7 Unbelievable Ways People Tried to Escape Traffic Tickets

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4 – Man Receives Fine Thirty Seconds After Parking,

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  • In 2013, an unidentified Melbourne man proved that appealing unfair parking tickets actually works – if you’re super sarcastic.
  • The Australian man received a ticket in the very short space of time between parking and walking to the rear of his vehicle to retrieve his wallet. That’s right: the parking inspector saw the man park and go to walk around his vehicle, yet still left a big fat ticket on his windshield while the man was busy counting his coins.
  • Arguing with the inspector changed nothing, so the man wrote an extremely passive-aggressive letter to the Melbourne Parking and Traffic: “I’ve gotta hand it to him – this guy’s a genius. He knew I intended to comply with the regulations and pay for my parking, so he did what any good parking officer would do: he wrote me a ticket before I could walk the eight steps to the machine. Officer 335 must get a raise.”
  • He then jokingly apologised for taking thirty seconds to pay and resolved to wind down his window next time and throw coins at the ticket machine in the hopes that some would make it into the coin slot. The appeal worked and the ticket was revoked.

3 – Boy Genius Builds Fine Appeal Website,

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  • Eighteen-year-old economics student Joshua Browder is a budding entrepreneur who founded DoNotPay.co.uk – a website that helps people appeal traffic fines. The site asks motorists to enter their details, then sends a custom-generated appeal created by the website’s algorithm to the relevant council.
  • Through this website, Joshua has helped over ninety thousand drivers and saved people more than £2 million in parking fines. He built the site after receiving several of his own unfair parking fines and discovered that sending appeal letters to councils actually works.
  • The site is a free, not-for-profit public service designed to help the most vulnerable members of society: the elderly and disabled, who are often slammed hardest with trivial parking offences. Joshua stresses he isn’t trying to encourage illegal parking; he just wants to combat incorrectly issued parking tickets, which he says exist solely to bring in revenue.

2 – Professor Uses Physics to Escape Ticket,

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  • ph.D.-wielding physics professor Krioukov wrote a four-page dissertation filled with equations, charts, and graphs to escape a speeding ticket.
  • In the paper, Krioukov argued that the cop who booked him had been tricked into seeing him pass a stop sign because of several abstract physics-based conditions. He detailed these at length using a lot of convincing scientific language.
  • The presiding judge didn’t understand any of it, so, at the risk of looking stupid, smiled, nodded and dismissed the ticket. It just goes to show that maths and essay-writing aren’t wastes of time; they could one day get you out of tickets!

1 – Hypnotist Gets Out of Ticket,

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  • Sceptics may doubt the validity of this one, but it’s pretty amazing if true. While driving around filming a YouTube illusion, a magician managed to attract the attention of a police officer by causing a minor road offence. Incredibly, the driver manages to get out of receiving a ticket by hypnotising the officer.
  • Using what he calls ‘NLP patterns’, the driver gets the officer to answer a series of unrelated questions and performs a set of strange finger snaps. The whole thing basically becomes the real-life equivalent of ‘These aren’t the droids you’re looking for’, and is amazing to behold.
  • Before you know it, the magician is driving away with no ticket. If real, this is the ultimate psychic lifehack.

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