Drivers offer the darnedest excuses when pulled over by cops, from wild to lame to brutally honest.
Many tales have been heard countless times and seldom work. Others are so unusual they can get you out of a ticket.
Marital excuses sometimes work. Barnett stopped a speeder on Highway 17 who said he was getting married the next day but was having second thoughts.Then there was the young, beaming guy driving too fast on Monterey Highway. Boy, was he beaming. So was the driving of a woman on Los Gatos-Almaden Road, clocked at 65 mph in the pouring rain by Los Gatos officer James Wiens.
“He told me that he had to go to the bathroom,” Clark said, a common excuse among speeders. “I asked where he was coming from, and once he told me I was able to count the number of bathrooms open to the public along the way.
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