Got a ticket in my Insight for SPEEDING!
 

About 3 hours ago I got a ticket for speeding!! I had been doing precisely the speed limit when a group of cars passed me like I was standing still. They were going about 65-70 in a 45 zone. They rounded the corner and took off like a bat out of $#%$ in the 35 mph zone. I maintained going the speed limit but then saw the light about to change and I had a average of around 100mpg on the tank so far as I had only gone a few miles so I picked up speed to make the light. I never even looked at what I sped up to. The FEMALE cop (that could of passed for a guy) said I was doing 46. 11mph over when the norm around here for people is 20+ over the limit, sad thing about it is I don't regularly speed and I'm the guy holding up traffic!

A while back I got a ticket for doing 40 in a 25 where the limit abruptly changed to 25 - some like to call it a speed trap area though as it abruptly changes back to 40 again.

It is just sad that one of the few times I'm going over I get caught and then the regular crazy people just get away with it. The other cars went right past her first! I saw them, I was at the end of the pack with about a 1/4 mile gap so I was alone. The cop had a REALLY nasty attitude too, I'm going to cool off a bit before I call and do a formal complaint.

Of course every story has a funny side, today I am wearing my t-shirt that says "You Will Respect My Authorita!" It has a picture of Cartman dressed as a cop on it with that quote. The again it just might of been that time of the month for this cop, you know - quota time. What did you think I meant?:eek:

Ooh, what a poopy deal!! I spose she seen them all fly bye and figured "hey I wish my car was that color" woop woop woop!! I mean who isn't jealous of that car? I personally love it, some day I'd love to own one just like it.

I once got pulled over going 75 in a 55, the ironic part was, it was my passengers father :O. Normally this is where he handcuffs me to a stop sign, but, i wasn't dating her, so i told him it was past her curfew, so if you really think of it. It's moslty his fault i was speeding, he gave me an angry face and told me to get her home.

Hypermilers getting speeding tickets is such an irony. 95metro said he got one doing pulse & glide - because he pulsed over the limit :)

Should have said: "but officer, my average speed was only...." Naaaah...

Ironically enough a truck that passed me that was in "the pack" was BRIGHT yellow with black racing stripes. Here's what ticks me off A LOT, he was towing a trailer driving those speeds. That makes me mad, I was speeding and deserve what I got but she does have the power to get multiple cars - I've seen it done. The main thing was her attitude, she had a REALLY bad attitude. Apparently the registration I handed her was expired, she noted it on the ticket but didn't mention it to me. When she was done giving me the ticket she shoved it to me and turned around while I was in mid-sentence asking her a question and walked off. A real fine example to make people like cops. I could of been a 16 year old kid who is at that point in their life where they're very impressionable and if she pulled that, I'd probably be turned off to cops for a very long while.

Not all cops are bad, but she definitely didn't set a fine example like she should be. If I acted that way in my job I'd be in deep deep #$%^.

I could understand pulsing over. When I used to work night shift I could maintain a cool 75 mpg in my HCH since there was no traffic, only problem is my sweet spot was a little over the limit and the road I traveled was loaded with bars. I got off at "closing time" so the cops were busy pulling over drunks and someone who keeps fluctuating their speed doesn't portray a sober person very well - hey - I kept it in a straight line.

Fight it - the only reason that a judge can and often will dismiss a speeding ticket is if you have a clean driving record. I had one dismissed going 40 in a 35 at midnight - the cop claims he clocked me at 50 . . . I was on cruise control set to 40 exactly in a area where people go 45 all the time. You could also say that "a group of vehicles including a truck pulling a trailer passed me which made me believe I was going too slow."

I got pulled over for going 55 mph in a 55 zone on I64 for holding up traffic, and later that same week got pulled over for going 58 mph on that same stretch of highway for 'speeding' even though my needle indicated 55 mph. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I would but the truth is, I WAS doing wrong by a full 11 mph. I do deserve what I got, but so does everyone deserve what they have yet to get. Sooooo, my new quest is to put the spotlight on the cops. Little things like a couple well worded letters to the newspaper and some words with some county officials should stir things up a bit.

2 weeks ago my dad got a new car (VERY VERY fast) and I've been driving it a lot and I suppose that has put a bit of a speed bug in me where I haven't been paying as close to attention to my speed as I should. A warning would of really put it all back into perspective for me but that's all past. Now for me to wage a little war for these donut jockeys. I really am sick of them not doing their job - there has been quite a few times when I deserved a ticket much more than others and they didn't bat an eye. Today was Friday the 13th - the wife advised me to not even go to work. :rolleyes: Now all I hear is, "See, I told you so!"

quit complaining. I'd rather take a 11 over speeding ticket than what the cops did to my last car. I wasn't even at fault. And still had to pay for it out of my own pocket.

Try living in california. You haven't seen dirty cops till you live in cali.

This year cops have cost me $1100. None of it wasn't my fault and I got blamed for it. Not only that but the popo laughed after it happened and told me my mommy's car is wrecked. No cop filled out a police report and there were plenty cops there.

Cops have cost my dad $600 and the car has a huge gash on the right side. They made fun of my dad, waved their guns in his face and didn't make a police report. When he went to the police station they called my dad a liar and said he hit his car somewhere else.

