Is This YOU?

[SARGE]

While driving, do you call the slowpoke in front of you an "idiot", and the guy who speeds past you "crazy"? I'm guilty.

[HAL9000]

Yes, but I'm probably the idiot speeding past you

[mosquito]

So that was you shouting at me.

[Baitcaster]

LMAO!!!
left lane slowpoke = fast lane squatter
guy who speeds past= Run Rabbit (guy who ends up getting "my" ticket) LOL

It amazes me that 70 just isn't fast enough for most people.

[ylen13]

It amazes me that 70 just isn't fast enough for most people

hmm i do 60 in 35miles an hour zone so 70 on a free is to slow for me.Plus cops for some reason are never around when i'm speeding(nock on the wood).

[hackercarlos]

Yeah, the speed limit here in St. Thomas is 20 in town and 30 in country but I always go about 40-50 or even 55.

On the other Island of St. Croix its 55 on the highway there but I see people there doing 100-120 so I follow the crowd

[SARGE]

Doing all my driving in town, only speeders we see are in the 30 and 40 mph limits. Speed in a school zone (20 mph) and you'll be nailed.

If a feller put the math to highway driving, he'd discover not much time is gained by going 10 mph over. Simply put, you and I go to a certain destination 60 miles away. You go 60 mph, me at 50 mph. You beat me by 10 minutes. If we travel for 10 hours, you beat me by 1 1/2 hours. What's the hurry? In town, it's even more ridiculous to speed as more hazards are inherent and you don't gain anything except increased risks of a wreck.

Saw 2 troopers going side-by-side down the interstate at posted speed limit. Had one lane left and not one person passed 'em. I loved it.

[ylen13]

Originally posted by SARGE Doing all my driving in town, only speeders we see are in the 30 and 40 mph limits. Speed in a school zone (20 mph) and you'll be nailed. If a feller put the math to highway driving, he'd discover not much time is gained by going 10 mph over. Simply put, you and I go to a certain destination 60 miles away. You go 60 mph, me at 50 mph. You beat me by 10 minutes. If we travel for 10 hours, you beat me by 1 1/2 hours. What's the hurry? In town, it's even more ridiculous to speed as more hazards are inherent and you don't gain anything except increased risks of a wreck. Saw 2 troopers going side-by-side down the interstate at posted speed limit. Had one lane left and not one person passed 'em. I loved it.

the reason that i personally drive fast is because it's fun. As for the 2 troopers not being passed i will have to say it was just luck i'm sure if their were alot of cars the troppers would have been passed.

[bob]

I heard this sic() joke years ago.

"I HAVE to tell you ONE thing about driving drunk."
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It's FUN!

[lovitz]

it's amazing the amount of people who bitch about speeding tickets. If they learned their lesson the first time, they'd invest in a radar detector.

Just my 2 cents.

[audiyoda]

Originally posted by SARGE Saw 2 troopers going side-by-side down the interstate at posted speed limit. Had one lane left and not one person passed 'em. I loved it.

My best friend and I decided a few years ago to do some 'in field' research on speeding. We both headed from Lansing to Detroit on I-69 where it's two lanes. I took one lane, he took the other and we went the speed limit(70mph). You'd have been amazed at the lines that formed behind us -- I estimated it was over 1/2 mile long. The best part -- we were both pulled over by two state troopers for holding up trafic. We were given tickets that of course we fought. The judge admonished the troopers for issuing the tickets and called us two wiseacres with nothing better to do -- and he was right

-Craig

[Jenni]

Speed at which Jenni drives---posted speed limit + 5-20MPH more. The street I live on is posted 35MPH. It is very long, and very straight. You can see forever on it. I always drive about 50-55 on it, and so does everyone else. I love it though, because I live outside the city limits, but the road goes into the city. The local cops love to sit behind a big oak tree just inside the city limits and run radar. I come cruising along at 55 in a 35 until just before I get to the city limits, then I slow down. Like I said, you can see forever on this road, so I know the cops can see me, and can tag me with their radar outside the city limits. But there is not a thing in the world they can do about it!

But, I don't drive too fast in residential, neighborhood type places. It isn't worth running over somebody's kid to get there 5 minutes quicker.

BTW, things that make me mad at other drivers:

• Not using their turn signals
• Flying past me to whip over into my lane and then stopping to turn
• Stopping in the road to turn into a turning bay
• Sitting right on my bumper like I'm poking when I'm already doing a good 10-15 MPH over the speed limit

[HAL9000]

We have a saying where I live, "Welcome to Saskatchewan, the land where low beams and signal lights are optional". Nobody ever signals anything and many drivers drive in the city with their high beams on.

[mairving]

I once got pulled over in Arkansas. The guy said that I was doing 50 in 25mph school zone. Well it's about 10 in the morning and the sign says '50mph 25mph when children are present'. He says that means the whole time school is in session. I said that it only means when there are children present outside loading buses. He finally let me go but that has to be the worst interpretation of a law around.

