Carrie Underwood got pulled over for speeding, was let go and then cried
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Carrie Underwood recently tweeted that she got pulled over for the first time in 18 years for speeding. She’s 34, which means she’s been driving since she was 16. How has she been driving that long and never gotten pulled over? She wrote that she was let off with a warning and that she “may or may not have cried afterwards.”
She cried or she wouldn’t have written that. It’s stressful getting pulled over and I don’t blame her. I’ve only cried once when I got a ticket, which was my first one and I was 20-something. I wasn’t able to get out of that one. I’m ten years older than Carrie and have had one moving violation and two tickets for speeding. I got out of my second speeding ticket, which was just a couple of years ago, by pleading “no contest” and then taking a driving course. (I usually go only 10 mph over the speed limit, but this was in an area where the speed limit had recently been lowered from 35 to 25. I forgot and was going 40.) The instructor gave us tips for dealing with police and getting out of tickets. He told us to keep a notebook in the car to take notes whenever we got pulled over. I was pulled over for a broken taillight recently, I made it clear that I was writing down the officer’s name and everything he said, and he let me off. He probably would have just given me a warning anyway. Plus I’m a white lady in a rural area, I’m sure it’s much different for people of color.
The teacher also told ask to ask to see the radar gun with our speed on it if we got a ticket for speeding. He claimed that we could bring this up later in court if the gun wasn’t shown to us. However I just googled that, and it’s supposedly useless in Virginia where I live and there’s no law in any state specifying that an officer has to do this. At least the course was entertaining and my insurance didn’t go up.
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