{"id":4206,"date":"2013-05-14T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theticketclinic.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2023-01-30T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:49:25","slug":"speeding-ticket-urban-legend-unmasked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theticketclinic.com\/es\/blog\/speeding-ticket-urban-legend-unmasked\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding Ticket Urban Legend Unmasked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #040404;\">A friend of The Ticket Clinic reached out to us to clear up this urban legend that has made its way around the internet. &nbsp;There are several versions of the tale floating around, but here is the one we received:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If you get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theticketclinic.com\/es\/services\/speeding-ticket-lawyer\/\">speeding ticket&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">or went through a&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">red light<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">, or whatever the case may be, you&#8217;re going to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">get points on your license<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&nbsp;and an increase in&nbsp;<\/span>your auto insurance. This is a method to insure that you do not get&nbsp;the points. &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">When you get your fine,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">send in a check&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">to pay for it. If the fine is&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">$79.00,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">make the check out for&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">$82.00,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&nbsp;some small amount over the fine.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The system will then have to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">send you back a check<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&nbsp;for the difference. &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">However, here is the trick:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">DO NOT CASH THE REFUND CHECK<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">! Throw it away!&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">THAT&#8217;S RIGHT&#8230;THROW IT AWAY&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Points are not assessed to your license until all financial transactions are complete.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If you do not cash the check<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">, then the transactions are&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">NOT complete<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">. The system has received its money and is satisfied and will no longer bother you.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">THIS IS NOT TRUE. &nbsp;Read it again: This is not true. &nbsp;This is an urban legend, which can cost you money, earn you points on your license or worse &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theticketclinic.com\/es\/services\/suspended-license\/\">get your license suspended<\/a>. &nbsp;If you get a traffic ticket your options are to pay it or to fight it &#8211; yourself or by hiring an experienced<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theticketclinic.com\/es\/\"> traffic ticket attorney<\/a>. &nbsp;Gimmicks such as this one sound too good to be true because they are!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If you have received a traffic ticket and would like to speak with an attorney, consider calling us at 1.800.CITATION. &nbsp;The Ticket Clinic has defended over 1 million traffic-related tickets, including DUI, since 1987. &nbsp;We handle exclusively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theticketclinic.com\/es\/services\/\">traffic-related tickets<\/a> in Florida, California and nationwide.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of The Ticket Clinic reached out to us to clear up this urban legend that has made its way around the internet. &nbsp;There are several versions of the tale floating around, but here is the one we received: If you get a speeding ticket&nbsp;or went through a&nbsp;red light, or whatever the case may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,22,23,51,38,39,30,43,95],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dismiss-florida-speeding-ticket","tag-florida-ticket-attorney","tag-florida-traffic-ticket-attorney","tag-florida-traffic-ticket-lawyer","tag-lawyer-for-speeding-tickets","tag-no-drivers-license-points","tag-speeding-ticket-lawyer","tag-the-ticket-clinic","tag-urban-legend"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Speeding Ticket Urban Legend Unmasked | Traffic Lawyer Blog | The Ticket Clinic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check here for the latest news for motorists including traffic law updates and more. 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