# cell phone tickets in WNY
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 5, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702 "2008-08-05T06:50:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/21 "2008-08-05T08:47:14Z")
But it can be if you play your cards right, :naughty:
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### Author:  [@LowlyOilBurner](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LowlyOilBurner)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/22 "2008-08-05T08:47:22Z")
ghey. Mine was 150 in Depew like a year ago.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/23 "2008-08-05T08:54:56Z")
> [@bing](#):
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> nice police-state you guys have there.
> [@FuzzyFish](#):
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> Welcome to the People’s Republic of NY.
lol yeah it just goes hand in hand with the socialism. From each according to the State’s need. To each according to the State’s ability. We don’t quite have it right.
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### Author:  [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/24 "2008-08-05T09:08:35Z")
bluetooth for the win.
If the phone is less than 12 (or is it 15?) inches from your face, its ticketable in nys.
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### Author:  [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/25 "2008-08-05T09:28:38Z")
Just don’t talk on your mobile phone while you’re driving. If you HAVE to take a call use speaker or bluetooth. I’m pretty sure all phones at least have speaker.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/26 "2008-08-05T09:42:31Z")
> [@Avatar](#):
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> Just don’t talk on your mobile phone while you’re driving. If you HAVE to take a call use speaker or bluetooth. I’m pretty sure all phones at least have speaker.
Alot of phones don’t actually. My blackjack was the first phone I owned that did have it.
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### Author:  [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/27 "2008-08-05T09:52:09Z")
Really? I don’t remember owning a phone that didn’t. Maybe my OLD LG510…
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### Author:  [@dawn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dawn)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/28 "2008-08-05T10:03:59Z")
Plead not guilty and you get a $50 parking ticket. Roughly.
Plead guilty, you get an automatic $55 NYS surcharge, plus whatever they decide.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/29 "2008-08-05T10:09:06Z")
not guilty it is.
everyone says tickets transfer… well they do not… and they do.
i’ve had 2 speeding tickets in WNY… i KNOW that one never showed up on my record. i left the last one for 1.5 years unpaid. they said there was a warrant out for me, which i am sure there was. i was able to cross the border more than a hundred times though. They also said my license was suspended, but i’ve been pulled over in Canada without issue.
One thing i will give you guys though is that all i had to do was pay the ticket to make it go away. In Ontario if you have a suspended license and you go to pay a ticket you have to pay a reinstatement fee too… or some shit like that… so you’re lucky there.
i have viewed my driving record on police computers in Ontario police cars (a couple years ago) and the NY stuff didnt show up. But still everyone says they carry over.
this is not a points offense. the officer told me that, and i dont care anyways. ticket number 19 in the bag.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/30 "2008-08-05T10:10:35Z")
> [@bing](#):
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> not guilty it is.
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> everyone says tickets transfer… well they do not… and they do.
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> i’ve had 2 speeding tickets in WNY… i KNOW that one never showed up on my record. i left the last one for 1.5 years unpaid. they said there was a warrant out for me, which i am sure there was. i was able to cross the border more than a hundred times though.
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> i have viewed my driving record on police computers in Ontario police cars (a couple years ago) and the NY stuff didnt show up.
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> this is not a points offense. the officer told me that, and i dont care anyways. ticket number 19 in the bag.
pfff 19? that’s nothing. 😉
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/31 "2008-08-05T10:12:28Z")
not including parking tickets or being gay tickets… i have no being gay tickets… but could that be because i’m sweet at keeping secrets?
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/32 "2008-08-05T10:23:32Z")
> [@bing](#):
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> not including parking tickets or being gay tickets… i have no being gay tickets… but could that be because i’m sweet at keeping secrets?
if you could get tickets for bumjumps…
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/33 "2008-08-05T11:31:54Z")
i almost did…
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/34 "2008-08-05T13:36:19Z")
> [@bing](#):
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> i almost did…
Yeah from me :mad:
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/35 "2008-08-05T14:23:57Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
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> Yeah bing they don’t put dollar amounts on them because in NYS, if someone goes to court, pleads Not Guilty and has the prosecutor reduce the ticket (moving violations) to a parking ticket, then the money goes to the town, and not the state. So you are given a court date to appear to have it reduced instead of getting points.
this does not happen anymore. NYS instated the mandatory surcharges to make sure they were getting their cut.
surcharge went from 55 to 65 as of july 1st…atleast that is what i was told when i paid my cell phone ticket june 30th. 130 dollars in the town of tonawnada. there are no points for cell phone tickets either.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/36 "2008-08-05T14:27:54Z")
Congrats on being the first person I know who got a ticket for this.
I have been stopped numerous times but never ticketed for it.
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### Author:  [@dcrdev](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dcrdev)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/37 "2008-08-05T18:42:35Z")
my mom’s friend got one recently and paid near $150. It’s pretty crazy.
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### Author:  [@Slomies](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slomies)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/38 "2008-08-06T01:31:08Z")
mine was $75 in WS. I heard they are $100 max before the surchage fees and shit
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/39 "2008-08-06T05:28:05Z")
i’ll report on how it goes.
the great part is that being on salary i still get paid for the morning i take off to fight the ticket. in fact, i’ll work it into some cross-border pick ups and then grab some pizza and picasso’s and make it a whole morning… maybe bring the family and have a nice day off courtesy of WNY state police.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cell-phone-tickets-in-wny/52702/40 "2008-08-06T05:52:01Z")
^ Good, but we’re still getting your money. 😛
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