First one in two years. Probably the second one in ten years. Hopefully the last one for a very long time...
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First one in two years. Probably the second one in ten years. Hopefully the last one for a very long time...
Aww I can't find my picture. I have a picture of 8 tickets lined up on a table... and I just graduated high school this month. It would be 9 if you count the red light camera getting me turning right on red.
Yeah, I used to get my fair share of tickets, but I'd rather spend my money on beer and mods.
My lawyer's been getting my tonneau cover, urethane kit, and underdrive pulleys.
Here's the story....
After I installed the NGK's, two of my employees were dying for a test drive. We headed for the highway, and where the 45 zone changes to 65, I punched it and took off. I didn't let go until the computer shut me down at 98 MPH, which only took about 5-6 seconds. Well, a local law enforcement officer was 2 cars behind me and watched the whole thing. It took him a couple of miles to catch up to me. He didn't have his radar on, he visually estimated my speed at 80. He asked me how fast I went, I told him 90. I could have been arrested for reckless driving since I doubled the speed limit, he said. But he was smiling and his hands were shaking while he was talking to me. I think he had fun chasing me down. He complimented me on the nice truck, I told him it was my first drive w/new supercharger. He laughed and told me to take it to the track! Anyway, he gave me a citation for speed:reasonable and prudent, without attaching a MPH. $100 fine and 2 points. Not too bad, eh? The reckless driving charge would have been a trip to jail, impounded truck, HUGE fine, and 6 points. He also "recommended" that I "exercise my rights", I think he meant plea not guilty and go to court. I think if I do, he might not show up.
I am not understanding the reasonable and prudent part. All of my tickets either say 54 in a 30, 85 in a 60, 75 in a 35 etc. What is all that?
P.S. A cop in fort worth tried to tell me that I was doing "well over 100" and he got pissed when I told him that it wouldn't let me do more than 98 yet.
In Alaska, you can get a ticket for speed, beyond reasonable & prudent. So if the road conditions are bad, and you are driving the posted speed limit, you can actually get a ticket for speeding, if the officer thinks you are going too fast for the current conditions.
yeah they can do that here but they hardly ever do. I just have never heard the term "reasonable and prudent"