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Got a speeding ticket!!!
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I have nothing invested in being right or wrong. If that is not the case I am more than willing to concede that I was wrong.
Dude I totally know how you feel... I mean, just the other day i was interrupted by the stupid cops while I was trying to rob my neighbors place. Don't they realize that there could be someone being murdered right next door?!
Apparently you never drive on military bases. They can and WILL pull you over for going 5 miles over and under. It's called the LIMIT for a reason. It's just that most cops give you leeway because not all speedometers are accurate.
^^amen to that; I would also add that driving 1 MPH over the limit WILL get you a ticket 10/10 times here in Texas. Piggies out here get a thrill to pull you over and don't ever give 'em an excuse to pull their service piece out...
Cop joygasm!
Cop joygasm!
Quantico will give you a ticket for 1mph over. Personally I think that's a little strict (my car reads 55 when it's actually 57).^^amen to that; I would also add that driving 1 MPH over the limit WILL get you a ticket 10/10 times here in Texas. Piggies out here get a thrill to pull you over and don't ever give 'em an excuse to pull their service piece out...
Cop joygasm!
Here in Dallas, they don't fark around. You get pulled over by a slick Mustang, then ten minutes later, another car shows up just for the hell of it. Then sometimes there will be three. No warrants, no searching, just show of force. Believe me, people here are very aware of our police force. Half of the squad are 4-footers with small-man-complex'.
^^amen to that; I would also add that driving 1 MPH over the limit WILL get you a ticket 10/10 times here in Texas. Piggies out here get a thrill to pull you over and don't ever give 'em an excuse to pull their service piece out...
Cop joygasm!
You must not live in DFW. Drive I-20 sometimes, and tell me how fast you can go before getting a ticket. Passing in the breakdown lane is also okay.
Large city's are a little different. This is slight different but my mother asked a cop in Northern Virgina why they don't pull cars over for running red lights. The answer was because it causes more traffic than it's worth. Dead serious. The same can be applied to the highway through cities. They cause traffic jams.You must not live in DFW. Drive I-20 sometimes, and tell me how fast you can go before getting a ticket. Passing in the breakdown lane is also okay.
You must not live in DFW. Drive I-20 sometimes, and tell me how fast you can go before getting a ticket. Passing in the breakdown lane is also okay.
Do you notice the number of crotch-rockets that weave (not exaggerating) around semi's and cutting lanes? Yet how many do you ever see on the side of the road being taken in? It's like the highways are a free-for-all.
By the way, I left DFW about seven years ago and just returned two years ago. When did all these damn bikes and bike "gangs" (gangs, hahahahahahaha) show up?
I got a fix-it ticket a few months back, break light was out. Cost me $25 plus $15 for the inspection.
I was warned by one of the inspectors that the city is being very aggressive about ANY violations. I was pulled over and given a warning years ago but it seems those days are over. No more warnings.
My theory is that because the local government is loosing so much revenue due to the economy that they have to make it up somehow. Just a theory though.
I was warned by one of the inspectors that the city is being very aggressive about ANY violations. I was pulled over and given a warning years ago but it seems those days are over. No more warnings.
My theory is that because the local government is loosing so much revenue due to the economy that they have to make it up somehow. Just a theory though.
What exactly were you pointing out? I fail to see any point you are making.
I stated I don't believe being homeless is illegal. You asked me was I sure, I stated I am open for being proven incorrect. So.....where is your point again?
I live in a 30 zone village along a hill road, and people drive through it sometimes at 65. Cars, not truckers, usually; the truckers seem to have more sense. The four-wheelers have no idea, apparently, that the reason it's a 30 zone is that agricultural equipment like spreaders and combines may be pulling off fields just past the crest of the hill, which is on a blind curve. Sometimes propane gas delivery trucks park on the road while delivering gas along the flats just beyond the hillcrest.
The 30 zone is a 30 zone because if you do 30, you can stop before you get hurt or hurt someone else. It's a 30 zone because if do you 30, you can likely avoid a lifetime of regret for not being able to prevent a realtime demo of car as lethal weapon.
In a recurring dream of mine, a BMW hits a manure spreader just past the hillcrest, and becomes a cartoonish block of tinfoil, glittering and finally disintegrating into silver sparks against the implacable dark bulk of the spreader as it continues to inch off the meadow. I don't have a dream about the BMW and the propane truck yet, thank God. The tinfoil glitter dream is bad enough.
A drive has to be insane, I mean way past thoughtless, to crest the hill in our village while doing even 40mph. If he can't see what's on the road a carlength and a half ahead, which is basically the situation right at the hillcrest, then he cannot stop himself from committing vehicular mayhem if something or someone is in the road up there.
We call the sheriff's deputies once in awhile to get them to tamp the speeding down. They write tickets for a few days and word gets around, but the speed always creeps up again inside of a month. Sometime someone will get killed just fetching his or her mail out of the roadside box, and then there'll be a traffic light at the bottom of that hill for the rest of our lives, just because some jerk could not take his foot off the gas for the couple of minutes it takes to traverse this village safely at 30mph.
My message to speeders is this: get out of bed a few minutes earlier, and slow down. The life you save may be mine, and by not killing me with your vehicle while speeding, you get to stay out of prison.
Meanwhile, you should see how I fetch my mail, standing behind the mailbox and reaching around so I am never closer to the road than the back edge of the box! The mailbox itself got clipped a few times with drivers dealing with the consequences of trying to pass on on blind curving hilltop. So finally one of my bros put the mailbox atop a railroad tie sunk in a big hole full of readymix. Somebody hits that now, they will be connecting with some serious piece of reality.