Actually my favorite one is when I was in Texas. The cops neglected to block a road when they should of. I was passing what looked like a routine traffic stop when one jumped out of nowhere and had a shotgun pointed at my windshield and started screaming. I shoved it reverse quick when I looked to the right of me and then saw another cop behind his door with his gun drawn on the car the first cop had stopped me right next to!! Apparently I had drove right into the middle of a standoff!! You'd think they would of been smart enough to block the road considering there was 3 patrol cars there, it wasn't something that happened out of the blue.

I don't live in cali for a reason, it's the same reason why cali isn't an island. :p Once you age a few years you'll begin to notice how all police are gradually getting dirtier and dirtier anywhere.

My dad thought I was making stories about the police. But once it happened to him it ain't stories anymore.

I actually liked the police when I was little, I was thinking of how cool it would be a cop. But being a crooked cop ain't my thing.

I have a shirt that list all the things not to say to a cop. Most of them are so funny that when people read it they bust out laughing. I would be in deep **** if I get pulled over while wearing it.:p

I have a shirt that list all the things not to say to a cop. Most of them are so funny that when people read it they bust out laughing. I would be in deep **** if I get pulled over while wearing it.:p

OMG, Texas
 

OMG, Texas is the WORST. In downtown Ft. Worth, there was an accident at an intersection near the place I wanted to pick up lunch. Not knowing the area well, I got around the intersection picked up lunch, and attempted to make it back to my work site.

Ft. Worth is a series of One-Way streets. I was desperately trying to avoid the accident scene and get back onto that street. I headed down a side street, looked both ways, and turned left. I got about 100-yards before I realized, I was going the wrong way on the one-way (no traffic coming, just saw signs, all white dashes, and cars parked the same direction). This motorcycle cop comes flying up after I pulled over and pointed demandingly to stop the car. I was polite, and he was frankly a jerk. He didn't cut me any slack for being from out-of-town on business and made a simple error that was quickly corrected.

I had to go before a Judge and plead "deferred adjudication", so if I didn't get a ticket in Texas after 90-days, it would drop-off. So, being there every week, I had to drive conservatively for the next month. Still $100 in court costs :mad:

My favorite part. Officer: "So what year is the car"; RH77: "Umm, I don't know, it's a rental...so 2006?"

RH77

go to court, you have the option to chalange any ticket you are given, a friend of mine got a ticket for a critical mass bike ride, once it got dark everyone without a bike light got a ticket (as a form of harasment), they explaned their side of why they were there, and what they were doing, and out of the 20 some people who got tickets, they got out of paying theirs because they felt that the rule should be fallowed.
so do people who get an average of 100mpg speed? (take a photo of your dash readout) were there other people who were speeding who did not get tickets? (they picked you out, and ignored people who were passing you) and last, if the cop who gave you the ticket doesn't show up in court to voice their side, then the ticket is almost alwas droped, but the point is, if you don't think it was fare, say so, and you have a good chance of getting out of the ticket.

I'm just going to go to traffic school and pay the ticket. No points added to my license. The sheriffs dept hasn't heard the last of me though - they're going to learn to hate me since I'm about to make them start doing their job.

Today I was doing 45 in a 45 zone in my kid's Escort. A herd of cars passed me doing about 60, mixed in with the pack - a highway patrol. 2 miles down the road I was in the 55 zone - doing 55 when someone passes me like I'm standing still. I haven't clue how fast they were going but sure enough there was a Deputy Sheriff in the oncoming lane all by his lonesome. I flashed my lights just for the heck of it when the car got to my rear quarter so the cop would see the car passing me going that fast. Sheriff didn't bat an eye as he was obviously on his way to get donuts.

I'm done whining to you guys about it. Thanks for the shoulders to cry on.:thumbup:

Take a camera with you while driving and getting passed film it and bring it to coart with you to show the judge. I got passed in a school zone on a double yellow line and I was going the limit AND was shooting a video with my digital camera at the time out the driver side window. Would have given it to a cop if the guy had gotten stopped down the street.

look the bottom line is that you got what you deserved and it sucks. might i recommend 3 choices of action:

1. make a move into politics to raise speed limits since all cars are now safe enough for higher speeds. (particularly on the highways)

2. get a radar detector and dont get caught again.

3. take it to court, appologize sincerely to the prosecutor and the officer and maybe they will cut you a break. then never ever speed again.

i have tried #3 and moved up the chain to #2 after getting a ticket for going 67 in a 55 passing a car going 50 on a 2 lane road. i moved to #2 because there was no lesson to be learned and i would definitely do it again to be safe should the situation arise.

if i had more interest in the legal system or in politics i would advance to #1 but that wont happen unless i decide for a major career shift.

I'm not going to fight it, I was wrong. As far as getting these cops to start doing their job, that's in the works.

I've got a friend who has been mayor of a local town since the 50's and he's been steady prodding me to get into "the business" but I don't think it is for me. He is on his final term right now and feels I have a decent background for it but I know I don't. Actually I have to wait until I retire from my current job in 3 years before I can start something new. We'll see what lies ahead.....

I always wanted to be a police man.
You get to carry guns , get involved in drug busts , mingle with the underworld of criminal gangs , line ups , shoot outs , the lot.

On second thoughts , I might just become a rap star instead , all of the above , but higher pay. :D

Never be the first person in a group, or the fastest person in a group and most guns won't get a read on you.

If you're solo, just don't speed unless you can see everything ahead of you.

Thats only if you really don't want a ticket. Around here you can get one every 6 months and keep it off your record if you use the system right. I haven't had one for 6 years though :)