Getting out of a ticket....

[Michele]

Is it wrong to have a family friend or family member "fix" a ticket? Would you let a FM or FF do this for you?

[OnederWoman]

Well, I guess it's wrong in that if one was guilty, they are getting away with it. Would I do it? Yep. My brother is a cop, and I haven't had to have "fix" a ticket, but I would. I guess that makes me bad.

[Slabobbin]

This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. Yes I think it is very wrong. Of course that isn't going to stop anyone I'm sure. With most people it is all about them and what they can get IMO and if they can get out of paying money, even though they were doing something wrong to get the ticket in the first place, they are going to do it. No I wouldn't do it. Even if my husband was a cop I wouldn't do it.

[Mabel]

It's wrong. No getting around that.

[Melinda-Q]

Is it wrong to have a family friend or family member "fix" a ticket? Would you let a FM or FF do this for you?


Yes it is absolutely wrong. I know many police officers, both local and state and I would NEVER have a ticket fixed even though I have the capability to do so. Obviously if I get a ticket, I was doing wrong, and when you do wrong, you should pay the price.

I've seen this to the extreme with a family in our town. The parents are well known and well liked. Their daughter had a drug problem. The police would pull her over driving under the influence of heroin and park the kid's car at the station and simply take her home. They needed to prosecute her. It probably would have aided a quicker recovery for her too.

[Val]

Is it wrong to have a family friend or family member "fix" a ticket? Would you let a FM or FF do this for you?

If I knew I were speeding, than yes, it would be wrong and taking advantage of family members. My dad was a cop and I NEVER would have asked him to do something like that, nor I think, would he have.

Now, I have no problem with trying to get out of the ticket PRIOR to it being issued, ie having a conversation with the officer and asking for a warning instead, but once it is issued, I would not feel right trying to get out of it by illegal means.

[OnederWoman]

Their daughter had a drug problem. The police would pull her over driving under the influence of heroin and park the kid's car at the station and simply take her home. In this type of situation, I wouldn't ask for any kind of special treatment. The only kind of ticket I would have fixed would be a minor traffic violation. I know that doesn't make it any less wrong, but if it were for dui or drugs or something like that, I wouldn't do it. Again, I know it doesn't make it any more "right".

[kingclick]

If the person DID the crime, they should go through the channels that everyone else did.

If a person didn't do the crime I have no problem with them "fixing it".

[Book Wizard]

This isn't exactly getting out of a ticket... I have a friend who is an Episcopal priest. In the area where he was priesting at the time, there were very few public parking places. He was always getting ticketed for parking in places where a parking sticker is needed. Since this is a very Roman Catholic area, he always wore his collar when he went before the judge. If the judge was RC, my priest friend never had to pay the ticket which is what happened 99.9 percent of the time. He never had to say a word. We though it was hysterical and always gave him a hard time about it.