We all know speeding on the road can lead to serious consequences. Yet, plenty ofdriversstill take the risk, hoping they won’t get caught.When they do, law enforcement often hears a flood of excuses. Some are predictable, others more creative—but every now and then, they turn out to be completely true, impressing even the police officers who hear them. So much so that they’vesharedthese surprising stories online.Read them below, and remember—stay safe out there!This post may includeaffiliate links.

We all know speeding on the road can lead to serious consequences. Yet, plenty ofdriversstill take the risk, hoping they won’t get caught.

When they do, law enforcement often hears a flood of excuses. Some are predictable, others more creative—but every now and then, they turn out to be completely true, impressing even the police officers who hear them. So much so that they’vesharedthese surprising stories online.

Read them below, and remember—stay safe out there!

This post may includeaffiliate links.

I once was led on a five-mile car chase through busy city streets at 20 MPH over normal speeds with the driver refusing to stop. The path they were taking made me realize they were trying to get somewhere quickly, not trying to evade me. Finally the driver, who turned out to be a middle-aged woman, stopped in front of a house where an ambulance was waiting. The woman leapt from her car and ran to unlock the door to allow the medics entry to the house that had security barred windows and doors. She burst into the house ahead of the EMTs obviously trying to find the occupant with them. I entered behind them to offer assistance and found myself assuming the role of comforter to the woman as the paramedics declared her mother’s death. The woman had a major breakdown and I wound up holding her for over a half hour as she cried inconsolably until her husband arrived. She tried apologizing for her driving actions between sobs but I assured her I would have done the same thing and that she wouldn’t be getting a ticket from me that day. Sometimes traffic laws simply do not apply.

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My department got a call of an erratic driver, exceeding speeds of 100 mph on I-5. I waited for the vehicle to pass one of our overpasses and waited for the vehicle. When the vehicle drove past it was definitely at a high rate of speed. I bumper paced the vehicle at around 110 mph. After conducting the traffic stop and contacting the driver, he told me he was a surgeon from the Bay Area and had been called to do an emergency heart surgery at a hospital in Redding. The law allows medical personnel responding to medical emergencies to expedite their response. I took his information and sent him on his way. I contacted the hospital in Redding and sure enough he was sent there to do heart surgery. The surgery ended well and the patient survived.

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Driving is such a common part of daily life that it’s easy to forget the serious responsibility it involves. Each time you get behind the wheel, you’re entrusted with protecting not only your own well-being but that of everyone else on the road. After all, automobiles remain one of the most dangerous means of transportation, second only to motorcycles.Still, that knowledge isn’t always enough to keep drivers from breaking the rules. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s annual Traffic Safety Culture Index (TSCI), only 41% of drivers in 2022 were considered safe. Based on responses from 2,499 participants, the study found that more than 1 in 5 admitted to speeding, while others confessed to driving while distracted.

Driving is such a common part of daily life that it’s easy to forget the serious responsibility it involves. Each time you get behind the wheel, you’re entrusted with protecting not only your own well-being but that of everyone else on the road. After all, automobiles remain one of the most dangerous means of transportation, second only to motorcycles.

Still, that knowledge isn’t always enough to keep drivers from breaking the rules. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s annual Traffic Safety Culture Index (TSCI), only 41% of drivers in 2022 were considered safe. Based on responses from 2,499 participants, the study found that more than 1 in 5 admitted to speeding, while others confessed to driving while distracted.

I stopped a car going about seventy in a forty five zone and the guy was panicking when I got to the window. I asked what is wrong and he said he was dying. What? Yes I am dying..and need to get to the hospital…He was very white and sweating badly too. So I said I will call a ambulance for him. But before I could do any thing he collapsed onto the steering wheel and stopped breathing. I opened his door got him out an onto the pavement and started CPR while getting dispatch to send a unit to my location.The Unit arrived and paramedics took over for me. Transported him to the hospital where he was treated for a heart attack. He survived but only because he stopped for me. The hospital was over 5 miles away and he would never have made it on his own.I visited him later at the hospital, he thanked me. and we chatted a few mins. Then I left. I later found out he died two hours after I left there. His heart seemed to have just exploded the Dr Told me. So this would be the best excuse for speeding I have ever heard that turned out to be true. He WAS dying.Cheers

