had the correct documentation.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
12 May 16
@jaboUK A parking ticket for sleeping-in one morning, from a jobsworth traffic warden, some 20 or so years ago. And a couple of sleepless nights from having encountered the mobile speed trap van and a police patrol just setting up their camera gizmo, and not being sure if I was a couple of mph over the limit..
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
14 Jul 16
@jaboUK Yeah I'm not going to give you hell for this lol I only get iffy about fast drivers when they are actually being stupid about it. Like going TOO fast with a chance of people / animals coming out to get hit or a lot of other drivers around or if there are other people in the car. You are forgiven in my books haha!
I don't have a car so, so far, I'm clean. lol
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