speeding tickets??

Spikuh

There is a cop at my local highschool here in Nacogdoches that drives a modified Charger... Now I ask, why does a school needed a modified Charger for his cop car?!?

And the worst ticket I have ever gotten was an 80 in a 55.

However, I did get pulled over by a state-trooper going about 110 in a 70 on my home from UT Austin. I figured I was about to get arrested. When he asked if I knew how fast I was traveling, I gave a very determined, "Yes sir, I know exactly how fast I was driving." When he asked why I was traveling so fast, I told him the truth... I was going to be late for church. He let me off with a warning and I still made church on time.

Pharmacist

Here in ontario, pigs do not discriminate. They ticket everyone equally. If it's a speed trap, anyone less than 15 km/h over the limit gets a free pass, 15-20 over is usually ok but sometimes they pull you over, especially if it's the beginning of their shift and they wanna rack up the tickets to get their quota. However, if you are more than 20 km/h over the limit, you're almost certainly guaranteed to be ticketed, doesn't matter if you're driving a ferrari or a dodge caravan. They tend to set their speed traps at specific well known locations that dont change, so if you know a neighbourhood, you know where they hide. And they tend to be VERY active on weekends and statutory holidays, where traffic is light, roads are empty, and that throttle pedal becomes that much harder to resist.

FricFrac

Wow - sounds like being in the Millitary is a good way to get away with breaking the law....

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Pushing_Tin

I know a lot of military people that have gotten out of tickets because they were in the military. I did once get a ticket in Alamogordo New Mexico for, and I **** you not, 39 in a 35.

kannibul

I had just put on my pipes on my bike and was blowing off a bit of "steam" from having to deal with it - pulled out from my little street to the arterial street, and hammered it. I was going probably around 65 in a 45. I let off just before I saw the reflection of a cop car's side markings on a vehicle going the other way. He flipped on his lights, I pulled over at the fire station near my house and waited for him. I was going to tell him - ya got me, I was being stupid....

I waited 2 minutes, he didn't show.


The time I actually did get a speeding ticket was in Tulsa, there is an arched bridge that goes over railroad tracks. One side is on the downtown side, which is marked 20mph. The other side of the bridge there is an intersection (stop light), and on the other side it's 35, and the intersecting street is also 35.

I'm going up the hill, my radar detector goes off, and I jam on the brakes (at the top of the hill. Detector stops going off as I go back down, so I'm on my way...cop pulls me over, says they tagged me going 30 in a 20. She said she felt bad writing me a ticket (as if that makes it better) because she saw that I got on my brakes when I neared the top of the hill - I told her 'don't be - I knew you tagged me because of my radar detector - thanks for the ticket, see ya later...'

I can't forget that one because I was working through the weekend...Martin Luther King weekend (I work for a government agency so it was a 3-day weekend) - because I had a complete failure of Active Directory - lesson learned the hard way - don't ghost a domain controller's system drive to another disk, and put it on the boot channel...then leave the old disk in the system on another channel... =/

frost

I can't believe the majority of people in here have 30+.

Red370

not around here my good man, military town/stigma attached/white people are the minority, you get the picture, here, this means your chances double.

dad

A 30+ would be real expensive. Plus the insurance premiums would sky rocket!

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frost

^ Tell me about it. Mine doubled.

2theextreme

None in the Z....and I can't touch frost's 155....but I did get a 105 in a 55 once! Two state cops sitting at the bottom of a 8% grade.....I wasn't even touching my pedal at that point. Good 'ol Virginia mountains! I passed them and knew I was screwed. I pulled over and they almost passed me back.

One tapped on the window....asked me: Where ya headed this morning?

St. Louis.

You trying to get there in the next 30 minutes?

I might have if you hadn't stopped me.

He actually laughed! I took my ticket and he let me go. Of course this was back in 1990....now there is no way in hell I'd be allowed to continue driving. Handcuffs, arrest, tossed in jail until I see the judge is my guess.

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Pharmacist

Hmm, interesting read. How effective do you find radar detectors? Do they warn you off in time? Also are cops able to detect the detector?

Spikuh

If the cop is sitting there with his radar off just tagging the ones he thinks are speeding, a detector won't be that useful.

If the cop had it running tagging everyone going by, you should have more than enough time to slow down (I am seeing fewer cops do it this way).

However, being attentive on the road is always your best warning.

cptspeed

I never got a ticket in the 350. I had my 370 2mnths and wham 46 in a 35. Laser! Thank god for defensive driving school. 0 pts. FHP never lets anyone off. If you pull over you get a ticket.

xiven

trapster app...nuff said

Chupacabra

It does fail.

I carry a big marines sticker in my back window, and most of the time, they ask me: "are you a marine?", I reply "yes". get to talk a little about it, and then they hand me the ticket.


anyways got pulled over 3 weeks ago. for getting lost on suburbia.

62 on a 35 supposedly. Saw no speed limit posted but that's not an excuse I know.. what pisses me off, is after the ticket and all I asked the guy for the second time. "how the hell do i get to commercial blvd from here?" and he just laughed and got back in his car, so there I was with a $280 ticket and lost, took me 20 min. to find my way out of that place.

this was on July 28th and still the ticket is not up for payment? is there like a limit on time, that if the cop does not provide the info I don't have to pay?

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