The 30 zone is a 30 zone because if you do 30, you can stop before you get hurt or hurt someone else. It's a 30 zone because if do you 30, you can likely avoid a lifetime of regret for not being able to prevent a realtime demo of car as lethal weapon.
In a recurring dream of mine, a BMW hits a manure spreader just past the hillcrest, and becomes a cartoonish block of tinfoil, glittering and finally disintegrating into silver sparks against the implacable dark bulk of the spreader as it continues to inch off the meadow. I don't have a dream about the BMW and the propane truck yet, thank God. The tinfoil glitter dream is bad enough.
A drive has to be insane, I mean way past thoughtless, to crest the hill in our village while doing even 40mph. If he can't see what's on the road a carlength and a half ahead, which is basically the situation right at the hillcrest, then he cannot stop himself from committing vehicular mayhem if something or someone is in the road up there.
We call the sheriff's deputies once in awhile to get them to tamp the speeding down. They write tickets for a few days and word gets around, but the speed always creeps up again inside of a month. Sometime someone will get killed just fetching his or her mail out of the roadside box, and then there'll be a traffic light at the bottom of that hill for the rest of our lives, just because some jerk could not take his foot off the gas for the couple of minutes it takes to traverse this village safely at 30mph.
My message to speeders is this: get out of bed a few minutes earlier, and slow down. The life you save may be mine, and by not killing me with your vehicle while speeding, you get to stay out of prison.
Meanwhile, you should see how I fetch my mail, standing behind the mailbox and reaching around so I am never closer to the road than the back edge of the box! The mailbox itself got clipped a few times with drivers dealing with the consequences of trying to pass on on blind curving hilltop. So finally one of my bros put the mailbox atop a railroad tie sunk in a big hole full of readymix. Somebody hits that now, they will be connecting with some serious piece of reality.
Or you could just put on your big girl panties, man up, and pay the fine like a person who takes responsibility for their actions.
You must not live in DFW. Drive I-20 sometimes, and tell me how fast you can go before getting a ticket. Passing in the breakdown lane is also okay.
Actually...I do, hehe. I was mainly referring to Pantego, Plano, Grand Prairie, and such...it's always the suburbs out here that they like to play 'big city cops'.
How much was the ticket?
I got a ticket a year ago for $163 (ouch), 70 in a 55, I was lucky to see the cop and slow down a bit before he scanned me. I like to drive fast and generally cruise 10-20 over. The speed limits in America are artificially low in many cases—the highway speed limit in France is generally 130kph/80mph, which I think is much more reasonable. Either way, trying to driving fast in the US is generally futile, as people will be 'passing' in the left lane for 20 miles, driving parallel to the car or truck next to them.
With intelligent drivers, a good road, good visibility and a good car I'd love if it were legal to cruise at 100+mph. I've been on the autobahn at ~150 in safety and comfort. In the west, the land of endless interstates with very little traffic, you could cut travel times nearly in half. Suddenly your 12 hour drive between Fargo, ND and Bozeman, MT becomes, say 7 hours.
I got a ticket a year ago for $163 (ouch), 70 in a 55, I was lucky to see the cop and slow down a bit before he scanned me.
I like to drive fast and generally cruise 10-20 over. The speed limits in America are artificially low in many cases—the highway speed limit in France is generally 130kph/80mph, which I think is much more reasonable. Either way, trying to driving fast in the US is generally futile, as people will be 'passing' in the left lane for 20 miles, driving parallel to the car or truck next to them.With intelligent drivers, a good road, good visibility and a good car I'd love if it were legal to cruise at 100+mph. I've been on the autobahn at ~150 in safety and comfort. In the west, the land of endless interstates with very little traffic, you could cut travel times nearly in half. Suddenly your 12 hour drive between Fargo, ND and Bozeman, MT becomes, say 7 hours.
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Wonderful post. If only a few more people stopped to think about the why's in a certain situation instead of just their own minor personal inconvenience.
Colorado's highway speed limit is 75mph. Excellent except for the fact that most people can't maintain that speed because of all of the hills (going 1000ft up or down in altitude over 50 miles). This is the only state where just about every speed limit seems to be about right. In Colorado Springs, I'd even venture to say that some road limits are too fast. Powers is 55mph and that's a main 3 lane road with many lights and shopping on either side of the road. I've almost run lights because I couldn't stop in time.How much was the ticket?
I got a ticket a year ago for $163 (ouch), 70 in a 55, I was lucky to see the cop and slow down a bit before he scanned me.
With intelligent drivers, a good road, good visibility and a good car I'd love if it were legal to cruise at 100+mph. I've been on the autobahn at ~150 in safety and comfort. In the west, the land of endless interstates with very little traffic, you could cut travel times nearly in half. Suddenly your 12 hour drive between Fargo, ND and Bozeman, MT becomes, say 7 hours.
Thats 10 miles over the speed limit. If it was one or two I would complain sure. But 10 is no small number.
And one time my mom got pulled over for speeding, she took her ticket and then asked what kind of donuts he likes.
He replied he doesn't eat donuts.
I would never recommend doing this.
And one time my mom got pulled over for speeding, she took her ticket and then asked what kind of donuts he likes.
He replied he doesn't eat donuts.
I would never recommend doing this.