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I’m not a police officer but this actually happened to me as the driver. I was taking my girlfriend to the beach so that I could propose to her. We lived about 30 mins away from our favorite beach and boardwalk and it closes at sundown. We had made plans to go to the beach that day but when we got home from work she was dawdling and Iwas so keyed up to propose to her that I practically forced her to go. When we got close to the beach and the sun was hanging low on the horizon I decided to speed and immediately got pulled over. The officer came to the car I I explained to him I had a reason but needed to get out of the car to tell him. He begrudgingly let me out of the vehicle and my gf was completely flustered at this point. The officer says this better be a good one and I tell him I’m proposing to the lady in the car and knew our favorite spot and parking lot would be closing at dusk. He asked me if I had the ring and I said I did in my front pocket. He said he wanted to see it so I pull the box out and open it up like I’m proposing to him and he just nods at me. Slaps me on the arm and says good luck and keep it safe. I said thank you and off we went. I made the proposal and she accepted but the story of it was the police officer who made out night. This was on Long Island in 2004 and l hope he reads this. Thank you!

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I’m not a cop, but I was in the US on holidays and driving from Chicago to Wisconsin when a cop pulled me over.I was driving what i considered to be a huge SUV. It seemed a normal size compared to other cars when i actually got on the road. Anyhow, i get pulled, and he asks me if I knew that I was doing 80 in a 55 zone? I was honest and said i didn’t see the speed limit signs and that I’m used to kmph. I thought i was driving at a safe speed. I told him that at home, you could do 120kmph on a road like this…. If my car could do 120kmph. This piqued his interest and he asked what i drove. I told him i had a small nissan micra and the SUV had a much more powerful engine than I was used to, so I thought I was just tipping along. He asked what size engine was in a micra, and i told him it’s a 1L.He stared at me for a moment, then burst out laughing and told me that his lawnmower has a bigger engine.He let me off because my excuse was so odd that it must be genuine, and I think i brightened up a dull day. Before he walked away, he just said… a 1L engine and started laughing again.I sold the micra about a month after coming home.

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Speeding, in particular, is a glaring issue, as it contributes to 54% of global road fatalities. But for many, the risks don’t feel significant enough to break the habit. To understand why,Bored Pandareached out to UK driving instructor Jason Horsfield, who runs aTikTokaccount with over 150,000 followers and has created a comprehensiveonline driving courseto help others improve.According to Horsfield, the situation in the UK is “completely out of control” due to a lack of enforcement and discipline. “There is no police presence on the roads like there was in the 1970s and 1980s,” he explained. “Back then, people were fearful of doing wrong, but cuts to police, especially road police, have brought us to where we are today.”“People don’t care about others anymore,” he added, “even bullying my learners during lessons when they’re doing nothing wrong.”

Speeding, in particular, is a glaring issue, as it contributes to 54% of global road fatalities. But for many, the risks don’t feel significant enough to break the habit. To understand why,Bored Pandareached out to UK driving instructor Jason Horsfield, who runs aTikTokaccount with over 150,000 followers and has created a comprehensiveonline driving courseto help others improve.

According to Horsfield, the situation in the UK is “completely out of control” due to a lack of enforcement and discipline. “There is no police presence on the roads like there was in the 1970s and 1980s,” he explained. “Back then, people were fearful of doing wrong, but cuts to police, especially road police, have brought us to where we are today.”

“People don’t care about others anymore,” he added, “even bullying my learners during lessons when they’re doing nothing wrong.”

I observed a car traveling 94 in a 45. It took me a minute or so to catch up to them, and when they finally stopped we were at the entrance to a local hospital. As I approached the car, the driver jumped out, which is a big no no, and obviously puts officers on edge. I asked him why he was driving so crazy, and to get back into the car. He was yelling that his friend had just been shot. So I worked my way around the passenger side of the vehicle, noticing multiple bullet holes in the rear quarter panel of the car.At that point I saw the passenger sitting covered in blood with at least 2 gunshot wounds. One to his hand, and another to his calf. At that point it was fair to say his excuse was valid. During my time as a patrol deputy, I was amazed at how many shooting victims drove themselves to the hospital. Way more than you would think.

Car with bullet holes on the side, parked in a wooded area, illustrating surprising speeding reasons shared with officers.

