"I know that not stopping is really bad. I stop all the time, and so does my buddy. This one instance, he got a bit carried away, and run the stop sign and made a right turn, huge mistake."
Also, that christ guy is right, your friend is lacking the qualities of a man. Enough said. To everyone here who seems to think that traffic tickets are some sham way to get money for the government: unfortunately we live on the planet earth, and on the planet earth there are things called real consequences. This guy could have, like a driver in Mid-Ohio did to my sister, ran a stop sign and hit someone resulting in injury, in much the same way somebody ran a stop sign and hit my sister resulting in her palatalization. So a $100 dollar ticket is society's way of saying, "don't f-ing do it again, you could destroy somebody's life". In cases like this where the person admits to it, stop trying to help them and start telling them to man up.