Speeding

[Harry Potter]

Just got my  first  speeding fine since I started driving 5 years ago.
I'll be celebrating on Friday. 

[ChadTower]

Most people never get one.  I got my first about 2 years ago, 8-9 years after getting my license.

[Stingray]

I got one not long ago for doing 40 in a 35, and I was about 20 feet from being in the 45 MPH zone.

<insert qbert quote here>

-S

[Goz]

Just got my  first  speeding fine since I started driving 5 years ago.
I'll be celebrating on Friday. 

Congrat's you are now a man.... 

[ChadTower]

I got one not long ago for doing 40 in a 35, and I was about 20 feet from being in the 45 MPH zone.

They can pull you over 2 miles into the 45 zone if they clocked you in the 35.

[Stingray]

I got one not long ago for doing 40 in a 35, and I was about 20 feet from being in the 45 MPH zone.

They can pull you over 2 miles into the 45 zone if they clocked you in the 35.

This is a situation where I'd much rather just stew about it than listen to reason and logic.

-S

[Harry Potter]

Stewing is useless. I don't know why but I feel really good about it. Probably because I'm getting a $3000 tax return next week as well. 

And I'll have to be a good boy for about a month before putting the pedal to the metal again.

[Thenasty]

I got a ticket for not using the BLINKER when I changed lane at 3:45AM on the highway....did I mention that I WAS THE ONLY ONE ON THE HIGWAY THAT TIME ?

[ChadTower]

Your insurance rate will increase now.

TheNasty, if you were the only one on the highway, who pulled you over?  Yourself?

[Harry Potter]

I realised now doing bad driving things at night is dumb because you stick out like dogs balls. During the day, in heavy traffic is better. Lesson=don't speed/(insert traffic stupidity here) while it's dark.

[Thenasty]

Your insurance rate will increase now.

TheNasty, if you were the only one on the highway, who pulled you over?

[Thenasty]

maybe he's a smart PIG.....He does not want to do it at RUSH, some maniac might RUN HIM OVER......

[ChadTower]

If I were a betting man, I would put money that you were also speeding and he only wrote you up for the blinker.

Anyone want to raise a weaving?

[Thenasty]

If I were a betting man, I would put money that you were also speeding and he only wrote you up for the blinker.

Anyone want to raise a weaving?

Nope, No speeding... I was at 60 on a 65. Been more than 15 years since the last speeding ticket I got (and learned from it). Now I learned that I must put my BLINKER EVEN IF I AM THE ONLY JERK ON THE HIGHWAY.....THANK YOU PIG for teaching me...I aint gonna give you another RAISE on your salary.

[ChadTower]

Now I learned that I must put my BLINKER EVEN IF I AM THE ONLY JERK ON THE HIGHWAY.....

But how many other people were driving on it?

[Thenasty]

At that late hour on the PARKWAY, I was the only one on the road for miles......And I know that its a ticket trap when your alone, hence I did not SPEED...so I figured changed lane from the middle to the right lane and that did it.

[Thenasty]

it is now over a year old and it still PISSES ME OFF..... 

[ChadTower]

I'm sure he loved it when you called him a PIG and indicated that you paid his SALARY.

[Thenasty]

I'm sure he loved it when you called him a PIG and indicated that you paid his SALARY.

[ChadTower]

You do know they aren't idiots, and can tell when you are thinking that sort of thing by your attitude, even if you try to hide it?  They do this sort of thing for a living.

[AtomSmasher]

I just got a speeding ticket on Fri too, my last ticket was over 5 years ago.

[ChadTower]

That is one angry kitty.

[Thenasty]

You do know they aren't idiots, and can tell when you are thinking that sort of thing by your attitude, even if you try to hide it?

[Goz]

Find out if you have a cool traffic school in your state. I've been to Pizza traffic school and don't have any regrets about my last ticket.

-Goz

[Harry Potter]

you don't even think that for a second.
I was very cheerful when he pulled me over. He ignored the fact I could have lost my license for a month for going so fast and he ignored the big rusty dent on the back which could have made my car un-roadworthy.

Either that or he was very lazy. Probably lazy, cause it took him 5 minutes to catch up with me.

[Thenasty]

imagine getting a ticket for not DRIVING on your DRIVEWAY and not PARKING on the PARKWAY

[Harry Potter]

Find out if you have a cool traffic school in your state. I've been to Pizza traffic school and don't have any regrets about my last ticket.

-Goz

Oh man I wish we had that in Australia.

[Minwah]

Oh man I wish we had that in Australia.

I was surprised how low the speed limits are in Oz, at least on the roads in the middle of nowhere.  In WA aren't a lot of them 60 or 70 K's??  Here we can do 60 or 70 MPH, and the roads are usually a lot less safe than in Oz (bar the Roos of course)...

[Dartful Dodger]

What's a good radar detector/scrambler?

I get one every other year, so it would be a good investment that will save me some cash, and aggravation.

I got a ticket three weeks ago, and put it in my bills to pay pile, by the time I got around to paying it I read "mail within 5 days", I was two weeks late, now I have to go to court and hope the judge gives me supervision.  Otherwise I'll lose 120 bucks, the day I spend at the court house last week, getting my new court date, the day in court getting "judged" plus another day going to traffic school.

[ChadTower]

I'm not sure, but I think detectors are illegal in some states.

[Dartful Dodger]

I'm not sure, but I think detectors are illegal in some states.

So is speeding.

[Harry Potter]

I'm not sure, but I think detectors are illegal in some states.

So is speeding.

Bah!

[ChadTower]

Sometimes, though, it is safer to speed than to not speed.

This weekend, I was on 495 (three lane major highway in MA).  My car started to limp a bit, so I pulled right and limited to 65.  Cars were passing me like I was standing still and it sure didn't feel safe.  At one point a tractor trailer nearly wiped me off the road passing me.

[M3talhead]

I just recieved a ticket in the mail yesterday......

107 in a 70.

This one is not going o be pretty....

[ChadTower]

That is the type of offense they usually haul you off in cuffs over.

[Goz]

That is the type of offense they usually haul you off in cuffs over.

Believe it or not; you pretty much have to double the speed limit in order to be hauled off.

[ChadTower]

In MA there are certain speeds at which you are always hauled off.  The lower ones are a % over the limit, but I think 100 gets you hauled off every time for reckless driving and maybe driving to endanger.

[PetitMorte]

This website, Ticket Assassin has some awesome information about how to get out of speeding tickets.  Although they're set in California, and deal with California traffic law, there's a LOT of really good stuff on there about tickets and police in general.

[PetitMorte]

Believe it or not; you pretty much have to double the speed limit in order to be hauled off.

Traffic lights timed for 35 MPH, and also timed for 70 and 140MPH.   

[Thenasty]

getting ticket on the spot when you get cuaght speeding is one thing, how about getting a ticket in the mail for speeding......Yeap, heard it thru my buddy that this person(s) got a ticket on the mail for speeding...How you say ? Well from his Ez-Pass....from point A to point B, they calculated it that this Ez-pass owner was doing 90 miles an hour. Another reason for me not to get an Ez-Pass......