My sister told me her account after being called at work and told her oldest son has passed away. She got pulled over, was in hysterical tears, and this state trooper (after verifying everything) had my sister get into his car and he brought her home.My nephew was only 9 years old. So you can imagine why my sister was absolutely hysterical. I’m glad that trooper had the decency to take her home rather than jail. She said she was doing close to 100 mph trying to get home in a state that she shouldn’t have been driving in.

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I was a cop in Richmond Virginia in the late eighties. I pulled over this guy that said he was afraid he was going to have diarrhea, so he was driving 55 in a 25 mph zone. While he was sympathetic to his problem, I had heard a version of this story probably five times in the four months I had worked there. So it took his license and registration and went back to my car to write the ticket. When I came back to his car, the smell was horrible! He had an accident in his pants. I tore up the ticket, and sent him on his way. I later got written up for the missing ticket, but it was worth it!

Car dashboard with start-stop button, symbolizing genuine speeding reasons shared with officers.

I’m not a cop but this is a funny story. In 1986 I was in the Marines, got stationed at Kadena AFB in Okinawa. They drive on the left side of the road there. I returned stateside in ’87 and immediately took 30 days of leave. I was driving around town when I made a right turn into the left lane of the street I was turning onto, as soon as I did this, I realized what I did and corrected for it but got pulled over anyway. I told the cop that I had a good reason for the mistake and he replied, “If you can tell me one I haven’t heard before, I’ll let you go.” I explained the situation in Okinawa and that I had a brain fart and turned into the wrong lane. He said I was the first guy to give an honest excuse he hadn’t heard and let me go with a warning.

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It wasn’t an excuse but the driver didn’t get a ticket:I was talking with a group of highway patrol officers and the discussion turned it this subject. One HP said he clocked a man in a Camaro dead on 110 MPH in a 60 zone. He said, “When I walked up to the driver’s window I decided to be a jerk instead of a professional. I said, You were really flying back there, lets see your pilots license pal.”Another HP officer said, “Oh no and …?”The first one said,, “Yep, had about a dozen certifications too. Multi engine, instrument rating, props, jets, types of planes I’ve never even heard of. I felt like a complete idiot when I handed his papers back and said, Okay just keep the speed down to the limit when you’re not in the air.”

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Not a Cop, but in about 1973 in Liberal, Kansas, a friend’s Dad was a farmer and lost his thumb and 2 fingers while working on somre farm machinery. He quickly wrapped his hand in a handkerchief and walked to the house. My friend’s Mom heard him yell for her. She looked outside and saw the blood. She grabbed pickup keys and shoved him in their pickup and headed for the hospital in town. She came into town and hit Western Avenue. It was a 30 mph zone and on the edge of town. She had her foot to the floor, and the pickup was probably doing 85 mph or more and still accelerating when one of Liberal’s finest pulled alongside with his lights and siren going. My friend’s Dad held up his hand. The Mom said later that the Cop turned white and waved for her to follow him. He got in front and she saw him pick up the hand microphone for the radio. A Doctor and two Nurses met them at the door to the ER. They got my friend’s Dad out and took him in immediately. The Cop helped her get parked and escorted the Mom in to the ER desk. She gave them the information needed. The Cop said no ticket as he left.

First off, I was one who would not stop anyone until they were going 18 or more MPH over the speed limit. At that point, most don’t even bother, a lot of my stops were in 30 MPH zones. One time, I stopped an executive looking lady in an all white dress suit and skirt, she jumped out of her car and stated she was rushing home because her period had just started and she needed a pad or tampon to keep from bleeding all over her outfit. I looked at her, thought to myself this was one excuse I did not want to check further into, and I just told her to head on home but slow down. There are just things we should just take at face value, and this was one of them.

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Papillon dog gazing out a window with a blurred autumn background, embodying a genuine moment of contemplation.

White car speeding on a city street, capturing genuine speeding reasons.

Not a cop but a cop did let me go with this story….Was 16–17. Coming back 11ish from a date. Cruising down a country road and I hit a skunk. The smell is completely different when you actually have it on you. So I’m now driving 90mph with my head out the window. And I see the lights behind me. I pull over and start to get out of the car and start wretching.the cop on his loud speaker yells at me to “get back in yo….. no no no. Come to me”. So I run up to his passenger door and jump in. The cop throws his car in reverse and backs up a few hundred yards. I’m still dry heaving. He asks me, “what the hell are you doing driving so fast”. I told him it was the only way I could breath. He asks me how far to my house and I tell him just up the road a mile or so.he tells me. “ I don’t have the heart to give you a speeding ticket. But you can’t drive that fast the rest of the way. Understand?”I say, yes sir.Then he tell me, “get the hell out of my car, you stink”. He drives off leaving me a couple hundred yards from my car.

