Speeding Ticket

[Vector4fun]

The only thing I will say in my defense is that it was a VERY rural road.

If ya spend much time in the South, you learn precisely why it's not a good idea to speed in those circumstances. My Dad completely totaled a new '65 Chevy PU when he came across a black angus bull in the middle of the road in exactly the same circumstances. A co-worker recently did the same to his Camry.

Nowadays, you're just as likely to come across a old couch some lazy flake just left in the road. Or in my case, two years ago, a junk car frame ditched during the night, in the middle of the road by some flake who didn't want to pay to have it hauled off....



23 years since my last traffic ticket.....

 

[FN FAL]

You won't win if you sue them for searching your car without permission.

Actually, you won't have to go all the way to the point of seeing them in court...they'll probably write a check a week after the deposition hearing, long before a civil trial is scheduled.

When you cash the check (which is tax free, by the way), you'll have fond memories of when the assistant prosecuting attorney stormed out of the deposition with the cop in tow, whilst the assistant prosecutor throws a manilla file at you uttering, "Mr. XYZ, we're not paying you one thin red dime!"

 

[Ralgha]

The only thing I will say in my defense is that it was a VERY rural road. People who have been on theses types of roads in the south know what I mean, over growen brush on both side of the road, PITCH BLACK and i nthe middle of no where. I dont recall even seeing a speed limit sign. The only reason I was down there was to help my roommate move his TV in his new house.

Hmm...overgrown edges, PITCH BLACK, yeah you should be speeding on that road. Damn the farmer that steps out onto the road. It's PITCH BLACK so you couldn't see anything, you're not responsible for it.

It's a speed LIMIT for a reason. If you are going 1 MPH over it, you are breaking the law. It doesn't matter if everybody does it, it doesn't matter if they usually don't pull you over, it doesn't matter that it was only 1 MPH, the LIMIT was below where you were at and you were illegal. It being a poorly lit road is another mark against you, not for you. The only person you have any right to be mad at is yourself. Stop blaming others for YOUR screw up and admit that you were wrong. Grow a pair and take some responsibility.

 

[FN FAL]

dang the farmer that steps out onto the road. It's PITCH BLACK so you couldn't see anything, you're not responsible for it.

It's a

He didn't say he was driving with his lights out...uber dorkster.

 

[MissKittyKat]

FN FAl, your posts are cool! I like reading the stuff you write!

Speeding ticket, we all get one at some point in time, the problem is they never catch the real people who constantly speed. Ok, example, 100 plus motorcycle riders. Hello! Wake up cops!

I have been stopped for so called speeding, and I got off always. With the exception of route 80 near Lycoming, Pa. I was doing 81 according to the ticket in a 70 mile zone? I never got a moving violation, I didn't have glasses on and never a blemish on my record, the female cop wrote on the ticket "failure to see posted sign" must wear glasses. I paid it the next day it was around 100 bucks for my inconvenience.

I normally keep up with traffic even if it is 10 miles over. I don't even like to speed and then they never give tickets for people who are "slowing" in the road.
How long does the speeding ticket stay on your record? Is it 7 years? Like bad credit?

The radar guns are NOT ALWAYS CORRECT EITHER. It is their gun against your word, but most normal people go 10 miles over the limit.

MissKittyKat!

If you not riding high in the sky your not having fun!

 

[Ralgha]

He didn't say he was driving with his lights out...uber dorkster.

What, I'm a dork for not accepting excuses for breaking the law? Even if he had his high beams on, it's still reduced visibility and more ammo for the cops, not less.

 

[dmspilot00]

Have you ever driven on I-95? If you go the speed limit you'll be dead before you know it.

 

[FN FAL]

What, I'm a dork for not accepting excuses for breaking the law? Even if he had his high beams on, it's still reduced visibility and more ammo for the cops, not less.

You gotta give me grief for using the UBER thing...I been beating on posters for using it for a long time. In fact, I'm an UBER UBER dorkster for using it..hahaha.

