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Post by Alan Petersen on Mar 12, 2014 11:53:02 GMT -5
I got a ticket a few months ago (and it was a boring a traffic violation: illegal lane change by crossing the solid while line on the freeway). The ticket was $238, but the state squeezed a little more out of me by a well placed extortion offer: pay an extra $59 and go to "Traffic school" and we'll hide your ticket from your insurance company. Moving violations usually trigger an increase in your car insurance premium, so it made sense to take their offer. So $238 for the ticket + $59 offer to hide my ticket from my record + $29.95 for traffic school: $326.95. Plus 8 hours of traffic school, that is what I've really been dreading. I've put it off as long as I can. I have to have it completed by April 7. That means 8 hours of class and a test which I have to pass. Luckily I can take it online: www.idrivesafely.com/California?VWO=VAR3I've decided I've put it off too long, so I'm starting the 8 hour class today. So I won't be around much.  Anyway just posted this for pity party purposes and to let you kids out there know, to obey traffic laws because the highway patrol hides very, very well, and it's an expensive, time sucking pain in the butt if you don't.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 12, 2014 11:58:10 GMT -5
Sorry to hear it, Alan. Tickets in CA are hideously expensive. My husband had to do the traffic school gig a few years back.
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Post by Suzy on Mar 12, 2014 12:19:44 GMT -5
 UGH! Reeeeallly sorry about that, Alan. And we'll miss you!
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Post by shawninmon on Mar 12, 2014 12:33:34 GMT -5
If one of our characters had a set up like this, we'd call it extortion. Good luck!
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 12, 2014 12:35:31 GMT -5
If one of our characters had a set up like this, we'd call it extortion. Good luck! And crossing a solid white line seems like pretty minimal infraction, to me. Not like my husband's (87 in a 65 zone, I think). |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Mar 14, 2014 1:46:53 GMT -5
What a time suck! I'm glad I did the class online at my own pace versus sitting in a class somewhere for 8 hours! But I'm all done and I passed! I got an 88.
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Post by Suzy on Mar 14, 2014 2:48:03 GMT -5
Woohooo! Well done! Congratulations, Alan!
And... ahemmm... did you learn anything?
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Post by Alan Petersen on Mar 14, 2014 2:52:14 GMT -5
Woohooo! Well done! Congratulations, Alan! And... ahemmm... did you learn anything? Actually I did and my wife noticed my driving was much better since I was going slower and driving calmer. Usually she's yelling at me to slow down. |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 14, 2014 3:00:57 GMT -5
I wish my husband could go to traffic school. I'm always telling him to slow down.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 14, 2014 14:04:35 GMT -5
Traffic school is for making male drivers more like female drivers.  |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 14, 2014 14:25:21 GMT -5
Traffic school is for making male drivers more like female drivers. Hooray for traffic school! |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Mar 18, 2014 13:54:33 GMT -5
Woo-hoo! I just received notification, my record is now "clean".  |
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Post by Suzy on Mar 18, 2014 14:04:43 GMT -5
Congratulations! Must make you feel good. Hope it doesn't happen again.
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 18, 2014 16:56:02 GMT -5
Yippee! Now you can speed and stuff to your heart's content. |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Mar 19, 2014 13:50:57 GMT -5
Yippee! Now you can speed and stuff to your heart's content. I have to be clean for 18 months, then I can take traffic school again to clear tickets again. I feel like I'm on parole. Yeah, I'm bad, see that traffic white line, I crossed it. I'm bad, don't mess with me. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 19, 2014 14:30:18 GMT -5
I think this is what you mean, Alan:
Because I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
Come On
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
You Know It
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
You Know It, You Know
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now
(And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now)
Just To Tell You Once Again,
(Just To Tell You Once Again)
Who's Bad . . .
We Can Change The World
Tomorrow
This Could Be A Better Place
If You Don't Like What I'm
Sayin'
Then Won't You Slap My
Face . . .
Because I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
Come On
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
You Know It
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
You Know It, You Know
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
Woo! Woo! Woo!
(And The Whole World Has
To Answer Right Now
Just To Tell You Once
Again . . .)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
Come On
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
You Know It-You Know It
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know, You Know, You
Know, Come On
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now
(And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now)
Just To Tell You
(Just To Tell You Once Again)
You Know I'm Smooth, I'm
Bad, You Know It
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm
Bad Baby
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know, You Know, You
Know It, Come On
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now
(And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now)
Woo!
(Just To Tell You Once Again)
You Know I'm Bad, I'm Bad-
You Know It
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad-You
Know-Hoo!
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
You Know I'm Bad-I'm Bad-
You Know It, You Know
(Bad Bad-Really, Really Bad)
And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now
(And The Whole World Has To
Answer Right Now)
Just To Tell You Once Again . . .
(Just To Tell You Once
Again . . .)
Who's Bad?
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UGH!