I stopped an older farmer doing 50 in a school zone, but no kids were around. His clothes were stained, was missing a finger tip or two and some teeth, looked like life had been hard. When I asked why he was going so fast he told me he was visiting his grand daughter and having a tea party when his grand daughter gave him some chocolates, he ate quite a few. When he asked where she got them, she said she found them in mommy’s nightstand, and showed him the package, it was a laxative and as he told me this, I could actually hear his stomach gurgling….I told him to have a nice day and be careful.

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I’m not a cop but I have been pulled over a few times. One time I was going extra fast. I don’t remember what my speed was because that was like 20 years ago. I do remember that when the cherries came in my rear view mirror I obviously pulled over right away. The cop did the usual “do you know how fast you were going?” Routine. He asked me where I was heading to and I asked him a question. “How long have you been sitting there officer?” He told me something like he had been sitting there for 20 minutes or 30 minutes (again it was a long time ago so I don’t remember exact details). My response to him after he told me that was “I apologize officer but I got here as quick as I could.” He had a good laugh at that and he told me that made his day. Then instead of giving me a ticket he just gave me a verbal warning and told me to keep my speed down. When I asked him why he wasn’t giving me a ticket, he told me he wasn’t going to give me a ticket because I was being a nice guy and not being a jerk and I actually made him laugh with lightened his day just a little bit.

I was just returning from the Bosnian War and went to visit my then-fiancee in Montana. Turns out that she has moved on and we broke up. I was leaving Montana getting back to California as fast as possible when I was pulled over (righteously). Turns out that my roommate had removed the registration and insurance from my car while I was gone and that Florida (state I entered the military in) no longer had an indefinite limit on drivers license for military… so there I was speeding, no valid license, no insurance and no registration. When the cop walked up he saw my military cap sitting on my dashboard. I was honest and talked to him. He told me that if he saw me driving he would have to arrest me, so I had better wait a couple minutes after he left before I drove away. Turns out that he was a combat Vet with a similar story after he got home. Most cops are good, compassionate people when given the chance.

I was on the other side, as a civilian driver.It’s January 1990, after dark, and I’m driving north on the NYS Thruway, in the vicinity of New Paltz.My car was a 1978 Ford Granada, four doors, 98 horsepowers on the day it left the factory.I see the lights right behind me, so I pull over and open my window.Cop comes over, I ask why I was stopped, he says speeding, I look back at my car and say in this.He thinks for a moment, and then says that he caught me more easily then he thought he would.That area was hilly, with short hills, so the cop lost sight of the actual speeding car, and when he saw my taillights, they were similar enough for him to think my car was the one he wanted.So, with that realization on his part, he gave me back my papers, and let me go, as he headed back to his car.

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101 in a 65. Guy was running late meeting his future mother in law and his his future wife to pick out wedding colors, flowers, place settings, the whole deal.He was shocked when I told him he going to have a bad enough day, he didn’t need a ticket to add to it. LOLNice kid, in the National Guard, only time I ever gave a warning for doing 100+.

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Quite a few years ago, my husband, who was probably 55 years old, had a ‘66 Nova that he’d spend hours to make it go faster, and then more hours to make it more stable. One day he took it out on our only local highway in our rural area to see how fast it was. Thankfully, I was not with him.The needle in the speedometer was pegged when he said he saw a state cop traveling in the oncoming lane. He flew past him, glanced in his rear view mirror, and saw the cop do a fast u-turn and put on his lights. As soon as he found a safe spot to pull over, my husband stopped and waited for the trooper.“Do you know how fast you were going?” asked the policeman. As the speedometer was pegged, my husband could honestly say, “Not really.”The trooper said, “Just cleaning it out, I assume. Well, at least you didn’t make me chase you down. Thanks for that.” And all he got was a warning, and a reminder that the posted speed is 55.