Sorry about calling you a dorkster...you're not. It was just a glib remark.

But back to the issue...if you were to step out in front of a car on a very dark night when you had a chance to see the car coming, you'll be dead. 1 over or 15 over...fun is fun and done is done.

The driver might get something out of the deal, he might not. We have a bike lane along side a county trunk that I use in morning for going to work. Every morning I see this bycyclist on that bike lane at exactly the same time every morning...I try to keep an eye out for the guy, but I worry for his safety because of all the other idiots I see driving on that road.

But anyway, I degress...here's a true story from the GRB files. Lady is driving a car and her BAC is over the limit for DUI. Pedestrian is walking with BAC as well. Pedestrian steps out in front of car driven by the soon to be DUI lady and is killed. Guess what happened?

 

[TDTURBO]

I love all the self rightous pricks on this board as if they are all perfect. Laws in many counties and cities are just revenue generators and nothing else. The worst criminals in my hood are the cops, Chicago is notorious for indicting the highest percentage of their force second only to New Orleans. I speed, on average, 20 over and since I built my 1100 HP Supra, I haven't had a ticket.

The reason street bikes don't get tickets is simple, ever try catching one? One of the dumbest things I here from people is you can't out run a motorola, you wanna bet? They have to see you to catch you, don't ask how I know but in my younger and more reckless years I had little to no respect for the law. Not much has changed where I live either, but now I at least just go with the flow of traffic which on 294 is well over 80.

I would not ever entertain the thought of flying professionally, so I could give a sh!t less what the FAA thinks about anything. I do however loath those idiots the break FAR's that do matter, like TFR's ans ADIZ incursions, all this will do is make it impossible to enjoy the freedoms we have left. Flying IFR in cloud without a clearence is another pet peave or any FAR violation that could make the news or kill an innocent person. I have been lucky like everyone else on this board to escape death many times for doing dumb things, I just can't stand people that think they are safe by driving 55 when traffic flow is 80, they are the ones that should be arrested. Illinois doesn't have a Consealed Weapons Permit where Indiana does, like all states the have CWP's, guess which have the lowest crime rates? I carry and no law is ever going to tell me otherwise. It's justice for all if you have the money. Many may not agree but that's just the way it is.

Nobody bothered to answer my earlier challange either, if you recall I asked if anyone could name one town, city, county, government in the world were blacks moved in and property values didn't plumet and violent crime increased. The reason is you won't find one. You know what country has the highest crime rate? South Africa, this happened as soon as a black leader was elected president after apartheid (sp?).

Look at Haiti, Africa both richer than any place else in natural resources and yet they have the highest crime rate and poorest population in the world. People aren't prejudice, they are just realists. I also think that 1 out of 3 male blacks that are in prison, parole or under house arrest is low, I beleive it's 1 out of 2.

Just the facts, ma 'am!

I employ several blacks and hispanics in my offices, and many of my close freinds are blacks, those that truely are trying to make something of their lives without taking the easy way out, (selling drugs, robbery, ect), I sympathise with. It must suck to be a minority and look at your fellow kind and see what they are doing to themselves, kinda lika like the idiots ruing it for everybody by breaking restricted airspace. It's sad but sometimes people after repetative exposure to negative events associated with a particular group, culture or race will begin to generalize, it's up to those individuals of these groups to change things or things will never change.

 

[WizardPilot]

1st time getting pulled over was because I was in the middle of nowhere wyoming and my dad was telling me to go faster and sure enough a cop comes around the corner and gets me for 11 over. 66 bucks. That pissed me off... BUT i still payed and just got on with it, im glad they are there though, thats for sure. except when they pull me over, but big kudos and thanks to the cops out there.

 

[ifly4food]

Try that sh!t with a Chicago cop and you'll soon find an ounce of blow and a .38 in your back seat, not to mention the forthcoming beating.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking, but not just in the city. The cops in the Burbs are 10X worse about that. You'll find yourself in the Cook or McHenry Co. pokey real quick.

