speeding tickets??

kannibul · 08-16-2009, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

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 · 08-16-2009, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by 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... =/

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 · 08-17-2009, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by 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?

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 · 08-17-2009, 10:45 AM

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 · 08-17-2009, 11:06 AM

trapster app...nuff said

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08-17-2009, 10:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
cptspeed Track Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: tampa Posts: 799 Drives: 09 370z Rep Power: 18	fhp 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.

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