speeding tickets??

need4speed

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I shot a man in Reno / Just to watch him die ...

The Z (any color) probably guarantees that if you get pulled over you WILL get a ticket of some sort. So I've driven this car the slowest of our last half-dozen cars, and so far ... knock wood ...

Let me amend that. We always drive with radar detectors. Always. And within 50 miles of our home we know the roads pretty well. So we only speed up in places we know they can't possibly be hiding. Then we just have to look out for unmarked Crown Vics (either white or black).

Oh yeah... 50% of the battle is using your eyes. I do the same exact thing u do on the road.

I moved here to TX from NY 3 years ago. One thing about the east coast is cops pull over anything, everyday, all day, in every way. And if u have a sports car? You are double screwed. It doesn't matter if its an old sports car or new. Bright dull or crashed. And if u r the wrong skin color? They throw in a BONUS illegal search. Lol and they say racism is a southern problem. Lol. I think its 3x worse up north.

StLRedrider

i was coming back from a state fair in illinois about four years ago on a 900 past a cop on a 2 lane going roughly 85 in a 55, by the time he had turned around and had his lights on i was already on the side of the road with my helmet off, there's was no use in running. i was in a area that i didn't now i never ran and wasn't going to start then, he come walking up to me saying"i can't believe you stopped, i just can't believe you stopped". i think he was shocked, he let me off with a warning

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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... =/

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.

NeedforZ

Sorry to hear that. Actually, I've been more concerned about the front license plate thing. Usually see plenty cops up and down El Dorado. None of them have seemed to care so far even though I come up behind them or beside them at stop lights.

havasuwiley

photo radar flashed mr yesterday,aprox 60 in a 45 zone,still have temp tags on rear,hard to see,hopefully they can't see the # and i won't get the ticket in the mail,btw photo radar is pure bs!!!

Attaboy

i bit the bullet and installed the front license plate just so i wouldnt have to worry about it... true, there are plenty of cops up and down eldorado and the neighboring streets. i never speed in town... i was in Ft. Worth on Friday for work and got busted on the access road where north loop 820 and I35 meet.

it was a long, banked curve with nobody on it... great to open up the throttle on.. but the cop jumped out from behind a tree and got me.

BTW, needforZ - are you in a PG Z? i think i saw you at eldorado and ridge a few weeks ago.

NeedforZ

It was probably me. I haven't seen any 370s in Mck, not even you Kinda funny but I still can go 2 weeks in DFW without seeing another 370z.

need4speed

Is it just me? Or do u find cops to be not as uptight about sports cars and bright colors here in DFW as it seems in other places? I wasn't bothered at all when I had the G35.
To me it just feels like they indiscriminantly hand out tickets here imo?
But it also feels like writing tickets is the only thing cops are really trying to do. Lol
I always see people pulled over in all kinds of cars.

NeedforZ

I chalk it up to revenue generation for the county. A ticketed sports car nets the same amount as a ticketed beater. Tax revenue is down due to job losses and foreclosures... they got to make up for it some way.

need4speed

True, True. I guess the money factor is just so much stronger than profiling and hand picking the stereotypical car to issue a ticket. I've only gotten 1 ticket in my life. And it was in mesquite tx. nov 2007... $243 84mph in a 60mph.
I got a deferred adjudication so I paid it without getting it on my record.
Was able to absolve it by mail.
Hopefully that was my 1st n will be my last ticket.

Red370

had my Z a week, got a 41 in a 30, yeah, weak I know. Doesnt help having a bright shiny red sports car. I got out of the ticket by volunteering for DD class. First speeding ticket ever mind you.

GMZ

My last ticket I got was in my old 350, I was crossing a bridge and got clocked 105 in a 55. The bridge was also a "safety corridor". Got to spend a couple week of leave in jail for that one.

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