 

[ifly4food]

Nobody bothered to answer my earlier challange either, if you recall I asked if anyone could name one town, city, county, government in the world were blacks moved in and property values didn't plumet and violent crime increased. The reason is you won't find one. You know what country has the highest crime rate? South Africa, this happened as soon as a black leader was elected president after apartheid (sp?).

Look at Haiti, Africa both richer than any place else in natural resources and yet they have the highest crime rate and poorest population in the world. People aren't prejudice, they are just realists. I also think that 1 out of 3 male blacks that are in prison, parole or under house arrest is low, I beleive it's 1 out of 2.

Just the facts, ma 'am!

I employ several blacks and hispanics in my offices, and many of my close freinds are blacks, those that truely are trying to make something of their lives without taking the easy way out, (selling drugs, robbery, ect), I sympathise with. It must suck to be a minority and look at your fellow kind and see what they are doing to themselves, kinda lika like the idiots ruing it for everybody by breaking restricted airspace. It's sad but sometimes people after repetative exposure to negative events associated with a particular group, culture or race will begin to generalize, it's up to those individuals of these groups to change things or things will never change.

The above is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. There's just as much crime and violence among poor white trash as there is in the ghetto. Shame on you for posting such an ignorant and racist statement. Blacks and Hispanics don't breed crime... poverty and lack of education do.

 

[FN FAL]

1st time getting pulled over was because I was in the middle of nowhere wyoming and my dad was telling me to go faster and sure enough a cop comes around the corner and gets me for 11 over. 66 bucks. That pissed me off... BUT i still payed and just got on with it, im glad they are there though, thats for sure. except when they pull me over, but big kudos and thanks to the cops out there.

Hahaha...yesterday my co-worker told me he got nailed for a 165.00 speeding ticket while driving his chevy blazer. The state boy had instant on radar and my buddy was too busy talking to his passenger to be paying attention to his driving.

I told him there's more to using those things than just plugging em in and waiting for the bleep, but they never listen. He also has deep sixed the notion that he's invisible to radar when he's driving his motorcyle. For some reason, he got it in his head that police radar can't clock motorcycles because of their profile. Duhhhhh!

 

[Vote4Pedro]

And no, you are not allowed 10mph over the speed LIMIT, that is why it's called a limit. It's like when ATC tells you to "maintain" a certain altitude, you don't get +/- 1000 foot do you?

No, you're right...

It's +/- 300 feet

Sorry, too easy.

 

[FN FAL]

No, you're right...

It's +/- 300 feet

Sorry, too easy.

Not only was it easy, but he's wrong. The cops do allow 9/10 over, they just had that story on national news about a week ago. And I'd go and look up the california anti-speed trap law again, but after a while you get tired of convincing dorks they are wrong.

Here's some good news...Virginia is giving up photo speed enforcement cameras because they caused accidents. Hahahahaha...the government just wants the money, they don't want you to drive safer...you'd be putting all those government featherbedding democrats out of work if you did.

NO MORE CAMERAS

The state of Virginia has given up its 10-year experiment with using cameras to catch red-light runners. Even though most of the people in the northern part of the state liked the cameras — these are the high-traffic areas in the Washington, D.C., suburbs — the rural folk never accepted the idea. They considered the cameras and their resulting tickets in the mail to red-light runners to be a violation of privacy.

When studies found out that the number of rear-end crashes increased where cameras were used, the project died, even though the studies also showed a decrease in red-light-running "angle" accidents.

Editorializing on the demise of the cameras, The Partnership for Safe Driving (crashprevention.org), said, "... we are reminded once again that trying to enforce traffic laws without ongoing education is a hopeless endeavor, particularly when using technology that is even slightly controversial. We are also reminded that no single problem on the roads today can be solved in isolation."

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