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This is not as a cop but as someone who was speeding once. It was a strange occurrence. I’d been visiting a friend of mine about 15 miles from home and it was after midnight. I was going 85 mph on a state highway with a 55 mph speed limit. I think I was in a hurry to get home as it was late, and didn’t expect a cop to be around then. But there was, and he pulled me over. He asked if I knew why he pulled me over. I played dumb and said “No, I don’t. Why?” He said “Your license plate light is out.” He had me get out and take a look at it. Sure enough, it was out. But I suspect he may have been checking to see if I was drunk (which I wasn’t). I told him I think I had a bulb in the glove box and could replace it now. He said no, just change it when you get home, and to be careful driving home. So I drove home at 55 mph after that.

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People Shared The Times They Were Genuine About Their Speeding Reasons And Surprised Officers

I pulled over a guy for going 88 in a 55. Oh, he was going to get a ticket, that’s for sure. He looked utterly defeated when I came up to his window and when I asked why he was going so fast, he said, “It’s a new car and I wanted to see how it accelerated.” (It was a Volvo station wagon and did indeed have a Dealer Tag on it). I asked if he knew how fast he was going, he said, “About 90 miles per hour?” I said your speedometer is about 2 mph off, don’t do it again - and I gave him a verbal warning.As a cop, just about everyone lied to me, for often trivial reasons. To have someone so honest was refreshing and I gave him a pass.

People Shared The Times They Were Genuine About Their Speeding Reasons And Surprised Officers

I had a guy at 127 mph at 2:00 AM on the interstate. I actually caught up to him and pulled him over. He told me he had tuned up this El-Camino to sell it in the AM, and that car had gotten him in a lot of trouble. He wanted one last run. He acknowledged that he was going to get a ticket, but had one request. He wanted to see what I had under the hood that I was able to catch him with. Back then we actually had “police interceptors”. His hands were all greasy, so it was obvious he was telling the truth about the tune up. During the whole encounter we never saw another vehicle, so as no one was endangered, I turned him loose acknowledging it was a good thing he was getting rid of that car. A final note: That cruiser was sold at the end of it’s PD life and the buyer put a new set of plugs in it and immediately began winning trophies at Dover drag strip.

People Shared The Times They Were Genuine About Their Speeding Reasons And Surprised Officers

A friend of mine is a cop, and was on traffic when a car passed him at lightspeed on the motorway (M5 heading North).He did whatever radio things bobbies do on these occasions, and gave chase.Long story short, the guy in the car had his passenger calling 999 to ask the cops to clear the way - his car had a system failure that meant the throttle was at full, and for some bizarre reason his brakes weren’t working either. He did something like 100 miles until he worked out some method of stopping, or maybe ran out of fuel.

People Shared The Times They Were Genuine About Their Speeding Reasons And Surprised Officers

I may have mentioned this before in a similar question.We got a speeding complaint for a particular subdivision… People were “cutting through” at high speed.I set up radar and shortly a car came through at almost 50 mph. I stopped the lady… Who swore she was only going 30.I looked at her, a nice middle-aged professional type, and the car, a sporty muscle-car….“Is this your car, ma’am?”“No, mine’s in the shop. I borrowed my son’s car.”“Show me the speedometer.”She pointed at the tachometer.Did not know what the tachometer was, and thought that “30” referred to her speed, rather than 3000 rpm…

I was driving in New Jersey on a Saturday night, and a car pulled up right behind me and started flashing his brights. Naturally, I tried to pull over to the next lane and let him pass, but to do so I had to speed up even more. (I was almost certainly already exceeding the limit.) When I finally changed lanes, he pulled in right behind me again, and this time he started flashing his cop-lights and his siren. So we both pulled over, and I was angry. (Sure, angry about being caught, but something more . . .) When he walked up to my window, I took the aggressive position. “You pulled up behind me and started flashing your brights. It was dark - I couldn’t see that you were police. What else was I supposed to do but get over and let you pass? And to do that, I had to speed up.” He started stammering. I knew I had cracked his normal let’s-see-your-license-and-registration shell. “Well,” he finally said, “you were exceeding the limit.” I knew I’d used all my leverage at that point. “Well,” I said, “I’m sorry, I don’t think I realized it.” “Be careful,” he said, “stop speeding,” and started to walk away. Then he turned and came back. “You know your tags are expired.” It was my wife’s car. I glared at her. He wrote me up for that, but it was certainly less-costly than a speeding ticket!

I stopped a lady for running a stop sign in a school zone during child pickup. I approached the vehicle and saw a bunch of furtive movement from the driver side. I made contact with the lady and she was screeming and freaking out. She stated, “ my dog just s***ted everywhere!”I looked in the back seat and saw a giant dog that just had explosive diarrhea everywhere. The smell was horrendous. I told her to drive safely and have a better day.Not speeding, but a noteworthy excuse lol.

