127 mph in a 70 back in 1991. Fine was set at 375 Pounds and didn't pay it:-)
Headed north on the M44 just South of Oxford pretty much minding my own business cruising along on a '90 Kawasaki ZX11. Pulled over once I noticed I had coppers behind me. They said they had been chasing my for 7 or 8 miles. I explained I wasn't running, and didn't know they were chasing me.
Two policeman in the car, once was saying let him go and the other was saying to take me in. I was saying let him go!
In the end, they let me go with a ticket. BTW, 375 pounds was a chunk of money back in '91. I believe the only reason that I didn't get arrested is because I was active duty AF at the time as was headed to my new TDY base. Had ID, Orders, etc on me. When I settled in on base, the guidance I got from the Staff Judge Advocate was to do nothing. Don't pay or anything. Since I was stationed in Germany (Lindsay Air Station Wire Dawg) in Weisbaden, they said they'd never catch up to me. In the end, no fine, no point, no nothing. Have to say though that over the next few years everytime I went through customers or passport control I halfway expected to get collard.
The biggest ticket I got was in Turkey, going from Adana to Istanbul. Was stationed at Incirlik. I got caught going through some little crappy villiage and got popped in their local speed trap. Fine was like 2.5 Million Turkish Lira on the spot (which worked out to less than $20 US). I felt like giving them $50 dollars to radio ahead to clear the road.
I spend 20 years, 5 months, and 5 days in the USAF of which over 14 years was spent overseas. Pretty sure I got ticketed in every country I went through over the years. Even got a gun pulled on my in Germany because the cop said later he didn't want me to run. He said later he woulnd't have actually shot at me, but I didn't know that at the time.
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