[Jenni]

My mom got pulled over for 40 in a 30 within feet of the 35MHP sign where the speed limit changed. Cop said sign applied when you were physically even with it, not when you could see it. Asked other cops, about half said when you can see, other half said when you were even with it (which means that on this particular road, if you are going north in this area the speed limit is 30, but if you are going south it is 35, because the signs aren't even!). She went to court and fought it, but the judge made her pay it anyway.

[Paul Victorey]

Originally posted by audiyoda My best friend and I decided a few years ago to do some 'in field' research on speeding. We both headed from Lansing to Detroit on I-69 where it's two lanes. I took one lane, he took the other and we went the speed limit(70mph). You'd have been amazed at the lines that formed behind us -- I estimated it was over 1/2 mile long. The best part -- we were both pulled over by two state troopers for holding up trafic. We were given tickets that of course we fought. The judge admonished the troopers for issuing the tickets and called us two wiseacres with nothing better to do -- and he was right -Craig

In WI, if you are in the left lane, it is actually illegal to hold up traffic even if you're going the speed limit. Your only choices are speed (also illegal, of course) or move into the right lane.

[HAL9000]

My best speeding ticket story was from 1987 when I bought my first new car, a 1987 Chrysler Daytona. It was only about a week old when a friend and I thought we would take it to the highway to "see what it would do". It was late at night and no traffic, we hit the highway and started putting it through it's paces. At 190Kmph (about 118Mph) and still in fourth gear, we were both sufficiently satisfied that it would move pretty good and didn't feel the need to push it through fifth. I put it in fifth and let of the gas and let it coast. Well, at about 140Kmph (about 87Mph) I could see a set of headlights directly behind me and thought, there shouldn't be anybody behind me. I started to slow down and pull over and just then, sure enough, on come the lights from the RCMP cruiser. He had me sit in the car with him as he was writing the ticket. As he was writing, the conversation went as follows;

Officer: Why were you going so fast? Are you late for something?


Me: No, to be honest, I just bought the car this week and my friend and I wanted to see what it would do.

Officer: So what will it do?

Me: Well, I was at about 190.

Officer: Is that all it will do?

Me: Ahh... no, I still had fifth gear to shift into.

Officer: Well, 190 is probably about right, these cruisers top out at about 150 and I couldn't touch you. I was about to radio for a spike belt when you started to slow down. Did you realize that speeding in excess of 160Kmph with a passenger can be considered as attempted murder?

Me: Ahh... no.

Officer: Did you know that I should be impounding your car right now and sending you to the cell to await your court date where you will get a minimum fine of $1000, you license suspended for 1 year, and a 3 month jail term.

Me: Ahh... no

Officer: Well, I'm gonna make you a deal. You promise me that I will never see your face again, and I'll let you go with a $100 ticket.

Me: It's a done deal, thank you, have a nice evening.


To this day, I don't regret paying that ticket

[Xayd]

Sarge can probably back me up on this-

There are no speed limits in Dallas, I kinda miss living there. I've never seen someone pulled over for speeding in or around the city.

[heidthebaw]

My best speeding story was last year when I had to attend a couse in Bavaria (Southern Germany for the geographically impaired). We ordered a taxi to take us to Munich airport and an Audi A8 turned up as our transport. After a few country roads we hit the Autobahn where no speed restrictions apply, it was a four lane freeway and our driver automatically picked the outside (fastest) lane as we were late for our plane home.
The driver was very talkative and we struggled to have a conversation in his broken English and our broken German. When we didn't understand what he was trying to say he took one hand off the wheel and turned to the back seat to talk to whoever he was trying to converse with.
The Audi had a beautiful digital speed readout in km/h so I asked him if it was possible to convert it to mph which everybody in the back understood. With the touch of a button he did then looking back at us smiling he said,"What you think now?". The damn thing was reading 180 mph!
Needless to say we got to the airport in plenty time for a few nips of whisky to calm the nerves before we boarded the aluminium death tube home.

[Jenni]

We drove to Charlotte, NC with a friend of ours, he had some 80 something Buick (I think it was a buick) with a digital speedo that cut off at 85, just sat there flashing "85"---I swear that thing flashed from Mississippi to Charlotte.

[SARGE]

Xayd is right about not too many tickets in Dallas proper, but the suburbs will get you. Haven't had a ticket in 27 years, but also don't speed. What does rankle me though, is school zones where flashing light gives no times, but says, "20 MPH while flashing". Now legally and technically, if'n it's Sunday afternoon and the light is faulty and flashing yellow, you better be going 20 mph, or some rookie cop will grab you. Everyone knows it's intended for school times, and I always feel stupid slowing down when it's faulty, but the sign is the sign.

BTW, Dallas cops wrote 96,000 fewer tickets this year and catching some heat. Police Chief said we wanted faster response times when called, so ticket writing had to wait.

[StunGunz]

Had an 84 year old driver blow through a stop sign into my path. All I can say is that if I had not been observing the speed limit, he'd have been dead and myself seriously hurt. You can have your fast lane, I'll keep safe in the turtle lane.

[SARGE]

Driving a VW bug has made me a defensive driver and like the Harley, I know I'll lose if a wreck happens. People think they can intimidate someone driving a small vehicle - they can't. Picture it - an 18 wheeler tailgating a VW going 65. I love it