<p>Ahh, so i'm filling out my app right now and i'm asked if i've ever been convicted of a crime. I have, but its unsually amusing. </p>
<p>Its a traffic violation- J WALKING.
I had to pay $99.</p>
<p>Should i put it down, or not?</p>
<p>I don't know if that qualfies as a crime or not heh. I think they're looking for things that you had to go to court for.</p>
<p>Hahahaha, that's fantastic. Um, I have no idea. I would think not, but if you explain it as being amusing and mention it, maybe they'll like your honesty and sense of humor about it? That's what my friend is doing, since she was suspending for pie-ing one of her friends in the face in the lunchroom. It was genius.</p>
<p>I thought that traffic violations don't count.</p>
<p>I think you should put it down for the comical effect :) It can only help!</p>
<p>On most apps/etc., they say "...convicted of crims (excluding traffic violations)..." Otherwise, they'd get all kinds of reports from kids about their speeding tickets, running red lights, etc.</p>
<p>no, I know for sure that you are not supposed to include traffic violations. I have a history of speeding tickets (and even had to take a special class to get my lisense back one time!!) and i asked my councelors about this and they all told me that a crime as this is not necessary to put down. but if it involved something else with the violation, like drinking then yes you need to put that down.</p>
<p>can you tell us the story about how you got it for J Walking? I have never heard of anyone get a fine for that before.</p>
<p>Wow, you must have seriously irritated the police officer. The only place in the country that I know of where they actually give tickets for J-walking is Salt Lake City, Utah, and that's because the police are so bored (this is not a slur on SLC, just what I saw there).</p>
<p>Don't put it down. Traffic violations are irrelevant, they just want to know if you're drinking illegally or have violent tendencies, that sort of thing.</p>
<p>And please do share the story. It must be funny.</p>
<p>DO IT! It'll make the adcoms laugh. I'd be like, "Alright, alright, I'll be honest...yes...I am a criminal...I committed the atrocious crime of jaywalking, and suffered through paying a 99 dollar fine. I wanted to mention it just because I consider it an achievement, given how difficult it is to actually be caught for jaywalking" LOL, like, "I always love a challenge"</p>
<p>From the stodgy alum: DO IT!</p>
<p>Make it funny. Make them laugh. :) Tell it with zest and vigour. "I was strolling down the street when I saw a huge sign that said "Sale on Brown and Blue Apparel!" Irrationally happy at this fortuituous turn of events, I tore across the street, heedless of traffic, the honking, an ambulance, and a fire engine... and crashed into a rickshaw driver carrying a transvestite! A police officer saw the carnage - poles, clothing, makeup, and fake boobs everywhere - and wrote me up a ticket for jaywalking. He did not appreciate my antics, which are apparently bad for tourism, despite being a fabulous prequel to the Naked Quad Run."
(c) 2006, AriesAthena</p>
<p>Or something like that.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA omg aries i love you. BEAUTIFUL.</p>