PENALTY

A school teacher was ticketed for running a stop light and told to appear in traffic court the next Monday. She went to court immediately an appealed to the judge to handle her case right then, explaining that she was a teacher and had to teach on Monday

"A school-teacher, eh?" the magistrate said, "Your presence in my courtroom fulfills a lifetime ambition of mine. I want you to sit down at this table and write 500 times, 'I will stop at the red light'."