Anyone get out of a ticket just for being an RN?

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Hi,

Got pulled over, had my name badge on and cop says its ok, I never ticket RN's. Anyone else ever get that lucky? Got a warning though. Didn't flaunt my badge either! Maybe I should leave it in the car and pin it on whenever I get pulled over again. This was on the way home too (away from any hospital)!! Lucky me!:)

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

yes i got out of 2 tickets that way so far !! being a RN helps .. i think it depends on the cop... but yes it helps to be a RN !!

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab,Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Ortho, Neuro.

Hehe, reminds me of a friend who was notorious for getting tickets (how she kept insurance is beyond me). Anyhoo, she's a nurse and married to a cop. One day she got pulled over by one of her husband's friends. He didn't give her a ticket, but told her that she had to tell her husband that she got pulled over, and that he would ask him the next day if she did. She said it was embarrassing to have to tell him, but she hasn't been pulled over again so far as I know.

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Specializes in SRNA.

Well, as a passenger in a car full of nursing students en route to a nursing student convention in Anaheim, we got pulled over for going 55 in a 35 and the CHP trooper let us go when she found out we were future nurses!

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Once. He didn't say that's why he did it but I think that's why he did it and I was going about 11 over the speed limit. It was at one of those points where the speed limit just changed. However, I've also had a state patrol who decided I was impaired for driving 5 under the speed limit close to the line - I was on nights and was pretty tired. He was a complete ass even when he found out I wasn't impaired.

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yup. i have a nursing alumni sticker. =)

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Specializes in Medical.

A friend stopped at a red light driving home after night duty, and fell asleep. A couple of police officers knocked on her window after watching her sleep through three sets of lights, then escorted her home.

Several friends have avoided tickets because they were nurses, but the key is subtlety. One thinks she was ticketed when she might not have been because the officer approaching her car saw her clip her ID on!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I am an LPN/LVN who attends an RN program that is located far away from my home. I must cross a state line and multiple county lines in order to get to and from school, so I spend plenty of time driving on the interstate.

I have been pulled over for speeding three times this summer, and the police officers have sent me on my merry way with warnings. Once they start talking to me and find out that I am an LPN/LVN in an RN program, they let me go without writing a citation.

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Specializes in LTC.

i live in indianapolis- during the indy 500 there were roadblocks everywhere and i couldnt get around to go to work-flashed my lpn badge and the cop let me thru!! people around me were ****** lol

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

A bunch of times.

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Specializes in Peds Hem, Onc, Med/Surg.

:D I have only been pulled over once. I got out of it by showing my boobs. :D

Now before you hurt me, I was going home after clinical and our NS uniform is freakin hot and I had no ac. The uniform shirt has a zipper that goes down the front and normally I would wear a shirt under it but that day it was too hot and I didn't. Well it was so hot that I zipped it down and forgot about it. I was pulled over I think it was because I was driving to close to the undercover cop and when he pulled me over I didn't remember about my shirt I was just freaking out (1st time) and when he leaned over to look at me he got a full view of my girls. His eyes widen, and that is when I realized about my shirt. I start going I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and I zipped it up, and he just smiled and said don't do it again, didn't tell me what "it" was and left. I've never unzipped my uniform after clinical again. :D I was sooooooooo embarrassed.

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Specializes in School Nursing.

My first week as an RN I was pulled over for 55 in a 35 and the officer had a really nasty attitude until she asked me where I worked and I told her I was an RN at Hospital X. Suddenly she was really nice and talkative and ended up letting me go with a warning. :) I have a friend back home who is a cop and he tells me it is professional courtesy to others in public service professions.

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