Why do cops want excuses?Once when I got pulled over for speeding, the cop yelled at me for how selfish I was for doing so.I stayed calm, and just said “I’m sorry sir.”Then he got angry saying: “you don’t even seem like you care! Why are you so nonchalant?!”I said: “I don’t have any excuse for speeding, so I don’t know what else to do rather than accept the situation… I don’t deny that I was speeding.”He kept getting angry until I started crying.And then he was annoyed, and told me I needed to “calm down!”Then he asked me personal questions that led him to discover that I was new to the area, and 3 hours away from my family.He said he felt bad for me being so far away from home, and he let me off with a warning.Honestly….. what the f**k.

When my daughter was about 10 or 11 she got a nosebleed late at night that we couldn’t get stopped. My wife and I put her in the car and we took off for the hospital. ‘Took off’ in this case meant over the speed limit but not superfast. We came to a major intersection just as the light went from yellow to red and I blew through it. A cop was at the light, saw me and took off after me. As soon as I saw the blue light, I pulled over, cut the engine, rolled down my window and put my hands on the steering wheel.When the officer came up to the window his first question was did I know I went through the light? I answered yes and explained why. He shined his light on my daughter and escorted us to the hospital. I did not even receive a warning. In almost any other circumstance I would have gotten the ticket I deserved.

I got my appendix out when I was sixteen. I will never forget being balled up in the back seat of my dad’s car, in agony with appendicitis, and he was hauling ass through Barrington, IL, and we got pulled over. And he explained, and the cop still gave him a ticket. Prick. He was so pissed he dropped me off at the hospital and went back to the station to dispute it.

Not a cop, but I got pulled over once in a well-known speed trap in my neighborhood. The cop set me up perfectly. He asked, “miss, where’s the emergency?” To which I replied, “well, my house has just been robbed.”It was true. My dad had called to let me know and I was on my way home. I have the officer my address and after confirming with dispatch he let me off with a warning. What he didn’t know was that I had already been home, been told that there was nothing I could add to the situation, and gone out again. I got an entire haircut (my hair is long and thick) and the cops still hadn’t arrived at the scene.Frankly, the ticket would have been less expensive - those a*sholes took everything, including a number of items that were irreplaceable.

People Shared The Times They Were Genuine About Their Speeding Reasons And Surprised Officers

Not a police officer. I was pulled over once at over 100, and the trooper said “We’re gonna get your buddy, too.”I said, “What?”He thought the guy drafting off me was a friend. With that cleared up, he asked where the fire was. I explained I was late for my grandfather’s funeral, which was in an hour and still about 70 miles away. He let me go.

Not a cop, but a funny story. I was going a bit too fast through a Village. Cop pulled me over and said, “Where are you going in such a hurry?” I said, “Just going home from work.” These Village cops are known to be tough. He said, “I will let you go, but please don’t speed through the Village.” I said, “What’s your name? I want to write a nice letter to the Captain.” He said, “Don’t you dare! Don’t do me any favors!” I got it and went on my way.

As a speeder, I had a pretty powerful red Mustang through college. I was leaving school one day, and beside me was a guy I went to school with and his girlfriend. The guy was a complete dick, and his girlfriend was really nice, down to earth and attractive. Leaving the light I ripped first and second gear. Of course in front of the local PD. When the officer approached my window, I responded that I honestly was trying to show off in front of the girl. Got a warning, and the officer told me the girl wasn’t worth wrecking. Well turns out the DM later that day totally was!PS Having sports cars since I was 16 I’ve found out that an honest answer is always the best response to poorly timed decisions.

Last week got told that “I have ADHD so I cannot drive and observe the speedometer at the same time.” Likely true about the ADHD part, not so sure about the other.

I had a guy going 90 in a 65 a few years ago. When I got to the window, he said that he had a hot date with a gal he met on FoolRound. c o m and that he left his phone at home and had to go back to get it. Hence, the 90 mph speeding.I gave him a warning because he did sound convincing and I was in a good mood because it was my Friday and was about to finish my shift.Later that night I was out at the bar and actually saw the dude with this hot chic so I went and talked to them and sure as sheet they met online and were on their first date. Hope he got some.

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