Woman Gets Speeding Ticket, Isn’t Prepared for Photo the Camera Took

A routine traffic ticket has left internet users in stitches, thanks to the unusual evidence captured by a roadside camera.

Brittany, known on TikTok as @britt.bizkit, is living in Germany with her husband, Brandon, who is serving in the United States Air Force. In a video with over 10 million views on TikTok, Brittany shared the moment they got a speeding ticket with a hilarious picture of her husband—who wasn’t even driving.

On a sunny March day, Brittany accompanied her wine-enthusiast mother-in-law and husband on a tasting excursion in nearby Bernkastel-Kues. “I offered to be their designated driver, and after a day of sipping (or chugging) Riesling next to the Mosel River in Germany, one most certainly needs a driver, if not a taxi,” Brittany told Newsweek.

However, on the way home, she found herself in the crosshairs of Germany’s speed-camera system. “Either way, as we began to arrive into the city limits, I know subconsciously the speed would be changing… until it happened. Flash!” Brittany said.

A few weeks later, a seemingly routine speeding ticket arrived in the mail. But when she opened it, Brittany was left in hysterics. The picture featured her husband, despite her being behind the wheel.

While drivers in Germany are generally seated on the left hand side of the car, Brittany drives a right-hand-drive car, meaning that her husband was sitting in the passenger seat where the driver would be expected to be.

Despite a €30 [$32.50] fine for exceeding the speed limit, Brittany was thrilled by the ticket. “I let out the biggest cackle of my life when I discovered this,” she confessed.

In the picture, Brandon is wearing a hat and sunglasses and is staring forward with a serious expression—something that they knew they had to share. “The whole world should see this,” her husband told her after he saw the picture.

“He looks like he’s in the mafia… Germany’s newest drug lord,” Brittany said in the now-viral video.

“You’re essentially paying 30 euros for the greatest photo of all time—it’s fair,” one commenter posted. Some viewers wrote about Germany’s strict traffic laws, recounting their own experiences of getting tickets while driving there.

Others compared Brandon to celebrities, with one viewer writing: “You can’t tell me that’s not [singer] Joel Madden.”

As people stumbled upon the video and unusual picture, suggestions flooded in for how to immortalize the moment further, from framing the ticket to creating T-shirts with the image.

“Although I don’t recommend breaking the law, it did turn into a huge joke for the internet. People are bonding on the fact that Germany has strict laws, or that my husband looks like a variety of iconic celebrities,” said Brittany.

“It truly is a wonderful thing being able to make others laugh and smile, despite it being at the cost of my misfortune and a 30-euro speeding ticket fine,” she added.

Suggestions of Brandon’s new celebrity lookalikes included Walter White from the television show Breaking Bad, the Madden brothers from the band Good Charlotte, Kourtney Kardashian’s former partner Scott Disick, and even American football star Travis Kelce.

“Do you think Taylor Swift would find it as funny as I did?” said Brittany of Kelce’s partner.