Anyone here ever been ticketed on a bike (bicycle, not motorcycle)? Just curious...
Personally no, but a cop in AL stopped ME instead of the douche who made an illegal youturn to warn me to be safe. I was pissy and he threatened to arrest me until I asked what for and how much a lawyer could get for false arrest.
I've had friends get tickets for various things on bikes
Early teens and I was riding with friends. They all blew the stop sign at a busy highway but I stopped and waited for traffic. A cop was sitting on the other side and stopped them all. He was giving them a lecture when I rode up and pointed to me and said I was the only smart one. On a side note, A few years later I was busted riding a mini-bike on a rural road near my home. I already had a couple of warnings and got 8 tickets in one fell swoop. Parents were not happy and sold mini-bike. When we went to court, the charges were dismissed since the mini-bike was sold and the whole point was to get me off the road.
Almost. I did a slow rolling un-stop through a stop sign - with no one else around. A cop pulled me over, I smiled and said "really ?". He told me I should have stopped - he was smiling too. Then he asked for my license. I said "you're kidding - I don't carry that on my bicycle ! ".
After a short lecture he let me go on my way . Seemed kind of silly all the way around ...
I was stopped by the Policia in Chetumal, Mexico on my E-Bike, we were staying in an RV Park on the ocean and they were curious because they had never seen an electric bike before. They asked me all sorts of questions which I answered as best I could with my Spanglish and then they bid me on my way. Didn't even try for a mordita.
I know of a former co-worker that got a DUI while riding his bicycle home from a bar.
That is funny. I have never looked it up but does biking with a beer can/bottle that has been opened also apply to bike riders?
I friend of mine was for going over 30 in a 20. it didn't hold up in court as the speed limit was for motorized vehicles.
Sort of.
In 1976, when I was 24, I was riding a bicycle past a Louisville, Ky, middle school in the afternoon-I was working nights, and got "arrested" by a middle aged truancy officer, for skipping class. I tried to tell him my age but he ignored me, ordering me to come with him back into the building.
I thought he was retarded..until I also reached middle age, and college kids looked to me like elementary kids.
At that time, my youthful looks weren't funny - whenever I tried to apply for a waitress job at an upscale restaurant, the manager would order me out, threatening to call the police if I tried to enter again as an under aged kid.
Sales clerks would follow me around the store, sometimes ordering me to leave the store, even though I had the money and was ready to purchase.
When I had my second baby, when I was 31 years old, ladies at the new church we'd joined thought I was a teen mother on welfare.