Back in 1991, Guns N’ Roses were playing the Forum in Inglewood. Ahead of the show, Axl Rose was being driven to the venue in his limo, which ended up getting a traffic ticket for taking an illegal left turn. Axl Rose lost it and threatened to not go onstage unless the ticket was torn up. This resulted i in a back and forth between Rose’s camp and the Los Angeles Police Department. Ultimate Classic rock wrote about the incident recently. According to the article

On July 30, 1991, Inglewood City, Calif., police pulled over a limousine whose driver had made an illegal left-hand turn on the way to the Forum, where the limo’s passenger, Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose, was to perform that night.

Rose stuck his head out of the vehicle’s sunroof to angrily argue that the driver, James Brian Green, was following the instructions of a traffic control officer, who had motioned the car to make the turn.

Rose later threatened that he would not take the stage unless Inglewood police rescinded the ticket. According to the Los Angeles Times, Police Lt. Tom Hoffman huddled with Guns N’ Roses’ manager and the Forum’s general manager, and Hoffman agreed to take back the ticket, to avoid a potential riot by angry fans (as had happened in St. Louisearlier that month). Guns N’ Roses performed that night, and Rose even thanked Hoffman from the stage.

Days later, after the band was safely out of town, Inglewood City proceeded in its prosecution of the ticket, after Inglewood residents protested Hoffman’s “fixing” it. Officials responded that the ticket had not been “fixed,” but taken back for investigation.

“Nobody is above the law,” said Inglewood Mayor Edward Vincent, whom the Times identified as “a jazz fan who couldn’t name a single Guns N’ Roses hit.”

Green had to pay a $60 fine for his offense.