Here is the situation: I was driving back from my university with couple of my friends. I felt tired so decided to let my friend drive. So at the next red light, I got out the car, my friend scooted over to my seat, and
I got into the passenger seat. This all happened in a highway like main street.

The problem: The cops seen us. He pulled us over. Charged each of us with reckless driving in highway. The ticket was $75.


Should I plead guilty or not? This is my first soon to be ticket. I know what I did was stupid. There were girls in the backseat, so being guys, we had to do something stupid. And please, dont hesitate to say
how stupid it was for me to get out in the middle of highway main street on a read light just to change seats.

Here is the situation: I was driving back from my university with couple of my friends. I felt tired so decided to let my friend drive. So at the next red light, I got out the car, my friend scooted over to my seat, and
I got into the passenger seat. This all happened in a highway like main street.

The problem: The cops seen us. He pulled us over. Charged each of us with reckless driving in highway. The ticket was $75.


Should I plead guilty or not? This is my first soon to be ticket. I know what I did was stupid. There were girls in the backseat, so being guys, we had to do something stupid. And please, dont hesitate to say
how stupid it was for me to get out in the middle of highway main street on a read light just to change seats.

Should have argued the ticket, say you suddenly weren't feeling well or something. Now that you have it, too late. Pay the ticket and don't do it again.

Getting out the car instead for switching places: +3 stupidity, +1 experience.
Doing so in front of the police: +10 stupidity, +10 experience.
Getting charged by the police in front of girls: , +80 embarasement.

In short: You did everything right (the car, the switching and the girls) excepting getting caught by the police. Their job is to fine dumb ones!

Next time do it in a place you can park.

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Here is the situation: I was driving back from my university with couple of my friends. I felt tired so decided to let my friend drive. So at the next red light, I got out the car, my friend scooted over to my seat, and
I got into the passenger seat. This all happened in a highway like main street.

The problem: The cops seen us. He pulled us over. Charged each of us with reckless driving in highway. The ticket was $75.


Should I plead guilty or not? This is my first soon to be ticket. I know what I did was stupid. There were girls in the backseat, so being guys, we had to do something stupid. And please, dont hesitate to say
how stupid it was for me to get out in the middle of highway main street on a read light just to change seats.

Should have argued the ticket, say you suddenly weren't feeling well or something. Now that you have it, too late. Pay the ticket and don't do it again.
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It's definitely not too late. The signing the ticket is not an admission of guilt, and he could still make this argument in court.

I think you should hire a traffic attorney and get the ticket dismissed. I got charged with failure to decrease speed because it was raining very heavy and the person in front of me decided to quickly change lanes without blinkers because the car in front of them was completely at a dead stop at a green light. I pushed the brake to the floor but I started to hydroplane. There was literally nothing I could do and to this day I still wish I went to court...

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[quote name='D.Chhetri' timestamp='1302325441' post='4796221']
Here is the situation: I was driving back from my university with couple of my friends. I felt tired so decided to let my friend drive. So at the next red light, I got out the car, my friend scooted over to my seat, and
I got into the passenger seat. This all happened in a highway like main street.

The problem: The cops seen us. He pulled us over. Charged each of us with reckless driving in highway. The ticket was $75.


Should I plead guilty or not? This is my first soon to be ticket. I know what I did was stupid. There were girls in the backseat, so being guys, we had to do something stupid. And please, dont hesitate to say
how stupid it was for me to get out in the middle of highway main street on a read light just to change seats.

Should have argued the ticket, say you suddenly weren't feeling well or something. Now that you have it, too late. Pay the ticket and don't do it again.
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It's definitely not too late. The signing the ticket is not an admission of guilt, and he could still make this argument in court.
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The place to get the ticket dismissed is with the cop. It can be done in court, but it just got 10x more difficult - especially if the officer shows up.

It really doesn't sound stupid at all. Challenge it in court.

Yea, I'm going to plead not guilty.

I think the reason why I got the ticket also, was because I was being an ass to the cops. The cops was accusing us for drugs and alcohol beause me and my friend eyes were "blodshot red", when in fact it wasn't. So I started to get a little tone with him asking him why he was judging us. And so he got even more mad, and yea that probably didn't help but I wasn't gonna let him accuse of us stuff we didn't do.

I'm not sure which is more eye-widening; that this is illegal in the US, or that it's something the police consider to be so far up their priority list as to enforce.